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Simon Fisher
Birth Name:Simon E. Fisher
Birth Date:19 August 1970
Awards:Crick Lecture (2008)
Thesis Title:Positional cloning of the gene responsible for dent's disease
Thesis Url:http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:22f6e7a5-4f00-41c9-a1d3-1b05899f22c0
Thesis Year:1995
Doctoral Advisor:Ian W. Craig
Academic Advisors:Anthony Monaco
Doctoral Students:Sonja Vernes[1]

Simon E. Fisher (born 1970) is a British geneticist and neuroscientist who has pioneered research into the genetic basis of human speech and language.[2] He is a director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and Professor of language and genetics at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour in Nijmegen, The Netherlands.[3] [4]

Education

Fisher was an undergraduate student at Trinity Hall, Cambridge where he read Natural Sciences. He was a postgraduate student at St. Catherine's College, Oxford[5] where he was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Oxford in 1995 for research on positional cloning of the gene responsible for Dent's disease supervised by .[5]

Career and research

Following his DPhil, he was a postdoctoral researcher in Anthony Monaco's laboratory at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics in Oxford.

Fisher is the co-discoverer of FOXP2, the first gene to be implicated in a human speech and language disorder.[6] [7] [8] His subsequent research has used FOXP2 and other language-related genes[9] as molecular windows into neural pathways critical for language.[10]

Awards and honours

Awards and prizes in recognition of his work include the Francis Crick Lecture in 2008[11] and the inaugural Eric Kandel Young Neuroscientists Prize in 2009.[12] [13]

Notes and References

  1. DPhil. University of Oxford. Investigation of the role of FOXP transcription factors in neurodevelopment. Sonja. Vernes. 2007. . ox.ac.uk. 317354555.
  2. Web site: Zimmer . Carl . Carl Zimmer. The Language Fossils Buried in Every Cell of Your Body | Human Evolution . discovermagazine.com . 2011-10-17 . 2012-10-23.
  3. Web site: Dr. Simon E. Fisher. Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. Nijmegen, Netherlands. mpg.de . 2012-10-23. 2016-01-03. https://web.archive.org/web/20160103062732/http://www.mpg.de/1040302/psycholinguistik_wissM4.
  4. Web site: Brief Biography — Simon E. Fisher — Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics . Mpi.nl . 2012-09-28 . 2012-10-23.
  5. DPhil. University of Oxford. Positional cloning of the gene responsible for Dent's disease. Simon E.. Fisher. 1995. . 557355457. ox.ac.uk.
  6. Fisher SE, Vargha-Khadem F, Watkins KE, Monaco AP, Pembrey ME . Localisation of a gene implicated in a severe speech and language disorder . Nature Genetics . 18 . 168–70 . 1998 . 9462748 . 10.1038/ng0298-168 . 2 . 11858/00-001M-0000-0012-CBD9-5 . 3190318 . free .
  7. ((Lai CSL)), Fisher SE, Hurst JA, Vargha-Khadem F, Monaco AP . A forkhead-domain gene is mutated in a severe speech and language disorder . Nature . 413 . 519–23 . 2001 . 11586359 . 10.1038/35097076 . 6855 . 2001Natur.413..519L . 4421562 . 11858/00-001M-0000-0012-CB9C-F . free .
  8. MacDermot KD, Bonora E, Sykes N, Coupe AM, Lai CS, Vernes SC, Vargha-Khadem F, McKenzie F, Smith RL, Monaco AP, Fisher SE . Identification of FOXP2 truncation as a novel cause of developmental speech and language deficits . Am. J. Hum. Genet. . 76 . 6 . 1074–80 . 2005 . 15877281 . 1196445 . 10.1086/430841 .
  9. Vernes SC, Newbury DF, Abrahams BS, Winchester L, Nicod J, Groszer M, Alarcón M, Oliver PL, Davies KE, Geschwind DH, Monaco AP, Fisher SE . A functional genetic link between distinct developmental language disorders . N. Engl. J. Med. . 359 . 22 . 2337–45 . 2008 . 18987363 . 2756409 . 10.1056/NEJMoa0802828 .
  10. Fisher SE, Scharff C . FOXP2 as a molecular window into speech and language . Trends Genet. . 25 . 4 . 166–77 . 2009 . 19304338 . 10.1016/j.tig.2009.03.002 . 11858/00-001M-0000-0012-CA31-7 . free .
  11. Web site: rewards excellence in science - News. . Royal Society . 2008-07-10 . 2012-10-23 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121020130241/https://royalsociety.org/News.aspx?id=1202 . 2012-10-20 .
  12. Web site: Simon Fisher wins young neuroscientist prize . University of Oxford . ox.ac.uk . 2012-10-23 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121020130205/https://www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/2009/091007_2.html . 2012-10-20 .
  13. Fisher. S. E.. Simon Fisher. Ridley. M.. Matt Ridley. Culture, Genes, and the Human Revolution. Science. 340. 6135. 2013. 929–930. 23704558. 10.1126/science.1236171. 2013Sci...340..929F. 39849683.

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