Joel B Dacks

Affiliations

Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.

Publications (39)

The Oxymonad Genome Displays Canonical Eukaryotic Complexity in the Absence of a Mitochondrion.

Molecular biology and evolution

Avec: Anna Karnkowska , Sebastian C Treitli , Ondřej Brzoň , Lukáš Novák , Vojtěch Vacek , Petr Soukal , Lael D Barlow , Emily K Herman , Shweta V Pipaliya , Tomáš Pánek , David Žihala , Romana Petrželková , Anzhelika Butenko , Laura Eme , Courtney W Stairs , Andrew J Roger , Marek Eliáš , Joel B Dacks , Vladimír Hampl

Phylogenetic and biochemical analysis of calsequestrin structure and association of its variants with cardiac disorders.

Scientific reports

Avec: Qian Wang , Tautvydas Paskevicius , Alexander Filbert , Wenying Qin , Hyeong Jin Kim , Xing-Zhen Chen , Jingfeng Tang , Joel B Dacks , Luis B Agellon , Marek Michalak

The reduced ARF regulatory system in Giardia intestinalis pre-dates the transition to parasitism in the lineage Fornicata.

International journal for parasitology

Avec: Shweta V Pipaliya , L Alexa Thompson , Joel B Dacks

Lessons from the deep: mechanisms behind diversification of eukaryotic protein complexes.

Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society

Avec: Galina Prokopchuk , Anzhelika Butenko , Joel B Dacks , Dave Speijer , Mark C Field , Julius Lukeš

The Mastigamoeba balamuthi Genome and the Nature of the Free-Living Ancestor of Entamoeba.

Molecular biology and evolution

Avec: Vojtěch Žárský , Vladimír Klimeš , Jan Pačes , Čestmír Vlček , Miluše Hradilová , Vladimír Beneš , Eva Nývltová , Ivan Hrdý , Jan Pyrih , Jan Mach , Lael Barlow , Courtney W Stairs , Laura Eme , Neil Hall , Marek Eliáš , Joel B Dacks , Andrew Roger , Jan Tachezy

Phytoplankton ecology in the early years of a boreal oil sands end pit lake.

Environmental microbiome

Avec: Chantel C Furgason , Angela V Smirnova , Joel B Dacks , Peter F Dunfield

Genomics of Preaxostyla Flagellates Illuminates the Path Towards the Loss of Mitochondria.

PLoS genetics

Avec: Lukáš V F Novák , Sebastian C Treitli , Jan Pyrih , Paweł Hałakuc , Shweta V Pipaliya , Vojtěch Vacek , Ondřej Brzoň , Petr Soukal , Laura Eme , Joel B Dacks , Anna Karnkowska , Marek Eliáš , Vladimír Hampl

Genomic survey maps differences in the molecular complement of vesicle formation machinery between Giardia intestinalis assemblages.

PLoS neglected tropical diseases

Avec: Shweta V Pipaliya , Joel B Dacks , Matthew A Croxen

Endosomal vesicle fusion machinery is involved with the contractile vacuole in Dictyostelium discoideum.

Journal of cell science

Avec: Paul T Manna , Lael D Barlow , Inmaculada Ramirez-Macias , Emily K Herman , Joel B Dacks

Stable endocytic structures navigate the complex pellicle of apicomplexan parasites.

Nature communications

Avec: Ludek Koreny , Brandon N Mercado-Saavedra , Christen M Klinger , Konstantin Barylyuk , Simon Butterworth , Jennifer Hirst , Yolanda Rivera-Cuevas , Nathan R Zaccai , Victoria J C Holzer , Andreas Klingl , Joel B Dacks , Vern B Carruthers , Margaret S Robinson , Simon Gras , Ross F Waller

Retromer and Retriever systems are conserved and differentially expanded in Parabasalids.

Journal of cell science

Avec: Abhishek Prakash Shinde , Jitka Kučerová , Joel Bryan Dacks , Jan Tachezy

Evolution: Parallel Paths to Parasitism in the Apicomplexa.

Current biology : CB

Avec: Sonja Rueckert , Shweta V Pipaliya , Joel B Dacks

Recent gene duplications dominate evolutionary dynamics of adaptor protein complex subunits in embryophytes.

