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Overview

Markus Stoffel is affiliated with the University of Geneva in Switzerland. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine, with a focus on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research, Surgery, Spectroscopy, and Oncology.

The scientist's main topics of investigation include pancreatic function and diabetes, metabolism related to diabetes and cancer, RNA modifications and cancer, microRNA in disease regulation, pancreatic and hepatic oncology research, RNA research and splicing, as well as RNA regulation and disease.

Markus Stoffel's publication record includes multiple papers published in prominent venues. Some recent papers include:

  • "In vivo adenine base editing of PCSK9 in macaques reduces LDL cholesterol levels," 2021, Nature Biotechnology
  • "In vivo cytidine base editing of hepatocytes without detectable off-target mutations in RNA and DNA," 2021, Nature Biomedical Engineering
  • "High-Throughput Single-Cell Mass Spectrometry Reveals Abnormal Lipid Metabolism in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma," 2021, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • "The Diabetes Gene JAZF1 Is Essential for the Homeostatic Control of Ribosome Biogenesis and Function in Metabolic Stress," 2020, Cell Reports
  • "Therapeutic RNA-silencing oligonucleotides in metabolic diseases," 2022, Nature Reviews Drug Discovery

The scientist frequently publishes in journals such as Cell Reports, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Communications, Molecular Metabolism, and Angewandte Chemie.

Collaboration is a notable aspect of their work. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Svenja Godbersen
  • Gerald Schwank
  • Wenjie Ge
  • Sandra Martínez-Jarquín
  • Renato Zenobi

Best Publications

  • The state and fate of Himalayan glaciers

    Tobias Bolch;Tobias Bolch;A Kulkarni;Andreas Kääb;Christian Huggel;Christian Huggel

  • 21st century climate change in the European Alps--a review.

    Andreas Gobiet;Sven Kotlarski;Martin Beniston;Georg Heinrich

  • Climate change impacts on glaciers and runoff in Tien Shan (Central Asia)

    Annina Sorg;Annina Sorg;Tobias Bolch;Tobias Bolch;Markus Stoffel;Markus Stoffel;Olga Solomina

  • The European mountain cryosphere: a review of its current state, trends, and future challenges

    Martin Beniston;Daniel Farinotti;Daniel Farinotti;Markus Stoffel;Liss M. Andreassen

  • Tree-ring analysis in natural hazards research ? an overview

    Markus Stoffel;Michelle Bollschweiler

  • Macromolecular organization of ATP synthase and complex I in whole mitochondria

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  • Hydrogeomorphic response to extreme rainfall in headwater systems: Flash floods and debris flows

    Marco Borga;Markus Stoffel;Markus Stoffel;Lorenzo Marchi;Francesco Marra

  • Climate Change Information for Regional Impact and for Risk Assessment.

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  • Effects of climate change on mass movements in mountain environments

    Markus Stoffel;Christian Huggel

  • The eukaryotic CO2-concentrating organelle is liquid-like and exhibits dynamic reorganization

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  • Increasing risk of glacial lake outburst floods from future Third Pole deglaciation

    Guoxiong Zheng;Guoxiong Zheng;Simon Keith Allen;Simon Keith Allen;Anming Bao;Juan Antonio Ballesteros-Cánovas

  • Estimates of volcanic-induced cooling in the Northern Hemisphere over the past 1,500 years

    Markus Stoffel;Myriam Khodri;Christophe Corona;Sébastien Guillet

  • Estimating the volume of glaciers in the Himalayan–Karakoram region using different methods

    H. Frey;Horst Machguth;Matthias Huss;C. Huggel

  • Lake outburst and debris flow disaster at Kedarnath, June 2013: hydrometeorological triggering and topographic predisposition

    Simon Keith Allen;Simon Keith Allen;P. Rastner;M. Arora;C. Huggel

  • Glacial lakes in the Indian Himalayas — From an area-wide glacial lake inventory to on-site and modeling based risk assessment of critical glacial lakes

    Raphaël Philipp Worni;Raphaël Philipp Worni;Christian Huggel;Christian Huggel;Markus Stoffel;Markus Stoffel

  • Source of the great AD 1257 mystery eruption unveiled, Samalas volcano, Rinjani Volcanic Complex, Indonesia

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  • Dendroecological Dating of Geomorphic Disturbance in Trees

    Markus Stoffel;Markus Stoffel;Christophe Corona;Christophe Corona

  • Climate change impacts on mass movements--case studies from the European Alps.

    Markus Stoffel;Markus Stoffel;D. Tiranti;C. Huggel

  • 160 h of chemical-looping combustion in a 10 kW reactor system with a NiO-based oxygen carrier

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  • Climate warming enhances snow avalanche risk in the Western Himalayas.

    J. A. Ballesteros-Cánovas;D. Trappmann;J. Madrigal-González;J. Madrigal-González;N. Eckert

  • Assessing the impacts of climatic change on mountain water resources

    Martin Beniston;Markus Stoffel

  • Recent advances quantifying the large wood dynamics in river basins: New methods and remaining challenges

    Virginia Ruiz-Villanueva;Virginia Ruiz-Villanueva;Hervé Piégay;Angela M. Gurnell;Richard A. Marston

  • Analyzing rockfall activity (1600-2002) in a protection forest—a case study using dendrogeomorphology

    Markus Stoffel;Dominique M. Schneuwly;Michelle Bollschweiler;Igor Lièvre

  • 21st Century Climate Change in the European Alps

    Andreas Gobiet;Sven Kotlarski;Markus Stoffel;Georg Heinrich

Frequent Co-Authors

Christophe Corona
Christophe Corona Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Virginia Ruiz-Villanueva
Virginia Ruiz-Villanueva University of Lausanne
Christian Huggel
Christian Huggel University of Zurich
Jeffrey M. Friedman
Jeffrey M. Friedman Rockefeller University
Bartłomiej Wyżga
Bartłomiej Wyżga Polish Academy of Sciences
Martin Beniston
Martin Beniston University of Geneva
Graeme I. Bell
Graeme I. Bell University of Chicago
Nicolas Eckert
Nicolas Eckert Grenoble Alpes University
Jan L. Breslow
Jan L. Breslow Rockefeller University
Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz
Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

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