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Publications in refereed journals:
(2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1991, 1990, 1989, 1988, 1986, 1985, 1983)

2008

Huang, Jinling and J. Peter Gogarten (2008)
Concerted gene recruitment in early plant evolution
Genome Biology 9(7): R109
Noll KM, Lapierre P, Gogarten JP and Nanavati DM (2008)
Evolution of mal ABC transporter operons in the Thermococcales and Thermotogales
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:7
Hamel, L., Nahar, N., Poptsova, M.S., Zhaxybayeva, O. and Gogarten, J.P. (2008)
Unsupervised Learning in Detection of Gene Transfer.
Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology (full text open access) doi: 10.1155/2008/472719
Fournier, Gregory P., and Gogarten, J. Peter (2008)
Evolution of Acetoclastic Methanogenesis in Methanosarcina via Horizontal Gene Transfer from Cellulolytic Clostridia.
J. Bacteriol. 190(3):1124-7 [Abstract] online [PDF]

2007

Fournier GP, Gogarten JP (2007)
Signature of a Primitive Genetic Code in Ancient Protein Lineages.
J Mol Evol 65 (4), 425-436
Hamel, L., Nahar, N., Poptsova, M.S., Zhaxybayeva, O. and Gogarten, J.P. (2007)
Proceeding of the IEEE Conference Frontiers in the Convergence of Bioscience and Information Technologies (FBIT 2007), October 2007, pp317 - 321, IEEE Press, ISBN 0-7695-2999-2
Nahar, Neha, Poptsova, Maria S., Hamel, Lutz, and Gogarten, J. Peter (2007)
GPX: A Tool for the Exploration and Visualization of Genome Evolution.
Proceedings of the IEEE 7th International Symposium on Bioinformatics & Bioengineering (BIBE07) Boston, pp1338 - 1342,
IEEE Press, ISBN 1-4244-1509-8.
J Peter Gogarten, Gregory Fournier and Olga Zhaxybayeva (2007)
Gene transfer and the reconstruction of life's early history from the molecular record.
Space Science Reviews [Epub ahead of print] DOI: 10.1007/s11214-007-9253-8
Zhaxybayeva O, Gogarten JP, Doolittle WF (2007)
A hyperconserved protein in Prochlorococcus and marine Synechococcus.
FEMS Microbiol Lett. 274 (1): 30-4. [Pre-Review Manuscript]
Martin, Willian, Tal Dagan, Eugene V. Koonin, Jonathan L. Dipippo, J. Peter Gogarten, and James A. Lake (2007)
The Evolution of Eukaryotes, Letter on "Genomics and the irreducible nature of eukaryotic cells".
Science 316, 542-543
Huang, Jinling and J. Peter Gogarten (2007)
Did an ancient chlamydial endosymbiosis facilitate the establishment of primary plastids?
Genome Biology 8(6): R99
A very complimentary review of this paper is at
www.chlamydiae.com
Maria S. Poptsova, J. Peter Gogarten (2007)
BranchClust: A phylogenetic algorithm for selecting gene families.
BMC Bioinformatics 8:120
Maria S. Poptsova, J. Peter Gogarten (2007)
The power of phylogenetic approaches to detect horizontally transferred genes.
BMC Evolutionary Biology 7:45
Alireza G. Senejani and J. Peter Gogarten (2007)
Structural stability and endonuclease activity of a PI-SceI GFP-fusion protein.
Int J Biol Sci 2007; 3:205-211
Philippe Normand, Pascal Lapierre, Louis S. Tisa, Johann Peter GOGARTEN, Nicole Alloisio, Emilie Bagnarol, Carla A. Bassi, Alison M. Berry, Derek M. Bickhart, Nathalie Choisne, Arnaud Couloux, Benoit Cournoyer, Stephane Cruveiller, Vincent Daubin, Nadia Demange, Maria Pilar Francino, Eugene Goltsman, Ying Huang, Olga R. Kopp, Laurent Labarre, Alla Lapidus, Celine Lavire, Joelle Marechal, Michele Martinez, Juliana E. Mastronunzio, Beth C. Mullin, James Niemann, Pierre Pujic, Tania Rawnsley, Zoe Rouy, Chantal Schenowitz, Anita Sellstedt, Fernando Tavares, Jeffrey P. Tomkins, David Vallenet, Claudio Valverde, Luis G. Wall, Ying Wang, Claudine Medigue, and David R. Benson (2007):
Genome characteristics of facultatively symbiotic Frankia sp. strains reflect host range and host plant biogeography.
Genome Research 17: 7-15 Open Access, pdf

2006

Gogarten, J. Peter and Elena Hilario (2006)
Inteins, introns, and homing endonucleases: Recent revelations about the life cycle of parasitic genetic elements.
BMC Evolutionary Biology 6:94 Open Access (classified as highly accessed article)
Zhaxybayeva, O., Gogarten, J.P., Charlebois, R.L., Doolittle, W.F., Papke, R.T. (2006)
Phylogenetic analyses of cyanobacterial genomes: Quantification of horizontal gene transfer events.
Genome Res. 16(9):1099-108. Epub 2006 Aug 9 pubmed, Open Access
Huang, J. and Gogarten, J.P. (2006)
Ancient horizontal gene transfer can benefit phylogenetic reconstruction.
Trends in Genetics 22 (7):361-6. Epub 2006 May 30 pubmed
LAPIERRE, P., SHIAL,R., and GOGARTEN, J.P. (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

2005

GOGARTEN, J. P. and TOWNSEND, J. P. (2005):
Horizontal gene transfer, genome innovation, and evolution
Nature Reviews in Microbiology 3(9) 679-687 (online version, pdf)
HUANG J., XU, Y., and GOGARTEN, J.P. (2005):
The Presence of a Haloarchaeal Type Tyrosyl tRNA Synthetase Marks the Opisthokonts as Monophyletic
Molecular Biology and Evolution, 22(11):2142-6
MORANDI, A., ZHAXYBAYEVA, O., GOGARTEN, J.P. and GRAF, J. (2005):
Evolutionary and Diagnostic Implications of Intragenomic Heterogeneity in the16S rRNA Gene in Aeromonas Strains,
Journal of Bacteriology 187, 6561–6564 (pdf)
HAMEL, L., ZHAXYBAYEVA, O., GOGARTEN J.P. (2005):
PentaPlot: A software tool for the illustration of genome mosaicism.
BMC Bioinformatics 2005,6:139
SOLLOD, B. L., WILSON, D., ZHAXYEVA, O., GOGARTEN, J. P., DRINKWATER, R., and KING, G. F. (2005):
Were arachnids the first to use combinatorial peptide libraries?
Peptides26, 131-139 (pdf)
ZHAXYBAYEVA, O.,GOGARTEN, J. P. (2005):
Book Review: Cladistics: A Practical Primer on CD-ROM. By Peter Skelton and Andrew Smith, withaccompanying booklet by NealeMonks.
Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres 35, 1, 69 – 71 (pdf)

2004

HARLOW, Timothy J, GOGARTEN, J. Peter, and RAGAN, Mark A (2004):
A hybrid clustering approach to recognition of protein families in 114 microbial genomes,
BMC Bioinformatics 2004, 5:45
ZHAXYBAYEVA, O., LAPIERRE, P. and GOGARTEN J.P. (2004):
Genome Mosaicism and Organismal Lineages.
Trends in Genetics, 20 (5): 254-260 (Link to Science direct) (pdf)
ZHAXYBAYEVA, Olga and GOGARTEN, J.Peter (2004):
Cladogenesis, Coalescence and the Evolution of the Three Domains of Life.
Trends in Genetics 20 (4): 182- 187 (Link to Science direct) (pdf)
ZHAXYBAYEVA, Olga, Lutz HAMEL, Jason RAYMOND, and J Peter GOGARTEN (2004):
Visualization of the phylogenetic content of five genomes using dekapentagonal maps
Genome Biology 2004, 5:R20

