István Zachar's scientific homepage
Scientific degree: | Ph.D. | |
Employed at: |
Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Department of Plant Systematics, Ecology and Theoretical Biology Budapest 1117 Pázmány Péter sétány 1/C |
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Status: | research assistant | |
Phone: | +36 1 372-2500 / 1707 | |
Fax: | +36 1 381 2188 | |
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ResearcherID: | P-5101-2015 | |
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Research area
Prebiotics: origin of life, early template evolution and coexistence;
Evolution: origin of eukaryotes, origin of mitochondria, nucleogenesis; Major Evolutionary Transitions;
Culture: origin and early evolution of the human language, cultural evolution, origin and evolution syntax and grammar;
Learning: human cognitive processes, modelling learning, insight learning via neural models;
Thesis projects
Projects for BSc/MSc students
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Origin of mitochondria.
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Origin of phagocytosis in Archaea.
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Origin of the prokaryotic cytoskeleton.
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Trending Major Evolutionary Transitions.
Teaching
Publications
Most significant publications
2018 Zachar, I., Szilágyi, A., Számadó, S., & Szathmáry, E. Farming the mitochondrial ancestor as a model of endosymbiotic establishment by natural selection. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115, E1504-E1510. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1718707115. PDF
2017 Zachar, I. & Szathmáry, E. Breath-giving cooperation: critical review of origin of mitochondria hypotheses. Biology Direct 12(1), doi: 10.1186/s13062-017-0190-5. PDF
2017 Szilágyi, A., Zachar, I., Scheuring, I.; Kun, Á.; Könnyű, B. & Czárán, T. Ecology and evolution in the RNA World: Dynamics and stability of prebiotic replicator systems. Life, 7. doi: 10.3390/life7040048. PDF
2016 Szilágyi, A., Zachar, I., Fedor, A., de Vladar, H. P. & Szathmáry, E. Breeding novel solutions in the brain: A model of Darwinian neurodynamics. F1000Research, 5. doi: 10.12688/f1000research.9630.1.
2015 Kun, Á., Szilágyi, A., Könnyű, B., Boza, G., Zachar, I. & Szathmáry, E. The dynamics of the RNA world: insights and challenges. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1341(1), 75–95. doi: 10.1111/nyas.12700. PDF
2011 Zachar, I. The feasibility of segmentation of protolanguage. Interaction Studies 12(1), 1–35. doi: 10.1075/is.12.1.01zac. PDF
2010 Zachar, I. & Szathmáry, E. A new replicator: A theoretical framework for analyzing replication. BMC Biology 8(21), 21. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-21. PDF
Journal articles
2017 Fedor, A., Zachar, I., Szilágyi, A., Öllinger, M., de Vladar, H. P. & Szathmáry, E. Cognitive architecture with evolutionary dynamics solves insight problem. Frontiers in Psychology, 8(427). doi: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2015.06.047.
2016 de Vladar, H. P., Fedor, A., Szilágyi, A., Zachar, I. & Szathmáry, E. An attractor network-based model with Darwinian dynamics. Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO '16). doi: 10.1145/2908961.2931672.
2015 Vasas, V., Fernando, C., Szilágyi, A., Zachar, I., Santos, M. and Szathmáry, E. Primordial evolvability: Impasses and challenges. Journal of Theoretical Biology doi: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2015.06.047. PDF
2015 Kun, Á., Szilágyi, A., Könnyű, B., Boza, G., Zachar, I. and Szathmáry, E. The dynamics of the RNA world: insights and challenges. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1341(1), 75–95. doi: 10.1111/nyas.12700. PDF
2013 Szilágyi, A., Zachar, I. and Szathmáry, E. Gause’s principle and the effect of resource partitioning on the dynamical coexistence of replicating templates. PLoS Computational Biology 9(8), e1003193. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003193. PDF
2011 Zachar, I. The feasibility of segmentation of protolanguage. Interaction Studies 12(1), 1–35. doi: 10.1075/is.12.1.01zac. PDF
2011 Zachar, I., Fedor, A. and Szathmáry, E. Two different template replicators coexisting in the same protocell: Stochastic simulation of an extended chemoton model. PLoS ONE 6(7), e21380. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021380. PDF
2010 Zachar, I. and Szathmáry, E. A new replicator: A theoretical framework for analyzing replication. BMC Biology 8(21), 21. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-21. PDF
Book chapters
2013 Zachar, I., Kun, Á., Fernando, C. and Szathmáry, E. Replicators: From molecules to organism. In: Kernbach, S. (ed.) Handbook of collective robotics: Fundamentals and challenges., ch. 13. Pan Stanford Publishing, Singapore, p. 473–501. doi: 10.13140/RG.2.1.2884.3606. PDF
2007 Szathmáry, E., Szatmáry, Z., Ittzés, P., Orbán, G., Zachar, I., Huszár, F., Fedor, A., Varga, M. and Számadó, Sz. In silico evolutionary developmental neurobiology and the origin of natural language. In: Lyon, C., Nehaniv, C. L. and Cangelosi, A. (ed.) Emergence of communication and language., ch. 8. Springer-Verlag New York, Inc., New York, p. 151–187. doi: 10.1007/978-1-84628-779-4_8. PDF
Theses
2011 Zachar, I. Replicator Formalism. A general account of replication. PhD thesis, Eötvös Loránd University, Department of Plant Systematics, Ecology and Theoretical Biology, Budapest. pp. 147. doi: 10.13140/RG.2.1.3981.5209. PDF
2004 Zachar, I. Identifying Tertiary Myliobatoids [in Hungarian]. MSc thesis, Eötvös Loránd University, Department of Paleontology, Budapest. pp. 49. doi: 10.13140/10.13140/RG.2.1.2687.7520. PDF