Traffic (Copenhagen, Denmark)

Avec: Raegan T Larson , Joel B Dacks , Lael D Barlow

A Phosphoinositide-Binding Protein Acts in the Trafficking Pathway of Hemoglobin in the Malaria Parasite Plasmodium falciparum.

mBio

Avec: Angana Mukherjee , Marie-Ève Crochetière , Audrey Sergerie , Souad Amiar , L Alexa Thompson , Zeinab Ebrahimzadeh , Dominic Gagnon , Florian Lauruol , Alexandra Bourgeois , Thomas Galaup , Stéphanie Roucheray , Stéphanie Hallée , Prasad K Padmanabhan , Robert V Stahelin , Joel B Dacks , Dave Richard

Evolutionary analysis identifies a Golgi pathway and correlates lineage-specific factors with endomembrane organelle emergence in apicomplexans.

Cell reports

Avec: Christen M Klinger , Elena Jimenez-Ruiz , Tobias Mourier , Andreas Klingl , Leandro Lemgruber , Arnab Pain , Joel B Dacks , Markus Meissner

Combined nanometric and phylogenetic analysis of unique endocytic compartments in Giardia lamblia sheds light on the evolution of endocytosis in Metamonada.

BMC biology

Avec: Rui Santos , Ásgeir Ástvaldsson , Shweta V Pipaliya , Jon Paulin Zumthor , Joel B Dacks , Staffan Svärd , Adrian B Hehl , Carmen Faso

Convergent evolution and horizontal gene transfer in Arctic Ocean microalgae.

Life science alliance

Avec: Richard G Dorrell , Alan Kuo , Zoltan Füssy , Elisabeth H Richardson , Asaf Salamov , Nikola Zarevski , Nastasia J Freyria , Federico M Ibarbalz , Jerry Jenkins , Juan Jose Pierella Karlusich , Andrei Stecca Steindorff , Robyn E Edgar , Lori Handley , Kathleen Lail , Anna Lipzen , Vincent Lombard , John McFarlane , Charlotte Nef , Anna Mg Novák Vanclová , Yi Peng , Chris Plott , Marianne Potvin , Fabio Rocha Jimenez Vieira , Kerrie Barry , Colomban de Vargas , Bernard Henrissat , Eric Pelletier , Jeremy Schmutz , Patrick Wincker , Joel B Dacks , Chris Bowler , Igor V Grigoriev , Connie Lovejoy

One high quality genome and two transcriptome datasets for new species of Mantamonas, a deep-branching eukaryote clade.

Scientific data

Avec: Jazmin Blaz , Luis Javier Galindo , Aaron A Heiss , Harpreet Kaur , Guifré Torruella , Ashley Yang , L Alexa Thompson , Alexander Filbert , Sally Warring , Apurva Narechania , Takashi Shiratori , Ken-Ichiro Ishida , Joel B Dacks , Purificación López-García , David Moreira , Eunsoo Kim , Laura Eme

Phylogenetic Estimation of Community Composition and Novel Eukaryotic Lineages in Base Mine Lake: An Oil Sands Tailings Reclamation Site in Northern Alberta.

The Journal of eukaryotic microbiology

Avec: Elisabeth Richardson , David Bass , Angela Smirnova , Lucas Paoli , Peter Dunfield , Joel B Dacks

Microbial Eukaryotes in Oil Sands Environments: Heterotrophs in the Spotlight.

Microorganisms

Avec: Elisabeth Richardson , Joel B Dacks

Transcriptome, proteome and draft genome of Euglena gracilis.

BMC biology

Avec: ThankGod E Ebenezer , Martin Zoltner , Alana Burrell , Anna Nenarokova , Anna M G Novák Vanclová , Binod Prasad , Petr Soukal , Carlos Santana-Molina , Ellis O'Neill , Nerissa N Nankissoor , Nithya Vadakedath , Viktor Daiker , Samson Obado , Sara Silva-Pereira , Andrew P Jackson , Damien P Devos , Julius Lukeš , Michael Lebert , Sue Vaughan , Vladimίr Hampl , Mark Carrington , Michael L Ginger , Joel B Dacks , Steven Kelly , Mark C Field

Distribution of membrane trafficking system components across ciliate diversity highlights heterogenous organelle-associated machinery.