2003

ZHAXYBAYEVA, Olga and GOGARTEN, J. Peter (2003):
An Improved Probability Mapping Approach to Assess Genome Mosaicism,
BMC Genomics 2003 4: 37
ZHAXYBAYEVA, Olga and GOGARTEN, J. Peter (2003):
Spliceosomal Introns: New Insights into Their Evolution.
Curr Biol.;13 (19):R764-6.
GOGARTEN J.P. (2003):
Horizontal Gene Transfer: Gene Swapping Craze Reaches the Eukaryotic Domain.
Current Biology 13 (2):R53-4
RAYMOND, J.#, ZHAXYBAYEVA, O.#, GOGARTEN, J.P., GERDES, S., BLANKENSHIP, R.E (2002).:
Whole Genome Analysis of Photosynthetic Prokaryotes.
Science 298: 1616-1620.
RAYMOND, J., ZHAXYBAYEVA, O., GOGARTEN, J.P. AND BLANKENSHIP, R.E. (2003):
Evolution of photosynthetic prokaryotes: a maximum-likelihood mapping approach.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences Volume: 358 Number: 1429 Page: 223 -- 230

2002

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. (pdf)
Annu. Rev. Microbiol. 2002, 56: 263-287
ZHAXYBAYEVA, Olga, and GOGARTEN, J Peter (2002)
Bootstrap, Bayesian probability and maximum likelihood mapping: Exploring new tools for comparative genome analyses.
BMC Genomics 2002, 3:4,1-13 [Supplementary Data]
MAGNOTTA, Scot, and GOGARTEN, J Peter (2002)
Multi site polyadenylation and transcriptional response to stress of a vacuolar type H+-ATPase subunit A gene in Arabidopsis thaliana.
BMC Plant Biology 2002, 2:3

2001

SENEJANI, A.G., HILARIO, E., and GOGARTEN, J.P. (2001)
The intein of the Thermoplasma A-ATPase A subunit: Structure, evolution and expression in E. coli.
BMC Biochem 2(1): 13,1-10

2000

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 (at Springer Verlag, link to full text for subscribers only).

1999

GOGARTEN, J.P, and OLENDZENSKI, L. (1999)
Orthologs, paralogs and genome comparisons
Current Opinion in Genetics and Development Dec; 9(6) :630-6 (pdf) Full text version
GOGARTEN, J.P., MURPHEY, R. (UGA), and OLENDZENSKI, L. (1999)
Horizontal Gene Transfer: Pitfalls and Promises
Biological Bulletins 196:359-62 (pdf)

1998

HILARIO, E., and GOGARTEN, J.P. (1998) The prokaryote to eukaryote transition reflected in the evolution of the V/F/A-ATPase catalytic and proteolipid subunits. J. Mol. Evol. 46(6):703-715

1997

LIU, L., LAUFER, H., GOGARTEN, P.J., and WANG, M. (1997)
cDNA cloning of a mandibular organ inhibiting hormone from the spider crab Libinia emarginata.
Invert Neurosci 3:199-204
MAGNOTTA, S., and GOGARTEN, J.P.(1997)
Characterization and isolation of a vacuolar type H+-ATPase subunit A cDNA from Arabidopsis thaliana.
Plant Physiol. 115, 1730

1996

GOGARTEN, J.P.*, OLENDZENSKI, L., HILARIO, E., SIMON, C., and HOLSINGER, K.E. (1996)
Dating the Cenancester of Organisms - Technical Comment,
Science 274, 1750-1751. (pdf)
GOGARTEN, J.P.*, HILARIO, E., OLENDZENSKI, L. (1996):
Gene Duplications and Horizontal Gene Transfer during Early Evolution. In: "Evolution of Microbial Life",
Society for General Microbiology, 54, 267-292.

1995

HILARIO, E., GOGARTEN, J.P.(1995):
The V-ATPase A Subunit Gene (vma-1) from Giardia lamblia.
Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, 128, 94-98
.
GOGARTEN, J.P. (1995):
The early evolution of cellular life,
Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 10, 147-151. (pdf)
MERCIER, R. W., GOGARTEN, J.P. (1995):
A second cell wall acid invertase gene in Arabidopsis thaliana.
Plant Physiology, 107, 659-660.
GOGARTEN-BOEKELS, M., HILARIO, E., GOGARTEN, J.P. (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
.

1994

GOGARTEN JP (1994):
Which is the Most Conserved Group of Proteins? Homology - Orthology, Paralogy, Xenology and the Fusion of Independent Lineages.
Journal of Molecular Evolution 39: 541-543 (pdf).

1993

MERCIER, R.W., CHAIVISUTHANGKURA, P., GOGARTEN, J.P. (1993):
Letter to the editor on ß-fructosidase homologues.
Plant Molecular Biology 23, 229-230.
HILARIO, E, GOGARTEN, J.P. (1993):
Horizontal Transfer of ATPase Genes -The Tree of Life becomes a Net of Life, (pdf)
BioSystems 31, 111-119.
STARKE,T., GOGARTEN, J. P. (1993):
A conserved intron in the V-ATPase A subunit genes of plants and algae.
Federation of European Biochemical Societies Letters 315, 252-258.

1992

GOGARTEN, J.P.*, STARKE, T, KIBAK, H., FICHMANN, J., TAIZ, L., (1992)
Evolution and Isoforms of V-ATPase Subunits.
The Journal of Experimental Biology 172, 137-147.
GOGARTEN, J.P., TAIZ, L. (1992):
Evolution of Proton Pumping ATPases: Rooting the Tree of Life.
Photosynthesis Research 33, 137-146. (pdf)
KIBAK, H., Taiz, L., STARKE, T., BERNASCONI, P., GOGARTEN, J.P (1992):
Evolution of Structure and Function of V-ATPases.
Journal of Bioenergetics and Biomembranes 24, 415-424.
GOGARTEN, J.P. , FICHMANN, J., BRAUN, Y., MORGAN, L., STYLES, P.,TAIZ, S. L., DELAPP, K., TAIZ, L. (1992):
The Use of Antisense mRNA to Inhibit the Tonoplast ATPase in Carrot.
The Plant Cell 4, 851-864.

1991

STARKE, T., LINKKILA, T.P., GOGARTEN, J.P. (1991):
Two separate genes encode the catalytic 70kDa -ATPase subunit in Psilotum and Equisetum.
Zeitschrift für Naturforschung, A Journal of Biosciences, Section C 46, 613-620
.
Linkkila, T.P., Gogarten, J.P. (1991): Tracing origins with molecular sequences: Rooting the universal tree of life, Trends in Biochemical Sciences 16, 287-288.

1990

BERNASCONI, P., RAUSCH, T., GOGARTEN J.P., TAIZ, L. (1990):
The H+-ATPase regulatory subunit of Methanococcus thermolithotrophicus: amplification of an 800bp fragment by polymerase chain reaction,
Federation of European Biochemical Societies Letters 259, 227-229
.

1989

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.
GOGARTEN J.P., RAUSCH, T., BERNASCONI, P., KIBAK, H., TAIZ, L. (1989):
Molecular evolution of H+-ATPases. I. Methanococcus and Sulfolobus are monophyletic with respect to eukaryotes and eubacteria,
Zeitschrift für Naturforschung, A Journal of Biosciences, Section C 44, 641-650.
GOGARTEN, J.P., BENTRUP, F.-W. (1989):
Substrate specifity of the hexose carrier in the plasmalemma of Chenopodium suspension cells probed by transmembrane exchange diffusion.
Planta 178, 52-60. (pdf)
GOGARTEN, J.P., BENTRUP, F.-W. (1989):
The electrogenic proton/hexose carrier in the plasmalemma of Chenopodium rubrum suspension cells: Effects of delta c, delta pH and delta psi on hexose exchange diffusion
Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 978, 43-50.

1988

ZIMNIAK, L., DITTRICH, P., GOGARTEN, J.P., KIBAK, H., TAIZ, L. (1988):
The cDNA sequence of the 69kDa subunit of the carrot vacuolar H+-ATPase: homology to the beta-chain of F0F1-ATPases. Journal of Biological Chemistry 263, 9102-9112.
GOGARTEN-BOEKELS, M., GOGARTEN, J.P., BENTRUP, F.-W. (1988):
Sugar nucleotides dissipate ATP-generated transmembrane pH gradient in Golgi vesicles from suspension-cell protoplasts of Chenopodium rubrum L.,
Planta 174, 333-339.
GOGARTEN, J. P. (1988):
Physical properties of the cell-wall of photoautotrophic suspension cells from Chenopodium rubrum L..
Planta 174, 333-339.

