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Stefan Schulz is affiliated with Technische Universität Braunschweig in Germany and has a significant body of research within Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their publications cover a wide scope of topics including ecology, evolution, behavior, molecular biology, genetics, and insect science, often focusing on the molecular and neurobiological aspects of insect physiology.

The scientist's research spans several specialized areas, including:

  • Plant and animal studies
  • Insect and arachnid ecology and behavior
  • Neurobiology and insect physiology research
  • Insect and pesticide research
  • Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis
  • Insect pheromone research and control
  • Lepidoptera: biology and taxonomy

Schulz's frequent co-authors reflect ongoing collaborations in these fields, including:

  • Chris D. Jiggins
  • Daiane Szczerbowski
  • Anton Möllerke
  • W. Owen McMillan
  • Kathy Darragh

The researcher has published extensively in a number of scientific venues with the highest number of publications appearing in:

  • Journal of Chemical Ecology
  • Journal of Natural Products
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • ChemBioChem

Among recent papers, several can be highlighted for their contribution to the fields of microbiology and chemical ecology:

  • Microbial volatile organic compounds in intra-kingdom and inter-kingdom interactions (2021), published in Nature Reviews Microbiology
  • Hybrid speciation driven by multilocus introgression of ecological traits (2024), published in Nature
  • Chemical signals act as the main reproductive barrier between sister and mimetic Heliconius butterflies (2020), published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Species specificity and intraspecific variation in the chemical profiles of Heliconius butterflies across a large geographic range (2020), published in Ecology and Evolution
  • A novel terpene synthase controls differences in anti-aphrodisiac pheromone production between closely related Heliconius butterflies (2021), published in PLoS Biology

Best Publications

  • Bacterial volatiles: the smell of small organisms

    Stefan Schulz;Jeroen S. Dickschat

  • Microbial volatile organic compounds in intra-kingdom and inter-kingdom interactions

    Laure Weisskopf;Stefan Schulz;Paolina Garbeva

  • Production of Bioactive Volatiles by Different Burkholderia ambifaria Strains

    Ulrike Groenhagen;Rita Baumgartner;Aurélien Bailly;Amber Gardiner

  • Discovery of complex mixtures of novel long-chain quorum sensing signals in free-living and host-associated marine alphaproteobacteria.

    Irene Wagner-Döbler;Verena Thiel;Leo Eberl;Martin Allgaier

  • Ecology, inhibitory activity, and morphogenesis of a marine antagonistic bacterium belonging to the Roseobacter clade.

    Jesper Bartholin Bruhn;Kristian Fog Nielsen;Mette Hjelm;Michael Hansen

  • Potent antifouling compounds produced by marine Streptomyces.

    Ying Xu;Hongping He;Stefan Schulz;Xin Liu

  • Chemical Analysis of Volatiles Emitted by Pinus sylvestris After Induction by Insect Oviposition

    Roland Mumm;Kai Schrank;Robert Wegener;Stefan Schulz

  • Streptococcus mutans inhibits Candida albicans hyphal formation by the fatty acid signaling molecule trans-2-decenoic acid (SDSF).

    Ramiro Vílchez;André Lemme;Britta Ballhausen;Verena Thiel

  • Formation and analysis of mannosylerythritol lipids secreted by Pseudozyma aphidis.

    U. Rau;L. A. Nguyen;S. Schulz;V. Wray

  • A novel type of geosmin biosynthesis in myxobacteria.

    Jeroen S Dickschat;Helge B Bode;Taifo Mahmud;Rolf Müller

  • Tropodithietic Acid Production in Phaeobacter gallaeciensis Is Regulated by N-Acyl Homoserine Lactone-Mediated Quorum Sensing

    Martine Berger;Alexander Neumann;Stefan Schulz;Meinhard Simon

  • Identification and synthesis of volatiles released by the myxobacterium Chondromyces crocatus

    Stefan Schulz;Jens Fuhlendorff;Hans Reichenbach

  • Volatiles released by a Streptomyces species isolated from the North Sea.

    Jeroen S. Dickschat;Torben Martens;Thorsten Brinkhoff;Meinhard Simon

  • Biosynthesis of volatiles by the myxobacterium Myxococcus xanthus.

    Jeroen S. Dickschat;Silke C. Wenzel;Helge B. Bode;Rolf Müller

  • Biosynthesis of the Off‐Flavor 2‐Methylisoborneol by the Myxobacterium Nannocystis exedens

    Jeroen S. Dickschat;Jeroen S. Dickschat;Thorben Nawrath;Verena Thiel;Brigitte Kunze

  • The use of the lactone motif in chemical communication

    Stefan Schulz;Susann Hötling

  • Pyrazine Biosynthesis in Corynebacterium glutamicum

    Jeroen S. Dickschat;Susanne Wickel;Christoph J. Bolten;Thorben Nawrath

  • Composition of the silk lipids of the spider Nephila clavipes.

    Stefan Schulz

  • An antiaphrodisiac in Heliconius melpomene butterflies.

    Stefan Schulz;Catalina Estrada;Selma Yildizhan;Michael Boppré

  • Novel Pyrazines from the Myxobacterium Chondromyces crocatus and Marine Bacteria

    Jeroen S. Dickschat;Hans Reichenbach;Irene Wagner-Döbler;Stefan Schulz

  • New structural variants of homoserine lactones in bacteria.

    Verena Thiel;Brigitte Kunze;Pankaj Verma;Irene Wagner-Döbler

Frequent Co-Authors

Miguel Vences
Miguel Vences Technische Universität Braunschweig
Jeroen S. Dickschat
Jeroen S. Dickschat University of Bonn
Irene Wagner-Döbler
Irene Wagner-Döbler Technische Universität Braunschweig
Rolf Müller
Rolf Müller Saarland University
Manfred Ayasse
Manfred Ayasse University of Ulm
Thorsten Brinkhoff
Thorsten Brinkhoff Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Stefan Dötterl
Stefan Dötterl University of Salzburg
Helge B. Bode
Helge B. Bode Goethe University Frankfurt
Sebastian Steinfartz
Sebastian Steinfartz Leipzig University
Monika Hilker
Monika Hilker Freie Universität Berlin

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