Traffic (Copenhagen, Denmark)

Avec: Elisabeth Richardson , Joel B Dacks

Comparative genomic analysis illustrates evolutionary dynamics of multisubunit tethering complexes across green algal diversity.

The Journal of eukaryotic microbiology

Avec: Yasinee Phanprasert , Kacper Maciszewski , Eleni Gentekaki , Joel B Dacks

Evolution of factors shaping the endoplasmic reticulum.

Traffic (Copenhagen, Denmark)

Avec: Aspasia Kontou , Emily K Herman , Mark C Field , Joel B Dacks , V Lila Koumandou

Ancient and pervasive expansion of adaptin-related vesicle coat machinery across Parabasalia.

International journal for parasitology

Avec: William J Maciejowski , Gillian H Gile , Jon Jerlström-Hultqvist , Joel B Dacks

Functional differentiation of Sec13 paralogues in the euglenozoan protists.

Open biology

Avec: Drahomíra Faktorová , Kristína Záhonová , Corinna Benz , Joel B Dacks , Mark C Field , Julius Lukeš

Evolutionary analysis of cellular reduction and anaerobicity in the hyper-prevalent gut microbe Blastocystis.

Current biology : CB

Avec: Kristína Záhonová , Ross S Low , Christopher J Warren , Diego Cantoni , Emily K Herman , Lyto Yiangou , Cláudia A Ribeiro , Yasinee Phanprasert , Ian R Brown , Sonja Rueckert , Nicola L Baker , Jan Tachezy , Emma L Betts , Eleni Gentekaki , Mark van der Giezen , C Graham Clark , Andrew P Jackson , Joel B Dacks , Anastasios D Tsaousis

Evolutionary origins of the lysosome-related organelle sorting machinery reveal ancient homology in post-endosome trafficking pathways.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Avec: Kiran J More , Jonathan G G Kaufman , Joel B Dacks , Paul T Manna

Evolution and Natural History of Membrane Trafficking in Eukaryotes.

Current biology : CB

Avec: Kiran More , Christen M Klinger , Lael D Barlow , Joel B Dacks

ARF GTPases and their GEFs and GAPs: concepts and challenges.

Molecular biology of the cell

Avec: Elizabeth Sztul , Pei-Wen Chen , James E Casanova , Jacqueline Cherfils , Joel B Dacks , David G Lambright , Fang-Jen S Lee , Paul A Randazzo , Lorraine C Santy , Annette Schürmann , Ilka Wilhelmi , Marielle E Yohe , Richard A Kahn

A pan-apicomplexan phosphoinositide-binding protein acts in malarial microneme exocytosis.

EMBO reports

Avec: Zeinab Ebrahimzadeh , Angana Mukherjee , Marie-Ève Crochetière , Audrey Sergerie , Souad Amiar , L Alexa Thompson , Dominic Gagnon , David Gaumond , Robert V Stahelin , Joel B Dacks , Dave Richard

Free-living amoebae and other neglected protistan pathogens: Health emergency signals?

European journal of protistology

Avec: Maria Cristina Angelici , Julia Walochnik , Adriana Calderaro , Lynora Saxinger , Joel B Dacks

Mechanism and evolution of the Zn-fingernail required for interaction of VARP with VPS29.

Nature communications

Avec: Harriet Crawley-Snowdon , Ji-Chun Yang , Nathan R Zaccai , Luther J Davis , Lena Wartosch , Emily K Herman , Nicholas A Bright , James S Swarbrick , Brett M Collins , Lauren P Jackson , Matthew N J Seaman , J Paul Luzio , Joel B Dacks , David Neuhaus , David J Owen

Molecular evolutionary analysis of the SM and SNARE vesicle fusion machinery in ciliates shows concurrent expansions in late secretory machinery.

The Journal of eukaryotic microbiology

Avec: Harpreet Kaur , Elisabeth Richardson , Komal Kamra , Joel B Dacks

A Eukaryote-Wide Perspective on the Diversity and Evolution of the ARF GTPase Protein Family.

