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Bernhard Seiboth

Bernhard Seiboth

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
49
Citations
9740
World Ranking
17971
National Ranking
165

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Gene
  • Enzyme
  • Biochemistry

Bernhard Seiboth focuses on Trichoderma reesei, Hypocrea, Cellulase, Biochemistry and Gene. His work deals with themes such as Catabolite repression, Mutant, Aspergillus nidulans and Trichoderma, which intersect with Trichoderma reesei. His Hypocrea course of study focuses on Microbiology and genomic DNA.

His studies in Cellulase integrate themes in fields like Transformation, Biotechnology, Computational biology and Fungal protein. Bernhard Seiboth has included themes like Functional genomics, Trichoderma viride, Metabolic engineering and Mutagenesis in his Biotechnology study. Bernhard Seiboth is interested in Inducer, which is a field of Biochemistry.

His most cited work include:

  • A versatile toolkit for high throughput functional genomics with Trichoderma reesei (731 citations)
  • Comparative genome sequence analysis underscores mycoparasitism as the ancestral life style of Trichoderma (433 citations)
  • Metabolic engineering strategies for the improvement of cellulase production by Hypocrea jecorina (305 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

His main research concerns Trichoderma reesei, Biochemistry, Cellulase, Hypocrea and Gene. His Trichoderma reesei research includes elements of Genetics, Gene expression, Catabolite repression, Mutant and Microbiology. While the research belongs to areas of Microbiology, Bernhard Seiboth spends his time largely on the problem of Trichoderma, intersecting his research to questions surrounding Genome and Strain.

His Cellulase study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Biomass, Biotechnology, Inducer and Metabolic engineering. His Hypocrea research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Extracellular, Leloir pathway, Galactitol and Transformation. His Transformation research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Mutagenesis and Computational biology.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Trichoderma reesei (65.22%)
  • Biochemistry (50.43%)
  • Cellulase (33.04%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2013-2021)?

  • Trichoderma reesei (65.22%)
  • Comparative genomics (13.04%)
  • Evolutionary biology (12.17%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

Bernhard Seiboth spends much of his time researching Trichoderma reesei, Comparative genomics, Evolutionary biology, Aspergillus and Biodiversity. He is conducting research in Biochemistry and Cellulase as part of his Trichoderma reesei study. Bernhard Seiboth interconnects Genetics, Biotechnology, Cell biology, Catabolite repression and DNA sequencing in the investigation of issues within Cellulase.

His Biotechnology research integrates issues from Sexual reproduction and Botany. He works mostly in the field of Gene, limiting it down to topics relating to Computational biology and, in certain cases, Intron, Oligonucleotide, Exon, Complementary DNA and Coding region, as a part of the same area of interest. His Microbiology research focuses on Regulation of gene expression and how it connects with Conidiation, Asexual sporulation and Chromosomal translocation.

Between 2013 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • Comparative genomics reveals high biological diversity and specific adaptations in the industrially and medically important fungal genus Aspergillus (228 citations)
  • Cellulases and beyond: the first 70 years of the enzyme producer Trichoderma reesei (214 citations)
  • Regulators of plant biomass degradation in ascomycetous fungi. (93 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Enzyme
  • Gene
  • Genome

Bernhard Seiboth mainly investigates Trichoderma reesei, Cellulase, Hydrolysis, Botany and Biotechnology. His research integrates issues of Transcription, Gene expression, Gene, Biorefinery and Catabolite repression in his study of Trichoderma reesei. His research in Gene intersects with topics in Computational biology and Synthetic biology.

Biomass is closely connected to Trichoderma in his research, which is encompassed under the umbrella topic of Biorefinery. The various areas that Bernhard Seiboth examines in his Cellulase study include Genetics, DNA sequencing, Microbiology and Cell biology. His Biotechnology study combines topics in areas such as Mating type, Heterothallic, Mating and Sexual reproduction.

Best Publications

  • A versatile toolkit for high throughput functional genomics with Trichoderma reesei

    André Schuster;André Schuster;Kenneth S Bruno;James R Collett;Scott E Baker

  • Comparative genome sequence analysis underscores mycoparasitism as the ancestral life style of Trichoderma

    Christian P Kubicek;Alfredo Herrera-Estrella;Verena Seidl-Seiboth;Diego A Martinez

  • Cellulases and beyond: the first 70 years of the enzyme producer Trichoderma reesei.

