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  1. The 700-million-year history of our blood cells

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, May 2026, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Yosuke Nagahata, Dr Sebastian R Najle

  2. Myxobacteria “gave” humans the ability to make important lipids in health and disease

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, March 2026, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Montserrat Elías-Arnanz, Dr Sebastian R Najle

  3. Life-stage-specific specialities in the cell atlases of the Clytia hemisphaerica planula and medusa

    Article • February 2026, openRxiv

    Dr Sebastian R Najle

  4. The evolution of facultative symbiosis in stony corals

    Article • Nature, October 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sebastian R Najle

  5. Origin of Eukaryotic Plasmalogen Biosynthesis by Horizontal Gene Transfer from Myxobacteria

    Article • October 2025, openRxiv

    Dr Sebastian R Najle

  6. The Biodiversity Cell Atlas: mapping the tree of life at cellular resolution

    Article • Nature, September 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sebastian R Najle

  7. ACME-sorbitol (ACMEsorb) Fixation and Enzymatic Dissociation of Whole Soft-Bodied Cnidarians v1

    Article • July 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sebastian R Najle

  8. ACME-sorbitol (ACMEsorb) Fixation and Mechanical Dissociation of Whole Soft-Bodied Cnidarians v1

    Article • July 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sebastian R Najle

  9. CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing in Corallochytrium limacisporum ,a key species for understanding animal origins

    Article • Open Biology, July 2025, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Sebastian R Najle

  10. CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing in Corallochytrium limacisporum v1

    Article • June 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sebastian R Najle

  11. ACME-sorbitol (ACMEsorb) Fixation of Cells in Suspension v1

    Article • November 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sebastian R Najle

  12. Stepwise emergence of the neuronal gene expression program in early animal evolution

    Article • Cell, October 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Sebastian R Najle

  13. Systematic benchmarking of single-cell ATAC-sequencing protocols

    Article • Nature Biotechnology, August 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sebastian R Najle

  14. Rel/NF-κB Transcription Factors Emerged at the Onset of Opisthokonts

    Article • Genome Biology and Evolution, January 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Sebastian R Najle

  15. Stable transfection in protist Corallochytrium limacisporum identifies novel cellular features among unicellular animals relatives

    Article • Current Biology, September 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Sebastian R Najle

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

    Article • BMC Biology, July 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sebastian R Najle

  17. Stable transfection in the protist Corallochytrium limacisporum allows identification of novel cellular features among unicellular relatives of animals

    Article • November 2020, openRxiv

    Dr Sebastian R Najle

  18. Stable transfection of unicellular relative of animals, Corallochytrium limacisporum, using Lonza Nucleofector v2

    Article • November 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sebastian R Najle

  19. Genetic tool development in marine protists: emerging model organisms for experimental cell biology

    Article • Nature Chemical Biology, April 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Senjie Lin, Dr Sebastian R Najle, Dr Tobias von der Haar

  20. Genome‐wide Transcriptional Analysis of Tetrahymena thermophila Response to Exogenous Cholesterol

    Article • Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, November 2019, Wiley

    Dr Sebastian R Najle

  21. Abeoforma whisleri transient transfection protocol v1

    Article • March 2019, ZappyLab, Inc.

    Dr Sebastian R Najle

  22. Reticulate evolution in eukaryotes: Origin and evolution of the nitrate assimilation pathway

    Article • PLoS Genetics, February 2019, PLOS

    Dr Sebastian R Najle, Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo

  23. Preparation of defined medium for marine holozoans. v2

    Article • January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sebastian R Najle

  24. RNA isolation and cDNA synthesis from the marine ichthyosporean Sphaeroforma arctica v1

    Article • January 2019, ZappyLab, Inc.

    Dr Sebastian R Najle

  25. Preparation of defined medium for marine holozoans. v1

    Article • January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sebastian R Najle

  26. Reticulate evolution in eukaryotes: origin and evolution of the nitrate assimilation pathway

    Article • October 2018, openRxiv

    Dr Sebastian R Najle

  27. Novel Diversity of Deeply Branching Holomycota and Unicellular Holozoans Revealed by Metabarcoding in Middle Paraná River, Argentina

    Article • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, July 2018, Frontiers

    Dr Sebastian R Najle

  28. Sterol metabolism in the filastereanCapsaspora owczarzakihas features that resemble both fungi and animals

    Article • Open Biology, July 2016, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Sebastian R Najle

  29. The Sterol-C7 Desaturase from the Ciliate Tetrahymena thermophila Is a Rieske Oxygenase, Which Is Highly Conserved in Animals

    Article • Molecular Biology and Evolution, April 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Sebastian R Najle

  30. A Novel Sterol Desaturase-Like Protein Promoting Dealkylation of Phytosterols in Tetrahymena thermophila

    Article • Eukaryotic Cell, January 2011, ASM Journals

    Dr Sebastian R Najle

  31. C-5(6) Sterol Desaturase fromTetrahymena thermophila: Gene Identification and Knockout, Sequence Analysis, and Comparison to Other C-5(6) Sterol Desaturases

    Article • Eukaryotic Cell, June 2009, ASM Journals

    Dr Sebastian R Najle