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Stefan Schillberg

Stefan Schillberg

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
51
Citations
10601
World Ranking
17084
National Ranking
1179

Overview

Stefan Schillberg is affiliated with the Fraunhofer Society in Germany and specializes in research intersecting biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and agricultural and biological sciences. Their work spans across several subfields, including molecular biology, biotechnology, plant science, ecology, and immunology.

Their research concentrates on topics such as transgenic plants and applications, CRISPR and genetic engineering, plant tissue culture and regeneration, plant virus research studies, enzyme-mediated dye degradation, microbial metabolism and applications, and viral infectious diseases and gene expression in insects.

Among recent publications where Stefan Schillberg is an author, the following are notable:

  • Plant molecular farming for the production of valuable proteins - Critical evaluation of achievements and future challenges, 2021, Journal of Plant Physiology
  • Potential Applications of Plant Biotechnology against SARS-CoV-2, 2020, Trends in Plant Science (co-authored by Teresa Capell)
  • Contributions of the international plant science community to the fight against human infectious diseases - part 1: epidemic and pandemic diseases, 2021, Plant Biotechnology Journal (co-authored by María Lobato-Gómez)
  • Contributions of the international plant science community to the fight against infectious diseases in humans-part 2: Affordable drugs in edible plants for endemic and re-emerging diseases, 2021, Plant Biotechnology Journal (co-authored by Wenshu He)
  • Saturation mutagenesis to improve the degradation of azo dyes by versatile peroxidase and application in form of VP-coated yeast cell walls, 2020, Enzyme and Microbial Technology (co-authored by Karla Ilić Đurđić)

Frequent publication venues for Stefan Schillberg include Methods in Molecular Biology, Plant Biotechnology Journal, Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Biotechnology Journal, and Future Foods.

Collaborative work is recorded with several coauthors, with frequent partnerships involving Holger Spiegel, Paul Christou, Rainer Fischer, Greta Nölke, and Richard M. Twyman.

Best Publications

  • Molecular farming in plants: host systems and expression technology.

    Richard M. Twyman;Eva Stoger;Stefan Schillberg;Paul Christou

  • Plant-based production of biopharmaceuticals.

    Rainer Fischer;Eva Stoger;Stefan Schillberg;Paul Christou

  • Transient expression of a tumor-specific single-chain fragment and a chimeric antibody in tobacco leaves.

    Carmen Vaquero;Markus Sack;John Chandler;Jürgen Drossard

  • Molecular farming for new drugs and vaccines. Current perspectives on the production of pharmaceuticals in transgenic plants

    Julian K C. Ma;Eugenia Barros;Ralph Bock;Paul Christou

  • GMP issues for recombinant plant-derived pharmaceutical proteins.

    Rainer Fischer;Rainer Fischer;Stefan Schillberg;Stephan Hellwig;Richard M. Twyman

  • Critical Analysis of the Commercial Potential of Plants for the Production of Recombinant Proteins.

    Stefan Schillberg;Nicole Raven;Holger Spiegel;Stefan Rasche

  • Transgenic plants in the biopharmaceutical market

    Richard M Twyman;Stefan Schillberg;Rainer Fischer

  • Molecular farming of recombinant antibodies in plants.

    S. Schillberg;R. Fischer;N. Emans

  • Opportunities for recombinant antigen and antibody expression in transgenic plants : technology assessment

    Stefan Schillberg;Richard M. Twyman;Rainer Fischer;Rainer Fischer

  • Potential Applications of Plant Biotechnology against SARS-CoV-2.

    Teresa Capell;Richard M. Twyman;Victoria Armario-Najera;Julian K.-C. Ma

  • Molecular farming of recombinant antibodies in plants.

    R Fischer;Y C Liao;K Hoffmann;S Schillberg

  • Apoplastic and cytosolic expression of full-size antibodies and antibody fragments in Nicotiana tabacum.

    Stefan Schillberg;Sabine Zimmermann;Andreas Voss;Rainer Fischer

  • Intracellular expression of TMV-specific single-chain Fv fragments leads to improved virus resistance in Nicotiana tabacum

    Sabine Zimmermann;Stefan Schillberg;Yu-Cai Liao;Rainer Fisher

  • Patterns of CRISPR/Cas9 activity in plants, animals and microbes

    Luisa Bortesi;Changfu Zhu;Julia Zischewski;Lucia Perez

  • Expression and characterization of bispecific single-chain Fv fragments produced in transgenic plants.

    Rainer Fischer;Detlef Schumann;Sabine Zimmermann;Jürgen Drossard

  • Production of antibodies in plants and their use for global health.

    Rainer Fischer;Richard M Twyman;Stefan Schillberg

  • Characteristics of Genome Editing Mutations in Cereal Crops

    Changfu Zhu;Luisa Bortesi;Can Baysal;Richard M. Twyman

  • Commercial aspects of pharmaceutical protein production in plants.

    Rainer Fischer;Stefan Schillberg;Johannes F. Buyel;Richard M. Twyman

  • Towards molecular farming in the future: moving from diagnostic protein and antibody production in microbes to plants.

    Rainer Fischer;Jürgen Drossard;Ulrich Commandeur;Stefan Schillberg

  • Molecular farming of pharmaceutical proteins using plant suspension cell and tissue cultures.

    Stefan Schillberg;Nicole Raven;Rainer Fischer;Richard M. Twyman

Frequent Co-Authors

Rainer Fischer
Rainer Fischer Purdue University West Lafayette
Richard M. Twyman
Richard M. Twyman University of Warwick
Paul Christou
Paul Christou University of Lleida
Eva Stoger
Eva Stoger BOKU University
Teresa Capell
Teresa Capell University of Lleida
Changfu Zhu
Changfu Zhu University of Lleida
Ralph Bock
Ralph Bock Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology
Julian K.-C. Ma
Julian K.-C. Ma St George's, University of London
Dirk Bosch
Dirk Bosch Wageningen University & Research
Mario Pezzotti
Mario Pezzotti University of Verona

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