MSc. Joel Bryan Dacks, Ph.D.

Job Position: Research Scientist

Publications
Total found: 28 records
Záhonová K., Kaur H., Furgason C.C., Smirnova A.V., Dunfield P.F., Dacks J. (2025) Comparative analysis of protist communities in oilsands tailings using amplicon sequencing and metagenomics Environmental Microbiology 27 : e70029.
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.70029
Dacks J. (2024) Editor's message Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 71 : e13054.
DOI: 10.1111/jeu.13054

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Dacks_2024_EukMicrobJ (pdf)
Jerlström-Hultqvist J., Gallot-Lavallée L., Salas-Leiva D.E., Curtis B., Záhonová K., Čepička I., Stairs C.W., Pipaliya S., Dacks J., Archibald J., Roger A. (2024) A unique symbiosome in an anaerobic single-celled eukaryote Nature Communications 15 : 9726.
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-54102-7
Klinger C.M., Jimenez-Ruiz E., Mourier T., Klingl A., Lemgruber L., Pain A., Dacks J., Meissner M. (2024) Evolutionary analysis identifies a Golgi pathway and correlates lineage-specific factors with endomembrane organelle emergence in apicomplexans Cell Reports 43 : 113740.
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2024.113740
More K., Kaur H., Simpson A., Spiegel F., Dacks J. (2024) Contractile vacuoles: a rapidly expanding (and occasionally diminishing?) understanding European Journal of Protistology 126078 : 94.
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejop.2024.126078
More K.J., Kaufman J.G.G., Dacks J., Manna P.T. (2024) 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 131 : 2403601121.
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2403601121
Richards T., Eme L., Archibald J., Leonard G., Coelho S.M., de Mendoza A., Dessimoz C., Doležal P., Fritz-Laylin L.K., Gabaldón T. , Hampl V., Kops G.J.P.L., Leger M.M., López-García P., McInerney J.O., Moreira D., Muñoz-Gómez S.A., Richter D.J., Ruiz-Trillo I., Santoro A., Sebé-Pedrós A., Snel B., Stairs C.W., Tromer E.C., van Hooff J.J.E., Wickstead B., Williams T.A., Roger A., Dacks J., Wideman J.G. (2024) Reconstructing the last common ancestor of all eukaryotes PLoS Biology 22 : e3002917.
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002917

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Richards_2024_PlosBiol (pdf)
Shinde A.P., Kučerová J., Dacks J., Tachezy J. (2024) The retromer and retriever systems are conserved and differentially expanded in parabasalids Journal of Cell Science 137 : jcs261949.
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.261949
Black J.A., Klinger C.M., Lemgruber L., Dacks J., Mottram J., McCulloch R. (2023) AAK1-like: A putative pseudokinase with potential roles in cargo uptake in bloodstream form Trypanosoma brucei parasites Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 70 : e12994.
DOI: 10.1111/jeu.12994
Dacks J., Ginger M. (2023) Two decades taken at speed: genomics, cell biology, ecology, and evolution of protists BMC Biology 21 : 283.
DOI: 10.1186/s12915-023-01787-9
Faktorová D., Záhonová K., Benz C., Dacks J., Field M., Lukeš J. (2023) Functional differentiation of Sec13 paralog in the euglenozoan protists Open Biology 13 : 220364.
DOI: 10.1098/rsob.220364

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Faktorova_2023_OpenBiol (pdf)
Kořený L., Mercado-Saavedra B.N., Klinger C.M., Barylyuk K., Butterworth S., Hirst J., Rivera-Cuevas Y., Zaccai N.R., Holzer V.J.C., Dacks J., Carruthers V.B., Robinson M.S., Gras S., Waller R. (2023) Stable endocytic structures navigate the complex pellicle of apicomplexan parasites Nature Communications 14 : 2167.
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-37431-x
Maciejowski W., Gile G., Jerlström-Hultqvist J., Dacks J. (2023) Ancient and pervasive expansion of adaptin-related vesicle coat machinery across Parabasalia International Journal for Parasitology 53 : 233–245.
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2023.01.002
Novák L.V.F., Treitli S.C., Pyrih J., Hałakuc P., Pipaliya S.V., Vacek V., Brzoň O., Soukal P., Eme L., Dacks J., Karnkowska A., Eliáš M., Hampl V. (2023) Genomics of preaxostyla flagellates illuminates the path towards the loss of mitochondria Plos Genetics 19 : e1011050.
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1011050
Phanprasert Y., Maciszewski K., Gentekaki E., Dacks J. (2023) Comparative genomic analysis illustrates evolutionary dynamics of multisubunit tethering complexes across green algal diversity. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 70 : e12935.
DOI: 10.1111/jeu.12935
Pipaliya S.V., Dacks J., Croxen M.A. (2023) Genomic survey maps differences in the molecular complement of vesicle formation machinery between Giardia intestinalis assemblages PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 17 : e0011837.
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0011837
Prokopchuk G., Butenko A., Dacks J., Speijer D., Field M., Lukeš J. (2023) Lessons from the deep: mechanisms behind diversification of eukaryotic protein complexes Biological Reviews 98 : 1910–1927.
DOI: 10.1111/brv.12988

Documents to download:
Prokopchuk_2023_BiolRev (pdf)
Záhonová K., Low R.S., Warren C.J., Cantoni D., Herman E., Yiangou L., Ribeiro C.A., Phanprasert Y., Brown I.R., Rueckert S., Baker N.L., Tachezy J., Betts E.L., Gentekaki E., van der Giezen M., Clark C.G., Jackson A., Dacks J., Tsaousis A. (2023) Evolutionary analysis of cellular reduction and anaerobicity in the hyper-prevalent gut microbe Blastocystis Current Biology 33 : 2449–2464.
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.05.025

Documents to download:
Zahonova_2023_CurrBiol (pdf)
Kontou A., Herman E., Field M., Dacks J., Koumandou V. (2022) Evolution of factors shaping the endoplasmic reticulum Traffic 23 : 462–473.
DOI: 10.1111/tra.12863
Mukherjee A., Crochetière M.-È., Sergerie A., Amiar S., Thompson L.A., Ebrahimzadeh Z., Gagnon D., Lauruol F., Bourgeois A., Galaup T., Roucheray S., Hallee S., Padmanabhan P.K., Stahelin R.V., Dacks J., Richard D. (2022) A phosphoinositide-binding protein acts in the trafficking pathway of hemoglobin in the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum mBio 13 : e03239-21.
DOI: 10.1128/mbio.03239-21

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Biology Centre CAS
Institute of Parasitology
Branišovská 1160/31
370 05 České Budějovice

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