1986

BENTRUP, F.-W., HOFFMANN, B., GOGARTEN-BOEKELS, M., GOGARTEN, J.P., BAUMANN, C. (1986):
ATP-dependent acidification and tonoplast hyperpolarization in isolated vacuoles from Chenopodium rubrum L.,
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A. 83, 2431-2433.

1985

GOGARTEN, J.P., BENTRUP, F.-W. (1985):
Lateral electrophoresis versus 2D-diffusion,
Trends in Biochemical Sciences 10, 471-472 (pdf).
BENTRUP, F.-W., HOFFMANN, B., GOGARTEN-BOEKELS, M., GOGARTEN, J.P., BAUMANN, C. (1985):
A patch clamp study of tonoplast electrical properties in vacuoles isolated from Chenopodium rubrum suspension cells,
Zeitschrift für Naturforschung, A Journal of Biosciences, Section C 40, 886-890.
GOGARTEN-BOEKELS, M., GOGARTEN, J.P., BENTRUP, F.-W. (1985):
Kinetics and specifity of ATP-dependent proton translocation measured with acridine orange in microsomal fractions from green suspension cells of Chenopodium rubrum L.
Journal of Plant Physiology 118, 309-325.

1983

GOGARTEN, J.P., BENTRUP, F.-W. (1983):
Fluxes and compartmentation of 3-O-methyl-D-glucose in Riccia fluitans L.,
Planta 159, 423-431 (pdf).
FELLE, H., GOGARTEN, J.P., BENTRUP, F.-W. (1983):
Phlorizin inhibits the hexose transport across the plasmalemma of Riccia fluitans,
Planta 157, 267-270.

* Communicating Author, # these authors contributed equally to the published work.

Dissertations, Books, Non-refereed Articles, and Book Chapters

Ying Xu 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.
Amazon Link Publisher's Link
NAHAR, N., POPTSOVA, M. S., HAMEL, L., and GOGARTEN, J. P. (2007):
GPX: A tool for the exploration and visualization of genome evolution.
In Proceedings of the IEEE 7th International Symposium on Bioinformatics & Bioengineering (BIBE07)
GOGARTEN, J. Peter, and ZHAXYBAYEVA, Olga(2007):
Horizontal gene transfer, gene histories and the root of the tree of life.
Chapter 9 in "Planetary systems and the Origins of Life", RE Pudritz, PG Higgs and J Stone (eds.), Cambridge University Press.
OLENDZENSKI, L., ZHAXYBAYEVA, O., and GOGARTEN, J.P. (2007):
Orthologs, Paralogs and Xenologs in Human and other Genomes.

In Encyclopedia of Life Sciences, John Liley and Sons, Ltd. (same as below, Wiley baught the Encyclopedia and merged articles into their Encyclopedia of Life Sciences)
OLENDZENSKI, L., ZHAXYBAYEVA, O., and GOGARTEN, J.P.:
Orthologs, Paralogs and Xenologs in Human and other Genomes.
In Encyclopedia of the Human Genome, Nature Publishing Group,
[Catalog Entry]
OLENDZENSKI, L. ZHAXYBAYEVA, O., and GOGARTEN JP. (2004)
A Brief History on Views of Prokaryotic Evolution and Taxonomy.
In "Microbial Genomes", CM Fraser, T Read and KE Nelson (eds), Humana Press, pp. 143-154
[Humana Press Catalog Entry]
OLENDZENSKI, L., ZHAXYBAYEVA, O., and GOGARTEN, J.P. 2002.
Horizontal Gene Transfer: A new taxonomic principle?
Chapter 34 in: Horizontal Gene Transfer 2nd ed., Syvanen, M. and Kado C.I. (eds.) Academic Press, London. [AP Catalog Entry], pp 427-435
Zhaxybayeva, Olga and Gogarten, J. Peter:
Review of "Cladistics: a practical primer on CD-ROM", by Peter Skelton and Andrew Smith. Origin of Life and Evolution of Biosphere
BLANKENSHIP, R.E., RAYMOND, J., LINCE, M., LARKUM, A.W.D., JERMIIN, L.S., LOCKHART, P.J., ZHAXYBAYEVA, O., GOGARTEN, J.P. (2001)
Evolution of photosynthetic antennas and reaction centers.
In: PS2001 Proceedings: 12th International Congress on Photosynthesis. PL13 (CSIRO Publishing: Melbourne, Australia) (ISBN 0643 067 116)
OLENDZENSKI, L., ZHAXYBAYEVA, O., and GOGARTEN, J.P. 2001.
What's in a Tree?: Does Horizontal Gene Transfer Determine Microbial Taxonomy?
In: Cellular Origin and Life in Extreme Habitats, Vol 4.:Symbioses, Seckbach, J. (ed.) Kluwer Academic Publishers, Netherlands. pp. 65-78. [Kluwer Catalog Entry]
OLENDZENSKI L., HILARIO E., AND J.P. GOGARTEN (1998)
Horizontal Gene Transfer and Fusing Lines of Descent: the Archaebacteria - a Chimera?
In "Horizontal Gene Transfer", M. Syvanen and C. Kado (eds.), Chapman and Hall, London. pp 349-362
GOGARTEN, J.P., OLENDZENSKI, L. (2001)
Articles on "Bacteria" and "Archaea" for Plant Sciences for Students, Richard Robinson, editor. MacMillan Library Reference; ISBN: 0028654315
GOGARTEN, J.P., OLENDZENSKI, L. (1999)
Gene Transfer in Early Evolution.
In : "Enigmatic Microbes and Life in Extreme Environments", Joseph Seckbach, ed., Kluwer Academic Publishers, Netherlands pp 15-27
GOGARTEN J.P., OLENDZENSKI L., (1999)
The Progenote. In Encyclopedia of Molecular Biology, Thomas Creighton, ed., John Wiley and Sons, NY
GOGARTEN, J. P. (1998)
Origin and early evolution of life: Deciphering the molecular record.
In "Origins, Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series Vol.148", Ch. E. Woodward, J. M. Shull and H. A. Thronson, Jr. (eds.) pp 415-448
GOGARTEN, J.P., OLENDZENSKI, L., HILARIO, E. (1998) Gene Duplications and Horizontal Gene Transfer. In : "Thermophiles: the key to molecular evolution and the origin of life?" eds: Michael Adams and Jürgen Weigel, publ.; Taylor and Francis. pp. 165-176
OLENDZENSKI L., HILARIO E., AND J.P. GOGARTEN (1998) Horizontal Gene Transfer and Fusing Lines of Descent: the Archaebacteria - a Chimera? in "Horizontal Gene Transfer", M. Syvanen and C. Kado (eds.), Chapman and Hall, London. pp 349-362
GOGARTEN, J.P., HILARIO, E., OLENDZENSKI, L. (1997) The Tree of Life. American Society for Microbiol. News 63, 404-405.
GOGARTEN-BOEKELS, M, GOGARTEN, J. P (1996) The Effects of Heavy Meteorite Bombardment on Early Evolution - A New Look at the Molecular Record. In: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Circumstellar Habitable Zones. L.R. Doyle (editor), Travis House Publications, 379-391.
GOGARTEN, J. P and KIBAK, H (1992): The Bionergetics of the Last Common Ancestor and the Origin of the Eukaryotic Endomembrane System. In: The Origins and Evolution of the cell. H. Hartman and K. Matsuno (eds.), World Scientific Publ. Co., pp. 131-154.
TAIZ, L., STRUVE, I., RAUSCH, T., BERNASCONI, P., GOGARTEN, J.P., KIBAK, H., TAIZ, S.L. (1990): The Vacuolar ATPase: Structure, Evolution and Promotor Analysis. In: Calcium in Plant Growth and Development, eds. R.T. Leonard, P.K. Hepler, Vol. 4 Current Topics in Plant Physiology, ASPP Press, pp. 55-59.
TAIZ, L., GOGARTEN, J.P., KIBAK, H., STRUVE, I., BERNASCONI, P., RAUSCH, T., TAIZ, S.L. (1990): Studies on the structure and evolution of the vacuolar H+-ATPase, in: Plant Membrane Transport, J. Dainty et al. eds., Elsevier Science Publishers, pp. 131-137.
GOGARTEN, J.P. (1986): Untersuchungen zum Zuckertransport an photoautotrophen Suspensionszellen von Chenopodium rubrum L., Dissertation, Universität Gießen.
GOGARTEN, J.P. BENTRUP, F.-W. (1984): Properties of a hexose carrier at the plasmalemma of green suspension cells from Chenopodium rubrum L., in: Membrane Transport in Plants, W. J. Cram, K. Janácek, R. Rybová, K. Sigler (eds.), Academia Publishing House of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Praha , pp. 183-188.
GOGARTEN, J.P. (1983): Untersuchungen zu Metabolismus, Transport und Kompartimentierung von 3-O-Methyl-D-Glukose bei Riccia fluitans L., Diplomarbeit, Universität Tübingen.

