Dr Jan Schmid
Senior Lecturer in Microbiology
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Institute of Molecular BioSciences, |
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+64 6 350 5515 extn:-5171 |
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+64 6 350 5688 |
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Background
Diploma in Biology (1981) and Ph.D. (1985), Hannover, Germany.
DFG Post-doctoral fellow, NJCIRM, Denver, USA (1985-87).
Post-doctoral fellow, University of Iowa, USA (1987-92).
DFG Post-doctoral fellow, NJCIRM, Denver, USA (1985-87).
Post-doctoral fellow, University of Iowa, USA (1987-92).
Research Interests
- Molecular biology, epidemiology and population biology of pathogenic microbe-host interactions (Candida albicans, Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa)
- Molecular biology, epidemiology and population biology of mutualistic microbe-host interactions (Neotyphodium endophytes)
- The pros and cons of fungal sex
Selected Publications
- Schmid, J., Tortorano, A. M., Jones, G., Lazzarini, C., Zhang, N., Bendall, M. J., Cogliati, M., Wattimena, S., Klingspor, L. (2011) ECMM survey participants, and French Mycoses Study Group participants. Increased mortality in young candidemia patients associated with presence of a Candida albicans general-purpose genotype. J. Clin. Microbiol. 49:3250-3256.
- Zhang, N., S. Zhang, S. Borchert, K. Richardson, and J. Schmid. (2011). High levels of a fungal superoxide dismutase and increased concentration of a PR-10 plant protein in associations between the endophytic fungus Neotyphodium lolii and ryegrass. Mol. Plant Microbe Interact. 24:984-992.
- Zhang, N., Cannon, R.D., Holland, B.R., Patchett, M. and Schmid, J. (2010) Impact of genetic background on allele selection in a highly mutable Candida albicans gene, PNG2, PloS ONE 5:e9614.
- Zhang, N, Upritchard, J. E., Holland, B. R, Fenton, L. E., Ferguson, M. M., Cannon, R. D., and Schmid, J. (2009) Distribution of mutations distinguishing the most prevalent disease-causing Candida albicans genotype from other genotypes. Infection, Genetics and Evolution: 9:493-500.
- Schmid, J., Ling, L.J., Leung, J.L.S., Zhang, N., Kolbe, J., Wesley, A.W., Mills, G.D., Brown, P.J., Jones, D.T., Laing, R.T.R., Pattemore, P.K., Taylor, D.R. and Grimwood, K. (2008). Pseudomonas aeruginosa transmission is infrequent in New Zealand cystic fibrosis clinics. European Respiratory Journal, 32, 1538-1590.
- Holland, B.R., Schardl, CL. and Schmid, J. (2007). Endophyte survival without sex. In Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Fungal Endophytes of Grasses. Edited by A.J. Popay and E.R. Thom, New Zealand Grasslands Association, Dunedin, New Zealand, 151-154.
- Scott, A., Litwin, G. and Schmid, J. (2006). Scholarship languages: has NCEA made a difference? The New Zealand Language Teacher, 32, 3-15.
- Holmes, A.R., Tsao, S., Ong, S.-W., Lamping, E., Niimi, K., Monk, B.C., Niimi, M., Kaneko, A., Holland, B., Schmid, J. and Cannon, R.D. (2006). Heterozygosity and functional allelic variation in the Candida albicans efflux pump genes CDR1 and CDR2. Molecular Microbiology, 62, 170-186.
- Holland, B.R. and Schmid, J. (2005). Selecting representative model micro-organisms. BMC Microbiology, 5, paper 26.
- Spiering, M.J., Lane, G.A., Christensen, M.J. and Schmid, J. (2005). Distribution of the fungal endophyte Neotyphodium lolii is not a major determinant of the distribution of fungal alkaloids in Lolium perenne plants. Phytochemistry, 66, 195-202.
- Schmid, J., Cannon, R.D. & Holland, B. (2004) A futile act? Thoughts on the reproductive biology of Candida albicans. Mycologist 18: 158-163.
- Zhang, N., Harrex, A.L., Holland, B., Cannon, R.D. and Schmid, J. (2003). Sixty alleles of the ALS7 open reading frame in Candida albicans: ALS7 is a hypermutable contingency locus. Genome Research, 3, 2005-2017.
- Tan, Y.Y., Spiering, M.J., Scott, V., Lane, G.A., Christensen, M.J. and Schmid, J. (2001). In planta regulation of extension of an endophytic fungus and maintenance of high metabolic rates in its mycelium in the absence of apical extension. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 67, 5377-5383.
- Campbell, S., Fraser, A., Holliss, B., Schmid, J. and O'Toole, P.W. (1997). Evidence for ethnic tropism of Helicobacter pylori. Infection and Immunity, 65, 3708-3712.
