István Zachar - ODT Personal data sheet


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personal data approved: 2024. II. 19.

Personal data

name	István Zachar
name of institution	Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
doctoral school	ELTE Doctoral School of Biology (Supervisor Az oktató valamelyik doktori iskolában egy vagy több doktorandusz vagy doktorjelölt munkáját irányítja. )
the share of work in the different doctoral schools.	ELTE Doctoral School of Biology 100%
accreditation statement submitted to:	Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest

Contact details
E-mail address	istvan.zachar80gmail.com
phone number	+36 1 372-2500/1707
	own web page

Academic title
scientific degree, title	Ph.D.
year degree was obtained	2011
discipline to which degree belongs	biology
institution granting the degree	ELTE University

Employment
2017 -	Evolúciótudományi Intézet, HUN-REN Ökológiai Kutatóközpont other (not specified) (tudományos főmunkatárs)
2014 -	Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest egyetemi kutató
2012 -	Parmenides Foundation (research institute, not university) other (not specified) (research fellow)

Thesis topic supervisor

number of doctoral students supervised until now

number of students who fulfilled course requirements

students who obtained their degrees:

present PhD students:

	István Oszoli	(PhD)	(2026/08)	DSB-ELTE
	Máté Halász	(PhD)	(2026/08)	DSB-ELTE

Thesis topic proposals

Research
research area	evolutionary biology, origin of life, origin of language, origin of mitochondria and eukaryotes, major evolutionary transitions, honest communication, animal signalling, human insight learing, neural networks, machine learning
research field in which current research is conducted	biology sociology

Publications

2023

Szabolcs Számadó, István Zachar, Dániel Czégel, Dustin J. Penn: Honesty in signalling games is maintained by trade-offs rather than costs, BMC BIOLOGY 21: (1) 4
type of document: Journal paper/Article
number of independent citations: 1
language: English
URL

2023

Boza G., Barabás G., Scheuring I., Zachar I.: Eco-evolutionary modelling of microbial syntrophy indicates the robustness of cross-feeding over cross-facilitation, SCIENTIFIC REPORTS 13: (1) 907
type of document: Journal paper/Article
number of independent citations: 4
language: English
URL

2022

Zachar István, Boza Gergely: The Evolution of Microbial Facilitation: Sociogenesis, Symbiogenesis, and Transition in Individuality, FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION 10: 798045
type of document: Journal paper/Review paper
language: English
URL

2022

Zachar István: Closing the energetics gap, NATURE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION 6: (9) pp. 1254-1255.
type of document:
language: English
URL

2020

Zachar István, Boza Gergely: Endosymbiosis before eukaryotes: mitochondrial establishment in protoeukaryotes, CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES 77: (18) pp. 3503-3523.
type of document: Journal paper/Review paper
number of independent citations: 24
language: English
URL

2018

Zachar István, Szilágyi András, Számadó Szabolcs, Szathmáry Eörs: Farming the mitochondrial ancestor as a model of endosymbiotic establishment by natural selection, PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 115: (7) pp. E1504-E1510.
type of document: Journal paper/Article
number of independent citations: 25
language: English
URL

2017

Zachar István, Szathmary E: Breath-giving cooperation: critical review of origin of mitochondria hypotheses Major unanswered questions point to the importance of early ecology, BIOLOGY DIRECT 12: 19
type of document: Journal paper/Review paper
number of independent citations: 36
language: English
URL

2017

Szilágyi András, Zachar István, Scheuring István, Kun Ádám, Könnyű Balázs, Czárán Tamás: Ecology and Evolution in the RNA World Dynamics and Stability of Prebiotic Replicator Systems, LIFE-BASEL 7: (4) 48
type of document: Journal paper/Review paper
number of independent citations: 22
language: English
URL

2015

Kun Ádám, Szilágyi András, Könnyű Balázs, Zachar István, Boza Gergely, Szathmáry Eörs: The dynamics of the RNA world: Insights and challenges, ANNALS OF THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 1341: (1) pp. 75-95.
type of document: Journal paper/Article
number of independent citations: 46
language: English
URL

2010

Zachar I, Szathmáry E: A New Replicator: A theoretical framework for analyzing replication, BMC BIOLOGY 8: 21
type of document: Journal paper/Review paper
number of independent citations: 25
language: English
URL

Number of independent citations to these publications:

183

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number of independent citations to scientific publications and creative works:

253