Non-refereed Published Abstracts (since 1991, incomplete)

Pascal Lapierre, Olga Zhaxybayeva and J. Peter Gogarten:
"Whole genome analyses on the class levels: is there a consensus phylogeny?",
International Journal of Astrobiology, Supplement 1, 2004: p.48
Olga Zhaxybayeva and J. Peter Gogarten:
"Cladogenesis, Coalescence and the Evolution of the Three Domains of Life",
International Journal of Astrobiology, Supplement 1, 2004: p.52
J.P. Gogarten:
“The Early Evolution of Life as Reflected in the Molecular Record” Abstract # 13038, 2003 General NAI meeting at Arizona State University, Feb. 10-12, 2003,
Published in "Astrobiology 2(4) "
O. Zhaxybayeva and J.P. Gogarten:
“Detecting Ancient Duplications using Whole Genome Data” Abstract # 12547, 2003 General NAI meeting at Arizona State University, Feb. 10-12, 2003,
Published in "Astrobiology2(4): 475-476"
P. Lapierre,, R. Shial, and J.P. Gogarten: Evidence of an A/V type ATPase in Thermus scotoductus and Other Closely Related Species Abstract # 12646, 2003 General NAI meeting at Arizona State University, Feb. 10-12, 2003,
Published in Astrobiology2(4)
O. Zhaxybayeva, L. Olendzenski and J.P. Gogarten:
"Mosaicism in Genes and Genomes", poster presented at the 10th Issol Meeting in Oaxaca, Mexico, June 30 - July 5, 2002,
published in Origin of Life and Evolution of the Biosphere.
O. Zhaxybayeva, L. and J.P. Gogarten:
"Bootstrap, Bayesian Probability and Maximum Likelihood Mapping: Exploring New Tools for Comparative Genome analyses", poster presented at the 10th Issol Meeting in Oaxaca, Mexico, June 30 - July 5, 2002
published in Origin of Life and Evolution of the Biosphere.
O. Zhaxybayeva, L. Olendzenski and J.P. Gogarten:
"Bootstrap, Bayesian Probability and Maximum Likelihood Mapping: Exploring New Tools for Comparative Genome analyses." Poster at the 2nd Astrobiology Science Conference at NASA's Ames Research Center April 7-11, 2002.
Published in "Astrobiology"
Jason R. Raymond, Robert E. Blankenship, Olga Zhaxybayeva, and J. Peter Gogarten:
"Whole Genome Analyses of Photosynthetic Bacteria and the Evolution of Photosynthesis",
Poster presented at the Second Astrobiology Science Conference, NASA AMES Research Center, April 7 - 11, 2002.
Published in "Astrobiology"
MAGNOTTA, S, GOGARTEN, J. P (1997)
"Identification of a vacuolar type H+-ATPase subunit A cDNA and three putative subunit B isoforms in Arabidopsis thaliana.", Abstracts of the Annual ASPP meeting in Vancouver, Canada, Supplement to Plant Phys.
LIU, L., LAUFER, H., GOGARTEN, J.P., WANG, M. (1997)
"cDNA cloning of a mandibular organ inhibiting hormone from the spider crab Libinia emarginataI." Book of Abstracts of the 5th International Conference on Invertebrate Neurochemistry and Neurophysiology (ICINN), 9/7-11,'97, Eilat, Israel.
GOGARTEN, J. PETER, ELENA HILARIA, LORRAINE OLENDZENSKI (1996)
"Gene Duplications and Horizontal Gene Transfer during Early Evolution", Abstracts of the 11th International Conference on the Origin of Life, Orleans, France, # 103; also published in Origin of Life and Evolution of the Biosphere
CHAIVISUTHANGKURA, P., MERCIER, R.W., GOGARTEN, J.P. (1994)
The Role of Cell Wall Bound Acid Invertase in Photosynthate Partitioning, Abstracts of the Annual National Meeting of the American Society of Plant Physiologists, Portland, Oregon, USA, Supplement to Plant Physiology 105, 639.
MERCIER,R.W., CHAIVISUTHANGKURA, P., GOGARTEN, J.P. (1993)
The Role of Apoplastic Invertase in Photosynthate Partitioning, Abstracts of the Annual National Meeting of the American Society of Plant Physiologists, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, Supplement to Plant Physiology 102, 220.
GOGARTEN, J.P. (1993)
Phylogeny of Proton Pumping ATPases: Implications for the Early Evolution of Life, Abstracts of the 10th International Conference on the Origin of Life, Barcelona, Spain, # 103; also published in Origin of Life and Evolution of the Biosphere
HILARIO, E., GOGARTEN, J.P., SOSA-PEINADO, A., SILVA, E., LAZCANO, A. (1993)
Early Gene Duplication and the Origin of Biochemical Regulation, Abstracts of the 10th International Conference on the Origin of Life, Barcelona, Spain, # 144; also published in Origin of Life and Evolution of the Biosphere
GOGARTEN, J.P, STARKE, T., FICHMANN, J., TAIZ, L (1992)
Evolution and Isoforms of the Plant V-ATPase, Abstracts of the ninth international Workshop on Plant Membrane Biology, #43.
SCHADTLE, T., GOGARTEN, J.P. (1992)
Evolution of Proton Pumping ATPases: Indications for a Lateral Gene Transfer between the Primary Kingdoms", Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Molecular Evolution, Pennsylvania State University.
MERCIER, R.W., SOILEAU, C., GOGARTEN, J.P., (1991):
The role of cell wall bound acid invertase in regulating the flow of photosynthate, Plant Physiology 86 (4), Supplement, #487.
GOGARTEN, J.P., FICHMANN, J., MORGAN, L., DELAPP, K., TAIZ, S., TAIZ, L., (1991):
The Use of Antisense DNA to probe function and isoforms of the plant vacuolar ATPase. Proceedings of the 30th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Cell Biology, San Diego, CA, Cell Biology Supplement 1991, #1763.


Invited Seminars and Lectures

   Invited Talks and Lectures (since Fall 1991, incomplete)

