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Matthias Peter

Matthias Peter

ETH Zurich
Switzerland

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Biology and Biochemistry
Switzerland
2023

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
90
Citations
38536
World Ranking
2393
National Ranking
51

Matthias Peter publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Matthias Peter sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 228 publications — 60th percentile

60% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Matthias Peter D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Matthias Peter sits on this spectrum.

40–41 D-Index: 80 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 183 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 317 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 504 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 718 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 900 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 1,026 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 1,150 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 1,236 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 1,253 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 1,163 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 1,131 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 1,032 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 897 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 814 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 715 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 709 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 596 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 512 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 473 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 412 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 373 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 358 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 285 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 273 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 227 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 208 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 193 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 153 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 157 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 148 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 120 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 113 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 100 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 86 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 67 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 72 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 73 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 64 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 53 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 60 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 54 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 43 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 38 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 49 scientists 130–131 D-Index: 26 scientists 132–133 D-Index: 18 scientists 134–135 D-Index: 23 scientists 136–137 D-Index: 32 scientists 138–139 D-Index: 32 scientists 140–141 D-Index: 27 scientists 142–143 D-Index: 19 scientists 144–145 D-Index: 22 scientists 146–147 D-Index: 12 scientists 148–149 D-Index: 16 scientists 150–151 D-Index: 14 scientists 152–153 D-Index: 10 scientists 154–155 D-Index: 13 scientists 156–157 D-Index: 10 scientists 158–159 D-Index: 7 scientists 160–161 D-Index: 9 scientists 162–163 D-Index: 13 scientists 164–165 D-Index: 4 scientists 166 D-Index: 4 scientists 167+ D-Index: 98 scientists
40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 90 D-Index — 88th percentile

88% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2016 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Matthias Peter is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland, focusing primarily on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their scholarly work spans 96 publications in these fields, with a concentration on molecular biology as evidenced by 62 publications in this subfield. Additionally, their research extends into cell biology, oncology, cancer research, and immunology.

The main topics addressed in their research include:

  • RNA Research and Splicing
  • Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease
  • Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways
  • Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism
  • Fungal and yeast genetics research
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms

Several frequent co-authors collaborate with Matthias Peter, notably:

  • Gea Cereghetti
  • Sung Sik Lee
  • Vera M. Kissling
  • Federico Uliana
  • Reinhard Dechant

Their work has appeared in multiple scientific venues, including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Nature Cell Biology
  • The EMBO Journal
  • Developmental Cell

Notable recent papers by Matthias Peter highlight varied topics within molecular and cell biology:

  • Modular microfluidics enables kinetic insight from time-resolved cryo-EM, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Cells under pressure: how yeast cells respond to mechanical forces, 2022, Trends in Microbiology
  • Rewiring phospholipid biosynthesis reveals resilience to membrane perturbations and uncovers regulators of lipid homeostasis, 2022, The EMBO Journal
  • Reversible amyloids of pyruvate kinase couple cell metabolism and stress granule disassembly, 2021, Nature Cell Biology
  • The human GID complex engages two independent modules for substrate recruitment, 2021, EMBO Reports

In recognition of their contributions to the scientific community, Matthias Peter was appointed a Member of Academia Europaea in 2016.

Best Publications

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Fabio C. Abdalla;Hagai Abeliovich;Robert T. Abraham

  • Global Mapping of the Yeast Genetic Interaction Network

    Amy Hin Yan Tong;Guillaume Lesage;Gary D. Bader;Huiming Ding

  • In vitro disassembly of the nuclear lamina and M phase-specific phosphorylation of lamins by cdc2 kinase

    M. Peter;J. Nakagawa;M. Dorée;J.C. Labbé

  • Bni1p, a Yeast Formin Linking Cdc42p and the Actin Cytoskeleton During Polarized Morphogenesis

    Marie Evangelista;Kelly Blundell;Mark S. Longtine;Clinton J. Chow

  • Ubiquitin-binding domains in Y-family polymerases regulate translesion synthesis.

    Marzena Bienko;Catherine M. Green;Nicola Crosetto;Fabian Rudolf

  • Mature ribosomes are selectively degraded upon starvation by an autophagy pathway requiring the Ubp3p/Bre5p ubiquitin protease.

    Claudine Kraft;Anna Deplazes;Marc Sohrmann;Matthias Peter

  • Selective autophagy: ubiquitin-mediated recognition and beyond

    Claudine Kraft;Matthias Peter;Kay Hofmann

  • Joining the complex: Cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitory proteins and the cell cycle

    Matthias Peter;Ira Herskowitz

  • Protein neddylation: beyond cullin-RING ligases.

    Radoslav I. Enchev;Brenda A. Schulman;Matthias Peter

  • A mechanism for the suppression of homologous recombination in G1 cells

    Alexandre Orthwein;Sylvie M. Noordermeer;Marcus D. Wilson;Sébastien Landry

  • The BTB protein MEL-26 is a substrate-specific adaptor of the CUL-3 ubiquitin-ligase.

    Lionel Pintard;John H. Willis;Andrew Willems;Jacque-Lynne F. Johnson

  • Cullin-based ubiquitin ligases: Cul3–BTB complexes join the family

    Lionel Pintard;Andrew Willems;Matthias Peter

  • FAR1 links the signal transduction pathway to the cell cycle machinery in yeast

    Matthias Peter;Anton Gartner;Joe Horecka;Gustav Ammerer

  • Identification of major nucleolar proteins as candidate mitotic substrates of cdc2 kinase

    M. Peter;J. Nakagawa;M. Dorée;J.C. Labbé

  • CellCognition: time-resolved phenotype annotation in high-throughput live cell imaging

    Michael Held;Michael H A Schmitz;Michael H A Schmitz;Bernd Fischer;Thomas Walter

  • Translocon component Sec62 acts in endoplasmic reticulum turnover during stress recovery

    Fiorenza Fumagalli;Fiorenza Fumagalli;Julia Noack;Timothy J. Bergmann;Timothy J. Bergmann;Eduardo Cebollero

  • Function and regulation of protein neddylation

    Gwénaël Rabut;Matthias Peter

  • Ubiquitin-dependent degradation of multiple F-box proteins by an autocatalytic mechanism.

    Jean-Marc Galan;Matthias Peter

  • Phosphoproteomic Analysis Reveals Interconnected System-Wide Responses to Perturbations of Kinases and Phosphatases in Yeast

    Bernd Bodenmiller;Stefanie Wanka;Claudine Kraft;Joerg Urban

  • Early Steps in Autophagy Depend on Direct Phosphorylation of Atg9 by the Atg1 Kinase.

    Daniel Papinski;Martina Schuschnig;Wolfgang Reiter;Larissa Wilhelm

Frequent Co-Authors

Ruedi Aebersold
Ruedi Aebersold ETH Zurich
Kay Hofmann
Kay Hofmann University of Cologne
Paola Picotti
Paola Picotti ETH Zurich
Erich A. Nigg
Erich A. Nigg University of Basel
Raymond J. Deshaies
Raymond J. Deshaies California Institute of Technology
Gustav Ammerer
Gustav Ammerer University of Vienna
Chang-Soo Lee
Chang-Soo Lee Chungnam National University
Mike Tyers
Mike Tyers University of Montreal
Fulvio Reggiori
Fulvio Reggiori University of Groningen
Charles Boone
Charles Boone University of Toronto

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