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52401
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52412
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Austria Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Molecular Biology in Austria Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Austria Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Austria Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Austria Leader Award
  • 2014 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2011 - Wittgenstein Award
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

Overview

Jan-Michael Peters is affiliated with the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology in Austria. Their research primarily focuses on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant contributions to molecular biology, plant science, genetics, immunology, and structural biology.

The scientist has published extensively on various topics, including genomics and chromatin dynamics, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, chromosomal and genetic variations, DNA and nucleic acid chemistry, RNA research and splicing, DNA repair mechanisms, and ubiquitin and proteasome pathways.

Frequently collaborating with other researchers, Jan-Michael Peters's most common co-authors include Iain F. Davidson, Wen Tang, Cees Dekker, Roman Barth, and Gordana Wutz.

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Jan-Michael Peters include:

  • Genome folding through loop extrusion by SMC complexes (2021, Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology)
  • Quantifying the heterogeneity of macromolecular machines by mass photometry (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Transcription shapes 3D chromatin organization by interacting with loop extrusion (2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • ESCO1 and CTCF enable formation of long chromatin loops by protecting cohesinSTAG1 from WAPL (2020, eLife)
  • Cohesin-Dependent and -Independent Mechanisms Mediate Chromosomal Contacts between Promoters and Enhancers (2020, Cell Reports)

The scientist has published frequently in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Communications, Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Cell Reports.

Jan-Michael Peters has received several awards, including being named a Member of Academia Europaea in 2014 and a recipient of the Wittgenstein Award in 2011. They are also a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).

Best Publications

  • How proteolysis drives the cell cycle

    Randall W. King;Raymond J. Deshaies;Jan-Michael Peters;Marc W. Kirschner

  • The anaphase promoting complex/cyclosome: a machine designed to destroy

    Jan-Michael Peters

  • The small molecule Hesperadin reveals a role for Aurora B in correcting kinetochore-microtubule attachment and in maintaining the spindle assembly checkpoint.

    Silke Hauf;Richard W. Cole;Sabrina LaTerra;Christine Zimmer

  • Cohesin mediates transcriptional insulation by CCCTC-binding factor

    Kerstin S. Wendt;Keisuke Yoshida;Takehiko Itoh;Masashige Bando

  • A 20s complex containing CDC27 and CDC16 catalyzes the mitosis-specific conjugation of ubiquitin to cyclin B

    Randall W King;Jan-Michael Peters;Stuart Tugendreich;Mark Rolfe

  • The anaphase-promoting complex: proteolysis in mitosis and beyond.

    Jan-Michael Peters

  • Anaphase initiation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae is controlled by the APC-dependent degradation of the anaphase inhibitor Pds1p.

    O Cohen-Fix;J M Peters;M W Kirschner;D Koshland

  • Phenotypic profiling of the human genome by time-lapse microscopy reveals cell division genes

    Beate Neumann;Thomas Walter;Jean Karim Hériché;Jutta Bulkescher

  • BI 2536, a Potent and Selective Inhibitor of Polo-like Kinase 1, Inhibits Tumor Growth In Vivo

    Martin Steegmaier;Matthias Hoffmann;Anke Baum;Péter Lénárt

  • Two distinct pathways remove mammalian cohesin from chromosome arms in prophase and from centromeres in anaphase.

    Irene C Waizenegger;Silke Hauf;Andreas Meinke;Jan-Michael Peters

  • DNA loop extrusion by human cohesin

    Iain F. Davidson;Benedikt Bauer;Daniela Goetz;Wen Tang

  • The Small-Molecule Inhibitor BI 2536 Reveals Novel Insights into Mitotic Roles of Polo-like Kinase 1

    Péter Lénárt;Mark Petronczki;Martin Steegmaier;Barbara Di Fiore

  • Histone H3 serine 10 phosphorylation by Aurora B causes HP1 dissociation from heterochromatin

    Toru Hirota;Jesse J. Lipp;Ban-Hock Toh;Jan-Michael Peters

  • Topologically associating domains and chromatin loops depend on cohesin and are regulated by CTCF, WAPL, and PDS5 proteins

    Gordana Wutz;Csilla Várnai;Kota Nagasaka;David A Cisneros

  • Wapl Controls the Dynamic Association of Cohesin with Chromatin

    Stephanie Kueng;Björn Hegemann;Beate H. Peters;Jesse J. Lipp

  • BAC TransgeneOmics: a high-throughput method for exploration of protein function in mammals.

    Ina Poser;Mihail Sarov;Mihail Sarov;James R.A. Hutchins;Jean Karim Hériché

  • The cohesin complex and its roles in chromosome biology

    Jan-Michael Peters;Antonio Tedeschi;Julia Schmitz

  • Cohesin cleavage by separase required for anaphase and cytokinesis in human cells.

    Silke Hauf;Irene C. Waizenegger;Jan-Michael Peters

  • Polo on the Rise-from Mitotic Entry to Cytokinesis with Plk1.

    Mark Petronczki;Péter Lénárt;Jan-Michael Peters

  • Polo-like kinase 1 triggers the initiation of cytokinesis in human cells by promoting recruitment of the RhoGEF Ect2 to the central spindle.

    Mark Petronczki;Michael Glotzer;Norbert Kraut;Jan-Michael Peters

Frequent Co-Authors

Karl Mechtler
Karl Mechtler Research Institute of Molecular Pathology
Brenda A. Schulman
Brenda A. Schulman Max Planck Society
Jan Ellenberg
Jan Ellenberg European Bioinformatics Institute
Holger Stark
Holger Stark Max Planck Society
Kim Nasmyth
Kim Nasmyth University of Oxford
Daniel W. Gerlich
Daniel W. Gerlich Austrian Academy of Sciences
Franz Herzog
Franz Herzog Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Johannes Zuber
Johannes Zuber Research Institute of Molecular Pathology
Peter Fraser
Peter Fraser Florida State University
Ina Poser
Ina Poser Max Planck Society

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