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Hanspeter Naegeli

Hanspeter Naegeli

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
58
Citations
12820
World Ranking
13125
National Ranking
234

Overview

Hanspeter Naegeli is affiliated with the University of Zurich in Switzerland. Their research spans multiple fields within the life sciences, particularly focusing on agricultural and biological sciences as well as biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.

The main fields of study for Naegeli include:

  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Subfields of their research involve:

  • Plant Science
  • Molecular Biology
  • Food Science
  • Genetics
  • Management of Technology and Innovation

Their work covers a range of key topics including:

  • Genetically Modified Organisms Research
  • Agricultural safety and regulations
  • Insect Resistance and Genetics
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
  • Animal Genetics and Reproduction
  • Intellectual Property and Patents
  • Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing

Hanspeter Naegeli has collaborated frequently with a core group of coauthors consisting of:

  • M. Epstein
  • Nils Rostoks
  • Eve Veromann
  • F. Javier Moreno
  • G. Savoini

Their publications are predominantly found in the following venues:

  • EFSA Journal
  • BMC Veterinary Research
  • EFSA Supporting Publications
  • Veterinary Record Open
  • Scientific Reports

Selected recent papers authored by Hanspeter Naegeli include:

  • "Guidance on risk assessment of nanomaterials to be applied in the food and feed chain: human and animal health," 2021, EFSA Journal
  • "Guidance on technical requirements for regulated food and feed product applications to establish the presence of small particles including nanoparticles," 2021, EFSA Journal
  • "Guidance Document on Scientific criteria for grouping chemicals into assessment groups for human risk assessment of combined exposure to multiple chemicals," 2021, EFSA Journal
  • "Scientific Opinion on development needs for the allergenicity and protein safety assessment of food and feed products derived from biotechnology," 2022, EFSA Journal
  • "Applicability of the EFSA Opinion on site-directed nucleases type 3 for the safety assessment of plants developed using site-directed nucleases type 1 and 2 and oligonucleotide-directed mutagenesis," 2020, EFSA Journal

Best Publications

  • Small molecule blockade of transcriptional coactivation of the hypoxia-inducible factor pathway.

    Andrew L. Kung;Sonya D. Zabludoff;Sonya D. Zabludoff;Steven J. Freedman;Steven J. Freedman

  • Guidance on harmonised methodologies for human health, animal health and ecological risk assessment of combined exposure to multiple chemicals

    Simon John More;Vasileios Bampidis;Diane Benford

  • Risks to human and animal health related to the presence of deoxynivalenol and its acetylated and modified forms in food and feed

    Helle Katrine Knutsen;Jan Alexander;Lars Barregård;Margherita Bignami

  • Update: use of the benchmark dose approach in risk assessment

    Anthony Hardy;Diane Benford;Thorhallur Halldorsson;Michael John Jeger

  • Guidance on the use of the weight of evidence approach in scientific assessments.

    Anthony Hardy;Diane Benford;Thorhallur Halldorsson;Michael John Jeger

  • Guidance on risk assessment of the application of nanoscience and nanotechnologies in the food and feed chain: Part 1, human and animal health.

    Anthony Hardy;Diane Benford;Thorhallur Halldorsson;Michael John Jeger

  • Identification of a microcystin in benthic cyanobacteria linked to cattle deaths on alpine pastures in Switzerland

    Konstanze Mez;Kenneth A. Beattie;Geoffrey A. Codd;Kurt Hanselmann

  • Guidance on risk assessment of nanomaterials to be applied in the food and feed chain: human and animal health.

    Simon More;Vasileios Bampidis;Diane Benford

  • Guidance on Uncertainty Analysis in Scientific Assessments

    Diane Benford;Thorhallur Halldorsson;Michael John Jeger;Helle Katrine Knutsen

  • Recognition of DNA Adducts by Human Nucleotide Excision Repair EVIDENCE FOR A THERMODYNAMIC PROBING MECHANISM

    Daniela Gunz;Martin T. Hess;Hanspeter Naegeli

  • Double‐check probing of DNA bending and unwinding by XPA–RPA: an architectural function in DNA repair

    Miriam Missura;Tonko Buterin;Robert Hindges;Ulrich Hübscher

  • Guidance on the use of the Threshold of Toxicological Concern approach in food safety assessment.

    Simon J More;Vasileios Bampidis;Diane Benford

  • Base pair conformation-dependent excision of benzo[a]pyrene diol epoxide-guanine adducts by human nucleotide excision repair enzymes.

    Martin T. Hess;Daniela Gunz;Natalia Luneva;Nicholas E. Geacintov

  • Critical review of the safety assessment of titanium dioxide additives in food.

    Hans Christian Winkler;Tina Notter;Urs Meyer;Hanspeter Naegeli

  • Guidance on allergenicity assessment of genetically modified plants

    Hanspeter Naegeli;Andrew Nicholas Birch;Josep Casacuberta

  • Bipartite substrate discrimination by human nucleotide excision repair

    Martin T. Hess;Urs Schwitter;Mario Petretta;Bernd Giese

  • Unrepaired fjord region polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon-DNA adducts in ras codon 61 mutational hot spots.

    Tonko Buterin;Martin T. Hess;Natalia Luneva;Nicholas E. Geacintov

  • Thermodynamic and structural factors in the removal of bulky DNA adducts by the nucleotide excision repair machinery.

    Nicholas E. Geacintov;Suse Broyde;Tonko Buterin;Hanspeter Naegeli

  • The principles and methods behind EFSA's Guidance on Uncertainty Analysis in Scientific Assessment

    Diane Benford;Thorhallur Halldorsson;Michael John Jeger;Helle Katrine Knutsen

  • Histone shuttling by poly ADP-ribosylation.

    Felix R. Althaus;Liane Höfferer;Hanna E. Kleczkowska;Maria Malanga

Frequent Co-Authors

Huw Jones
Huw Jones Aberystwyth University
Joe N. Perry
Joe N. Perry Rothamsted Research
Francesco Visioli
Francesco Visioli University of Padua
Kaare Magne Nielsen
Kaare Magne Nielsen University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Simon J. More
Simon J. More University College Dublin
Dominique Turck
Dominique Turck University of Lille
Dieter Schrenk
Dieter Schrenk Technical University of Kaiserslautern
Søren Saxmose Nielsen
Søren Saxmose Nielsen University of Copenhagen
Claude Bragard
Claude Bragard Université Catholique de Louvain
Nicholas E. Geacintov
Nicholas E. Geacintov New York University

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