Genome biology and evolution

Avec: Romana Vargová , Jeremy G Wideman , Romain Derelle , Vladimír Klimeš , Richard A Kahn , Joel B Dacks , Marek Eliáš

Genomics and transcriptomics yields a system-level view of the biology of the pathogen Naegleria fowleri.

BMC biology

Avec: Emily K Herman , Alex Greninger , Mark van der Giezen , Michael L Ginger , Inmaculada Ramirez-Macias , Haylea C Miller , Matthew J Morgan , Anastasios D Tsaousis , Katrina Velle , Romana Vargová , Kristína Záhonová , Sebastian Rodrigo Najle , Georgina MacIntyre , Norbert Muller , Mattias Wittwer , Denise C Zysset-Burri , Marek Eliáš , Claudio H Slamovits , Matthew T Weirauch , Lillian Fritz-Laylin , Francine Marciano-Cabral , Geoffrey J Puzon , Tom Walsh , Charles Chiu , Joel B Dacks

Unexpected organellar locations of ESCRT machinery in Giardia intestinalis and complex evolutionary dynamics spanning the transition to parasitism in the lineage Fornicata.

BMC biology

Avec: Shweta V Pipaliya , Rui Santos , Dayana Salas-Leiva , Erina A Balmer , Corina D Wirdnam , Andrew J Roger , Adrian B Hehl , Carmen Faso , Joel B Dacks

Comparative Genomics for Evolutionary Cell Biology Using AMOEBAE: Understanding the Golgi and Beyond.

Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)

Avec: Lael D Barlow , William Maciejowski , Kiran More , Kara Terry , Romana Vargová , Kristína Záhonová , Joel B Dacks

Contractile vacuoles: a rapidly expanding (and occasionally diminishing?) understanding.

European journal of protistology

Avec: Kiran J More , Harpreet Kaur , Alastair G B Simpson , Frederick W Spiegel , Joel B Dacks

