2026 Michael Wegner: 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	100	536	480	47	43	255	32775

Research.com Recognitions

2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Michael Wegner is affiliated with the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany. Their research spans multiple areas within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and neuroscience, with a particular focus on molecular biology, developmental neuroscience, cancer research, genetics, and cellular and molecular neuroscience.

Their work covers a range of scientific topics, including:

Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms
MicroRNA in disease regulation
RNA research and splicing
Epigenetics and DNA methylation
Genomics and chromatin dynamics
Genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders
Neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration mechanisms

Michael Wegner has published extensively, with selected recent papers being:

Common schizophrenia risk variants are enriched in open chromatin regions of human glutamatergic neurons, 2020, Nature Communications
Using the lineage determinants Olig2 and Sox10 to explore transcriptional regulation of oligodendrocyte development, 2021, Developmental Neurobiology
Deciphering the regulatory landscape of fetal and adult γδ T-cell development at single-cell resolution, 2020, The EMBO Journal
Transcription factor Tcf4 is the preferred heterodimerization partner for Olig2 in oligodendrocytes and required for differentiation, 2020, Nucleic Acids Research
CTCF-mediated chromatin looping in EGR2 regulation and SUZ12 recruitment critical for peripheral myelination and repair, 2020, Nature Communications

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

Franziska Fröb
Elisabeth Sock
Matthias Weider
Tim Aberle
Simone Hillgärtner

The most common venues for Michael Wegner's publications are:

Glia
Nucleic Acids Research
Scientific Reports
Neural Regeneration Research
International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Best Publications

Competing waves of oligodendrocytes in the forebrain and postnatal elimination of an embryonic lineage.

Nicoletta Kessaris;Matthew Fogarty;Palma Iannarelli;Matthew Grist

1361
Citations
From head to toes: The multiple facets of Sox proteins

Michael Wegner

1260
Citations
Sox10, a Novel Transcriptional Modulator in Glial Cells

Kirsten Kuhlbrodt;Beate Herbarth;Elisabeth Sock;Irm Hermans-Borgmeyer

1137
Citations
The transcription factor Sox10 is a key regulator of peripheral glial development

Stefan Britsch;Derk E. Goerich;Derk E. Goerich;Dieter Riethmacher;Reto I. Peirano;Reto I. Peirano

1041
Citations
SOX10 mutations in patients with Waardenburg-Hirschsprung disease.

Véronique Pingault;Nadège Bondurand;Kirsten Kuhlbrodt;Derk E. Goerich

947
Citations
The Sox9 transcription factor determines glial fate choice in the developing spinal cord

C. Claus Stolt;Petra Lommes;Elisabeth Sock;Marie-Christine Chaboissier

852
Citations
Terminal differentiation of myelin-forming oligodendrocytes depends on the transcription factor Sox10

C. Claus Stolt;Stephan Rehberg;Marius Ader;Petra Lommes

796
Citations
Functional analysis of Sox8 and Sox9 during sex determination in the mouse.

Marie Christine Chaboissier;Akio Kobayashi;Akio Kobayashi;Valerie I.P. Vidal;Susanne Lützkendorf

659
Citations
From stem cells to neurons and glia: a Soxist's view of neural development.

Michael Wegner;C. Claus Stolt

624
Citations
Interaction among SOX10, PAX3 and MITF, three genes altered in Waardenburg syndrome

Nadege Bondurand;Veronique Pingault;Derk E. Goerich;Nicole Lemort

573
Citations
Calcium-Regulated Phosphorylation Within the Leucine Zipper of C/EBPβ

Michael Wegner;Zhaodan Cao;Michael G. Rosenfeld

501
Citations
Molecular mechanism for distinct neurological phenotypes conveyed by allelic truncating mutations.

Ken Inoue;Mehrdad Khajavi;Tomoko Ohyama;Shin Ichi Hirabayashi

470
Citations
Mutation of the Sry-related Sox10 gene in Dominant megacolon, a mouse model for human Hirschsprung disease

Beate Herbarth;Veronique Pingault;Nadege Bondurand;Kirsten Kuhlbrodt

453
Citations
Bone morphogenetic proteins are required in vivo for the generation of sympathetic neurons.

Carolin Schneider;Helmut Wicht;Jana Enderich;Michael Wegner

428
Citations
Survival and glial fate acquisition of neural crest cells are regulated by an interplay between the transcription factor Sox10 and extrinsic combinatorial signaling.

Christian Paratore;Derk E. Goerich;Ueli Suter;Michael Wegner

382
Citations
POU-domain proteins: structure and function of developmental regulators.

Michael Wegner;Daniel W. Drolet;Michael G. Rosenfeld

351
Citations
SoxD Proteins Influence Multiple Stages of Oligodendrocyte Development and Modulate SoxE Protein Function

C. Claus Stolt;Anita Schlierf;Petra Lommes;Simone Hillgärtner

338
Citations
TEF, a transcription factor expressed specifically in the anterior pituitary during embryogenesis, defines a new class of leucine zipper proteins.

D. W. Drolet;K. M. Scully;D. M. Simmons;M. Wegner

335
Citations
Cooperative function of POU proteins and SOX proteins in glial cells.

Kirsten Kuhlbrodt;Beate Herbarth;Elisabeth Sock;Janna Enderich

333
Citations
Gene Targeting Reveals a Widespread Role for the High-Mobility-Group Transcription Factor Sox11 in Tissue Remodeling

Elisabeth Sock;Stefanie D. Rettig;Janna Enderich;Michael R. Bösl

317
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Elisabeth Sock University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

Ernst R. Tamm University of Regensburg

Michael R. Bösl University of Würzburg

Irm Hermans-Borgmeyer Universität Hamburg

Bruce E. Torbett Seattle Children's Hospital

Elizabeth M. Simpson University of British Columbia

Paola Bovolenta Spanish National Research Council

Wyeth W. Wasserman University of British Columbia

Reiner A. Veitia Université Paris Cité

Peggy J. Farnham University of Southern California

External Links

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