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72
Citations
23756
World Ranking
6179
National Ranking
437

Overview

Stefan Schuster is affiliated with Friedrich Schiller University Jena in Germany and has contributed extensively to the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Medicine. Their research portfolio spans 49 publications in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology and 42 in Medicine, demonstrating a broad engagement with fundamental and applied biomedical sciences.

Their work encompasses several subfields including Molecular Biology, Cancer Research, Oncology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, and Genetics. These subfields highlight a focus on critical biological processes and disease mechanisms:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Cancer Research
  • Oncology
  • Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
  • Genetics

Central topics in Schuster's research include cancer genomics and diagnostics, cancer cells and metastasis, enzyme structure and function, plant parasitism and resistance, gene regulatory network analysis, microbial metabolic engineering and bioproduction, and blood properties and coagulation:

  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
  • Cancer Cells and Metastasis
  • Enzyme Structure and Function
  • Plant Parasitism and Resistance
  • Gene Regulatory Network Analysis
  • Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction
  • Blood properties and coagulation

Schuster has coauthored multiple publications with several researchers, with frequent collaborations including:

  • Heiko Stark
  • Sachin Apurwa
  • Sewanti Limaye
  • Darshana Patil
  • Dadasaheb Akolkar

The scientist's research appears regularly in specific publication venues, reflecting consistent dissemination in various journals and repositories. Frequent publication venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Scientific Reports
  • Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • Royal Society Open Science
  • PLoS ONE

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by Schuster are:

  • Robustness during Aging-Molecular Biological and Physiological Aspects, 2020, Cells
  • The golden ratio as an ecological affordance leading to aesthetic attractiveness, 2021, PsyCh Journal
  • Modelling population dynamics in a unicellular social organism community using a minimal model and evolutionary game theory, 2020, Open Biology
  • A novel method for achieving an optimal classification of the proteinogenic amino acids, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Differential equation-based minimal model describing metabolic oscillations in Bacillus subtilis biofilms, 2020, Royal Society Open Science

In addition to journal publications, Schuster has contributed to book literature. A notable publication includes:

  • Verkehrte Welt, published by Psychosozial-Verlag eBooks in 2024

Best Publications

  • The Regulation of Cellular Systems

    Reinhart Heinrich;Stefan Schuster

  • Cooperation and Competition in the Evolution of ATP-Producing Pathways

    Thomas Pfeiffer;Stefan Schuster;Sebastian Bonhoeffer

  • A general definition of metabolic pathways useful for systematic organization and analysis of complex metabolic networks.

    Stefan Schuster;David A. Fell;Thomas Dandekar;Thomas Dandekar

  • Metabolic network structure determines key aspects of functionality and regulation

    Jörg Stelling;Steffen Klamt;Katja Bettenbrock;Stefan Schuster

  • Mass spectrometry-based metabolomics: a guide for annotation, quantification and best reporting practices

    Saleh Alseekh;Asaph Aharoni;Yariv Brotman;Kevin Contrepois

  • Detection of elementary flux modes in biochemical networks: a promising tool for pathway analysis and metabolic engineering

    Stefan Schuster;Thomas Dandekar;Thomas Dandekar;David A. Fell

  • Challenges in microbial ecology: building predictive understanding of community function and dynamics

    Stefanie Widder;Rosalind J Allen;Thomas Pfeiffer;Thomas P Curtis

  • ON ELEMENTARY FLUX MODES IN BIOCHEMICAL REACTION SYSTEMS AT STEADY STATE

    Stefan Schuster;Claus Hlgetag;Fachbereich Biologic

  • Modelling of simple and complex calcium oscillations

    Stefan Schuster;Stefan Schuster;Marko Marhl;Thomas Höfer

  • Metabolic Pathway Analysis: Basic Concepts and Scientific Applications in the Post-genomic Era

    Christophe H. Schilling;Stefan Schuster;Bernhard O. Palsson;Reinhart Heinrich

  • METATOOL: for studying metabolic networks.

    Thomas Pfeiffer;Ignacio Sánchez-Valdenebro;Juan Carlos Nuño;Francisco Montero

  • Comparison of network-based pathway analysis methods

    Jason A. Papin;Joerg Stelling;Nathan D. Price;Steffen Klamt

  • Pathway alignment: application to the comparative analysis of glycolytic enzymes.

    Thomas Dandekar;Thomas Dandekar;Stefan Schuster;Berend Snel;Berend Snel;Martijn Huynen;Martijn Huynen;Martijn Huynen

  • Fitness and stability of obligate cross-feeding interactions that emerge upon gene loss in bacteria

    Samay Pande;Holger Merker;Katrin Bohl;Michael Reichelt

  • Metatool 5.0: fast and flexible elementary modes analysis

    Axel Von Kamp;Stefan Schuster

  • Reaction routes in biochemical reaction systems: Algebraic properties, validated calculation procedure and example from nucleotide metabolism

    S. Schuster;C. Hilgetag;J.H. Woods;D.A. Fell

  • The large-scale organization of metabolic networks

    H. Jeong;B. Tombor;R. Albert;Z. N. Oltavai

  • Exploring the pathway structure of metabolism: decomposition into subnetworks and application to Mycoplasma pneumoniae

    Stefan Schuster;Thomas Pfeiffer;Ferdinand Moldenhauer;Ina Koch

  • Is maximization of molar yield in metabolic networks favoured by evolution

    Stefan Schuster;Thomas Pfeiffer;David A. Fell

  • Role of sirtuins in lifespan regulation is linked to methylation of nicotinamide

    Kathrin Schmeisser;Johannes Mansfeld;Johannes Mansfeld;Doreen Kuhlow;Sandra Weimer

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Dandekar
Thomas Dandekar University of Würzburg
Reinhard Guthke
Reinhard Guthke Leibniz Association
Hans V. Westerhoff
Hans V. Westerhoff Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Reinhart Heinrich
Reinhart Heinrich Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
David A. Fell
David A. Fell Oxford Brookes University
Steffen Klamt
Steffen Klamt Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems
Michael Ristow
Michael Ristow École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Pu Li
Pu Li Taiyuan University of Technology
Ina Koch
Ina Koch Goethe University Frankfurt
Matjaž Perc
Matjaž Perc University of Maribor

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