Martin Zápotocký Department of Biological Physics Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems Nöthnitzer Straße 38 01187 Dresden, Germany Office: 1B08 Tel.     +49 351 871 1208 Fax:    +49 351 871 1299 Secr.:  +49 351 871 1204 martinz@mpipks-dresden.mpg.de http://www.mpipks-dresden.mpg.de/~martinz/

 

Group description Open postdoc positions

Current research interests:

• Dynamics of signal transduction in sensory neurons
• Information processing in the olfactory system
• Homotypic effects in axon guidance
• Mechanisms of singular expression of odorant-receptor genes
• Dynamics of topological defects in soft condensed matter

Selected publications:

N. Rajewsky, N. D. Socci, M. Zapotocky,  E. D. Siggia:
The evolution of DNA regulatory regions for proteo-gamma bacteria
by interspecies comparisons.
Genome Research 12, 298-308 (2002).

M. Zapotocky,  L. Ramos,  P. Poulin,  D. A. Weitz, T. C. Lubensky:
Particle-stabilized defect gel in cholesteric liquid crystals.
Science 283, 209-212 (1999).

A. D. Rutenberg, W. J. Zakrzewski,  M. Zapotocky:
Dynamical multiscaling in quenched Skyrme systems.
Europhysics Letters 39,  49-54 (1997).

M. Zapotocky,  D. L. Maslov,  P. M. Goldbart:
Induction of non--d-wave order-parameter components
by currents in d-wave superconductors.
Physical Review B1 55,  6599-6604 (1997).
 

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