Réseau de co-auteurs

Shweta V Pipaliya 7 collaborations

Emily K Herman 6 collaborations

Lael D Barlow 5 collaborations

Marek Eliáš 5 collaborations

Laura Eme 4 collaborations

L Alexa Thompson 4 collaborations

Mark C Field 4 collaborations

Elisabeth Richardson 4 collaborations

Kristína Záhonová 4 collaborations

Petr Soukal 3 collaborations

Julius Lukeš 3 collaborations

Jan Tachezy 3 collaborations

Christen M Klinger 3 collaborations

Harpreet Kaur 3 collaborations

Romana Vargová 3 collaborations

Anna Karnkowska 2 collaborations

Sebastian C Treitli 2 collaborations

Ondřej Brzoň 2 collaborations

Vojtěch Vacek 2 collaborations

Anzhelika Butenko 2 collaborations

Courtney W Stairs 2 collaborations

Andrew J Roger 2 collaborations

Vladimír Hampl 2 collaborations

Alexander Filbert 2 collaborations

Vladimír Klimeš 2 collaborations

Jan Pyrih 2 collaborations

Paul T Manna 2 collaborations

Inmaculada Ramirez-Macias 2 collaborations

Nathan R Zaccai 2 collaborations

Andreas Klingl 2 collaborations

Sonja Rueckert 2 collaborations

Angana Mukherjee 2 collaborations

Marie-Ève Crochetière 2 collaborations

Audrey Sergerie 2 collaborations

Souad Amiar 2 collaborations

Zeinab Ebrahimzadeh 2 collaborations

Dominic Gagnon 2 collaborations

Robert V Stahelin 2 collaborations

Dave Richard 2 collaborations

Rui Santos 2 collaborations

Adrian B Hehl 2 collaborations

Carmen Faso 2 collaborations

Andrew P Jackson 2 collaborations

Michael L Ginger 2 collaborations

Yasinee Phanprasert 2 collaborations

Eleni Gentekaki 2 collaborations

Mark van der Giezen 2 collaborations

Anastasios D Tsaousis 2 collaborations

Kiran J More 2 collaborations

Kiran More 2 collaborations

Richard A Kahn 2 collaborations

Lukáš Novák 1 collaboration

Tomáš Pánek 1 collaboration

David Žihala 1 collaboration

Romana Petrželková 1 collaboration

Qian Wang 1 collaboration

Tautvydas Paskevicius 1 collaboration

Wenying Qin 1 collaboration

Hyeong Jin Kim 1 collaboration

Xing-Zhen Chen 1 collaboration

Jingfeng Tang 1 collaboration

Luis B Agellon 1 collaboration

Marek Michalak 1 collaboration

Galina Prokopchuk 1 collaboration

Dave Speijer 1 collaboration

Vojtěch Žárský 1 collaboration

Jan Pačes 1 collaboration

Čestmír Vlček 1 collaboration

Miluše Hradilová 1 collaboration

Vladimír Beneš 1 collaboration

Eva Nývltová 1 collaboration

Ivan Hrdý 1 collaboration

Jan Mach 1 collaboration

Lael Barlow 1 collaboration

Neil Hall 1 collaboration

Andrew Roger 1 collaboration

Chantel C Furgason 1 collaboration

Angela V Smirnova 1 collaboration

Peter F Dunfield 1 collaboration

Lukáš V F Novák 1 collaboration

Paweł Hałakuc 1 collaboration

Matthew A Croxen 1 collaboration

Ludek Koreny 1 collaboration

Brandon N Mercado-Saavedra 1 collaboration

Konstantin Barylyuk 1 collaboration

Simon Butterworth 1 collaboration

Jennifer Hirst 1 collaboration

Yolanda Rivera-Cuevas 1 collaboration

Victoria J C Holzer 1 collaboration

Vern B Carruthers 1 collaboration

Margaret S Robinson 1 collaboration

Simon Gras 1 collaboration

Ross F Waller 1 collaboration

Abhishek Prakash Shinde 1 collaboration

Jitka Kučerová 1 collaboration

Joel Bryan Dacks 1 collaboration

Raegan T Larson 1 collaboration

Florian Lauruol 1 collaboration

Alexandra Bourgeois 1 collaboration

Thomas Galaup 1 collaboration

Stéphanie Roucheray 1 collaboration

Stéphanie Hallée 1 collaboration

Prasad K Padmanabhan 1 collaboration

Elena Jimenez-Ruiz 1 collaboration

Tobias Mourier 1 collaboration

Leandro Lemgruber 1 collaboration

Arnab Pain 1 collaboration

Markus Meissner 1 collaboration

Ásgeir Ástvaldsson 1 collaboration

Jon Paulin Zumthor 1 collaboration

Staffan Svärd 1 collaboration

Richard G Dorrell 1 collaboration

Alan Kuo 1 collaboration

Zoltan Füssy 1 collaboration

Elisabeth H Richardson 1 collaboration

Asaf Salamov 1 collaboration

Nikola Zarevski 1 collaboration

Nastasia J Freyria 1 collaboration

Federico M Ibarbalz 1 collaboration

Jerry Jenkins 1 collaboration

Juan Jose Pierella Karlusich 1 collaboration

Andrei Stecca Steindorff 1 collaboration

Robyn E Edgar 1 collaboration

Lori Handley 1 collaboration

Kathleen Lail 1 collaboration

