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Sonja-Verena Albers

Sonja-Verena Albers

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
71
Citations
13875
World Ranking
6808
National Ranking
493

Overview

Sonja-Verena Albers is affiliated with the University of Freiburg in Germany. Their research primarily falls within the broad field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a particular focus on Molecular Biology, Genetics, Ecology, Materials Chemistry, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience as key subfields.

The main topics explored in their work include Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Enzyme Structure and Function, Bacteriophages and microbial interactions, Protist diversity and phylogeny, Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms, and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms.

Albers has contributed to several publication venues, notably:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Nature Communications
  • mBio
  • Methods in molecular biology

Their frequent collaborators include Shamphavi Sivabalasarma, Marleen van Wolferen, Phillip Nußbaum, Chris van der Does, and Alejandra Recalde.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Albers are:

  • The cell biology of archaea, 2022, Nature Microbiology
  • Propulsive nanomachines: the convergent evolution of archaella, flagella and cilia, 2020, FEMS Microbiology Reviews
  • Live Imaging of a Hyperthermophilic Archaeon Reveals Distinct Roles for Two ESCRT-III Homologs in Ensuring a Robust and Symmetric Division, 2020, Current Biology
  • The biology of thermoacidophilic archaea from the order Sulfolobales, 2020, FEMS Microbiology Reviews
  • A comprehensive history of motility and Archaellation in Archaea, 2021, FEMS Microbes

Best Publications

  • The archaeal cell envelope

    Sonja-Verena Albers;Benjamin H. Meyer

  • Structure and mechanism of the CMR complex for CRISPR-mediated antiviral immunity

    Jing Zhang;Christophe Rouillon;Melina Kerou;Judith Reeks

  • Model organisms for genetics in the domain Archaea: methanogens, halophiles, Thermococcales and Sulfolobales.

    John A. Leigh;Sonja Verena Albers;Haruyuki Atomi;Thorsten Allers

  • The cell membrane plays a crucial role in survival of bacteria and archaea in extreme environments

    Wil N. Konings;Sonja-Verena Albers;Sonja Koning;Arnold J.M. Driessen

  • The archaellum: an old motility structure with a new name.

    Ken F. Jarrell;Sonja Verena Albers

  • N-Linked Glycosylation in Archaea: a Structural, Functional, and Genetic Analysis

    Ken F. Jarrell;Yan Ding;Benjamin H. Meyer;Sonja-Verena Albers

  • Versatile Genetic Tool Box for the Crenarchaeote Sulfolobus acidocaldarius.

    Michaela Wagner;Marleen van Wolferen;Alexander Wagner;Kerstin Lassak

  • Crystal structures of the ATPase subunit of the glucose ABC transporter from Sulfolobus solfataricus: Nucleotide-free and nucleotide-bound conformations

    Grégory Verdon;Sonja V Albers;Bauke W Dijkstra;Arnold J M Driessen

  • Ribosome recycling depends on a mechanistic link between the FeS cluster domain and a conformational switch of the twin-ATPase ABCE1

    Dominik Barthelme;Stephanie Dinkelaker;Sonja Verena Albers;Paola Londei

  • Viruses, plasmids and other genetic elements of thermophilic and hyperthermophilic Archaea

    Wolfram Zillig;David Prangishvili;Christa Schleper;Marieke Elferink

  • Proteomic analysis of secreted membrane vesicles of archaeal Sulfolobus species reveals the presence of endosome sorting complex components

    Albert F. Ellen;Sonja-Verena Albers;Wim Huibers;Angela Pitcher

  • Production of Recombinant and Tagged Proteins in the Hyperthermophilic Archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus

    Sonja Verena Albers;Melanie Jonuscheit;S. Dinkelaker;Tim Urich

  • Archaeal Homolog of Bacterial Type IV Prepilin Signal Peptidases with Broad Substrate Specificity

    Sonja Verena Albers;Zalán Szabó;Arnold J M Driessen

  • UV‐inducible cellular aggregation of the hyperthermophilic archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus is mediated by pili formation

    Sabrina Fröls;Malgorzata Ajon;Michaela Wagner;Daniela Teichmann

  • The archaellum: how Archaea swim.

    Sonja-Verena Albers;Sonja-Verena Albers;Ken F. Jarrell

  • Archaeal biofilm formation.

    Marleen van Wolferen;Alvaro Orell;Sonja-Verena Albers

  • Crenarchaeal biofilm formation under extreme conditions.

    Andrea Koerdt;Julia Gödeke;Jürgen Berger;Kai M. Thormann

  • Sugar transport in Sulfolobus solfataricus is mediated by two families of binding protein-dependent ABC transporters.

    Marieke G. L. Elferink;Sonja-V. Albers;Wil N. Konings;Arnold J. M. Driessen

  • The Archaellum: An Update on the Unique Archaeal Motility Structure.

    Sonja-Verena Albers;Ken F. Jarrell

  • UV-inducible cellular aggregation of the hyperthermophilic archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus is mediated by pili formation

    Malgorzata Ajon;Michaela Wagner;Daniela Teichmann;Behnam Zolghadr

Frequent Co-Authors

Arnold J. M. Driessen
Arnold J. M. Driessen University of Groningen
Christa Schleper
Christa Schleper University of Vienna
John A. Tainer
John A. Tainer The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Phillip C. Wright
Phillip C. Wright Newcastle University
Reinhard Rachel
Reinhard Rachel University of Regensburg
Wil N. Konings
Wil N. Konings University of Groningen
David Prangishvili
David Prangishvili Institut Pasteur
Robert Tampé
Robert Tampé Goethe University Frankfurt
Werner Kühlbrandt
Werner Kühlbrandt Max Planck Society
Lars-Oliver Essen
Lars-Oliver Essen Philipp University of Marburg

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