UMR CNRS 5558 - LBBE "Biométrie et Biologie Évolutive" UCB Lyon 1 - Bât. Grégor Mendel 43 bd du 11 novembre 1918 69622 VILLEURBANNE cedex
Aka "Jos Kafer" or "Jos Kaefer" …
Now working on the evolution of X and Y chromosomes in the plant genus Silene, with Gabriel Marais
I was previously a PhD-student at the Laboratoire de Spectrométrie Physique , where I worked with François Graner, who’s now at the Institut Curie.
Thesis
From cells to tissues : physical modelling of the collective behaviour of embryonic cells. J. Käfer (2008), PhD-thesis, Université Joseph Fourier
Publications
2011
- A Fly in the Ointment : Evaluation of Traditional Use of Plants to Repel and Kill Blowfly Larvae in Fermented Fish.
H.J. de Boer, C. Vongsombath, J. Käfer, PLoS ONE 6(12) : e29521
- Statistical mechanics of two-dimensional shuffled foams : Prediction of the correlation between geometry and topology.
M. Durand, J. Käfer, C. Quilliet, S. Cox, S. Ataei Talebi & F. Graner, Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 168304
- Multiple Nuclear Gene Phylogenetic Analysis of the Evolution of Dioecy and Sex Chromosomes in the Genus Silene.
G. A. B. Marais, A. Forrest, E. Kamau, J. Käfer, V. Daubin & D. Charlesworth, PLoS ONE 6(8) : e21915
2010
- Single cells spreading on a protein lattice adopt an energy minimizing shape.
B. Vianay, J. Käfer, E. Planus, M. Block, F. Graner & H. Guillou, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105(12):128101
2009
- The role of fluctuations and stress on the effective viscosity of cell aggregates.
P. Marmottant, A. Mgharbel, J. Käfer, B. Audren, J-P. Rieu, J-C Vial, B. van der Sanden, AFM. Marée, F. Graner & H. Delanoë-Ayari, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 106 (41), 17271-17275
2008
- Tensile forces govern germ-layer organization in zebrafish.
M. Krieg, Y. Arboleda-Estudillo, P.-H. Puech, J. Käfer, F. Graner, D. J. Müller & C.-P. Heisenberg, Nat. Cell Biol. 10, 429 - 436
- Topological and geometrical disorder correlate robustly in two-dimensional foams.
C. Quilliet, S. Ataei Talebi, D. Rabaud, J. Käfer, S. Cox & F. Graner, Phil. Mag. Lett. 88, 651 - 660 Preprint at arxiv
2007
- Cell adhesion and cortex contractility determine cell patterning in the Drosophila retina.
Jos Käfer, Takashi Hayashi, Athanasius F.M. Marée, Richard W. Carthew, François Graner, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 104 (47), 18549-18554. Preprint at arxiv
2006
- Moving forward moving backward : directional sorting of chemotactic cells due to size and adhesion differences.
J. Käfer, P. Hogeweg & A.F.M. Marée, PLoS Comput. Biol. 2(6) : e56 (Open Access)
2004
- Cover-weighted averaging of indicator values in vegetation analyses.
J. Käfer & J.P.M. Witte, J. Veg. Sci. 15 (5), 647—652
