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D-Index
60
Citations
13702
World Ranking
11899
National Ranking
845

Overview

Achim Kramer is affiliated with Charité - University Medicine Berlin in Germany and has an extensive publication record in neuroscience and medicine, focusing primarily on circadian rhythms and related physiological processes. Their work is recognized within several active research communities through regular publications in notable scientific venues.

The scientist's research prominently addresses topics such as:

  • Circadian rhythm and melatonin
  • Light effects on plants
  • Dietary effects on health
  • Spaceflight effects on biology
  • Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
  • Genetics, aging, and longevity in model organisms
  • Gene regulatory network analysis

Main fields of study include neuroscience and medicine, with a particular subfield emphasis on endocrine and autonomic systems, physiology, plant science, molecular biology, and cellular and molecular neuroscience.

Kramer has published frequently in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Acta Physiologica
  • Genes & Development
  • Diabetologie und Stoffwechsel
  • PLoS Biology

Their notable recent publications include:

  • "Foundations of circadian medicine", 2022, PLoS Biology
  • "Intercellular coupling between peripheral circadian oscillators by TGF-β signaling", 2021, Science Advances
  • "Venn diagram analysis overestimates the extent of circadian rhythm reprogramming", 2021, FEBS Journal
  • "Mammalian circadian systems: Organization and modern life challenges", 2020, Acta Physiologica
  • "Coupled network of the circadian clocks: a driving force of rhythmic physiology", 2020, FEBS Letters

Kramer has collaborated with several frequent coauthors including Hanspeter Herzel, Marta del Olmo, Christian Gabriel, Olga Pivovarova-Ramich, and Christoph Schmal, indicating a network of active scientific partnerships contributing to their research output.

Best Publications

  • A circadian clock in macrophages controls inflammatory immune responses.

    Maren Keller;Jeannine Mazuch;Ute Abraham;Gina D. Eom

  • Regulation of Daily Locomotor Activity and Sleep by Hypothalamic EGF Receptor Signaling

    Achim Kramer;Fu-Chia Yang;Pamela Snodgrass;Xiaodong Li

  • Changing the antigen binding specificity by single point mutations of an anti-p24 (HIV-1) antibody.

    Karsten Winkler;Achim Kramer;Gabriele Küttner;Martina Seifert

  • Spontaneous Synchronization of Coupled Circadian Oscillators

    Didier Gonze;Samuel Bernard;Christian Waltermann;Achim Kramer

  • Differential effects of PER2 phosphorylation: molecular basis for the human familial advanced sleep phase syndrome (FASPS)

    Katja Vanselow;Jens T. Vanselow;Pål O. Westermark;Silke Reischl

  • Coupling governs entrainment range of circadian clocks.

    Ute Abraham;Adrián E Granada;Pål O Westermark;Markus Heine

  • Regulation of Clock-Controlled Genes in Mammals.

    Katarzyna Bozek;Angela Relógio;Szymon M. Kielbasa;Markus Heine

  • Molecular insights into human daily behavior

    Steven A. Brown;Dieter Kunz;Amelie Dumas;Pål O. Westermark

  • Guidelines for Genome-Scale Analysis of Biological Rhythms

    Michael E. Hughes;Katherine C. Abruzzi;Ravi Allada;Ron Anafi

  • Molecular Basis for the Binding Promiscuity of an Anti-p24 (HIV-1) Monoclonal Antibody

    Achim Kramer;Thomas Keitel;Karsten Winkler;Walter Stöcklein

  • Circadian behavior is light-reprogrammed by plastic DNA methylation

    Abdelhalim Azzi;Robert Dallmann;Alison Casserly;Hubert Rehrauer

  • Synchronization-induced rhythmicity of circadian oscillators in the suprachiasmatic nucleus.

    Samuel Bernard;Didier Gonze;Branka Cajavec;Hanspeter Herzel

  • High-accuracy determination of internal circadian time from a single blood sample

    Nicole Wittenbrink;Bharath Ananthasubramaniam;Mirjam Münch;Barbara Koller

  • Synthesis and screening of peptide libraries on continuous cellulose membrane supports.

    Achim Kramer;Jens Schneider-Mergener

  • A large-scale functional RNAi screen reveals a role for CK2 in the mammalian circadian clock

    Bert Maier;Sabrina Wendt;Jens T. Vanselow;Thomas Wallach

  • Tuning the mammalian circadian clock: robust synergy of two loops.

    Angela Relógio;Pal O. Westermark;Thomas Wallach;Katja Schellenberg

  • Peroxisomal membrane proteins contain common Pex19p-binding sites that are an integral part of their targeting signals.

    Hanspeter Rottensteiner;Achim Kramer;Stephan Lorenzen;Katharina Stein

  • Modeling Feedback Loops of the Mammalian Circadian Oscillator

    Sabine Becker-Weimann;Jana Wolf;Hanspeter Herzel;Achim Kramer

  • Kinases and phosphatases in the mammalian circadian clock

    Silke Reischl;Achim Kramer

  • Structures of Drosophila Cryptochrome and Mouse Cryptochrome1 Provide Insight into Circadian Function

    Anna Czarna;Alex Berndt;Hari Raj Singh;Astrid Grudziecki

Frequent Co-Authors

Hanspeter Herzel
Hanspeter Herzel Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Jens Schneider-Mergener
Jens Schneider-Mergener Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Dieter Kunz
Dieter Kunz Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Andreas Herrmann
Andreas Herrmann Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Tilman Grune
Tilman Grune University of Potsdam
Thomas Kamradt
Thomas Kamradt Friedrich Schiller University Jena
So Kawaguchi
So Kawaguchi Australian Antarctic Division
Lothar Willmitzer
Lothar Willmitzer Max Planck Society
Emmanouil T. Dermitzakis
Emmanouil T. Dermitzakis University of Geneva
Stylianos E. Antonarakis
Stylianos E. Antonarakis University of Geneva

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