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Ulrich Technau

Ulrich Technau

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
63
Citations
13562
World Ranking
10260
National Ranking
92

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

Overview

Ulrich Technau is a researcher affiliated with the University of Vienna in Austria. Their work spans multiple disciplines including Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Earth and Planetary Sciences, and Environmental Science. Their research covers several subfields such as Paleontology, Molecular Biology, Global and Planetary Change, Cell Biology, and Ecology.

Technau's research topics focus extensively on marine and biological systems. Key areas include Marine Invertebrate Physiology and Ecology, Marine Ecology and Invasive Species, Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies, Protist Diversity and Phylogeny, Planarian Biology and Electrostimulation, Marine Toxins and Detection Methods, and Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications.

Notable recent publications by Technau include the following:

  • "Updated single cell reference atlas for the starlet anemone Nematostella vectensis," 2024, Frontiers in Zoology
  • "Topological structures and syntenic conservation in sea anemone genomes," 2023, Nature Communications
  • "Single-cell transcriptomics identifies conserved regulators of neuroglandular lineages," 2022, Cell Reports
  • "Cnidarian-bilaterian comparison reveals the ancestral regulatory logic of the β-catenin dependent axial patterning," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Sea anemone genomes reveal ancestral metazoan chromosomal macrosynteny," 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Technau frequently publishes in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Communications, Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature, Cell Reports, and Frontiers in Zoology.

Their frequent co-authors include Alison G. Cole, Grigory Genikhovich, Bob Zimmermann, Julia Steger, and Tatiana Lebedeva.

In 2020, Technau was awarded membership in the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina - Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften, specifically recognized within Organismic and Evolutionary Biology.

Best Publications

  • Sea Anemone Genome Reveals Ancestral Eumetazoan Gene Repertoire and Genomic Organization

    Nicholas H. Putnam;Mansi Srivastava;Uffe Hellsten;Bill Dirks

  • The dynamic genome of Hydra

    Jarrod A. Chapman;Ewen F. Kirkness;Oleg Simakov;Oleg Simakov;Steven E. Hampson

  • Unexpected complexity of the Wnt gene family in a sea anemone

    Arne Kusserow;Kevin Pang;Carsten Sturm;Martina Hrouda

  • Maintenance of ancestral complexity and non-metazoan genes in two basal cnidarians

    Ulrich Technau;Stephen Rudd;Peter Maxwell;Paul M. Gordon

  • Evolutionary crossroads in developmental biology: Cnidaria

    Ulrich Technau;Robert E. Steele

  • Independent evolution of striated muscles in cnidarians and bilaterians

    Patrick R. H. Steinmetz;Johanna E. M. Kraus;Claire Larroux;Claire Larroux;Jörg U. Hammel

  • Evolution of the bilaterian larval foregut

    Detlev Arendt;Ulrich Technau;Joachim Wittbrodt

  • Cnidarians: An evolutionarily conserved model system for regeneration?

    T.W. Holstein;E. Hobmayer;E. Hobmayer;U. Technau

  • HyBra1, a Brachyury homologue, acts during head formation in Hydra.

    Ulrich Technau;Hans R. Bode

  • Origin and evolution of endoderm and mesoderm.

    Ulrich Technau;Corinna B Scholz

  • The evolutionary origin of plant and animal microRNAs.

    Yehu Moran;Maayan Agron;Daniela Praher;Ulrich Technau

  • Minimal ProtoHox cluster inferred from bilaterian and cnidarian Hox complements

    D Chourrout;F Delsuc;P Chourrout;R B Edvardsen

  • Induction of gametogenesis in the basal cnidarian Nematostella vectensis(Anthozoa).

    Jens H Fritzenwanker;Ulrich Technau

  • Brachyury, the blastopore and the evolution of the mesoderm.

    Ulrich Technau

  • FGF signalling controls formation of the apical sensory organ in the cnidarian Nematostella vectensis.

    Fabian Rentzsch;Jens H. Fritzenwanker;Corinna B. Scholz;Ulrich Technau;Ulrich Technau

  • Evolutionary conservation of the eumetazoan gene regulatory landscape

    Michaela Schwaiger;Anna Schönauer;André F. Rendeiro;Carina Pribitzer

  • Nervous systems of the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis are generated by ectoderm and endoderm and shaped by distinct mechanisms

    Nagayasu Nakanishi;Eduard Renfer;Ulrich Technau;Fabian Rentzsch

  • Asymmetric expression of the BMP antagonists chordin and gremlin in the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis: implications for the evolution of axial patterning.

    Fabian Rentzsch;Roman Anton;Roman Anton;Michael Saina;Matthias Hammerschmidt

  • The ancestral role of Brachyury: expression of NemBra1 in the basal cnidarian Nematostella vectensis (Anthozoa).

    Corinna B. Scholz;Ulrich Technau

  • A muscle-specific transgenic reporter line of the sea anemone, Nematostella vectensis

    Eduard Renfer;Annette Amon-Hassenzahl;Patrick R. H. Steinmetz;Ulrich Technau

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas W. Holstein
Thomas W. Holstein Heidelberg University
Robert Steele
Robert Steele University of California, Irvine
Daniel S. Rokhsar
Daniel S. Rokhsar University of California, Berkeley
Hans R. Bode
Hans R. Bode University of California, Irvine
Mark Q. Martindale
Mark Q. Martindale University of Florida
Michael Gurevitz
Michael Gurevitz Tel Aviv University
Yvan Saeys
Yvan Saeys Ghent University
Patrick Lemaire
Patrick Lemaire Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Eldon E. Ball
Eldon E. Ball James Cook University
Frans van Roy
Frans van Roy Ghent University

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