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Professor Johann Peter Gogarten
picture Professor Johann Peter Gogarten
University of Connecticut, BSP 404
91 North Eagleville Road, Unit 3125
Storrs, CT 06269-3125
Telephone: (860) 486-4061
Fax: (860) 486-4331
E-Mail: gogarten@uconn.edu
Visit Professor Gogarten's Website.

Education: Ph.D. University of Giessen, FRG; Postdoctoral study, University of California Santa Cruz.

Research Interests: Origin and early evolution of cellular life; molecular evolution; evolution of the eukaryotic endomembrane system; evolution and function of ATPases/ATPsynthases; horizontal gene transfer and gene duplications; comparative genome analyses.

Selected Publications:
Zhaxybayeva O, Doolittle WF, Papke RT, Gogarten JP (2009) Intertwined Evolutionary Histories of Marine Synechococcus and Prochlorococcus marinus Genome Biology and Evolution: doi:10.1093/gbe/evp032

[A complete list of publication including links to online versions is at http://gogarten.uconn.edu ]
Fournier GP, Huang JL, Gogarten JP (2009) Horizontal gene transfer from extinct and extant lineages: Biological innovation and the coral of life.
href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19571243?">Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 364 (1527):2229-39.

  • Maria B. Gogarten, Johann Peter Gogarten, Lorraine C. Olendzenski (Editors)
    Horizontal Gene Transfer: Genomes in Flux.
    Humana Press - Springer; 1 edition (February 13, 2009), ISBN-13: 978-1603278522
  • Lapierre P., Gogarten J.P. (2009)
    Estimating the size of the bacterial pan-genome.
    Trends in Genetics, doi:10.1016/j.tig.2008.12.004
  • Xu, Ying and J Peter Gogarten (eds.) (2008)
    Computational Methods for Understanding Bacterial and Archaeal Genomes.
    Imperial College Press, London, ISBN-13: 978-1-86094-982-1.
  • Huang J, Gogarten JP (2008)
    Concerted gene recruitment in early plant evolution.
    Genome Biology 9(7): R109
  • Fournier GP, Gogarten JP (2008)
    Evolution of Acetoclastic Methanogenesis in Methanosarcina via Horizontal Gene Transfer from Cellulolytic Clostridia.
    J. Bacteriol. 190(3):1124-7
  • Huang, Jinling and J. Peter Gogarten (2007)
    Did an ancient chlamydial endosymbiosis facilitate the establishment of primary plastids?
    Genome Biology 8(6): R99
  • Zhaxybayeva, O., Gogarten, J.P., Charlebois, R.L., Doolittle, W.F., and Papke, R.T. (2006)
    Phylogenetic analyses of cyanobacterial genomes: Quantification of horizontal gene transfer events.
    Genome Research     16(9):1099-108
  • Gogarten, J.P. and Hilario, E. (2006)
    Inteins, introns, and homing endonucleases: Recent revelations about the life cycle of parasitic genetic elements.
    BMC Evolutionary Biology     6:94
  • Huang, J. and Gogarten, J.P. (2006) Ancient horizontal gene transfer can benefit phylogenetic reconstruction.
    Trends in Genetics 22(7):361-6.
  • Lapierre P, Shial R, Gogarten JP (2006): Distribution of F- and A/V- type ATPases in Thermus scotoductus and Other Closely Related Species.
    Systematic and Applied Microbiology 29(1):15-23
  • Zhaxybayeva, O., Lapierre, P., and Gogarten, J. P. (2006): Ancient Gene Duplications and the Root(s) of the Tree of Life.
    Protoplasma 227(1): 53-64
  • Gogarten, J. P., and Townsend, J. P. (2005): Horizontal gene transfer, genome innovation, and evolution.
    Nature Reviews in Microbiology 3(9) 679-687
  • Huang J., Xu, Y,. and Gogarten, J.P. (2005): The Presence of a Haloarchaeal Type Tyrosyl tRNA Synthetase Marks theOpisthokonts as Monophyletic.
    Molecular Biology and Evolution     22(11): 2142-6
  • Zhaxybayeva, O. and Gogarten, J.P. (2004):
    Cladogenesis, Coalescence and the Evolution of the Three Domains of Life.
    Trends in Genetics 20 (4): 182- 187
  • Raymond, J., Zhaxybayeva, O., Gogarten,J.P., Gerdes, S., Blankenship, R.E. (2002):
    Whole Genome Analysis of Photosynthetic Prokaryotes.
    Science 298: 1616-1620.
  • Gogarten, J. P., Doolittle, W. F. and Lawrence, J. G. (2002): Prokaryotic Evolution in Light of Gene Transfer.
    Molecular Biology and Evolution 19: 2226-2238.
  • Gogarten, J. P., Senejani, A. G., Zhaxybayeva, O., Olendzenski, L. and Hilario, E. (2002)
    Inteins: Structure, Function, and Evolution.
    Annu. Rev. Microbiol.     56: 263-287
  • Zhaxybayeva O, Gogarten JP (2002) Bootstrap, Bayesian probability and maximum likelihood mapping: Exploring new tools for comparative genome analyses.
    BMC Genomics    3:4,1-13
  • Olendzenski, L., Liu, L., Zhaxybayeva, O., Murphey, R., Shin, D.-G., and Gogarten, J.P. (2000):
    Horizontal Transfer of Archaeal Genes into the Deinococcaceae: Detection by molecular and computer based approaches.
    Journal of Molecular Evolution, 51(6): 587-599.
  • Gogarten JP, Oldendzenski L, Hilario E, Simon C, Holsinger KE (1996)
    Dating the Cenancester of Organisms - Technical Comment,
    Science, 274, 1750-1751.
  • Gogarten-Boekels M, Hilario E, Gogarten JP (1995)
    The effects of heavy meteorite bombardment on the early evolution - the emergence of the three domains of life.
    Origin of Life and Evolution of the Biosphere, 25, 251-264
  • Hilario, E, Gogarten, J.P. (1993):
    Horizontal Transfer of ATPase Genes -The Tree of Life becomes a Net of Life,
    BioSystems     31, 111-119.
  • Gogarten, J.P., Kibak, H., Dittrich, P. Taiz, L., Bowman, E.J., Bowman, B., Manolson, M., Poole, R., Date, T., Oshima, T., Konishi, J., Denda, K., Yoshida, M. (1989)
    The evolution of the vacuolar H+-ATPase: Implications for the origin of eukaryotes.
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A.     86, 6661-6665

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