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Oded Béjà is affiliated with the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in Israel. Their research spans several disciplines within life sciences, with significant contributions in neuroscience and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work frequently intersects subfields such as cellular and molecular neuroscience, molecular biology, ecology, biomedical engineering, and cognitive neuroscience.

The scientist has extensively published on topics including photoreceptor and optogenetics research, molecular communication and nanonetworks, photosynthetic processes and mechanisms, bioluminescence and chemiluminescence research, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, retinal development and disorders, and neural dynamics and brain function.

Some notable recent papers authored or coauthored by them include:

  • Microbial Rhodopsins: The Last Two Decades, 2021, Annual Review of Microbiology
  • Schizorhodopsins: A family of rhodopsins from Asgard archaea that function as light-driven inward H+ pumps, 2020, Science Advances
  • Lateral Gene Transfer of Anion-Conducting Channelrhodopsins between Green Algae and Giant Viruses, 2020, Current Biology
  • WiChR, a highly potassium-selective channelrhodopsin for low-light one- and two-photon inhibition of excitable cells, 2022, Science Advances
  • Seasonal and diel patterns of abundance and activity of viruses in the Red Sea, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Frequent coauthors of Oded Béjà include:

  • Andrey Rozenberg (32 collaborations)
  • Keiichi Inoue (29 collaborations)
  • Masae Konno (19 collaborations)
  • Hideki Kandori (17 collaborations)
  • Takashi Nagata (16 collaborations)

Their research has appeared often in journals such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Microbiology, Nature, eLife, and Communications Biology, with multiple publications in each venue.

Best Publications

  • Bacterial Rhodopsin: Evidence for a New Type of Phototrophy in the Sea

    Oded Béjà;L. Aravind;Eugene V. Koonin;Marcelino T. Suzuki

  • Proteorhodopsin phototrophy in the ocean

    Oded Béjà;Elena N. Spudich;John L. Spudich;Marion Leclerc

  • Unsuspected diversity among marine aerobic anoxygenic phototrophs.

    Oded Béjà;Oded Béjà;Marcelino T. Suzuki;John F. Heidelberg;William C. Nelson

  • Construction and analysis of bacterial artificial chromosome libraries from a marine microbial assemblage

    Oded Béjà;Marcelino T. Suzuki;Eugene V. Koonin;L. Aravind

  • Diversification and spectral tuning in marine proteorhodopsins.

    Dikla Man;Weiwu Wang;Gazalah Sabehi;L. Aravind

  • Proteorhodopsin genes are distributed among divergent marine bacterial taxa.

    José R. de la Torre;Lynne M. Christianson;Oded Béjà;Marcelino T. Suzuki

  • New insights into metabolic properties of marine bacteria encoding proteorhodopsins

    Gazalah Sabehi;Alexander Loy;Kwang Hwan Jung;Ranga Partha

  • Photosystem I gene cassettes are present in marine virus genomes

    Itai Sharon;Ariella Alperovitch;Forest Rohwer;Matthew Haynes

  • A distinct abundant group of microbial rhodopsins discovered using functional metagenomics.

    Alina Pushkarev;Keiichi Inoue;Shirley Larom;José Flores-Uribe

  • Comparative genomic analysis of archaeal genotypic variants in a single population and in two different oceanic provinces.

    Oded Béjà;Eugene V. Koonin;L. Aravind;Lance T. Taylor

  • Assessing diversity and biogeography of aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria in surface waters of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans using the Global Ocean Sampling expedition metagenomes.

    Natalya Yutin;Marcelino T. Suzuki;Hanno Teeling;Marc Weber

  • Potential photosynthesis gene recombination between Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus via viral intermediates

    Gil Zeidner;Joseph P. Bielawski;Michael Shmoish;David J. Scanlan

  • Marine Bacterial and Archaeal Ion-Pumping Rhodopsins: Genetic Diversity, Physiology, and Ecology

    Jarone Pinhassi;Edward F. DeLong;Oded Béjà;José M. González

  • Phylogenetic analysis of ribosomal RNA operons from uncultivated coastal marine bacterioplankton

    Marcelino T. Suzuki;Oded Béjà;Lance T. Taylor;Edward F. DeLong

  • Reverse dissimilatory sulfite reductase as phylogenetic marker for a subgroup of sulfur-oxidizing prokaryotes.

    Alexander Loy;Stephan Duller;Christian Baranyi;Marc Mußmann

  • Isolation and characterization of Erythrobacter sp. strains from the upper ocean.

    Michal Koblizek;Oded Beja;Robert R. Bidigare;Stephanie Christensen

  • Comparative metagenomics of microbial traits within oceanic viral communities

    Itai Sharon;Natalia Battchikova;Eva-Mari Aro;Carmela Giglione

  • The Light-Driven Proton Pump Proteorhodopsin Enhances Bacterial Survival during Tough Times

    Edward F. DeLong;Oded Béjà

  • Novel Proteorhodopsin variants from the Mediterranean and Red Seas.

    Gazalah Sabehi;Ramon Massana;Joseph P. Bielawski;Mira Rosenberg

  • Comparative community genomics in the Dead Sea: an increasingly extreme environment

    Idan Bodaker;Itai Sharon;Marcelino T Suzuki;Roi Feingersch

Frequent Co-Authors

Hideki Kandori
Hideki Kandori Nagoya Institute of Technology
Edward F. DeLong
Edward F. DeLong University of Hawaii at Manoa
Eugene V. Koonin
Eugene V. Koonin National Institutes of Health
John L. Spudich
John L. Spudich The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Ilana Berman-Frank
Ilana Berman-Frank University of Haifa
Forest Rohwer
Forest Rohwer San Diego State University
Ramon Massana
Ramon Massana Spanish National Research Council
Peter Hegemann
Peter Hegemann Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
L. Aravind
L. Aravind National Institutes of Health

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