Akos T Kovacs

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Akos T Kovacs

  • Current institution: Terrestrial Biofilms Research Group, Institute of Microbiology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena
  • Faculty member of Jena School for Microbial Communication, JSMC[2]
  • Contact: akos-tibor.kovacs@uni-jena.de send mail

Research Interests

  • bacterial biofilm development
  • phenotypic heterogeneity
  • transcription profiling of Bacilli
  • Bacillus subtilis
  • interaction of Bacilli and fungi
  • evolution in biofilms
  • microbial cooperation and competition

Publications

Pubmed

Recent publications

Johannes Schneider, Teresa Klein, Benjamin Mielich-Süss, Gudrun Koch, Christian Franke, Oscar P Kuipers, Ákos T Kovács, Markus Sauer, Daniel Lopez
Spatio-temporal remodeling of functional membrane microdomains organizes the signaling networks of a bacterium.
PLoS Genet: 2015, 11(4);e1005140
[PubMed:25909364] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I e)

Ruud G J Detert Oude Weme, Ákos T Kovács, Sander J G de Jong, Jan-Willem Veening, Jeroen Siebring, Oscar P Kuipers
Single cell FRET analysis for the identification of optimal FRET-pairs in Bacillus subtilis using a prototype MEM-FLIM system.
PLoS One: 2015, 10(4);e0123239
[PubMed:25886351] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I e)

Akos T Kovács
Impact of spatial distribution on the development of mutualism in microbes.
Front Microbiol: 2014, 5;649
[PubMed:25505463] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P e)

Akos T Kovács, Erika Kothe
Special issue: Biofilms.
J Basic Microbiol: 2014, 54(7);615
[PubMed:25041820] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Isabelle Benoit, Marielle H van den Esker, Aleksandrina Patyshakuliyeva, Derek J Mattern, Felix Blei, Miaomiao Zhou, Jan Dijksterhuis, Axel A Brakhage, Oscar P Kuipers, Ronald P de Vries, Ákos T Kovács
Bacillus subtilis attachment to Aspergillus niger hyphae results in mutually altered metabolism.
Environ Microbiol: 2015, 17(6);2099-113
[PubMed:25040940] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Eisha Mhatre, Ramses Gallegos Monterrosa, Akos T Kovács
From environmental signals to regulators: modulation of biofilm development in Gram-positive bacteria.
J Basic Microbiol: 2014, 54(7);616-32
[PubMed:24771632] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Jordi van Gestel, Franz J Weissing, Oscar P Kuipers, Akos T Kovács
Density of founder cells affects spatial pattern formation and cooperation in Bacillus subtilis biofilms.
ISME J: 2014, 8(10);2069-79
[PubMed:24694715] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Öykü İrigül-Sönmez, Türkan E Köroğlu, Büşra Öztürk, Ákos T Kovács, Oscar P Kuipers, Ayten Yazgan-Karataş
In Bacillus subtilis LutR is part of the global complex regulatory network governing the adaptation to the transition from exponential growth to stationary phase.
Microbiology (Reading): 2014, 160(Pt 2);243-260
[PubMed:24196425] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Christine Diethmaier, Joseph A Newman, Akos T Kovács, Volkhard Kaever, Christina Herzberg, Cecilia Rodrigues, Mirjam Boonstra, Oscar P Kuipers, Richard J Lewis, Jörg Stülke
The YmdB phosphodiesterase is a global regulator of late adaptive responses in Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 2014, 196(2);265-75
[PubMed:24163345] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Pilar Eliana Puentes-Téllez, Ákos T Kovács, Oscar P Kuipers, Jan Dirk van Elsas
Comparative genomics and transcriptomics analysis of experimentally evolved Escherichia coli MC1000 in complex environments.
Environ Microbiol: 2014, 16(3);856-70
[PubMed:24033913] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Wout Overkamp, Katrin Beilharz, Ruud Detert Oude Weme, Ana Solopova, Harma Karsens, Ákos T Kovács, Jan Kok, Oscar P Kuipers, Jan-Willem Veening
Benchmarking various green fluorescent protein variants in Bacillus subtilis, Streptococcus pneumoniae, and Lactococcus lactis for live cell imaging.
Appl Environ Microbiol: 2013, 79(20);6481-90
[PubMed:23956387] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Jeroen Siebring, Matthijs J H Elema, Fátima Drubi Vega, Akos T Kovács, Patsy Haccou, Oscar P Kuipers
Repeated triggering of sporulation in Bacillus subtilis selects against a protein that affects the timing of cell division.
ISME J: 2014, 8(1);77-87
[PubMed:23924781] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Ákos T Kovács, Tom H Eckhardt, Mariska van Hartskamp, Richard van Kranenburg, Oscar P Kuipers
Functional analysis of the ComK protein of Bacillus coagulans.
PLoS One: 2013, 8(1);e53471
[PubMed:23301076] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Guntur Fibriansah, Ákos T Kovács, Trijntje J Pool, Mirjam Boonstra, Oscar P Kuipers, Andy-Mark W H Thunnissen
Crystal structures of two transcriptional regulators from Bacillus cereus define the conserved structural features of a PadR subfamily.
PLoS One: 2012, 7(11);e48015
[PubMed:23189126] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Martin Lehnik-Habrink, Leonie Rempeters, Ákos T Kovács, Christoph Wrede, Claudia Baierlein, Heike Krebber, Oscar P Kuipers, Jörg Stülke
DEAD-Box RNA helicases in Bacillus subtilis have multiple functions and act independently from each other.
J Bacteriol: 2013, 195(3);534-44
[PubMed:23175651] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Akos T Kovács, Jordi van Gestel, Oscar P Kuipers
The protective layer of biofilm: a repellent function for a new class of amphiphilic proteins.
Mol Microbiol: 2012, 85(1);8-11
[PubMed:22607588] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)


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