“Horizontal Gene Transfer, Organismal Evolution, and Darwin's "Coral of Life."” Departmental seminar at the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Iowa, October 5th, 2007
“From gene trees to organismal evolution: properties of the Most Recent Common Ancestor, early metabolic pathways, and the origin of primary plastids.” Invited lecture at the “Structural, Functional & Evolutionary Genomics Gordon Research Conference, , Wellcome Trust Conference Centre, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom, July 29 - August 3, 2007
"Gene Transfer, Symbiosis, Membranes, and Most Recent Common Ancestors" invited presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE), Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; June 24-28, 2007
"Transferred genes as phylogenetically informative characters and gene transfer from extinct lineages" invited presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE), Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; June 24-28, 2007
"Tree-of-Life or Tangled-Web -- How Do Organisms Evolve?" invited seminar at Trinity College, Hartford Connecticut, November 30, 2006
"Organismal Evolution: Tree-of-Life or Tangled Web" invited seminar, Rutgers University, November 8th, 2006
"Organismal Evolution: Tree-of-Life or Tangled Web" invited seminar at the Seminar Series "Exceptions and the Unexpected", Swarthmore College, October 27, 2006
"Molecular Evolution and the Fossil Record: Is the Tree of Life a Tree?" Invited seminar at the Functional Genes Mini Symposium organized by the International GeoBiology Course, Catalina Island, CA, July 8th 2006
"Is there a “Tree of Life”?” Invited lecture at the ISSI ASTROBIOLOGY WORKSHOP “STRATEGIES OF LIFE DETECTION”, Bern, Switzerland, April 24-28, 2006
“Oxygen Producing Photosynthesis and the Molecular Record” Invited lecture at the Agouron Instute’s Oxygen meeting, Santa Fe, April 6-10, 2006
“Horizontal gene transfer and microbial evolution: Is the Tree-of-Life a Tree?” Invited seminar at the Astrobiology Forum, Harvard University, December 13th, 2005
“Horizontal gene transfer and microbial evolution: Is theTree-of-Life a Tree?” Invited seminar at the EEB Department at Yale University, November 30th, 2005
“Horizontal gene transfer and microbial evolution: Is the ‘Tree of Life’ a Tree?” Presentation at the Astrobiology/Exobiology PI meeting, NASA Ames, August 16, 2005
“Prokaryotic Evolution: Is the ‘Tree-of-Life’ a Tree?’ ” Invited lecture at the World Summit on Evolution in the Galapagos, June 9-12, 2005
“Is the “Tree of Life” a Tree?” talk at the Origins Institute conference/workshop on: "Astrobiology and the Origins of Life", May 24-28, 2005
“Horizontal Gene Transfer and Microbial Evolution: Is the “Tree of Life” a Tree?” Invited Seminar at the Bioinformatics Institute at the University of Georgia, Wednesday, May 4, 2005
"Horizontal gene transfer and the early evolution of life", Invited Departmental Seminar at the Department of Biology and Biochemistry at the University of Houston, Texas, January 26, 2005
"Horizontal gene transfer, coalescence and the early evolution of life", Invited lecture at the 15th Annual New England Molecular Evolutionary Biologists Meeting, November 6th, 2004
“Von Chenopodium rubrum zu den Wurzeln des Lebens: Eine persönliche and wissenschaftliche Historie”, Lecture at the Friedrich Wilhelm Bentrup Symposium, Salzburg, Austria, October 8th, 2004
“Probability Mapping and Bipartition Analysis to Study Genome Histories” DIMACS WorkshopDIMACS Workshop on Reticulated Evolution, DIMACS Center, Rutgers University, September 20 - 22, 2004
“Evolutionary events preceding eukaryotic times: coalescence, ancient duplications, and the nucleocytoplasmic component” Invited presentation at the meeting on “Lateral gene transfer and the origins of eukaryotes Harrison Hot Springs Resort, B.C., May 5-9, 2004
“The Early Evolution of Life as Reflected in the Molecular and Fossil Records:
Mass Extinctions, Radiations and Coalescence”, Invited Seminar at the University of Connecticut Geology Department, April 15, 2004
"Horizontal Gene Transfer and the Early Evolution of Life" invited lecture at the symposium on "Bioinformatics in the Post-Genomic Era" held at Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico, March 14-16, 2004
“Genomics and the Early Evolution of Life”. Invited Departmental Seminar at at Lehigh University, November13, 2003
“Comparative Genomics and the Organismal Tree of Life” Invited lecture at the Frontiers in Bioinformatics Symposium at the UB Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics, University of Buffalo, SUNY, June 6-8, 2003
“Quantifying Horizontal Gene Transfer – Is there a single meaningful phylogeny for prokaryotes?”Invited presentation at the 103rd General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, Washington DC, May 18-25, 2003
“The Early Evolution of Life as Reflected in the Molecular Record” Invited lecture at the Mannheim University of Applied Sciences, Germany, April 4th, 2003
"What's in a tree? Exploration of Probability Mapping as a Tool in Comparative Genome Analyses” Invited lecture at the University of Rhode Island, Kingston, February 26th 2003
“The Early Evolution of Life as Reflected in the Molecular Record” Invited plenary lecture at the 2003 General Meeting of the NASA Astrobiology Institute held at Arizona State University, Feb. 10-12, 2003
"What's in a tree? Exploration of probability mapping as a tool in comparative genome analyses.” Invited seminar at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, 10/31/02.
"Use of probability mapping in comparative genome analysis"; Invited seminar at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Evolutionary Biology Program at Harrison Hot Springs Resort, BC, Canada on 9/28/02 - 10/2/02.
Invited plenary lecture at the 10th Issol Meeting in Oaxaca, Mexico: "Genome Scale Analyses and the Early Evolution of Life", June 30 - July 5, 2002
Oral presentation at Molecular Evolution: Evolution, Genomics, Bioinformatics Meeting on “Bootstrap, Bayesian Probability and Maximum Likelihood Mapping: Exploring New Tools for Comparative Genome Analyses”, Sorrento, Italy, June 13-16, 2002
Invited seminar on "Bootstrap, Bayesian Probability and Maximum Likelihood Mapping: Exploring New Tools for Comparative Genome analyses", Joint EEB-Statistics Seminar Series, University of Connecticut, April 12th, 2002
Invited lecture at the American Society for Microbiology Annual Joint Branch Meeting held at the University of Connecticut at Avery Point with the title: "What's in a Tree? Does Horizontal Gene Transfer Determine Microbial Taxonomy?", Oct. 25, 2001
Invited lecture at the Evolutionary Theory Conference of the Esalen Center for Theory & Research on “Microbial Evolution”, California, November 5-10, 2000
Invited lecture at the 14th meeting of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Evolutionary Biology Program on “Does horizontal gene transfer shape microbial taxonomy”, Dingby, Nova Scotia, Canada, October 11-15, 2000
Session Chair of the “Horizontal Gene Transfer” Session at the 2000 Gordon Research Conference on the Origin of Life at Plymouth State College New Hampshire, July 9-14, 2000
