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Armin Fiechter

Armin Fiechter

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
72
Citations
15944
World Ranking
6407
National Ranking
123

Overview

Armin Fiechter is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland and focuses research primarily within the fields of Neuroscience and Environmental Science. Their work also spans several notable subfields including Cognitive Neuroscience, Global and Planetary Change, Ophthalmology, and Endocrine and Autonomic Systems.

Their research topics are centered around visual perception and processing mechanisms, the impact of light on environment and health, ocular and laser science research, as well as circadian rhythm and melatonin.

Recent scholarly contributions include the following papers:

  • Regulation of pupil size in natural vision across the human lifespan, 2024, Royal Society Open Science
  • Regulation of pupil size in natural vision across the human lifespan, 2023, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Fiechter frequently collaborates with researchers such as Rafael Lazar, Josefine Degen, Aurora Monticelli, and Manuel Spitschan, each of whom appears as a co-author on multiple occasions.

Publications are often featured in venues like Royal Society Open Science and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), reflecting an active engagement with platforms that disseminate research related to health, vision, and environmental science.

Best Publications

  • Isolation and characterization of a regulatory gene affecting rhamnolipid biosurfactant synthesis in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

    U A Ochsner;A K Koch;A Fiechter;J Reiser

  • Biosurfactants: moving towards industrial application.

    Armin Fiechter

  • Pseudomonas aeruginosa biosurfactant production in continuous culture with glucose as carbon source.

    L Guerra-Santos;O Käppeli;A Fiechter

  • Regulation of glucose metabolism in growing yeast cells

    A Fiechter;G F Fuhrmann;O Käppeli

  • Isolation, characterization, and expression in Escherichia coli of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa rhlAB genes encoding a rhamnosyltransferase involved in rhamnolipid biosurfactant synthesis.

    U.A. Ochsner;A. Fiechter;J. Reiser

  • Hydrocarbon assimilation and biosurfactant production in Pseudomonas aeruginosa mutants.

    A K Koch;O Käppeli;A Fiechter;J Reiser

  • Enzymes of white-rot fungi involved in lignin degradation and ecological determinants for wood decay

    U. Tuor;K. Winterhalter;A. Fiechter

  • Oxidation of benzo(a)pyrene by extracellular ligninases of Phanerochaete chrysosporium. Veratryl alcohol and stability of ligninase.

    S. D. Haemmerli;M. S. A. Leisola;D. Sanglard;A. Fiechter

  • Dependence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa continous culture biosurfactant production on nutritional and environmental factors

    Luis H. Guerra-Santos;Othmar Käppeli;Armin Fiechter

  • The Role Of Limited Respiration In The Incomplete Oxidation Of Glucose By Saccharomyces Cerevisiae

    Martin Rieger;Othmar KÄPpeli;Armin Fiechter

  • Homology among multiple extracellular peroxidases from Phanerochaete chrysosporium.

    M. S. A. Leisola;B. Kozulic;F. Meussdoerffer;A. Fiechter

  • Pilot plant production of rhamnolipid biosurfactant by Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

    H E Reiling;U Thanei-Wyss;L H Guerra-Santos;R Hirt

  • An Expanded Concept for the Glucose Effect in the Yeast Saccharomyces uvarum: Involvement of Short- and Long-term Regulation

    Magdalena Petrik;Othmar Käppeli;Armin Fiechter

  • Characterization of glycogen-deficient glc mutants of Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

    J F Cannon;J R Pringle;A Fiechter;M Khalil

  • Production of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Rhamnolipid Biosurfactants in Heterologous Hosts

    U A Ochsner;J Reiser;A Fiechter;B Witholt

  • Methanol Metabolism in Yeasts: Regulation of the Synthesis of Catabolic Enzymes

    Th. Egli;J.P. van Dijken;M. Veenhuis;W. Harder

  • Advantages of using thermophiles in biotechnological processes: expectations and reality

    Bernhard Sonnleitner;Armin Fiechter

  • Changes in carbohydrate composition and trehalase-activity during the budding cycle of Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

    Martin T. Küenzi;Armin Fiechter

  • Enzymatic degumming of ramie bast fibers

    Fredi Brühlmann;Marianne Leupin;Karl H Erismann;Armin Fiechter

  • Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biosurfactant Production inContinuous Culture withGlucose asCarbonSource

    Othmar Kappeli;Armin Fiechter

Frequent Co-Authors

Matti Leisola
Matti Leisola Aalto University
Dominique Sanglard
Dominique Sanglard University of Lausanne
Jakob Reiser
Jakob Reiser Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research
Sakayu Shimizu
Sakayu Shimizu Kyoto University
Hideaki Yamada
Hideaki Yamada National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Arnold L. Demain
Arnold L. Demain Drew University
Dieter Seebach
Dieter Seebach ETH Zurich
Harvey W. Blanch
Harvey W. Blanch University of California, Berkeley
Werner Arber
Werner Arber University of Basel

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