David C Plachetzki, PhD

Cnidocyte paper wins award!

David Plachetzki — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 18:49:03 +0000

Our paper from last year:

Plachetzki, D. C., Fong, C. R. and Oakley, T. H. 2012 Cnidocyte discharge is attenuatedby light and opsin-mediated phototransduction. BMC Biology, 10(1):17.(with commentary; highly accessed)

Has won the 2013 BioMed Central Research Award in Animal Science, Veterinary Research and Zoology.

http://www.biomedcentral.com/researchawards/

Opsin writeup in Science Magazine

David Plachetzki — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 19:43:26 +0000

Here’s a link to an interesting News and Views article by Liz Pennisi from Science on some recent progress in studies of opsin evolution. Some of our recent work is discussed.

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6121/754.full?sid=b93e3da3-6c25-4254-9a7f-b17b0b8fb0e7

SICB Symposium: Integrating genomics with comparative vision research of the invertebrates

David Plachetzki — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 19:38:38 +0000

This should be a lot of fun.

http://www.sicb.org/meetings/2013/symposia/vision.php

Dave’s Departmental Seminar: October 23

David Plachetzki — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 20:51:38 +0000

October 23: David Plachetzki, Postdoctoral Research Associate
Center for Population Biology, UC Davis
Title: “Sense and sense-ability: integrative studies in the Cnidaria reveal clues on the origins and evolution of key metazoan innovations.”

Aplysia neuroendocrine hormone evolution paper with Andreas Heyland is out in the journal Endocrinology

David Plachetzki — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 21:30:13 +0000

Here’s a link

http://endo.endojournals.org/content/early/2012/09/13/en.2012-1677.long

Dave speaks at 2012 Gordon Conference on Vision and Mophogenesis

David Plachetzki — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 21:40:38 +0000

What a GREAT meeting. The quality of work was exceptional and I was very glad to have gotten the invitation. Thanks again to the organizers.

http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2012&program=visualsys

Dave wins UCD award for Excellence in Postdoctoral Research

David Plachetzki — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 21:35:37 +0000

Thanks to my advisors for the nom!

JEB paper on the cryptochrome-based larval eye of the demosponge is out

David Plachetzki — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 05:55:10 +0000

Here’s a link to the paper.

http://jeb.biologists.org/content/215/8/1278

See also Kathryn Knight’s commentary on the paper.

http://jeb.biologists.org/content/215/8/ii.full

BMC Biology paper is out: Cnidocyte Discharge Regulated by Light and Opsin-based PT

David Plachetzki — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 05:54:33 +0000

The cnidocyte/opsin story is finally published!

http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7007/10/17/abstract

See also a provocative commentary on this paper by Thomas W. Holstein (Heidelberg). Gotta love that title!

http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7007/10/18