Invited lecture at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society of Microbiologists in Winnipeg on “The Impact of Lateral Gene Transfer (LGT) on Microbial Evolution”, June 11 – 14, 2000
Invited lecture at the Marine Biological Laboratories on “Organismal Properties and Mechanisms of Evolution: Unscrambling the Molecular Record”, February 11, 2000
Invited lecture at the Carnegie Institution of Washington on “Organismal Properties and Mechanisms of Evolution: Unscrambling the Molecular Record”, December 6, 1999
Invited lecture at the 13th meeting of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Evolutionary Biology Program on "The search for infrequently transferred genes with low substitution rates: lessons for organismal evolution." in Banff Canada, 11/20-11/24/1999
Invited lecture at the 7th ESEB conference in Barcelona, Spain: on "Horizontal Gene transfer: Pitfalls and Promises". (8/24/99)
Invited lecture at Northeastern University, Boston, MA, on "Problems and Pitfalls in Deciphering the Molecular Record of Early Life". 4/28/1999
Invited Seminar at Origin of Life Gordon Conference, Ventura, CA "Organismal Properties and Mechanisms of Evolution: Unscrambling the Molecular Record ", 2/22-2/26/99
Invited Seminar at Dieter Söll's group at Yale University "Deciphering the Molecular Record of Early Life", 2/11/99
Invited lecture at the Fachhochschule Mannheim, FRG, on "Deciphering the molecular record for the early evolution of life", 1/14/99
Invited lecture at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute "Problems and Pitfalls in Deciphering the Molecular Record of Early Life". 26th of October 1998.
Invited lecture at the University of Rhode Island, Life in Extreme Environment Seminar Series: "Problems in deciphering the molecular record of early life", April 27, 1998
Invited lecture at Harvard University, Population Biology Seminar, Museum of Comparative Zoology: "Early Evolution of Life: Deciphering the Molecular Record", December 4, 1997
Lecture at IXth Symposium on Chemical Evolution and the Origin and Evolution of Life at the NASA Ames Resarch Center meeting at NASA Ames, November 17-20, 1997:" Horizontal Gene Transfer: Pitfalls and Promises "
Invited lecture at the workshop "Evolution: a Molecular Point of View: at the MBL in Woods Hole on "Horizontal Gene Transfer: Pitfalls and Promises", October 24-26, 1997
Invited lecture at the University of Dalhousie on "Deciphering the early molecular record", Sept.4, 1997.
Invited lecture at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Evolutionary Biology Program: "Horizontal gene transfer across domain boundaries", Ottawa, August 23-27, 1997.
Invited lecture at the Gordon conference "Dating Early events in the history of Life", New Hampshire 7/97.
Invited lecture at ’97 meeting of the Protein Society in Boston "Horizontal Gene Transfer and Fusing Lines of Descent". 7/97.
Invited lecture at the NASA Evolutionary Biology Workshop "Molecular Record of Evolution: Evolution of Proteins", Sunnyvale, California, April14-15.
Invited lecture at the Origins '97 conference "Microbial Ecology and The Common Ancestor", May 19-23, Colorado.
Invited lecture in the special Bioinformatics Seminar Series at the University of Connecticut on "Reconstructing Early Evolution of Life from Molecular Sequence Data Using Computational Methods", Dec.2, 1996.
Invited lecture at the Thermophiles '96 Workshop, Athens Georgia: "Gene Duplications and Horizontal Gene Transfer during Early Evolution", Sept. 9-12, 1996.
Oral contribution at the 11th ISSOL meeting, Orleans France: "Gene Duplications and Horizontal Gene Transfer during Early Evolution", July 7-12, 1996.
Invited lecture at the 134th meeting of the Society for General Microbiology, Symposium on the "Evolution of Microbial Life", University of Warwick: "Gene Duplications and Horizontal Gene Transfer during Early Evolution." March 1996.
Invited lecture at the Gordon Research Conference on "Origin of Life", Ventura, CA: "The last Common Ancestor." January 1996.
Invited lecture at the 6th New England Evolutionary Biologists Meeting, Storrs, CT, November 11, 1995.
Invited lecture at the 95th meeting of the American Society of Microbiologists, Washington, DC: "Phylogeny of ATPases: Horizontal Gene Transfer versus Duplicated Genes." May 25, 1995.
Invited lecture at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, FRG: "Function and Evolution of Proton Pumping ATPases", April 21, 1995.
Invited lecture at Dalhousie University, Canada: "Evolution of Proton Pumping ATPases, Horizontal Gene Transfer and the Three Domains of Life", October 8, 1994.
Invited presentation at the workshop on Bacteria from Ancient Salt Deposits, Washington, DC, August 18-21, 1994.
Invited lecture at the University of Guelph, Canada, Interdepartmental Seminar Series in Evolution and Systematics: "Evolution of Proton Pumping ATPases: Rooting the Universal Tree of Life", Feb. 18, 1994.
Invited lecture at the Exobiology-NSCORT (NASA specialized Center of Research and Training), University of San Diego, Salk & Scripps Institute: "Molecular Evolution of Proton Pumping ATPases: Scenarios for the Early Evolution of Life", Jan. 27, 1994.
Invited presentation at the 1st conference on "Circumstellar Habitable Zones" at NASA Ames: "The effects of heavy bombardment on the early evolution of cellular life - a new look at the molecular record." Jan 17-19, 1994.
Invited presentation at the workshop on Exobiology organized by the German Aeronautics and Space Agency in Bad Honneff (FRG) "Effects of Meteorite Bombardment on the Early Evolution of Life - a New Interpretation of the Molecular Records" Dec13-15, 1993).
Invited lecture at the University of Salzburg, Austria: "Evolution of proton pumping ATPases: Rooting the Universal Tree of Life" June 15, 1993.
Invited lecture at the University of Munich, Germany "Evolution of proton pumping ATPases: Rooting the Universal Tree of Life" June 17, 1993.
Invited lecture at the University of Regensburg, Germany; "Evolution of proton pumping ATPases: Rooting the Universal Tree of Life" June 18, 1993.
Invited lecture at the University of Tübingen, Germany, "Evolution of proton pumping ATPases: Rooting the Universal Tree of Life" June 24, 1993.
Invited Lecture entitled: "Phylogeny of Proton Pumping ATPases: Implications for the the Early Evolution of Life", given at 10th International Conference on the Origin of Life, Barcelona, Spain, July 5-9, 1993.
Invited Lecture entitled "Evolution and Isoforms of the Plant V-ATPase" given at the Ninth International Workshop on Plant Membrane Biology, Monterey, California, 8/92.
Invited Lecture entitled "Evolution and Isoforms of V-ATPase Subunits" given at the International Symposium on Membrane Energization by Vacuolar Type Proton Pumps, Telluride, Collorado, 6/92.
Invited Lecture entitled "Bioenergetics of the Last Common Ancestor and the Origin of the Eukaryotic Endomembrane System" given at the Symposium on " The Origin and Evolution of Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Cells" held in Shimoda, Japan,4/92.
Invited lecture at the Univ. of Massachusetts at Amherst, Botany Dept., 2/91: "Function and Evolution of Vacuolar Type ATPases: Rooting of the Universal Tree of Life and the Evolution of the Eukaryotic Endomembrane System".

