Staff at EMBL

Oleg Simakov

Predoctoral Fellow
Arendt Group

EMBL Heidelberg, Meyerhofstraße 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany

Publications

Expression of secreted Wnt pathway components reveals unexpected complexity of the planarian amputation response. Gurley, K.A., Elliott, S.A., Simakov, O., Schmidt, H.A., Holstein, T.W. & Sanchez Alvarado, A. Dev Biol. 2010 Nov 1;347(1):24-39. Epub 2010 Aug 10. PubMed

The Amphimedon queenslandica genome and the evolution of animal complexity. Srivastava, M., Simakov, O., Chapman, J., Fahey, B., Gauthier, M.E., Mitros, T., Richards, G.S., Conaco, C., Dacre, M., Hellsten, U., Larroux, C., Putnam, N.H., Stanke, M., Adamska, M., Darling, A., Degnan, S.M., Oakley, T.H., Plachetzki, D.C., Zhai, Y., Adamski, M., Calcino, A., Cummins, S.F., Goodstein, D.M., Harris, C., Jackson, D.J., Leys, S.P., Shu, S., Woodcroft, B.J., Vervoort, M., Kosik, K.S., Manning, G., Degnan, B.M. & Rokhsar, D.S. Nature. 2010 Aug 5;466(7307):720-6. PubMed

Genomic analysis of organismal complexity in the multicellular green alga Volvox carteri. Prochnik, S.E., Umen, J., Nedelcu, A.M., Hallmann, A., Miller, S.M., Nishii, I., Ferris, P., Kuo, A., Mitros, T., Fritz-Laylin, L.K., Hellsten, U., Chapman, J., Simakov, O., Rensing, S.A., Terry, A., Pangilinan, J., Kapitonov, V., Jurka, J., Salamov, A., Shapiro, H., Schmutz, J., Grimwood, J., Lindquist, E., Lucas, S., Grigoriev, I.V., Schmitt, R., Kirk, D. & Rokhsar, D.S. Science. 2010 Jul 9;329(5988):223-6. PubMed

The dynamic genome of Hydra. Chapman, J.A., Kirkness, E.F., Simakov, O., Hampson, S.E., Mitros, T., Weinmaier, T., Rattei, T., Balasubramanian, P.G., Borman, J., Busam, D., Disbennett, K., Pfannkoch, C., Sumin, N., Sutton, G.G., Viswanathan, L.D., Walenz, B., Goodstein, D.M., Hellsten, U., Kawashima, T., Prochnik, S.E., Putnam, N.H., Shu, S., Blumberg, B., Dana, C.E., Gee, L., Kibler, D.F., Law, L., Lindgens, D., Martinez, D.E., Peng, J., Wigge, P.A., Bertulat, B., Guder, C., Nakamura, Y., Ozbek, S., Watanabe, H., Khalturin, K., Hemmrich, G., Franke, A., Augustin, R., Fraune, S., Hayakawa, E., Hayakawa, S., Hirose, M., Hwang, J.S., Ikeo, K., Nishimiya-Fujisawa, C., Ogura, A., Takahashi, T., Steinmetz, P.R., Zhang, X., Aufschnaiter, R., Eder, M.K., Gorny, A.K., Salvenmoser, W., Heimberg, A.M., Wheeler, B.M., Peterson, K.J., Bottger, A., Tischler, P., Wolf, A., Gojobori, T., Remington, K.A., Strausberg, R.L., Venter, J.C., Technau, U., Hobmayer, B., Bosch, T.C., Holstein, T.W., Fujisawa, T., Bode, H.R., David, C.N., Rokhsar, D.S. & Steele, R.E. Nature. 2010 Mar 25;464(7288):592-6. Epub 2010 Mar 14. PubMed

Ancient animal microRNAs and the evolution of tissue identity. Christodoulou, F., Raible, F., Tomer, R., Simakov, O., Trachana, K., Klaus, S., Snyman, H., Hannon, G.J., Bork, P. & Arendt, D. Nature. 2010 Feb 25;463(7284):1084-8. Epub 2010 Jan 31. PubMed

Multiple Wnts are involved in Hydra organizer formation and regeneration. Lengfeld, T., Watanabe, H., Simakov, O., Lindgens, D., Gee, L., Law, L., Schmidt, H.A., Ozbek, S., Bode, H. & Holstein, T.W. Dev Biol. 2009 Jun 1;330(1):186-99. Epub 2009 Feb 13. PubMed

Neuromedin U and its putative Drosophila homolog hugin. Melcher, C., Bader, R., Walther, S., Simakov, O. & Pankratz, M.J. PLoS Biol. 2006 Mar;4(3):e68. Epub 2006 Mar 14. PubMed