Oleg Simakov

Member of the Young Academy since 2023

• Dept. für Neurowissenschaften und Entwicklungsbiologie, Universität Wien

Contact:

oleg.simakov(at)univie.ac.at

Orcid-ID:

0000-0002-3585-4511

Research Areas:

Profile:

CV/Website

Publications:

Website

Selected Prizes:

• ERC Starting Grant
• Whitman Early Career Investigator Award (Marine Biological Laboratory)
• Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds PhD fellowship

Selected Publications:

• Schultz D, Haddock S, Bredeson J, Green E, Simakov O, Rokhsar D, "Ancient gene linkages support ctenophores assister to other animals", Nature, in press.
• Simakov O, Bredeson J, Berkoff K, Marletaz F, Mitros T, Schultz DT, O'Connell BL, Dear P, Martinez DE, Steele RE, Green RE, David CN, Rokhsar DS. Deeply conserved synteny and the evolution ofmetazoan chromosomes. Sci Adv. 2022 Feb 4;8(5):eabi5884. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abi5884.
• Albertin CB, Medina-Ruiz S, Mitros T, Schmidbaur H, Sanchez G, Wang ZY, Grimwood J, Rosenthal JJC, Ragsdale CW, Simakov O, Rokhsar DS. Genome and transcriptome mechanisms drivingcephalopod evolution. Nat Commun. 2022 May 4;13(1):2427. doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-29748-w.
• Schmidbaur H, Kawaguchi A, Clarence T, Fu X, Hoang OP, Zimmermann B, Ritschard EA, Weissenbacher A, Foster JS, Nyholm SV, Bates PA, Albertin CB, Tanaka E, Simakov O. Emergence of novel cephalopod gene regulation and expression through large-scale genomereorganization. Nat Commun. 2022 Apr 21;13(1):2172. doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-29694-7.
• Simakov O, Marlétaz F, Yue JX, O'Connell B, Jenkins J, Brandt A, Calef R, Tung CH, Huang TK, Schmutz J, Satoh N, Yu JK, Putnam NH, Green RE, Rokhsar DS. Deeply conserved synteny resolves early events in vertebrate evolution. Nat Ecol Evol. 2020 Jun;4(6):820-830. doi:10.1038/s41559-020-1156-z.