    Robert H. Bischof;Jonas Ramoni;Bernhard Seiboth

  • Comparative genomics reveals high biological diversity and specific adaptations in the industrially and medically important fungal genus Aspergillus

    Ronald P. de Vries;Robert Riley;Ad Wiebenga;Guillermo Aguilar-Osorio

  • Metabolic engineering strategies for the improvement of cellulase production by Hypocrea jecorina

    Christian P Kubicek;Marianna Mikus;André Schuster;Monika Schmoll

  • A complete survey of Trichoderma chitinases reveals three distinct subgroups of family 18 chitinases.

    Verena Seidl;Birgit Huemer;Bernhard Seiboth;Christian P. Kubicek

  • The putative protein methyltransferase LAE1 controls cellulase gene expression in Trichoderma reesei

    Bernhard Seiboth;Razieh Aghcheh Karimi;Pallavi A. Phatale;Rita Linke

  • Tracking the roots of cellulase hyperproduction by the fungus Trichoderma reesei using massively parallel DNA sequencing

    Stéphane Le Crom;Wendy Schackwitz;Len Pennacchio;Jon K. Magnuson

  • The CRE1 carbon catabolite repressor of the fungus Trichoderma reesei: a master regulator of carbon assimilation

    Thomas Portnoy;Thomas Portnoy;Antoine Margeot;Rita Linke;Lea Atanasova

  • The Hypocrea jecorina (Trichoderma reesei) hypercellulolytic mutant RUT C30 lacks a 85 kb (29 gene-encoding) region of the wild-type genome

    Verena Seidl;Christian Gamauf;Irina S Druzhinina;Bernhard Seiboth

  • Regulators of plant biomass degradation in ascomycetous fungi.

    Tiziano Benocci;Maria Victoria Aguilar-Pontes;Miaomiao Zhou;Bernhard Seiboth

  • Fungal arabinan and l-arabinose metabolism

    Bernhard Seiboth;Benjamin Metz

  • Gene targeting in a nonhomologous end joining deficient Hypocrea jecorina.

    Zhang Guangtao;Lukas Hartl;Andre Schuster;Stefan Polak

  • Systems analysis of lactose metabolism in Trichoderma reesei identifies a lactose permease that is essential for cellulase induction.

    Christa Ivanova;Jenny A. Bååth;Bernhard Seiboth;Christian P. Kubicek

  • Differential regulation of the cellulase transcription factors XYR1, ACE2, and ACE1 in Trichoderma reesei strains producing high and low levels of cellulase.

    Thomas Portnoy;Thomas Portnoy;Antoine Margeot;Verena Seidl-Seiboth;Stéphane Le Crom

  • The bgl1 gene of Trichoderma reesei QM 9414 encodes an extracellular, cellulose-inducible β-glucosidase involved in cellulase induction by sophorose

    Robert L. Mach;Bernhard Seiboth;Andrey Myasnikov;Ramon Gonzalez

  • Global carbon utilization profiles of wild-type, mutant, and transformant strains of Hypocrea jecorina.

    Irina S. Druzhinina;Monika Schmoll;Bernhard Seiboth;Christian P. Kubicek

  • The D-xylose reductase of Hypocrea jecorina is the major aldose reductase in pentose and D-galactose catabolism and necessary for β-galactosidase and cellulase induction by lactose

    Bernhard Seiboth;Christian Gamauf;Manuela Pail;Lukas Hartl

  • A homologous production system for Trichoderma reesei secreted proteins in a cellulase-free background.

    Fatma Uzbas;Ugur Sezerman;Lukas Hartl;Christian P. Kubicek

  • Additional file 8: of Comparative genomics reveals high biological diversity and specific adaptations in the industrially and medically important fungal genus Aspergillus

    Ronald de Vries;Robert Riley;Ad Wiebenga;Guillermo Aguilar-Osorio

Frequent Co-Authors

Scott E. Baker
Scott E. Baker Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Ronald P. de Vries
Ronald P. de Vries Utrecht University
Igor V. Grigoriev
Igor V. Grigoriev Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Bernard Henrissat
Bernard Henrissat Technical University of Denmark
Giancarlo Perrone
Giancarlo Perrone National Research Council (CNR)
Erika Lindquist
Erika Lindquist United States Department of Energy
Asaf Salamov
Asaf Salamov Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Claudio Scazzocchio
Claudio Scazzocchio Imperial College London
Alla Lapidus
Alla Lapidus Saint Petersburg State University

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