Rate My Professor Lorryn Fisher

Lorryn Fisher serves as a Laboratory Technician in the Department of Physiology at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, within the Faculty of Biomedical Sciences. She is also listed among the general staff contacts for the Department of Anatomy. Fisher has contributed technically to research over several decades, with her earliest publications dating to 1987. Her involvement has led to co-authorship on 22 peer-reviewed publications, accumulating 377 citations. These works span reproductive neuroendocrinology, developmental biology of GnRH and kisspeptin neurons, polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) models using prenatal androgenization and letrozole treatments in mice, maternal obesity impacts on offspring hypothalamic and hippocampal development, epigenetic regulation, anxiety behaviors, myogenesis, neuromuscular function, and bone metabolism influenced by hormones.

Recent publications include "Developmental expression patterns of gonadal hormone receptors in arcuate kisspeptin and GABA neurons of the postnatal female mouse" (2024), "FRI278 Kisspeptin Neuron Projections And Expression Patterns Are Unaltered In Prenatally Androgenized Female Mice Modeling PCOS" (Journal of the Endocrine Society, 2023), "Defining potential targets of prenatal androgen excess: Expression analysis of androgen receptor on hypothalamic neurons in the fetal female mouse brain" (Journal of Neuroendocrinology, 2023), "Deletion of Androgen Receptors From Kisspeptin Neurons Prevents PCOS Features in a Letrozole Mouse Model" (2023), "Maternal Obesity Modulates Expression of Satb2 in Hypothalamic VMN of Female Offspring" (2020), and "Maternal obesity modulates sexually dimorphic epigenetic regulation and expression of leptin receptor in offspring hippocampus" (2020). Earlier contributions feature "Netrin-1 Stimulates Developing GnRH Neurons to Extend Neurites to the Median Eminence in a Calcium-Dependent Manner" (PLOS One, 2012), "Initiation of primary myogenesis in amniote limb muscles" (Developmental Dynamics, 2013), "Investigation of neuromuscular abnormalities in neurotrophin-3-deficient mice" (European Journal of Neuroscience, 2010), "Preventive effects of clomiphene citrate on estrogen-deficiency osteopenia elicited by LHRH agonist administration in the rat" (2009), "Gene expression profiling of human GV oocytes: an analysis of a profile obtained by Serial Analysis of Gene Expression (SAGE)" (Journal of Reproductive Immunology, 2002), and studies on bone-resorbing effects of clomiphene, tamoxifen, and 17β-estradiol (1990-1991). Her technical assistance, especially in histology, is frequently acknowledged by collaborators such as Rebecca E. Campbell and Christine L. Jasoni from the Centre for Neuroendocrinology.