Imre Derényi

full professor

PhD (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, 1997)

Habilitation (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, 2005)

Corresponding member of HAS (2022)

Room(s): Lágymányos Campus, Northern Building 3.78
Extension(s): +36-1-372-2500 / 6366
Homepage: derenyi.web.elte.hu
Email: uh.etle@iynered

Biography:

Education:

2007: PhD in Physics, Eötvös University, Hungary
1994: MSc in Physics, Eötvös University, Hungary

Current Positions:

2012-present: Professor, Dept. of Biological Physics, Eötvös University, Hungary

Previous Positions:

2017-2022: Head of the MTA-ELTE Statistical and Biological Physics Research Group, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
2007-2012: Associate Professor, Dept. of Biological Physics, Eötvös University, Hungary
2002-2007: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biological Physics, Eötvös University, Hungary
2000-2002: Marie Curie Research Fellow, Institut Curie, France
2000: Research Fellow, Collegium Budapest, Hungary
1997-1999: Research Associate, University of Chicago, USA

Awards and Fellowships:

2019: Academy Award of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
2006: Burgen Fellowship of the Academia Europaea
2006: Physics Award of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
2005--2008: János Bolyai Research Fellowship
2003: Imre Bródy Award of the Eötvös Physical Society
2002--2005: Békésy Post-doc Fellowship
2000--2002: Marie Curie Individual Fellowship

Research Interest:

Evolutionary Theories (somatic evolution, cancer development)
Membrane Dynamics (shape changes of lipid vesicles)
Protein Dynamics (molecular motors, molecular adhesion)
Complex Networks

Links to associated scientific database profiles:

Publications in MTMT
Publications in ORCID
Publications in ResearcherID
Publications in Scopus
Publications in Google Scholar
User profile at doktori.hu

Selected publications of recent years:

A compartment size-dependent selective threshold limits mutation accumulation in hierarchical tissues; Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 117, 1606-1611, (2020). DOI
Trade-off between reducing mutational accumulation and increasing commitment to differentiation determines tissue organization; Nature Communications 13, 1666 (2022). DOI
Distinguishing excess mutations and increased cell death based on variant allele frequencies; PLoS Comput Biol, 18, e1010048 (2022). DOI
How mutation accumulation depends on the structure of the cell lineage tree; Phys. Rev. E 109, 044407 (2024). DOI