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  • 2017 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

Overview

Detlev Arendt is affiliated with Heidelberg University in Germany and conducts research primarily in the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work covers several subfields, including Molecular Biology, Biophysics, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Ecology, and Paleontology.

The research topics addressed by Detlev Arendt focus on areas such as Cell Image Analysis Techniques, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Single-cell and Spatial Transcriptomics, Marine Invertebrate Physiology and Ecology, Machine Learning in Bioinformatics, Marine Sponges and Natural Products, and Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research.

Detlev Arendt has published extensively, with frequent publications appearing in the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Current Biology
  • Nature Neuroscience

Some of the recent papers authored by or involving Detlev Arendt include:

  • Mapping single-cell atlases throughout Metazoa unravels cell type evolution, 2021, eLife
  • Profiling cellular diversity in sponges informs animal cell type and nervous system evolution, 2021, Science
  • Reframing cognition: getting down to biological basics, 2021, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Whole-body integration of gene expression and single-cell morphology, 2021, Cell
  • The Nereid on the rise: Platynereis as a model system, 2021, EvoDevo

Collaborations have been a notable aspect of Detlev Arendt's research activities. Frequent coauthors include Jacob M. Musser, Anna Kreshuk, Νικόλαος Παπαδόπουλος, Fabian Ruperti, and Hernando Martínez Vergara.

Detlev Arendt has been recognized with memberships in scientific organizations, including becoming a Member of Academia Europaea in 2017 and membership of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).

Best Publications

  • The origin and evolution of cell types

    Detlev Arendt;Jacob M. Musser;Clare V. H. Baker;Aviv Bergman;Aviv Bergman

  • Insights into bilaterian evolution from three spiralian genomes

    Oleg Simakov;Ferdinand Marletaz;Sung-Jin Cho;Eric Edsinger-Gonzales

  • The evolution of cell types in animals: emerging principles from molecular studies

    Detlev Arendt

  • Ciliary photoreceptors with a vertebrate-type opsin in an invertebrate brain

    D. Arendt;K. Tessmar-Raible;H. Snyman;A.W. Dorresteijn

  • Evolution of eyes and photoreceptor cell types.

    Detlev Arendt

  • A Holistic Approach to Marine Eco-Systems Biology

    Eric Karsenti;Silvia G. Acinas;Peer Bork;Chris Bowler;Chris Bowler

  • Molecular Architecture of Annelid Nerve Cord Supports Common Origin of Nervous System Centralization in Bilateria

    Alexandru S. Denes;Gáspár Jékely;Patrick R.H. Steinmetz;Florian Raible

  • High-throughput spatial mapping of single-cell RNA-seq data to tissue of origin

    Kaia Achim;Jean-Baptiste Pettit;Luis R Saraiva;Daria Gavriouchkina

  • Conserved Sensory-Neurosecretory Cell Types in Annelid and Fish Forebrain: Insights into Hypothalamus Evolution

    Kristin Tessmar-Raible;Florian Raible;Foteini Christodoulou;Keren Guy

  • Small Peptides Switch the Transcriptional Activity of Shavenbaby During Drosophila Embryogenesis

    T. Kondo;S. Plaza;S. Plaza;J. Zanet;J. Zanet;E. Benrabah;E. Benrabah

  • Illuminating the Base of the Annelid Tree Using Transcriptomics

    Anne Weigert;Conrad Helm;Matthias Meyer;Birgit Nickel

  • Inversion of dorsoventral axis

    D Arendt;K Nübler-Jung

  • Ancient animal microRNAs and the evolution of tissue identity

    Foteini Christodoulou;Florian Raible;Raju Tomer;Oleg Simakov

  • Profiling by Image Registration Reveals Common Origin of Annelid Mushroom Bodies and Vertebrate Pallium

    Raju Tomer;Alexandru S. Denes;Kristin Tessmar-Raible;Detlev Arendt

  • Comparison of early nerve cord development in insects and vertebrates.

    Detlev Arendt;Katharina Nübler-Jung

  • Mechanism of phototaxis in marine zooplankton

    Gáspár Jékely;Julien Colombelli;Harald Hausen;Keren Guy

  • From nerve net to nerve ring, nerve cord and brain — evolution of the nervous system

    Detlev Arendt;Maria Antonietta Tosches;Heather Marlow

  • Evolution of the bilaterian larval foregut

    Detlev Arendt;Ulrich Technau;Joachim Wittbrodt

  • The mid-developmental transition and the evolution of animal body plans

    Michal Levin;Leon Anavy;Alison G. Cole;Eitan Winter

  • Reconstructing the eyes of Urbilateria.

    Detlev Arendt;Joachim Wittbrodt

Frequent Co-Authors

Joachim Wittbrodt
Joachim Wittbrodt Heidelberg University
Peer Bork
Peer Bork European Molecular Biology Laboratory
John C. Marioni
John C. Marioni European Bioinformatics Institute
Richard H. Scheuermann
Richard H. Scheuermann J. Craig Venter Institute
Huibert D. Mansvelder
Huibert D. Mansvelder Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Andreas S. Tolias
Andreas S. Tolias Baylor College of Medicine
Christiaan P. J. de Kock
Christiaan P. J. de Kock Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Javier DeFelipe
Javier DeFelipe Technical University of Madrid
Julio C. Martinez-Trujillo
Julio C. Martinez-Trujillo University of Western Ontario
Onur Güntürkün
Onur Güntürkün Ruhr University Bochum

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