Biography

Dirk-Henner Lankenau

· 1984 Diploma Biology (Münster, Germany) · 1990 Ph.D. Molecular Genetics (Nijmegen, The Netherlands) · 1990-1993 Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore) · 1993-1994 University of Wisconsin (Madison) · 1994-2000 Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum DKFZ (Heidelberg) · 2000 Habilitation (Molecular Biology and Zoologie) · 2001-2004 Interim professorship, University of Heidelberg · 2004 Editor Springer bookseries: Genome Dynamics & Stability

Lankenau 12:48, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

Book - publications [1] ; [2][edit]

1. Lankenau, D.-H. 2007. Genome Integrity: Facets and Perspectives, vol. 1. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg.

2. Egel, R., and D.-H. Lankenau. 2008. Recombination and Meiosis: Crossing-Over and Disjunction, vol. 2. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg.

3. Egel, R., and D.-H. Lankenau. 2008. Recombination and Meiosis - Model, Means and Evolution, vol. 3. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg.

4. Lankenau, D.-H., and J.-N. Volff. 2009. Transposons and the Dynamic Genome, vol. 4. Springer, Heidelberg.

5. Egel, R., D.-H. Lankenau, and A. Y. Mulkidjanian (ed.). 2011. Origins of Life: The Primal Self-Organization. Springer Verlag, Heidelberg.

Publications[edit]

peer reviewed research Artikel & reviews

1. Lankenau, D.-H. 2011. Two RNA Worlds: Toward the Origin of Replication, Genes, Recombination and Repair, p. 225-286. In R. Egel, D.-H. Lankenau, and A. Y. Mulkidjanian (ed.), Origins of Life: The Primal Self-Organization. Springer Verlag, Heidelberg.

2. Mulkidjanian, A., and D.-H. Lankenau. 2011. LUCA - letzter gemeinsamer Vorfahre allen Lebens, p. 137-188. In K. Al-Shamery (ed.), Moleküle aus dem All? Wiley-VCH, Weinheim.

3. Lankenau, D.-H. 2009. Preface to: Transposons and the Dynamic Genome, p. V-XII. In D.-H. Lankenau and J.-N. Volff (ed.), Genome Dynamics and Stability, vol. 4. Springer, Heidelberg.

4. Lankenau, D.-H. 2007. The Legacy of the Germ Line - Maintaining Sex and Life in Metazoans: Cognitive Roots of the Concept of Hierarchical Selection, p. 289-339. In R. Egel and D.-H. Lankenau (ed.), Recombination and Meiosis - Models, Means and Evolution, vol. 3. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg.

5. Lankenau, D.-H. 2006. Germline Double-Strand Break Repair and Gene Targeting in Drosophila: a Trajectory System throughout Evolution, p. 153-197. In D.-H. Lankenau (ed.), Genome Integrity: Facets and Perspectives, vol. 1. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg.

6. Stephens, G. E., H. Xiao, D. H. Lankenau, C. Wu, and S. C. R. Elgin. 2006. Heterochromatin Protein 2 Interacts with Nap-1 and NURF: A Link between Heterochromatin-Induced Gene Silencing and the Chromatin Remodeling Machinery in Drosophila. Biochemistry 45:14990-14999.

7. Lankenau, S., T. Barnickel, J. Marhold, F. Lyko, B. M. Mechler, and D. H. Lankenau. 2003. Knockout targeting of the Drosophila Nap1 gene and examination of DNA repair tracts in the recombination products. Genetics 163:611-623.

8. Marhold, J., M. Zbylut, D.-H. Lankenau, M. Li, D. Gerlich, E. Ballestar, B. M. Mechler, and F. Lyko. 2002. Stage-specific chromosomal association of Drosophila dMBD2/3 during genome activation. Chromosoma 111:13-21.

9. Grieshaber, S. S., D. H. Lankenau, T. Talbot, S. Holland, and N. S. Petersen. 2001. Expression of the 53 kD forked protein rescues F-actin bundle formation and mutant bristle phenotypes in Drosophila. Cell Motil Cytoskeleton 50:198-206.

10. Lankenau, D.-H. 2001. DNA Repair and Transposons in the Drosophila Germline. German Habilitation. Heidelberg, Heidelberg.

11. Lankenau, D.-H. 2001. Laufkäfer (Carabidae): verborgene Bewohner des Siebenmühlentals, Indikatoren evolutiver Prozesse und Leitorganismen der Biodiversität, p. 61-65. In D. Brandis, H. Hollert, and V. Storch (ed.), Tag der Artenvielfalt in Heidelberg, 1 ed. Selbstverlag Zoologisches Institut der Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg.

12. Lankenau, D.-H., M. V. Peluso, and S. Lankenau. 2000. The Su(Hw) Chromatin Insulator Protein Alters Double Strand-Break Repair Frequencies in the Drosophila Germ Line. Chromosoma 109:148-160.

