Dr Ildiko Somorjai

Senior Lecturer

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 463628

Email

imls@st-andrews.ac.uk

Research areas

My research interests are broadly in evolution and development, with a focus on comparative mechanisms between embryonic processes and regeneration. The main body of my work is carried out in the cephalochordate amphioxus, an invertebrate chordate that is fast emerging as an important model system for understanding the evolution of vertebate characters from an invertebrate ancestor. This is largely facilitated by its "prototypical" genome organisation and simple chordate morphology. The fact that amphioxus regenerates complex structures well as an adult also holds promise for its use as a regeneration model system.

PhD supervision

• Fiona Bairstow
• Sarah Blincko

Selected publications

• The sensory peripheral nervous system in the tail of a cephalochordate studied by serial blockface scanning electron microscopy (SBSEM)

  Holland, N. & Somorjai, I. M. L., 4 May 2020, In : The Journal of Comparative Neurology. Early View, 14 p.

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• Light sheet microscopy with acoustic sample confinement

  Yang, Z., Cole, K. L. H., Qiu, Y., Somorjai, I. M. L., Wijesinghe, P., Nylk, J., Cochran, S., Spalding, G. C., Lyons, D. A. & Dholakia, K., 8 Feb 2019, In : Nature Communications. 10, 8 p., 669.

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• Pax3/7 duplicated and diverged independently in amphioxus, the basal chordate lineage

  Barton-Owen, T., Ferrier, D. E. K. & Somorjai, I. M. L., 20 Jun 2018, In : Scientific Reports. 8, 11 p., 9414.

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• A revised spiralian homeobox gene classification incorporating new polychaete transcriptomes reveals a diverse TALE class and a divergent Hox gene

  Barton-Owen, T., Szabó, R., Somorjai, I. M. L. & Ferrier, D. E. K., 1 Sep 2018, In : Genome Biology and Evolution. 10, 9, p. 2151?2167 17 p.

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• Amphioxus functional genomics and the origins of vertebrate gene regulation

  Marletaz, F., Firbas, P., Maeso, I., Tena, J., Bogdanovic, O., Perry, M., Wyatt, C., de la Calle-Mustienes, E., Bertrand, S., Burguera, D., Acemel, R., van Heeringen, S., Naranjo, S., Herrera-Ubeda, C., Skvortsova, K., Jimenez-Gancedo, S., Aldea, D., Marquez, Y., Buono, L., Kozmikova, I., Permanyer, J., Louis, A., Albuixech-Crespo, B., Le Petillon, Y., Leon Florian, A., Subirana, L., Balwierz, P. J., Duckett, P., Farahani, E., Aury, J. M., Mangenot, S., Wincker, P., Albalat, R., Benito-Gutierrez, E., Canestro, C., Castro, F., D'Aniello, S., Ferrier, D. E. K., Huang, S., Laudet, V., Marais, G., Pontarotti, P., Schubert, M., Seitz, H., Somorjai, I. M. L., Takahashi, T., Mirabeau, O., Xu, A., Yu, J-K., Carninci, P., Martinez-Morales, J., Crollius, H., Kozmik, Z., Weirauch, M., Garcia-Fernandez, J., Lister, R., Lenhard, B., Holland, P., Escriva, H., Gomez-Skarmeta, J. L. & Irimia, M., 21 Nov 2018, In : Nature. 564, 7734, p. 64-70 29 p.

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• MARISTEM- Stem cells of marine/aquatic invertebrates: from basic research to innovative applications

  Ballarin, L., Rinkevich, B., Bartscherer, K., Burzynski, A., Cambier, S., Cammarata, M., Domart-Coulon, I., Drobne, D., Encinas, J., Frank, U., Geneviere, A-M., Hobmayer, B., Lohelaid, H., Lyons, D., Martinez, P., Oliveri, P., Peric, L., Piraino, S., Ramsak, A., Rakers, S., Rentzsch, F., Rosner, A., Henriques da Silva, T., Somorjai, I. M. L., Suleiman, S. & Varela Coelho, A., 15 Feb 2018, In : Sustainability. 10, 2, 21 p., 526.

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• The amphioxus regeneration model: 1st general meeting and working group meetings of the COST Action 16203: STEM CELLS OF MARINE/AQUATIC INVERTEBRATES: FROM BASIC RESEARCH TO INNOVATIVE APPLICATIONS (MARISTEM), February 5-6, 2018, Marine Biology Station, National Institute of Biology, Piran, Slovenia

  Somorjai, I. M. L., 29 Mar 2018, In : Invertebrate Survival Journal. 15, p. 104-115

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• The evolution of ependymin-related proteins

  McDougall, C., Hammond, M., Dailey, S. C., Somorjai, I. M. L., Cummins, S. & Degnan, B., 4 Dec 2018, In : BMC Evolutionary Biology. 18, 13 p., 182.

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• Wnt evolution and function shuffling in liberal and conservative chordate genomes

  Somorjai, I. M. L., Marti-Solans, J., Diaz-Gracia, M., Nishida, H., Imai, K., Escriva, H., Cañestro, C. & Albalat, R., 25 Jul 2018, In : Genome Biology. 19, 17 p., 98.

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• Amphioxus sp5 is a member of a conserved SP complement, and is modulated by Wnt/?-catenin signalling

  Dailey, S. C., Kozmikova, I. & Somorjai, I. M. L., 21 Dec 2017, In : International Journal of Developmental Biology. 61, 10/11/12, p. 723-732 10 p.

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