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Paulien Hogeweg is affiliated with Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Their research primarily focuses on Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with particular attention to the subfields of Molecular Biology, Genetics, Ecology, Sociology and Political Science, and Plant Science.

The scientist's publications cover a range of topics, including Evolution and Genetic Dynamics, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks, Protist diversity and phylogeny, Gene Regulatory Network Analysis, and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions.

Frequent co-authors in their research include Samuel H. A. von der Dunk, Berend Snel, Bas E. Dutilh, Bram van Dijk, and F. A. Bastiaan von Meijenfeldt.

Hogeweg has published multiple papers in several venues, with high contributions to bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). Other noted publications appeared in Physics of Life Reviews, Communications Biology, and Nature Ecology & Evolution.

Recent papers include:

  • A social niche breadth score reveals niche range strategies of generalists and specialists, 2023, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • From genotypes to organisms: State-of-the-art and perspectives of a cornerstone in evolutionary dynamics, 2021, Physics of Life Reviews
  • Slightly beneficial genes are retained by bacteria evolving DNA uptake despite selfish elements, 2020, eLife
  • Contingent evolution of alternative metabolic network topologies determines whether cross-feeding evolves, 2020, Communications Biology
  • Nothing in evolution makes sense except in the light of parasitism: evolution of complex replication strategies, 2021, Royal Society Open Science

Best Publications

  • Auxin transport is sufficient to generate a maximum and gradient guiding root growth

    Verônica A. Grieneisen;Jian Xu;Athanasius F. M. Marée;Paulien Hogeweg

  • Spiral wave structure in pre-biotic evolution: hypercycles stable against parasites

    M. C. Boerlijst;P. Hogeweg

  • Root System Architecture from Coupling Cell Shape to Auxin Transport

    Marta Laskowski;Verônica A Grieneisen;Hugo Hofhuis;Colette A. ten Hove

  • Modelling Morphogenesis: From Single Cells to Crawling Slugs.

    Nicholas J. Savill;Paulien Hogeweg

  • How amoeboids self-organize into a fruiting body: Multicellular coordination in Dictyostelium discoideum

    Athanasius F. M. Marée;Paulien Hogeweg

  • The alignment of sets of sequences and the construction of phyletic trees: an integrated method.

    P. Hogeweg;B. Hesper

  • The roots of bioinformatics in theoretical biology.

    Paulien Hogeweg

  • Cellular automata as a paradigm for ecological modeling

    P. Hogeweg

  • Evolution of evolvability in gene regulatory networks.

    Anton Crombach;Paulien Hogeweg

  • Evolving Mechanisms of Morphogenesis: on the Interplay between Differential Adhesion and Cell Differentiation

    P. Hogeweg

  • Evolutionary consequences of coevolving targets

    Ludo Pagie;Paulien Hogeweg

  • The ontogeny of the interaction structure in bumble bee colonies: A MIRROR model

    P. Hogeweg;B. Hesper

  • The Cellular Potts Model and Biophysical Properties of Cells, Tissues and Morphogenesis

    Athanasius F. M. Marée;Verônica A. Grieneisen;Paulien Hogeweg

  • Energy directed folding of RNA sequences

    Paulien Hogeweg;Ben Hesper

  • Multilevel selection in models of prebiotic evolution: compartments and spatial self-organization.

    Paulien Hogeweg;Nobuto Takeuchi

  • Simulation of dictyostelium discoideum aggregation via reaction-diffusion model.

    BN Vasiev;BN Vasiev;P Hogeweg;Alexander Panfilov

  • Spatial Pattern Formation During Aggregation of the Slime Mould Dictyostelium discoideum

    C. van Oss;A.V. Panfilov;P. Hogeweg;F. Siegert

  • Evolutionary Dynamics of RNA-like Replicator Systems: A Bioinformatic Approach to the Origin of Life

    Nobuto Takeuchi;Paulien Hogeweg

  • Multilevel Selection in Models of Prebiotic Evolution II: A Direct Comparison of Compartmentalization and Spatial Self-Organization

    Nobuto Takeuchi;Paulien Hogeweg

  • Sympatric speciation and extinction driven by environment dependent sexual selection

    van Sander Doorn;A.J. Noest;P. Hogeweg

Frequent Co-Authors

Susan Stepney
Susan Stepney University of York
Santiago F. Elena
Santiago F. Elena Santa Fe Institute
Martijn A. Huynen
Martijn A. Huynen Radboud University Medical Center
Berend Snel
Berend Snel Utrecht University
Ben Scheres
Ben Scheres Wageningen University & Research
Peter M. A. Sloot
Peter M. A. Sloot University of Amsterdam
Pejman Rohani
Pejman Rohani University of Georgia
Eugene V. Koonin
Eugene V. Koonin National Institutes of Health
Leslie A. Grivell
Leslie A. Grivell University of Amsterdam
Ard A. Louis
Ard A. Louis University of Oxford

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