Other Presentations at Meetings (since Fall1991, incomplete):

J. Peter Gogarten presented a poster on the"Evolutionary conservation of intron and intein insertion sites" (Alireza G. Senejani and J. Peter Gogarten) at the the Annual Meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE), Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; June 24-28, 2007
Kristen Swithers, Pascal Lapierre and J. Peter Gogarten. Characterization of the F-ATPase and V-ATPase in Thermotogales. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE), Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; June 24-28, 2007.
Kristen Swithers, Alireza Senejani and J Peter Gogarten. Evolutionary Conservation of Intron and Intein Insertion Sites. Poster presented at the New England Molecular Evolutionary Biologists (NEMEB), Queens College, New York City, NY. November 3, 2007.
Kristen Swithers, Alireza Senejani and J Peter Gogarten. Evolutionary Conservation of Intron and Intein Insertion Sites. Poster presented at 2008 Origin of Life Conference, Ventura, Ca. January 19-25, 2008
Greg Fournier presented a poster on the "Emergence of a Planetary Methane Ecology:  Evolution of Aceticlastic Methanogenesis in Methanosarcinae via horizontal gene transfer from Clostridia" at the SMBE 2007 Annual Meeting, Halifax, NS, Canada, June 24-28
Olga Zhaxybayeva presented a poster on "A hyperconserved protein in Prochlorococcus and marine Synechococcus" (Olga Zhaxybayeva, J Peter Gogarten and W. Ford Doolittle)at the SMBE 2007 Annual Meeting, June 24 - June 28, 2007, Halifax, NS, Canada
Alireza Senejani presented a poster on "Insertion of a new GFP domain into PI-SceI homing endonuclease protein structure" (Alireza G. Senejani and J. Peter Gogarten) at the 3rd Annual North Eastern Structure Symposium (NESS), University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, U.S.A.; September 30, 2006
Maria Poptsova (postdoc, Gogarten lab) gave an invited lecture on "Automated Assembly of Gene Families and Detection of Horizontally Transferred Genes" at the The Life Science Society Computational Systems Bioinformatics Conference (CSB2006) Workshop on Comparative Genome Analysis of Bacterial Genomes and Applications in Stanford, CA, August 14-18, 2006
Greg Fournier presented a poster on the "Emergence of a Planetary Methane Ecology:  Evolution of Aceticlastic Methanogenesis in Methanosarcinae via horizontal gene transfer from Clostridia" at the the The Center for Biodiversity and Conservation's Twelfth Annual Symposium entitled "Small Matters: Microbes and Their Role in Conservation" held at the American Museum of Natural History, New York City, NY, April 26-27, 2007
J. Peter Gogarten presented a poster on " The Size of the Bacterial Protein Universe " (Pascal Lapierre and J. Peter Gogarten) at the XVII NEMEB Meeting (New England Molecular Evolutionary Biologists), November 4, 2006, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA
Maria Poptsova gave a lecture on "BranchClust: a phylogenetic algorithm for selecting gene families" (Maria Poptsova and J. Peter Gogarten) at the XVII NEMEB Meeting (New England Molecular Evolutionary Biologists), November 4, 2006, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA
Greg Fournier presented a poster on "Evolution of Methanogenesis:  An ancient transfer event?" (Greg Fournier and J. Peter Gogarten) at the Annual Meeting for the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE) Arizona State University, Arizona, May 24-28, 2006
Greg Fournier presented a poster on "Phylogenetic Evidence for a Methanogenic Sister Group to the Most Recent Common Ancestor" (Greg Fournier and J. Peter Gogarten) at the 2006 Origin of Life Gordon Research Conference at Bates College in Lewiston, ME, July 23 -28, 2006
Peter Gogarten presented a poster on "The Size of the Bacterial Protein Universe" (Pascal Lapierre and J. Peter Gogarten) at the 2006 Origin of Life Gordon Research Conference at Bates College in Lewiston, ME, July 23 -28, 2006
Maria Poptsova (postdoc, Gogarten lab) presented a poster on “The Power of Phylogenetic Approaches to Detect Horizontally Transferred Genes” (Maria Poptsova, Timothy J. Harlow, J. Peter Gogarten) at the Phylogeneomics Conference held in Sainte-Adele, Quebec, Canada, 15-19 March 2006
Olga Zhaxybayeva presented a poster on “Phylogenetic analyses of cynanobacterial genomes: Quantification of horizontal gene transfer events.” (Olga Zhaxybayeva, J. Peter Gogarten, Robert Charlebois, W. Ford Doolittle, and R. Thane Papke) at the Phylogeneomics Conference held in Sainte-Adele, Quebec, Canada, 15-19 March 2006
Pascal Lapierre (grad student, Gogarten lab) was selected to give an oral presentation on the “Size of the Prokaryotic Protein Universe” at the Astrobiology Science Conference, Washington DC, March 26-30, 2006
Greg Fournier (grad student, Gogarten lab) is invited to give an oral presentation on "Evolution of Methanogenesis: An Ancient Transfer Event?" at the Gordon-Kenan Graduate Research Seminar on the Origin Of Life at Bates College in Lewiston, ME July 21-23, 2006
Kaiyuan Shi (grad student, Gogarten lab) was selected to give oral presentation on "Parametric Bootstrap Analyses of Bacterial 16S rRNA Mosaicism" (collaboration with Olga Zhaxybayeva, and Sushma Samala) at the National Academy of Sciences organized conference on the "Tapestry of Life: Lateral Transfers of Heritable Elements”, which was held at Beckman Center, Irvine, California USA, on December 12-13, 2005.
Jinling Huang (postdoc, Gogarten lab) presented a poster on “Ancient gene transfer benefits phylogenetic reconstruction” (Jinling Huang, Peter Gogarten) at the NAS Sackler Tapestry of Life Colloquium in Dec 2005
Alireza Senejani (grad student, Gogarten lab) was selected to give an oral presentation on "Homing endonucleases: Clever tools for evolving super selfish genes” at “The 16th Annual New England Molecular Evolutionary Biologists Meeting”, Wellesley College, Massachusetts; Nov, 2005
Olga Zhaxybayeva, R. Thane Papke, W. Ford Doolittle and J. Peter Gogarten: Spectral Analyses of Cyanobacterial Genomes: Quantification of Horizontally Transferred Genes, World Summit on Evolution, Galapagos Islands,Ecuador, June 9-12, 2005.
Olga Zhaxybayeva, R. Thane Papke, W. Ford Doolittle and J. Peter Gogarten: Spectral Analyses of Cyanobacterial Genomes: Quantification of Horizontally Transferred Genes, Annual Meeting of CIARProgram in Evolutionary Biology, Vancouver Island, BC, September 15-19, 2005.
Poster presented at the Exobiology PI meeting, NASA Ames California, August 15-19, 2005: Greg Fournier, and J.Peter Gogarten “Signature of a Primitive, Evolving Genetic Code in Ancient Conserved Proteins
Poster presented at the Exobiology PI meeting, NASA Ames California, August 15-19, 2005: Pascal Lapierre and J.Peter Gogarten “Evaluation of the early substitution rates using cyanobacterial gene family Comparisons”.
Poster presented at the Annual NASA Astrobiology Institute Biannual Meeting at Bouder, CO (April 14-17): Jinling Huang and J.Peter Gogarten "Ancient Gene Transfer Marks the Opisthokonts"
Poster presented at the Origins Institute conference/workshop on: "Astrobiology and the Origins of Life", May 24-28, 2005:
Olga Zhaxybayeva, R. Thane Papke, Robert Charlebois, W. Ford Doolittle and J. Peter Gogarten:
Spectral analyses of completely sequenced genomes using Bipartitions and embedded Quartets
Posters presented at the International Conference on Microbial Genomes April 13 - 16, 2005; Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Olga Zhaxybayeva, R. Thane Papke, W. Ford Doolittle and J. Peter Gogarten
Spectral Analyses of Cyanobacterial Genomes: Quantification of Horizontally Transferred Genes
P. Lapierre, J. P. Gogarten, Y. Huang, J. Mastronunzio, T. Rawnsley, C. A. Bassi,
L. S. Tisa, M. P. Francino, Alla Lapidus, P. Richardson, P. Normand, and D. R. Benson
Comparative analysis of three Frankia genomes: symbiotic interaction with actinorhizal host plants and genome plasticity
Poster presented at the Gordon Research Conference on Mammalian DNA Repair, Ventura, CA, January 2005: A. Senejani and J.P. Gogarten, "Towards an experimental system to evolve homing endonucleases through phage competition".
Poster presented at the Gordon Conference on the Origin of Life,Ventura, CA, January 2005: Gregory Fournier and J. Peter Gogarten, “The Ribosomal Protein Core: Evidence for an Ancestral Genetic Code”.
Posters presented at the 15th Annual New England Evolutionary Biologists Meeting, Tuft University, Medford, MA , November 2004 :
P. Lapierre, O. Zhaxybayeva and J.P. Gogarten, "Evaluation of substitution rates in cyanobacteria".
O. Zhaxybayeva and J.P. Gogarten, "Spectral Analyses of Completely Sequenced Genomes using Bipartitions and Embedded Quartets".
Senejani and J.P. Gogarten, "Towards an experimental system to evolve homing endonucleases through phage competition".
G. Fournier and J. Peter Gogarten, “The early evolution of the genetic code”.
Poster presented at Genomes and Evolution Meeting, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, June 17-20, 2004:
Olga Zhaxybayeva and J. Peter Gogarten:
Cladogenesis, Coalescence and the Evolution of the Three Domains of Life
