Stem cells are key for the development and maintenance of multicellular organisms. Some animals in addition have remarkable regenerative capacities, which also rely on the activation of stem cells. In this research platform we aim to study the regulation of stem cells during development, regeneration and maintenance in a variety of animals with different life history strategies in order to unravel the mechanisms of regulation that lead to the activation of stem cells. We employ modern single cell technologies in combination with functional genomics approaches.  We also seek to develop new bioinformatic tools for the analysis of single cell transcriptome data.

01.12.2020
 

Oleg Simakov contributed to the study of coral genome evolution.

30.11.2020
 

Dr. Ekaterina Pukhlyakova defended her thesis today!

26.11.2020
 

Elena Ritschard and Oleg Simakov contributed to the blue-ring octopus genome study.

25.11.2020
 

Qi Zhou’s group has contributed to a recent Nature paper

10.10.2020
 

Two papers in Molecular Ecology Resources and Genes for Luohao Xu

09.10.2020
 

Oleg Simakov is a co-author in a Science Article about regulatory rearrangements in the mole genome