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Gáspár Jékely

Group leader



MPI for Developmental Biology, Paul-Ehrlich Str. 22, 72076 Tübingen, Germany                                         

Tel: +49 7071 601 1310
Fax: +49 7071 601 305
E-Mail: gaspar.jekely
[AT] tuebingen.mpg.de



Biography


  • PhD 1999 Genetics, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
  • 2000-2002 Postdoctoral fellow at EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
  • 2003-2004 Junior fellow at Collegium Budapest, Institute for Advanced Study, Budapest, Hungary
  • 2004-2007 Postdoctoral fellow at EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
  • since 2007 Group leader at MPI for Developmental Biology, Germany


Publications



2011


Conzelmann M, Offenburger SL, Asadulina S, Keller T, Münch TA, Jékely G. Neuropeptides regulate swimming depth of Platynereis larvae. PNAS, 2011 Oct 17. [Epub ahead of print]

Jékely G. Origin and early evolution of neural circuits for the control of ciliary locomotion. Proc Biol Sci. 2011;278:914-22. (review)

 

2009


Jékely G. Evolution of phototaxis. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2009;364:2795-808.

2008


Satir P,  Mitchell DR, Jékely G. How did the cilium evolve? Current Topics in Dev Biol. 2008;85:63-82.

Jékely G, Colombelli J, Hausen H, Guy K, Stelzer E, Nédélec F, Arendt D. Mechanism of phototaxis in marine zooplankton. Nature, 2008; 456:395-9

Jékely G. Origin of the nucleus and Ran-dependent transport to safeguard ribosome biogenesis in a chimeric cell. Biology Direct, 2008;3:31.

Arendt D, Denes A, Jékely G, Tessmar-Raible K. The evolution of nervous system centralization. Phil Trans R Soc B. 2008 Apr;363(1496):1523-8.

Jékely G. Evolution of the Golgi complex. in The Golgi Apparatus editors: Mironov A, Pavelka M. 2008 SpringerWienNewYork


2007


Jékely G. Origin of eukaryotic endomembranes: a critical evaluation of different model scenarios. Adv Exp Med Biol. 2007;607:38-51.

Jékely G, Arendt D. Cellular resolution expression profiling using confocal detection of NBT-BCIP precipitate by reflection microscopy. BioTechniques, 2007 June; 42(6): 751-755.

Denes A1, Jékely G1, Steinmetz P, Raible F, Snyman H, Prud’homme B, Ferrier D, Balavoine G, Arendt D. Molecular architecture of annelid nerve cord supports common origin of nervous system centralization in bilateria. Cell, 2007 Apr; 129(2):277-288. 1Equally contributing authors

Jékely G. Origin of phagotrophic eukaryotes as cheaters in microbial biofilms. Biology Direct, 2007 Jan;2(2):3


2006

Jékely G. Did the last common ancestor have a biological membrane? Biology Direct, 2006 Nov;1(1):35.

Jékely G, Arendt D. Evolution of intraflagellar transport from coated vesicles and autogenous origin of the eukaryotic cilium. BioEssays. 2006 Feb;28(2):191-8.  


2005 and before

Jékely G, Sung H, Luque CM,  Rørth P. Regulators of Endocytosis Maintain Localized Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Signaling in Guided Migration. Developmental Cell. 2005 Aug;9(2):197-207.

Fritzsch B, Piatigorsky J, Tessmar-Raible K, Jékely G, Guy K, Raible F, Wittbrodt J, Arendt D. Ancestry of Photic and Mechanic Sensation? Science. 2005 May 20;308(5725):1113-1114.

Jékely G. Glimpsing over the event horizon: evolution of nuclear pores and envelope. Cell Cycle. 2005 Feb;4(2):297-9.Jékely G, Rørth P. Hrs mediates downregulation of multiple signalling receptors in Drosophila. EMBO Rep. 2003 Dec;4(12):1163-8. 

Jékely G.  Small GTPases and the evolution of the eukaryotic cell. BioEssays. 2003 Nov;25(11):1129-38.

Jékely G. The human genome sequence. A triumph of chemistry: If the history of molecular biology is written in the future, the first chapter should be devoted to the chemists who did the ground work. EMBO Rep. 2002 Jul, 3:594-5.

Jékely G. Evolution in a nutshell. EMBL PhD student symposium on evolution. EMBO Rep. 2002 Apr;3(4):307-11.

Duchek P, Somogyi K, Jékely G, Beccari S, Rørth P. Guidance of cell migration by the Drosophila PDGF/VEGF receptor. Cell. 2001 Oct 5;107(1):17-26. 

Szabo K, Jékely G, Rørth P. Cloning and expression of sprint, a Drosophila homologue of RIN1. Mech Dev. 2001 Mar;101(1-2):259-62.

Jékely G, Friedrich P. Characterization of two recombinant Drosophila calpains. CALPA and a novel homolog, CALPB. J Biol Chem. 1999 Aug 20;274(34):23893-900.

Jékely G, Friedrich P. The evolution of the calpain family as reflected in paralogous chromosome regions. J Mol Evol. 1999 Aug;49(2):272-81.

Jékely G, Pinter M, Friedrich P. Drosophila calpains. Purification of a calpain-like enzyme from fruit flies, and expression in Escherichia coli. Methods Mol Biol. 2000;144:67-74.  


Books


Eukaryotic Membranes and Cytoskeleton: Origins and Evolution. Edited by Jékely G. Landes Bioscience 2007.
    
Jékely G. Master, are you awake? A fictitious dialogue on genetics, development and evolution. (in Hungarian) Kalligram: Bratislava 2006 ISBN 80-7149-844-0


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