Oleg Simakov
Univ.-Prof. Dr.Member of the Young Academy since 2023
- Department of Neuroscience and Developmental Biology, University of Vienna
Orcid-ID:
0000-0002-3585-4511
Research Areas:
- Biology
- Genomics
- Evolutionary research
- Bioinformatics
- Systems biology
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Publications:
Selected Prizes:
- ERC Starting Grant
- Whitman Center 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.
- 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 genome reorganization. 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.
- 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 of metazoan 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 driving cephalopod evolution. Nat Commun. 2022 May 4; 13 (1): 2427. doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-29748-w.
° co-first or corresponding author