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Overview

Wieland Meyer is affiliated with the Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute in the Netherlands. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a focus on several subfields including Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases, Cell Biology, Plant Science, and Molecular Biology.

Their main research topics involve fungal infections and studies, antifungal resistance and susceptibility, plant pathogens and fungal diseases, nail diseases and treatments, mycorrhizal fungi and plant interactions, genomics and phylogenetic studies, and infectious diseases related to mycology.

Wieland Meyer has published extensively in scientific journals, with frequent contributions appearing in:

  • Journal of Fungi
  • Medical Mycology
  • Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
  • Microbiology Australia
  • IMA Fungus

Some of the recent papers associated with their work include:

  • Unambiguous identification of fungi: where do we stand and how accurate and precise is fungal DNA barcoding? (2020), published in IMA Fungus
  • Fungal taxonomy and sequence-based nomenclature (2021), published in Nature Microbiology
  • CCMetagen: comprehensive and accurate identification of eukaryotes and prokaryotes in metagenomic data (2020), published in Genome Biology
  • A New Age in Molecular Diagnostics for Invasive Fungal Disease: Are We Ready? (2020), published in Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Metal Complexes as Antifungals? From a Crowd-Sourced Compound Library to the First In Vivo Experiments (2022), published in JACS Au

Frequent collaborators in their research include László Irinyi, Catriona Halliday, Carolina Firacative, Minh Thuy Vi Hoang, and Yiheng Hu. The collaboration with these researchers ranges in publication counts from seven to twenty-two, indicating ongoing cooperative work in fungal biodiversity and related areas.

Best Publications

  • A rare genotype of Cryptococcus gattii caused the cryptococcosis outbreak on Vancouver Island (British Columbia, Canada)

    Sarah Elizabeth Kidd;F Hagen;R L Tscharke;M Huynh

  • Molecular Typing of IberoAmerican Cryptococcus neoformans Isolates

    Wieland Meyer;Alexandra Castañeda;Stuart Jackson;Matthew Huynh

  • One fungus, which genes? Development and assessment of universal primers for potential secondary fungal DNA barcodes.

    J.B. Stielow;C.A. Lévesque;K.A. Seifert;W. Meyer

  • Consensus multi-locus sequence typing scheme for Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii.

    Wieland Meyer;David M. Aanensen;Teun Boekhout;Massimo Cogliati

  • Hybrid genotypes in the pathogenic yeast Cryptococcus neoformans

    Teun Boekhout;Bart Theelen;Mara Diaz;Jack W. Fell

  • Cryptococcus gattii Infections

    Sharon C.-A. Chen;Wieland Meyer;Tania C. Sorrell;Tania C. Sorrell

  • The Amsterdam Declaration on Fungal Nomenclature

    David L. Hawksworth;David L. Hawksworth;Pedro W. Crous;Scott A. Redhead;Don R. Reynolds

  • Unambiguous identification of fungi: where do we stand and how accurate and precise is fungal DNA barcoding?

    Robert Lücking;M. Catherine Aime;Barbara Robbertse;Andrew N. Miller

  • Hybridization probes for conventional DNA fingerprinting used as single primers in the polymerase chain reaction to distinguish strains of Cryptococcus neoformans.

    W Meyer;T G Mitchell;E Z Freedman;R Vilgalys

  • Finding needles in haystacks: Linking scientific names, reference specimens and molecular data for Fungi

    Conrad L. Schoch;Barbara Robbertse;Vincent Robert;Duong Vu

  • Sequence-Based Identification of Aspergillus, Fusarium, and Mucorales Species in the Clinical Mycology Laboratory: Where Are We and Where Should We Go from Here?

    S. A. Balajee;A. M. Borman;M. E. Brandt;J. Cano

  • The Case for Adopting the "Species Complex" Nomenclature for the Etiologic Agents of Cryptococcosis.

    Kyung J. Kwon-Chung;John E. Bennett;Brian L. Wickes;Wieland Meyer

  • International Society of Human and Animal Mycology (ISHAM)-ITS reference DNA barcoding database--the quality controlled standard tool for routine identification of human and animal pathogenic fungi.

    Laszlo Irinyi;Carolina Serena;Dea Garcia-Hermoso;Michael Arabatzis

  • Molecular typing of global isolates of Cryptococcus neoformans var. neoformans by polymerase chain reaction fingerprinting and randomly amplified polymorphic DNA — a pilot study to standardize techniques on which to base a detailed epidemiological survey

    Wieland Meyer;Krystyna Marszewska;Mitra Amirmostofian;Ricardo Pereira Igreja

  • Survey of simple sequence repeats in completed fungal genomes.

    Haydar Karaoglu;Crystal Man Ying Lee;Wieland Meyer

  • Molecular evidence that the asexual industrial fungus Trichoderma reesei is a clonal derivative of the ascomycete Hypocrea jecorina

    K Kuhls;E Lieckfeldt;G J Samuels;W Kovacs

  • MycoBank gearing up for new horizons

    Vincent Robert;Duong Vu;Ammar Ben Hadj Amor;Nathalie van de Wiele

  • Scedosporium and Lomentospora: an updated overview of underrated opportunists.

    Andoni Ramirez-Garcia;Aize Pellon;Aitor Rementeria;Idoia Buldain

  • Not just little adults: candidemia epidemiology, molecular characterization, and antifungal susceptibility in neonatal and pediatric patients.

    Christopher C. Blyth;Sharon C. A. Chen;Monica A. Slavin;Carol Serena

  • Genome Variation in Cryptococcus gattii, an Emerging Pathogen of Immunocompetent Hosts

    C. A. D’Souza;J. W. Kronstad;G. Taylor;R. Warren

  • Clinical manifestations of Cryptococcus gattii infection: determinants of neurological sequelae and death

    Sharon C A Chen;Sharon C A Chen;Sharon C A Chen;Monica Slavin;Christopher Heath;Geoffrey Playford

Frequent Co-Authors

Sharon C.-A. Chen
Sharon C.-A. Chen Westmead Hospital
Tania C. Sorrell
Tania C. Sorrell University of Sydney
Teun Boekhout
Teun Boekhout University of Amsterdam
Catriona Halliday
Catriona Halliday Westmead Hospital
Vincent Robert
Vincent Robert Utrecht University
Richard Malik
Richard Malik University of Sydney
Sarah Kidd
Sarah Kidd South Australia Pathology
Ferry Hagen
Ferry Hagen Utrecht University
David M. Engelthaler
David M. Engelthaler Translational Genomics Research Institute
Monica A. Slavin
Monica A. Slavin Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre

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