13. Lankenau, S., A. Bürkle, and D. H. Lankenau. 1999. Detection of poly(ADP-ribose) synthesis in Drosophila testes upon gamma-irradiation. Chromosoma 108:44-51.

14. Gloor, G. B., and D.-H. Lankenau. 1998. Gene conversion in mitotically dividing cells: a view from Drosophila. Trends Genet 14:43-46.

15. Lankenau, D.-H., and G. B. Gloor. 1998. In vivo gap repair in Drosophila: a one-way street with many destinations. BioEssays 20:317-327.

16. Evgen'ev, M. B., H. Zelentsova, N. Shostak, M. Kozitsina, V. Barskyi, D. H. Lankenau, and V. G. Corces. 1997. Penelope, a new family of transposable elements and its possible role in hybrid dysgenesis in Drosophila virilis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 94:196-201.

17. Lankenau, D. H., V. G. Corces, and W. R. Engels. 1996. Comparison of targeted-gene replacement frequencies in Drosophila melanogaster at the forked and white loci. Mol Cell Biol 16:3535-44.

18. Lankenau, D.-H. 1995. Genetics of genetics in Drosophila: P elements serving the study of homologous recombination, gene conversion and targeting. Chromosoma 103:659-668.

19. Lankenau, S., V. G. Corces, and D. H. Lankenau. 1994. The Drosophila micropia retrotransposon encodes a testis-specific antisense RNA complementary to reverse transcriptase. Mol Cell Biol 14:1764-1775.

20. Petersen, N. S., D. H. Lankenau, H. K. Mitchell, P. Young, and V. G. Corces. 1994. forked proteins are components of fiber bundles present in developing bristles of Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics 136:173-182.

21. Lankenau, D.-H. 1993. The retrotransposon family micropia in Drosophila species, p. 232-241. In J.F.McDonald (ed.), Transposable elements and Evolution. Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands.

22. Evgen'ev, M. B., V. G. Corces, and D. H. Lankenau. 1992. Ulysses transposable element of Drosophila shows high structural similarities to functional domains of retroviruses. J Mol Biol 225:917-24.

23. Lankenau, D.-H. 1990. Molecular Structure and Evolution of a Retrotransposon Family in Drosophila. Ph.D. Nijmegen, Nijmegen.

24. Lankenau, D. H., and W. Hennig. 1990. Micropia-Dm2, the nucleotide sequence of a rearranged retrotransposon from Drosophila melanogaster. Nucleic Acids Res 18:4265-6.

25. Lankenau, D. H., P. Huijser, E. Jansen, K. Miedema, and W. Hennig. 1990. DNA sequence comparison of micropia transposable elements from Drosophila hydei and Drosophila melanogaster. Chromosoma 99:111-7.

26. Hennig, W., R. C. Brand, J. Hackstein, R. Hochstenbach, H. Kremer, D. H. Lankenau, S. Lankenau, K. Miedema, and A. Potgens. 1989. Y chromosomal fertility genes of Drosophila: a new type of eukaryotic genes. Genome 31:561-71.

27. Lankenau, D. H., P. Huijser, and W. Hennig. 1989. Characterization of the long terminal repeats of micropia elements microdissected from the Y-chromosomal lampbrush loops "threads" of Drosophila hydei. J Mol Biol 209:493-7.

28. Lankenau, D. H., P. Huijser, E. Jansen, K. Miedema, and W. Hennig. 1988. Micropia: a retrotransposon of Drosophila combining structural features of DNA viruses, retroviruses and non-viral transposable elements. J Mol Biol 204:233-46.

29. Huijser, P., C. Kirchhoff, D. H. Lankenau, and W. Hennig. 1988. Retrotransposon-like sequences are expressed in Y chromosomal lampbrush loops of Drosophila hydei. J Mol Biol 203:689-97.

30. Hennig, W., R. C. Brand, J. Hackstein, P. Huijser, C. Kirchhoff, H. Kremer, D. H. Lankenau, and P. Vogt. 1987. Structure and function of Y chromosomal genes in Drosophila. Chromosomes today 9:48-58.

31. Lankenau, D.-H. 1984. Cytochemische Untersuchungen zur chromosomalen Differenzierung nächst-verwandter Carabiden-Arten (Col., Insecta). Diploma. Münster, Münster.

Selected Wikipedia articles contributed by me[edit]

German Wikipedia:

Alte Weser (Leuchtturm)

Selected articles containing text or figures coined by me[edit]

Abiogenesis -> Zn-World theory
Chromatin
Epigenetics
Microscope
Dallol volcano

German Wikipedia:

Lichtmikroskop

Other online contributions[edit]

_{The webconsulting FAQs text needs to be updated: According to new insights, the "RNA-snippet world" actually emerged about 3.9 Ga ago not 3.5 Ga as mentioned in the old FAQs text.}