Web presence of Matthias M. Fischer

Peer-reviewed publications

• 2024
• On minimising tumoural growth under treatment resistance.
  Fischer MM, Blüthgen N. Journal of Theoretical Biology 579, 111716.
• 2023
• Oncogenic signalling is coupled to colorectal cancer cell differentiation state.
  Sell T, Klotz C, Fischer MM, Astaburuaga-García R, Krug S, Drost J, Clevers H, Morkel M, Blüthgen N. Journal of Cell Biology 222 (6): e202204001.
• On tumoural growth and treatment under cellular dedifferentiation.
  Fischer MM, Blüthgen N. Journal of Theoretical Biology 557, 111327.
• 2022
• Mathematical modelling identifies conditions for maintaining and escaping feedback control in the intestinal epithelium.
  Fischer MM, Herzel H, Blüthgen N. Scientific Reports 12, 5569.
• 2020
• A mechanistic model of metabolic symbioses in microbes recapitulates experimental data and identifies a continuum of symbiotic interactions.
  Fischer MM. Theory in Biosciences, 139 (3), 265-278.
• 2019
• Quantifying the uncertainty of variance partitioning estimates of ecological datasets.
  Fischer MM (2019). Environmental and Ecological Statistics, 26 (4), 351-366.
• Latitudinal constraints in responsiveness of plants to arbuscular mycorrhiza: The 'sun-worshipper' hypothesis.
  Veresoglou SD, Chen B, Fischer MM, Helgason T, Mamolos AP, Rillig MC, Roldan A, Johnson D (2019). New Phytologist, 224 (2), 552-556.

Selected conference presentations

• 2022
• 12th European Conference on Mathematical and Theoretical Biology
  DKFZ Heidelberg (Poster) (Best Poster Award)
• 2021
• Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Biology
  University of California Riverside. (Talk) (Oncology Subgroup Contributed Talk Prize; Session chair)

Academic theses

• Population dynamics of tumoural cell populations. PhD thesis, Berlin, 2023
• Evolution and stability of metabolic symbioses. Masters's thesis, Berlin, 2019
• Effects of diversity on co-evolutionary trajectories. Bachelor's thesis, Berlin, 2017

Courses taught as tutor

• Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
• Computational Biology / Bioinformatics, Profs. Blüthgen & Herzel, HU Berlin (2021)
• Mathematical Modelling in Quantitative Biology, Profs. Herzel, Blüthgen & Steuer, HU Berlin (2020-2021)
• Freie Universität Berlin
• Bioinformatics for Biologists, Prof. Conrad, FU Berlin (2017-2019)
• Biostatistics, Prof. Tietjen, FU Berlin (2016-2018)
• Evolution and Signal Transduction in Microbiology, Prof. Mutzel, FU Berlin (2018)
• Community Ecology and Biodiversity, Drs. Veresoglou & Hempel, FU Berlin (2017)