2026 Hermann Steller: Molecular Biology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Molecular Biology	75	1173	1046	606	527	143	28260

Overview

Hermann Steller is affiliated with Rockefeller University in the United States. Their research spans several areas within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, neuroscience, and medicine, with notable focus on cell biology, molecular biology, neurology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and urology.

The scientist has contributed to advancing knowledge in several specialized topics including:

Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways
Barrier structure and function studies
Neurobiology and insect physiology research
Endoplasmic reticulum stress and disease
Caveolin-1 and cellular processes
Hair growth and disorders
Wound healing and treatments

Frequent collaborators in their research include Xiaoling Li, Richard D. Fetter, Tina Schwabe, Christophe Jung, and Ulrike Gaul.

Hermann Steller has published in key venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), eLife, Nature Communications, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Genes & Development. BioRxiv hosts the majority of their recent outputs.

Key recent publications include:

The cAMP effector PKA mediates Moody GPCR signaling in Drosophila blood-brain barrier formation and maturation, 2021, eLife
Thy1 marks a distinct population of slow-cycling stem cells in the mouse epidermis, 2022, Nature Communications
Variants in the proteasome regulator PSMF1 cause a phenotypic spectrum from early-onset Parkinson's disease to perinatal lethality and disrupt mitochondrial function, 2024, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
PI31 expression prevents neuronal degeneration in a mouse Parkinson Disease model, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
The cAMP effector PKA mediates Moody GPCR signaling in Drosophila blood-brain barrier formation and maturation, 2021, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Best Publications

Mechanisms and genes of cellular suicide

Hermann Steller

3907
Citations
Programmed Cell Death in Animal Development and Disease

Yaron Fuchs;Hermann Steller

2010
Citations
Genetic control of programmed cell death in Drosophila

Kristin White;Megan E. Grether;John M. Abrams;Lynn Young;Lynn Young

1319
Citations
Isolation of a putative phospholipase c gene of drosophila, norpA, and its role in phototransduction

B.T. Bloomquist;R.D. Shortridge;S. Schneuwly;M. Perdew

914
Citations
Programmed cell death during Drosophila embryogenesis

John M. Abrams;Kristin White;Liselotte I. Fessler;Hermann Steller

897
Citations
The head involution defective gene of Drosophila melanogaster functions in programmed cell death.

M E Grether;J M Abrams;J Agapite;K White

861
Citations
Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring cell death in higher eukaryotes

L. Galluzzi;L. Galluzzi;L. Galluzzi;S. A. Aaronson;J. Abrams;E. S. Alnemri

823
Citations
Apoptotic Cells Can Induce Compensatory Cell Proliferation through the JNK and the Wingless Signaling Pathways

Hyung Don Ryoo;Travis Gorenc;Hermann Steller

690
Citations
Live to die another way: modes of programmed cell death and the signals emanating from dying cells

Yaron Fuchs;Hermann Steller

683
Citations
The Drosophila Gene hid Is a Direct Molecular Target of Ras-Dependent Survival Signaling

Andreas Bergmann;Julie Agapite;Kimberly McCall;Hermann Steller

590
Citations
Induction of apoptosis by Drosophila reaper, hid and grim through inhibition of IAP function

Lakshmi Goyal;Kimberly McCall;Julie Agapite;Erika Hartwieg

578
Citations
Cell Killing by the Drosophila Gene reaper

Kristin White;Elvan Tahaoglu;Hermann Steller

517
Citations
Caspase Activity and a Specific Cytochrome C Are Required for Sperm Differentiation in Drosophila

Eli Arama;Julie Agapite;Hermann Steller

494
Citations
DCP-1, a Drosophila cell death protease essential for development.

Zhiwei Song;Kimberly McCall;Hermann Steller

407
Citations
Apoptosis, Stem Cells, and Tissue Regeneration

Andreas Bergmann;Hermann Steller

389
Citations
The DIAP1 RING finger mediates ubiquitination of Dronc and is indispensable for regulating apoptosis

Rebecca Wilson;Lakshmi Goyal;Mark Ditzel;Anna Zachariou

378
Citations
Regulation of Drosophila IAP1 degradation and apoptosis by reaper and ubcD1

Hyung Don Ryoo;Andreas Bergmann;Hedva Gonen;Aaron Ciechanover

353
Citations
A transposable P vector that confers selectable G418 resistance to Drosophila larvae.

H. Steller;V. Pirrotta

343
Citations
Cooperative functions of the reaper and head involution defective genes in the programmed cell death of Drosophila central nervous system midline cells

L. Zhou;A. Schnitzler;J. Agapite;L. M. Schwartz

332
Citations
A steroid-triggered transcriptional hierarchy controls salivary gland cell death during Drosophila metamorphosis.

Changan Jiang;Anne Françoise J Lamblin;Hermann Steller;Carl S. Thummel

330
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Andreas Bergmann University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School

John M. Abrams The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Henrik Molina Rockefeller University

Daniel L. Segal University of Colorado Colorado Springs

Ilio Vitale University of Rome Tor Vergata

Aaron Ciechanover Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Guido Kroemer Université Paris Cité

Lorenzo Galluzzi Cornell University

Eugenia Morselli San Sebastián University

Gerald M. Rubin Howard Hughes Medical Institute

External Links

Wikipedia of Hermann Steller Personal website of Hermann Steller

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