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Overview

Stephan C. Schuster is affiliated with Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Their research primarily spans medicine, biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and environmental science. Within these areas, Schuster has contributed notably to subfields including molecular biology, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, infectious diseases, and genetics.

Schuster's work covers a range of topics, focusing significantly on gut microbiota and health, infection control and ventilation, indoor air quality and microbial exposure, genomics and phylogenetic studies, air quality and health impacts, COVID-19 and healthcare impacts, as well as infant nutrition and health. These themes are reflected in their research output and collaboration patterns.

Frequent coauthors in Schuster's research include Daniela I. Drautz-Moses with 34 joint works, Rikky W. Purbojati with 14, Irvan Luhung and Akira Uchida each with 13, and Balakrishnan N. V. Premkrishnan with 9 coauthored publications.

Regarding publication venues, Schuster has contributed multiple papers to bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 7 publications, Research Square with 4, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences with 3, Nature Communications with 2, and Communications Biology with 2 papers. These venues highlight a presence in both preprint and peer-reviewed platforms across biological and medical sciences.

Selected recent papers illustrate the scope of Schuster's research:

  • Detection of air and surface contamination by SARS-CoV-2 in hospital rooms of infected patients, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Human ACE2 receptor polymorphisms and altered susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2, 2021, Communications Biology
  • Human ACE2 receptor polymorphisms predict SARS-CoV-2 susceptibility, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Metagenomics Reveals a Core Macrolide Resistome Related to Microbiota in Chronic Respiratory Disease, 2020, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
  • A compromised developmental trajectory of the infant gut microbiome and metabolome in atopic eczema, 2020, Gut Microbes

Best Publications

  • The zebrafish reference genome sequence and its relationship to the human genome.

    Kerstin Howe;Matthew D. Clark;Carlos F. Torroja;Carlos F. Torroja;James Torrance

  • MEGAN analysis of metagenomic data

    Daniel H. Huson;Alexander F. Auch;Ji Qi;Stephan C. Schuster

  • Ancestral polyploidy in seed plants and angiosperms

    Yuannian Jiao;Norman J. Wickett;Saravanaraj Ayyampalayam;André S. Chanderbali

  • Next-generation sequencing transforms today's biology.

    Stephan C Schuster

  • Integrative analysis of environmental sequences using MEGAN4

    Daniel H. Huson;Suparna Mitra;Hans-Joachim Ruscheweyh;Nico Weber

  • Diverse somatic mutation patterns and pathway alterations in human cancers

    Zhengyan Kan;Bijay S. Jaiswal;Jeremy Stinson;Vasantharajan Janakiraman

  • Novel genes for nitrite reductase and Amo-related proteins indicate a role of uncultivated mesophilic crenarchaeota in nitrogen cycling.

    Alexander H Treusch;Sven Leininger;Arnulf Kletzin;Stephan C Schuster

  • Translational and rotational settings of H2A.Z nucleosomes across the Saccharomyces cerevisiae genome

    Istvan Albert;Travis N. Mavrich;Lynn P. Tomsho;Ji Qi

  • Microbial community gene expression in ocean surface waters

    Jorge Frias-Lopez;Yanmei Shi;Gene W. Tyson;Maureen L. Coleman

  • The genome of Theobroma cacao

    Xavier Argout;Jerome Salse;Jean-Marc Aury;Jean-Marc Aury;Jean-Marc Aury;Mark J Guiltinan

  • Simultaneous Assessment of Soil Microbial Community Structure and Function through Analysis of the Meta-Transcriptome

    Tim Urich;Anders Lanzén;Ji Qi;Daniel H. Huson

  • Nucleosome organization in the Drosophila genome

    Travis N. Mavrich;Cizhong Jiang;Ilya P. Ioshikhes;Xiaoyong Li

  • Genome 10K: A Proposal to Obtain Whole-Genome Sequence for 10 000 Vertebrate Species

    David Haussler;Stephen J. O'Brien;Oliver A. Ryder;F. Keith Barker

  • A barrier nucleosome model for statistical positioning of nucleosomes throughout the yeast genome

    Travis N. Mavrich;Ilya P. Ioshikhes;Bryan J. Venters;Cizhong Jiang

  • Metagenomics to paleogenomics: large-scale sequencing of mammoth DNA.

    Hendrik N. Poinar;Carsten Schwarz;Ji Qi;Beth Shapiro

  • Metagenomic signatures of the Peru Margin subseafloor biosphere show a genetically distinct environment.

    Jennifer F. Biddle;Sorel Fitz-Gibbon;Stephan C. Schuster;Jean E. Brenchley

  • Complete Khoisan and Bantu genomes from southern Africa

    Stephan C. Schuster;Webb Miller;Aakrosh Ratan;Lynn P. Tomsho

  • Complete genome sequence of the myxobacterium Sorangium cellulosum

    Susanne Schneiker;Olena Perlova;Olaf Kaiser;Klaus Gerth

  • A predator unmasked: life cycle of Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus from a genomic perspective

    Snjezana Rendulic;Pratik Jagtap;Andrea Rosinus;Mark Eppinger

  • Sequencing the nuclear genome of the extinct woolly mammoth

    Webb Miller;Daniela I. Drautz;Aakrosh Ratan;Barbara Pusey

Frequent Co-Authors

Webb Miller
Webb Miller Pennsylvania State University
Donald A. Bryant
Donald A. Bryant Pennsylvania State University
Liang Yang
Liang Yang Southern University of Science and Technology
John E. Carlson
John E. Carlson Pennsylvania State University
Michael Givskov
Michael Givskov University of Copenhagen
Fangqing Zhao
Fangqing Zhao Chinese Academy of Sciences
Christa Lanz
Christa Lanz Max Planck Society
Daniel H. Huson
Daniel H. Huson University of Tübingen
Dieter Oesterhelt
Dieter Oesterhelt Max Planck Society

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