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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Gerhard Thiel is affiliated with the Technical University of Darmstadt in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Medicine. Within these main areas, they focus on subfields such as Molecular Biology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Biomedical Engineering, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

Their scientific contributions cover a range of topics, including:

  • Ion channel regulation and function
  • Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
  • Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior
  • Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms

Gerhard Thiel has published extensively, with a significant presence in several scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Biophysical Journal
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The Journal of General Physiology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Viruses

Among notable recent papers are:

  • "Gating movements and ion permeation in HCN4 pacemaker channels," 2021, Molecular Cell
  • "Structural basis for ion selectivity in TMEM175 K+ channels," 2020, eLife
  • "Reply to Trewavas et al. and Calvo and Trewavas," 2020, Trends in Plant Science
  • "How many SARS-CoV-2 "viroporins" are really ion channels?", 2022, Communications Biology
  • "cyclic AMP Regulation and Its Command in the Pacemaker Channel HCN4," 2020, Frontiers in Physiology

The scientist frequently collaborates with a group of co-authors, reflecting a network of interdisciplinary research. These frequent co-authors include:

  • Anna Moroni
  • Oliver Rauh
  • Andrea Saponaro
  • Alessandro Porro
  • Kay Hamacher

Recognition of their scientific career includes election as a Member of Academia Europaea in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Reversible inactivation of K+ channels of Vicia stomatal guard cells following the photolysis of caged inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate.

    Michael R. Blatt;Gerhard Thiel;David R. Trentham

  • Auxin-induced K+ channel expression represents an essential step in coleoptile growth and gravitropism

    Katrin Philippar;Ines Fuchs;Hartwig Lüthen;Stefan Hoth

  • Abscisic acid triggers the endocytosis of the arabidopsis KAT1 K+ channel and its recycling to the plasma membrane.

    Jens-Uwe Sutter;Christian Sieben;Andreas Hartel;Cornelia Eisenach

  • Plant neurobiology: no brain, no gain?

    Amedeo Alpi;Nikolaus Amrhein;Adam Bertl;Michael R. Blatt

  • Membrane transport in stomatal guard cells: the importance of voltage control.

    Gerhard Thiel;E. A. MacRobbie;M. R. Blatt

  • A potassium channel protein encoded by chlorella virus PBCV-1.

    B. Plugge;S. Gazzarrini;M. Nelson;R. Cerana

  • Modulation of K+ channels in Vicia stomatal guard cells by peptide homologs to the auxin-binding protein C terminus

    Gerhard Thiel;Michael R. Blatt;Mark D. Fricker;Ian R. White

  • Endocytosis against high turgor: intact guard cells of Vicia faba constitutively endocytose fluorescently labelled plasma membrane and GFP-tagged K-channel KAT1.

    Tobias Meckel;Annette Christine Hurst;Gerhard Thiel;Ulrike Homann

  • K+ channels of stomatal guard cells: bimodal control of the K+ inward‐rectifier evoked by auxin

    Michael R. Blatt;Gerhard Thiel

  • Hormonal Control of Ion Channel Gating

    M. R. Blatt;Gerhard Thiel

  • Botanik : die umfassende Biologie der Pflanzen

    Ulrich Lüttge;Manfred Kluge;Gerhard Thiel

  • Engineering of a light-gated potassium channel

    Christian Cosentino;Laura Alberio;Sabrina Gazzarrini;Marco Aquila

  • Tetramerization dynamics of C-terminal domain underlies isoform-specific cAMP gating in hyperpolarization-activated cyclic nucleotide-gated channels.

    Marco Lolicato;Marco Nardini;Sabrina Gazzarrini;Stefan Möller

  • Vacuolar malate uptake is mediated by an anion‐selective inward rectifier

    Jens B. Hafke;Jens B. Hafke;Yuliya Hafke;Yuliya Hafke;J. Andrew C. Smith;Ulrich Lüttge

  • Electrocoupling of ion transporters in plants.

    D. Gradmann;M. R. Blatt;Gerhard Thiel

  • Plants Neither Possess nor Require Consciousness.

    Lincoln Taiz;Daniel Alkon;Andreas Draguhn;Angus Murphy

  • Short-term Effects of Salinity Stress on the Turgor and Elongation of Growing Barley Leaves

    Gerhard Thiel;Jonathan Paul Lynch;André Läuchli

  • HCN1 mutation spectrum: from neonatal epileptic encephalopathy to benign generalized epilepsy and beyond

    Carla Marini;Alessandro Porro;Agnès Rastetter;Carine Dalle

  • The HCN domain couples voltage gating and cAMP response in hyperpolarization-activated cyclic nucleotide-gated channels

    Alessandro Porro;Andrea Saponaro;Federica Gasparri;Daniel Bauer

  • Guard cells elongate: relationship of volume and surface area during stomatal movement.

    Tobias Meckel;Lars Gall;Stefan Semrau;Ulrike Homann

Frequent Co-Authors

James L. Van Etten
James L. Van Etten University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Michael R. Blatt
Michael R. Blatt University of Glasgow
Lucia Banci
Lucia Banci University of Florence
Ulrich Lüttge
Ulrich Lüttge Technical University of Darmstadt
Robert Zorec
Robert Zorec University of Ljubljana
Martino Bolognesi
Martino Bolognesi University of Milan
Angus S. Murphy
Angus S. Murphy University of Maryland, College Park
Ulrich S. Schubert
Ulrich S. Schubert Friedrich Schiller University Jena
László Erdei
László Erdei University of Szeged
Mark Tester
Mark Tester King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

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