Poster presented at Genomes and Evolution Meeting, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, June 17-20, 2004:
Pascal Lapierre, Olga Zhaxybayeva and J. Peter Gogarten:
Whole genome analyses on the class levels: is there a consensus phylogeny?
Posters presented at the Annual Meeting of the CIAR Evolutionary Biology Program, Hotel du Lac Carling, Pine Hill, Quebec, October 13-17, 2004: Olga Zhaxybayeva and J. Peter Gogarten: “Spectral Analyses of Completely Sequenced Genomes using Bipartitions and Embedded Quartets”
Posters presented at Astrobiology Science Conference 2004, NASA Ames, March 28-April 1, 2004:
  *Pascal Lapierre, Olga Zhaxybayeva and J. Peter Gogarten. Whole genome analyses on the class levels: is there a consensus phylogeny?
  *Olga Zhaxybayeva and J. Peter Gogarten: Cladogenesis, Coalescence and the Evolution of the Three Domains of Life
Poster presented at the meeting on "Lateral Gene Transfer and the Origins of Eukaryotes", Harrison Hot Springs Resort, B.C., May 5-9, 2004:   *Olga Zhaxybayeva and J. Peter Gogarten: Cladogenesis, Coalescence and the Evolution of the Three Domains of Life
Posters presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Evolutionary Biology Program at White Point Beach, Nova Scotia, Canada September 10-14, 2003:
  *Olga Zhaxybayeva and J. Peter Gogarten: Detecting Ancient Duplications Using Whole Genome Data
  *Olga Zhaxybayeva and J. Peter Gogarten: Cladogenesis, Coalescence and the Evolution of the Three Domains of Life
  *Olga Zhaxybayeva, Lutz Hamel, and J. Peter Gogarten: An Improved Probability Mapping Approach
  *Timothy J. Harlow, J. Peter Gogarten, Mark A. Ragan: A hybrid clustering approach to genome-scale recognition of protein families.
Poster presented at the Gordon Research Conference on Molecular Evolution, Ventura, CA, February 1-6, 2004:
*Pascal Lapierre, Olga Zhaxybayeva and J. Peter Gogarten. Whole genome analyses on the class levels: is there a consensus phylogeny?
Poster presented at the Evolutionary Genomics Meeting, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, January 15-17, 2004:
  *Olga Zhaxybayeva and J. Peter Gogarten: Visualization of Genome Mosaicism: New and Improved Methods
Posters presented at Exobiology Principal Investigators' Seventh Triennial Science Conference, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, August 25-29, 2003:
  *Olga Zhaxybayeva and J. Peter Gogarten: Detecting Ancient Duplications Using Whole Genome Data
  *Olga Zhaxybayeva and J. Peter Gogarten: Cladogenesis, Coalescence and the Evolution of the Three Domains of Life
  * Pascal Lapierre and J. Peter Gogarten: Update on the molecular evolution of the bacterial A/V-type ATP synthases. 
  *Olga Zhaxybayeva, Lutz Hamel, and J. Peter Gogarten: An Improved Probability Mapping Approach
  *Olga Zhaxybayeva and J. Peter Gogarten: Bootstrap, Bayesian Probability and Maximum Likelihood Mapping: Exploring New Tools for Comparative Genome Analyses
Posters presented at the Gordon Research Conference on the Origin of Life, Bates College, Maine, July 13-18, 2003:
  *Alireza Senejani, Gregory Roussos and J. Peter Gogarten: “Life Cycle” of Inteins: Time-scale, Horizontal Transfer and Homing.
  *Pascal Lapierre and J. Peter Gogarten: Update on the molecular evolution of the bacterial A/V-type ATP synthases. 
  *O. Zhaxybayeva and J. Peter Gogarten: "Detecting Ancient Duplications Using Whole Genome Data".
  *O. Zhaxybayeva and J. Peter Gogarten: "Cladogenesis, Coalescence and the Evolution of the Three Domains of Life"
Timothy J. Harlow, J. Peter Gogarten, Mark A. Ragan: A hybrid clustering approach to genome-scale recognition of protein families. Poster at the International conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB), Brisbane, Australia, June 29 - July 3, 2003
Pascal Lapierre and J. Peter Gogarten: “Update on the Molecular Evolution of the Bacterial A/V- Type ATP Synthases” Posters presented at Gordon Research Conference on Molecular & Cellular Bioenergetics, Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, NH, June 22-27, 2003
Posters presented at the 2003 NAI meeting at Arizona state:|
O. Zhaxybayeva and J.P. Gogarten: “Detecting Ancient Duplications using Whole Genome Data”
P. Lapierre,, R. Shial, and J.P. Gogarten: “Evidence of an A/V type ATPase in Thermus scotoductus and Other Closely Related Species”
Zhaxybayeva, O., L. Olendzenski and J.P. Gogarten: "Bootstrap, Bayesian Probability and Maximum Likelihood Mapping: Exploring New Tools for Comparative Genome analyses." Poster at the Gordon Research Conference on Genomics and Structural/Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 7/28/02 - 8/2/02, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA.
O. Zhaxybayeva, L. Olendzenski and J.P. Gogarten: "Mosaicism in Genes and Genomes", poster presented at the 10th Issol Meeting in Oaxaca, Mexico, June 30 - July 5, 2002
O. Zhaxybayeva, L. and J.P. Gogarten: "Bootstrap, Bayesian Probability and Maximum Likelihood Mapping: Exploring New Tools for Comparative Genome analyses", poster presented at the 10th Issol Meeting in Oaxaca, Mexico, June 30 - July 5, 2002
Pascal Lapierre, Reshma Shial and J. Peter Gogarten: “Evidence of an A/V type ATPase in Thermus scotoductus and Other Closely Related Species” presented at NEMEB XIII, November 9, 2002, Lillie Auditorium, Marine Biological Laboratory
Woods Hole, MA
Robert E. Blankenship, Jason R. Raymond, Olga Zhaxybayeva, and J. Peter Gogarten: "Whole Genome Analyses of Photosynthetic Bacteria and the Evolution of Photosynthesis", Discussion Meeting: Comparative functional genomics of chloroplasts, mitochondria and their bacterial homologues - new perspectives on symbiosis in cell evolution, The Royal Society of London, Wednesday 26th and Thursday 27th June 2002.
Jason R. Raymond, Olga Zhaxybayeva, J. Peter Gogarten, and Robert E. Blankenship: "Whole Genome Analyses of Photosynthetic Bacteria and the Evolution of Photosynthesis", Gordon Research Conference on Photosynthesis, June 16-21, 2002, Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI.
O. Zhaxybayeva, L. Olendzenski and J.P. Gogarten: "Bootstrap, Bayesian Probability and Maximum Likelihood Mapping: Exploring New Tools for Comparative Genome analyses." Poster at the 2nd Astrobiology Science Conference at NASA's Ames Research Center April 7-11, 2002. A one page summary will be published in "Astrobiology"
Jason R. Raymond, Robert E. Blankenship, Olga Zhaxybayeva, and J. Peter Gogarten: "Whole Genome Analyses of Photosynthetic Bacteria and the Evolution of Photosynthesis", Poster presented at the Second Astrobiology Science Conference, NASA AMES Research Center, April 7 - 11, 2002. . A one page summary published in "Astrobiology
Posters presented at the 2002 Gordon Research Conference on the Origin of Lile in Ventura (CA):
O. Zhaxybayeva, L. Olendzenski and J.P. Gogarten: “Mosaicism in ribosomal RNA genes.”
O. Zhaxybayeva, L. Olendzenski and J.P. Gogarten: Bootstrap, Bayesian Probability and Maximum Likelihood Mapping: Exploring New Tools for Comparative Genome analyses."
Posters presented at the 3rd Georgia Tech - Emory International Conference on Bioinformatics: In silico Biology: Bioinformatics after Human Genome, Atlanta, GA, November 15-18, 2001: Olga Zhaxybayeva, Lorraine Olendzenski and J. Peter Gogarten: Maximum Likelihood Mapping as Tool for Comparative Genome Analyses
Posters presented at New England Molecular Evolutionary Biologists (NEMEB) XII, Smith College on November 3, 2001:
- R. Shial, P. Lapierre, L. Olendzenski and J.P. Gogarten: “The Distribution of ATP synthases within the Deinococcales.”
- J. Draghi, O. Zhaxybayeva and J.P. Gogarten: "Resistor and Diode Networks as a Tool to Study"
- O. Zhaxybayeva, L. Olendzenski and J.P. Gogarten: “Mosaicism in 16S rRNA genes.”
- O. Zhaxybayeva and J.P. Gogarten: "Maximum Likelihood Mapping as Tool for Comparative Genome"
- A.G. Senejani and J.P. Gogarten: “The Intein of the Thermoplasma A-ATPase A subunit Structure, Evolution and Expression in E. coli.”
- L. Olendzenski and J.P. Gogarten: “Microsporidia as Fungi, Red Algae as Plants: Phylogenetic Relationships Among Eukaryotes based on the Vacuolar ATPase.”
Poster presented at the conference on Objects in Bio- & Chem-Informatics 2001 (OiBC-2001), Boston MA, July 9-10, 2001: Dong-Guk Shin, John Bluis, Ravi Nori, Hsin-Wei Wang, Pinglei Zhou, and J. Peter Gogarten: PhyloSource: An Interactive Phylogenetic Relationship Repository.
Poster presented by D.-G. Shin.
Posters presented at the 2001 meeting of the NASA Astrobiology Institute at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington DC, April 10-12, 2001:
Olga A. Zhaxybayeva, Lorraine Olendzenski, J. Peter Gogarten: Mosaicism in 16S rRNA genes
Lorraine Olendzenski, Olga A. Zhaxybayeva, J. Peter Gogarten: How Much Did Horizontal Gene Transfer Contribute to Early Evolution?: Quantifying Archaeal Genes in Two Bacterial Lineages
Olga Zhaxybayeva and J. Peter Gogarten: Maximum Likelihood Mapping as Tool for Comparative Genome Analyses
Presentation ant the NASA Astrobiology meeting at Arizona State University on “Vertical and horizontal inheritance in microbial evolution