Anna Lipzen 1 collaboration

Vincent Lombard 1 collaboration

John McFarlane 1 collaboration

Charlotte Nef 1 collaboration

Anna Mg Novák Vanclová 1 collaboration

Yi Peng 1 collaboration

Chris Plott 1 collaboration

Marianne Potvin 1 collaboration

Fabio Rocha Jimenez Vieira 1 collaboration

Kerrie Barry 1 collaboration

Colomban de Vargas 1 collaboration

Bernard Henrissat 1 collaboration

Eric Pelletier 1 collaboration

Jeremy Schmutz 1 collaboration

Patrick Wincker 1 collaboration

Chris Bowler 1 collaboration

Igor V Grigoriev 1 collaboration

Connie Lovejoy 1 collaboration

Jazmin Blaz 1 collaboration

Luis Javier Galindo 1 collaboration

Aaron A Heiss 1 collaboration

Guifré Torruella 1 collaboration

Ashley Yang 1 collaboration

Sally Warring 1 collaboration

Apurva Narechania 1 collaboration

Takashi Shiratori 1 collaboration

Ken-Ichiro Ishida 1 collaboration

Purificación López-García 1 collaboration

David Moreira 1 collaboration

Eunsoo Kim 1 collaboration

David Bass 1 collaboration

Angela Smirnova 1 collaboration

Lucas Paoli 1 collaboration

Peter Dunfield 1 collaboration

ThankGod E Ebenezer 1 collaboration

Martin Zoltner 1 collaboration

Alana Burrell 1 collaboration

Anna Nenarokova 1 collaboration

Anna M G Novák Vanclová 1 collaboration

Binod Prasad 1 collaboration

Carlos Santana-Molina 1 collaboration

Ellis O'Neill 1 collaboration

Nerissa N Nankissoor 1 collaboration

Nithya Vadakedath 1 collaboration

Viktor Daiker 1 collaboration

Samson Obado 1 collaboration

Sara Silva-Pereira 1 collaboration

Damien P Devos 1 collaboration

Michael Lebert 1 collaboration

Sue Vaughan 1 collaboration

Vladimίr Hampl 1 collaboration

Mark Carrington 1 collaboration

Steven Kelly 1 collaboration

Kacper Maciszewski 1 collaboration

Aspasia Kontou 1 collaboration

V Lila Koumandou 1 collaboration

William J Maciejowski 1 collaboration

Gillian H Gile 1 collaboration

Jon Jerlström-Hultqvist 1 collaboration

Drahomíra Faktorová 1 collaboration

Corinna Benz 1 collaboration

Ross S Low 1 collaboration

Christopher J Warren 1 collaboration

Diego Cantoni 1 collaboration

Lyto Yiangou 1 collaboration

Cláudia A Ribeiro 1 collaboration

Ian R Brown 1 collaboration

Nicola L Baker 1 collaboration

Emma L Betts 1 collaboration

C Graham Clark 1 collaboration

Jonathan G G Kaufman 1 collaboration

Elizabeth Sztul 1 collaboration

Pei-Wen Chen 1 collaboration

James E Casanova 1 collaboration

Jacqueline Cherfils 1 collaboration

David G Lambright 1 collaboration

Fang-Jen S Lee 1 collaboration

Paul A Randazzo 1 collaboration

Lorraine C Santy 1 collaboration

Annette Schürmann 1 collaboration

Ilka Wilhelmi 1 collaboration

Marielle E Yohe 1 collaboration

David Gaumond 1 collaboration

Maria Cristina Angelici 1 collaboration

Julia Walochnik 1 collaboration

Adriana Calderaro 1 collaboration

Lynora Saxinger 1 collaboration

Harriet Crawley-Snowdon 1 collaboration

Ji-Chun Yang 1 collaboration

Luther J Davis 1 collaboration

Lena Wartosch 1 collaboration

Nicholas A Bright 1 collaboration

James S Swarbrick 1 collaboration

Brett M Collins 1 collaboration

Lauren P Jackson 1 collaboration

Matthew N J Seaman 1 collaboration

J Paul Luzio 1 collaboration

David Neuhaus 1 collaboration

David J Owen 1 collaboration

Komal Kamra 1 collaboration

Jeremy G Wideman 1 collaboration

Romain Derelle 1 collaboration

Alex Greninger 1 collaboration

Haylea C Miller 1 collaboration

Matthew J Morgan 1 collaboration

Katrina Velle 1 collaboration

Sebastian Rodrigo Najle 1 collaboration

Georgina MacIntyre 1 collaboration

Norbert Muller 1 collaboration

Mattias Wittwer 1 collaboration

Denise C Zysset-Burri 1 collaboration

Claudio H Slamovits 1 collaboration

Matthew T Weirauch 1 collaboration

Lillian Fritz-Laylin 1 collaboration

Francine Marciano-Cabral 1 collaboration

Geoffrey J Puzon 1 collaboration

Tom Walsh 1 collaboration

Charles Chiu 1 collaboration

Dayana Salas-Leiva 1 collaboration

Erina A Balmer 1 collaboration

Corina D Wirdnam 1 collaboration

William Maciejowski 1 collaboration

Kara Terry 1 collaboration

Alastair G B Simpson 1 collaboration

Frederick W Spiegel 1 collaboration