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3231
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1990 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Ueli Schibler is affiliated with the University of Geneva in Switzerland. Their research portfolio spans multiple fields including Neuroscience, Medicine, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these areas, they have contributed extensively to subfields such as Endocrine and Autonomic Systems, Physiology, Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Plant Science.

The primary focus of Schibler's research centers on circadian biology and related physiological processes. Their work explores key topics including:

  • Circadian rhythm and melatonin
  • Spaceflight effects on biology
  • Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
  • Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms
  • Light effects on plants
  • Sleep and Wakefulness Research
  • Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research

Schibler has published papers in prominent venues such as Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature, Molecular Cell, Genes & Development, Methods in Molecular Biology, and European Journal of Neuroscience. Among their recent publications are:

  • Circadian hepatocyte clocks keep synchrony in the absence of a master pacemaker in the suprachiasmatic nucleus or other extrahepatic clocks, 2021, Genes & Development
  • BMAL1 dephosphorylation determines the pace of the circadian clock, 2021, Genes & Development
  • Senescence of Timing Reverted: NAD+ Rejuvenates the Circadian Clock, 2020, Molecular Cell
  • Recording of Diurnal Gene Expression in Peripheral Organs of Mice Using the RT-Biolumicorder, 2022, Methods in Molecular Biology
  • PARP-1 drives slumber: A reciprocal relationship between sleep homeostasis and DNA damage repair, 2021, Molecular Cell

Frequent collaborators in Schibler's research include Flore Sinturel, Claudia Hagedorn, Florian Kreppel, Charna Dibner, and Pascal Gos. These coauthors reflect ongoing joint efforts in understanding molecular mechanisms underlying circadian regulation and related biological processes.

Schibler's work has been recognized by their election as a Member of Academia Europaea in 1990.

Best Publications

  • Restricted feeding uncouples circadian oscillators in peripheral tissues from the central pacemaker in the suprachiasmatic nucleus

    Francesca Damiola;Nguyet Le Minh;Nicolas Preitner;Benoı̂t Kornmann

  • The mammalian circadian timing system: organization and coordination of central and peripheral clocks.

    Charna Dibner;Ulrich Schibler;Urs Albrecht

  • The orphan nuclear receptor REV-ERBalpha controls circadian transcription within the positive limb of the mammalian circadian oscillator.

    Nicolas Preitner;Francesca Damiola;Luis-Lopez-Molina;Joszef Zakany

  • A Serum Shock Induces Circadian Gene Expression in Mammalian Tissue Culture Cells

    Aurélio Balsalobre;Francesca Damiola;Ueli Schibler

  • Resetting of circadian time in peripheral tissues by glucocorticoid signaling.

    Aurélio Balsalobre;Steven A. Brown;Lysiane Marcacci;François Tronche

  • A liver-enriched transcriptional activator protein, LAP, and a transcriptional inhibitory protein, LIP, are translated from the same mRNA.

    Patrick Descombes;Ulrich Schibler

  • SIRT1 Regulates Circadian Clock Gene Expression through PER2 Deacetylation

    Gad Asher;David Gatfield;Markus Stratmann;Hans Reinke

  • Circadian gene expression in individual fibroblasts: cell-autonomous and self-sustained oscillators pass time to daughter cells.

    Emi Nagoshi;Camille Saini;Christoph Bauer;Thierry Laroche

  • Mammalian genes are transcribed with widely different bursting kinetics

    David M. Suter;Nacho Molina;David Gatfield;David Gatfield;Kim Schneider

  • A web of circadian pacemakers.

    Ueli Schibler;Paolo Sassone-Corsi

  • LAP, a novel member of the C/EBP gene family, encodes a liver-enriched transcriptional activator protein.

    Patrick Descombes;Mario Chojkier;Serge Patrick Lichtsteiner;Eileen Elisabeth Falvey

  • Rhythmic CLOCK-BMAL1 binding to multiple E-box motifs drives circadian Dbp transcription and chromatin transitions.

    Jürgen A Ripperger;Jürgen A Ripperger;Ueli Schibler

  • Circadian rhythms: mechanisms and therapeutic implications.

    Francis A. Lévi;Ueli Schibler

  • System-Driven and Oscillator-Dependent Circadian Transcription in Mice with a Conditionally Active Liver Clock

    Benoît Kornmann;Olivier Schaad;Hermann Bujard;Joseph S. Takahashi

  • Rhythms of mammalian body temperature can sustain peripheral circadian clocks.

    Steven A Brown;Gottlieb Zumbrunn;Fabienne Fleury-Olela;Nicolas Preitner

  • Crosstalk between Components of Circadian and Metabolic Cycles in Mammals

    Gad Asher;Ueli Schibler

  • Peripheral Circadian Oscillators in Mammals: Time and Food:

    Ueli Schibler;Juergen Ripperger;Steven A. Brown

  • CLOCK, an essential pacemaker component, controls expression of the circadian transcription factor DBP

    Jürgen A. Ripperger;Lauren P. Shearman;Steven M. Reppert;Ueli Schibler

  • The circadian PAR-domain basic leucine zipper transcription factors DBP, TEF, and HLF modulate basal and inducible xenobiotic detoxification

    Frédéric Gachon;Fabienne Fleury Olela;Olivier Schaad;Patrick Descombes

  • Glucocorticoid hormones inhibit food-induced phase-shifting of peripheral circadian oscillators

    Nguyet Le Minh;Nguyet Le Minh;Francesca Damiola;Francesca Damiola;Francesca Damiola;François Tronche;Günther Schütz

Frequent Co-Authors

Felix Naef
Felix Naef École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Mauro Delorenzi
Mauro Delorenzi University of Lausanne
Nouria Hernandez
Nouria Hernandez University of Lausanne
Bart Deplancke
Bart Deplancke École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Paul Franken
Paul Franken University of Lausanne
Béatrice Desvergne
Béatrice Desvergne University of Lausanne
Ioannis Xenarios
Ioannis Xenarios University of Lausanne
Mehdi Tafti
Mehdi Tafti University of Lausanne
Winship Herr
Winship Herr University of Lausanne

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