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10298
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15649
National Ranking
289

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Urs Ziegler is affiliated with the University of Zurich in Switzerland and has contributed extensively to the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with 25 publications, and Medicine, with 13 publications. Their research spans multiple subfields including Biophysics, Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Immunology.

Their main research topics focus on several advanced techniques and applications such as:

  • Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques
  • Cell Image Analysis Techniques
  • Photochromic and Fluorescence Chemistry
  • Photoreceptor and Optogenetics Research
  • Nanoplatforms for Cancer Theranostics
  • Photoacoustic and Ultrasonic Imaging
  • Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications

Ziegler has published in various scientific journals, with frequent contributions to venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Nature Communications
  • Scientific Reports
  • EMBO Reports

Recent papers include:

  • "Photouncaging of Carboxylic Acids from Cyanine Dyes with Near-Infrared Light," 2022, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • "Benchtop mesoSPIM: a next-generation open-source light-sheet microscope for cleared samples," 2024, Nature Communications
  • "The iron chelator Deferasirox causes severe mitochondrial swelling without depolarization due to a specific effect on inner membrane permeability," 2020, Scientific Reports
  • "Quorum sensing governs a transmissive Legionella subpopulation at the pathogen vacuole periphery," 2021, EMBO Reports
  • "Chip-based multimodal super-resolution microscopy for histological investigations of cryopreserved tissue sections," 2022, Light Science & Applications

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Ziegler include José María Mateos with nine joint publications, Fabian F. Voigt, Fritjof Helmchen, Andres Kaech, and Gery Barmettler each with four joint publications.

Best Publications

  • Morphological features of cell death.

    U. Ziegler;P. Groscurth

  • Peptidomimetic Antibiotics Target Outer-Membrane Biogenesis in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

    Nityakalyani Srinivas;Peter Jetter;Bernhard J. Ueberbacher;Martina Werneburg

  • Embryoid bodies: an in vitro model of mouse embryogenesis.

    Isabelle Desbaillets;Urs Ziegler;Peter Groscurth;Max Gassmann

  • Induction of autophagy-dependent necroptosis is required for childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia cells to overcome glucocorticoid resistance

    Laura Bonapace;Beat C. Bornhauser;Maike Schmitz;Gunnar Cario

  • The mesoSPIM initiative: open-source light-sheet microscopes for imaging cleared tissue

    Fabian F Voigt;Daniel Kirschenbaum;Evgenia Platonova;Stéphane Pagès

  • Rapid dephosphorylation of the renal sodium chloride cotransporter in response to oral potassium intake in mice

    Mads V. Sorensen;Solveig Grossmann;Marian Roesinger;Nikolay Gresko

  • Segmentation and quantification of subcellular structures in fluorescence microscopy images using Squassh.

    Aurélien Rizk;Grégory Paul;Pietro Incardona;Milica Bugarski

  • Induction and nuclear translocation of hypoxia-inducible factor-1 (HIF-1): heterodimerization with ARNT is not necessary for nuclear accumulation of HIF-1alpha.

    Dmitri Chilov;Gieri Camenisch;Ivica Kvietikova;Urs Ziegler

  • Differential subcellular localization of ENaC subunits in mouse kidney in response to high- and low-Na diets

    Johannes Loffing;Laurence Pietri;Fintan Aregger;May Bloch-Faure

  • Decreased alveolar oxygen induces lung inflammation.

    C. Madjdpour;U. R. Jewell;S. Kneller;U. Ziegler

  • Autophagy proteins stabilize pathogen-containing phagosomes for prolonged MHC II antigen processing.

    Susana Romao;Nathalie Gasser;Andrea C. Becker;Bruno Guhl

  • Premigratory and Migratory Neural Crest Cells Are Multipotent In Vivo

    Arianna Baggiolini;Sandra Varum;José María Mateos;Damiano Bettosini

  • Parathyroid hormone leads to the lysosomal degradation of the renal type II Na/Pi cotransporter

    Markus F. Pfister;Isabelle Ruf;Gerti Stange;Urs Ziegler

  • Herpes Simplex Virus 1 Envelopment Follows Two Diverse Pathways

    Helene Leuzinger;Urs Ziegler;Elisabeth M. Schraner;Cornel Fraefel

  • Decoding the entry of two novel cell-penetrating peptides in HeLa cells: lipid raft-mediated endocytosis and endosomal escape.

    Christina Foerg;Urs Ziegler;‖ Jimena Fernandez-Carneado;Ernest Giralt

  • Mycoplasma suis invades porcine erythrocytes

    K. Groebel;K. Hoelzle;M. M. Wittenbrink;U. Ziegler

  • Exercise training increases skeletal muscle mitochondrial volume density by enlargement of existing mitochondria and not de novo biogenesis.

    A.-K. Meinild Lundby;R. A. Jacobs;R. A. Jacobs;S. Gehrig;J. de Leur

  • Blood purification using functionalized core/shell nanomagnets.

    Inge K. Herrmann;Martin Urner;Fabian M. Koehler;Melanie Hasler

  • Parathyroid Hormone-dependent Degradation of Type II Na+/Pi Cotransporters

    Markus F. Pfister;Eleanor Lederer;Judith Forgo;Urs Ziegler

  • Calsyntenin-1, a proteolytically processed postsynaptic membrane protein with a cytoplasmic calcium-binding domain.

    Lorenz Vogt;Sabine P. Schrimpf;Virginia Meskenaite;Renato Frischknecht

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Groscurth
Peter Groscurth University of Zurich
Peter Sonderegger
Peter Sonderegger University of Zurich
Peter J. Wild
Peter J. Wild Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies
Heini Murer
Heini Murer University of Zurich
Esther T. Stoeckli
Esther T. Stoeckli University of Zurich
Hanns Ulrich Zeilhofer
Hanns Ulrich Zeilhofer University of Zurich
Olivier Devuyst
Olivier Devuyst University of Zurich
Christian Lüscher
Christian Lüscher University of Geneva
Christoph Rader
Christoph Rader Scripps Research Institute
Mathias Ackermann
Mathias Ackermann University of Zurich

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