Homayoun Bagheri

Research interests

Evolution of multicellularity and differentiation; microbial evolution; evolution of metabolism; population genetics

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Education and professional positions

2006 - present	Assistant Professor, Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Switzerland
2003 - 2006	Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology (Berlin, Germany) and Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics (Berlin, Germany)
2001 - 2003	Postdoctoral Fellow, Santa Fe Institute (Santa Fe, New Mexico)
1997 - 2001	Graduate studies (Ph.D.) in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut)
1994 - 1997	Graduate studies (M.Phil.) in Biology, Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut)
1989 - 1992	Undergraduate studies (B.S.) in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin (Madison, Wisconsin)

Publications

2012

Rodrigues, J., Rankin, D.J., Rossetti, V., Wagner, A., Bagheri, H.C. (2012) "Differences in Cell Division Rates Drive the Evolution of Terminal Differentiation in Microbes." PLoS Computational Biology. 8(4).

2011

Svercel, M., Saladin, B., van Moorsel, S.J., Wolf, S.,Bagheri, H.C. (2011) "Antagonistic Iinteractions between filamentous heterotrophs and the cyanobacterium Nostoc muscorum." BMC Research Notes. 4:357.

Schirrmeister, B.E., Anisimova, M., Antonelli, A., Bagheri, H.C. (2011b) "Evolution of cyanobacterial morphotypes: taxa required for improved phylogenomic approaches." Communicative and Integrative Biology. 4:424-427.

Manser, A., Lindholm, A., Koenig, B., Bagheri, H.C. (2011) "Polyandry and the decrease of a selfish genetic element in a wild House Mouse population." Evolution. 65:2435–2447.

Rossetti, V., Filippini, M., Svercel, M., Barbour, A.D., Bagheri, H.C. (2011) "Emergent multicellular life cycles in filamentous bacteria owing to density dependent population dynamics." Journal of the Royal Society Interface. 65:1772-1784.

Filippini, M., Ortelli, C., Svercel, M., Bagheri H.C. (2011c) "Interspecies variation in survival and growth of filamentous heterotrophic bacteria in response to UVC radiation." Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology. 103(3):234-42.

Schirrmeister BE, Antonelli A, Bagheri HC. (2011a) "The origin of multicellularity in cyanobacteria." BMC Evolutionary Biology. 11:45.

Bagheri, H.C. (2011) "Ursprung des Lebens und die Evolution biologischer Organisationsformen." In Reyer, H-U & Schmid-Hempel, P., Darwins Langer Arm - Evolutionstheorie Heute. Vdf Hochschulverlag AG, Zurich.

Filippini M, Kaech A, Ziegler U, Bagheri HC (2011b) "Fibrisoma limi gen. nov., sp. nov., a filamentous bacterium isolated from tidal flats." International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 61:1418-24

Filippini M, Svercel M, Laczko E, Kaech A, Ziegler U, Bagheri HC (2011a) "Fibrella aestuarina gen. nov., sp. nov., a filamentous bacterium of the family Cytophagaceae isolated from North Sea tidal flats and emended description of the genus Rudanella Weon et al., 2008." International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 61:184-189.

Prior to 2011

Rossetti, V., Schirrmeister, B.E., Bernasconi, M.V., Bagheri, H.C. (2010) "The evolutionary path to terminal differentiation and division of labor in cyanobacteria." Journal of Theoretical Biology. 262: 23-34.

Bürger, R., Bagheri, H.C. (2008) "Dominance and Its Evolution." In: Jorgensen, S.E.; Fath, B. Encyclopedia of Ecology. Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 945-952..

Som, C., Bagheri, H.C., Reyer, H.-U. (2007) "Mutation accumulation and fitness effects in hybridogenetic populations: A comparison to sexual and asexual systems." BMC Evolutionary Biology, 7:80-90.

Bagheri, H.C. (2006) "Unresolved boundaries of evolutionary theory and the question of how inheritance systems evolve: 75 years of debate on the evolution of dominance." J. Exp. Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution,
306B:329-359.

Bagheri, H.C., Wagner, G.P. (2004) "Evolution of dominance in metabolic pathways." Genetics, 168: 1713-1735.

de Visser, J.A.G.M., Hermisson, J., Wagner, G.P., Meyers, L.A., Bagheri-Chaichian, H., Blanchard, J.L., Chao, L., Cheverud, J.M., Elena, S.F., Fontana, W., Gibson, G., Hansen, T.F., Krakauer, D., Lewontin, R.C., Ofria, C., Rice, S.H., von Dassow, G. Wagner, A., Whitlock, M.C. (2003) "Perspective: Evolution and detection of genetic robustness." Evolution, 57(9):1959-1972.

Bagheri-Chaichian, H., Hermisson, J., Vaisnys, J., Wagner, G.P. (2003) "Effects of epistasis on phenotypic robustness in metabolic pathways." Mathematical Biosciences, 184(1):27-51.

Wagner, G.P., Laubichler, M.D., Bagheri-Chaichian, H. (1998) "Genetic measurement theory of epistatic effects." Genetica, 102/103: 560-580.

Wagner, G.P., Booth, G., Bagheri-Chaichian, H. (1997) "A population genetic theory of canalization." Evolution, 51(2):329-347.

Bagheri-Chaichian, H., Wagner, G.P. (1997) "Representational issues in the evolution of physiological adaptations." Issue on biology and philosophy, Eur. J. of Semiotic Studies, 9(2):321-354.