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Vera Meyer is affiliated with the Technical University of Berlin in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant contributions to agricultural and biological sciences. The subfields of study in which they have published include molecular biology, biomedical engineering, plant science, biotechnology, and pharmacology.

The scientist's work spans several main topics, including microbial metabolic engineering and bioproduction, plant and biological electrophysiology studies, biofuel production and bioconversion, slime mold and myxomycetes research, fungal and yeast genetics research, microbial natural products and biosynthesis, and enzyme production and characterization.

Vera Meyer has published extensively in various scientific venues. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • Fungal Biology and Biotechnology
  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Biotechnology and Bioengineering
  • Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

The scientist's recent papers reflect a focus on fungal biotechnology and related fields. These include:

  • Growing a circular economy with fungal biotechnology: a white paper, 2020, Fungal Biology and Biotechnology
  • Something old, something new: challenges and developments in Aspergillus niger biotechnology, 2021, Essays in Biochemistry
  • Aspergillus niger Spores Are Highly Resistant to Space Radiation, 2020, Frontiers in Microbiology
  • A Penicillium rubens platform strain for secondary metabolite production, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Understanding and controlling filamentous growth of fungal cell factories: novel tools and opportunities for targeted morphology engineering, 2021, Fungal Biology and Biotechnology

They have collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Timothy C. Cairns
  • Lars Barthel
  • Tabea Schütze
  • Sascha Jung
  • Henri Müller

The body of work contributed by Vera Meyer addresses various aspects of microbial and fungal biotechnology, fungal growth morphology, production of secondary metabolites, and the application of fungi in sustainable bioeconomy efforts. Their interdisciplinary approach integrates molecular biology techniques with biomedical and agricultural sciences.

Best Publications

  • Genetic engineering of filamentous fungi--progress, obstacles and future trends

    Vera Meyer

  • Comparative genomics reveals high biological diversity and specific adaptations in the industrially and medically important fungal genus Aspergillus

    Ronald P. de Vries;Robert Riley;Ad Wiebenga;Guillermo Aguilar-Osorio

  • Growing a circular economy with fungal biotechnology: a white paper

    Vera Meyer;Evelina Y Basenko;J Philipp Benz;Gerhard H Braus

  • Highly efficient gene targeting in the Aspergillus niger kusA mutant.

    Vera Meyer;Mark Arentshorst;Aymen El-Ghezal;Ann-Christin Drews

  • Current challenges of research on filamentous fungi in relation to human welfare and a sustainable bio-economy: a white paper

    Vera Meyer;Mikael Rørdam Andersen;Axel A. Brakhage;Axel A. Brakhage;Gerhard H. Braus

  • Fungal Gene Expression on Demand: an Inducible, Tunable, and Metabolism-Independent Expression System for Aspergillus niger

    Vera Meyer;Franziska Wanka;Janneke van Gent;Mark Arentshorst

  • How a fungus shapes biotechnology: 100 years of Aspergillus niger research.

    Timothy C. Cairns;Corrado Nai;Vera Meyer

  • Aspergillus as a multi-purpose cell factory: current status and perspectives.

    Vera Meyer;Bo Wu;Bo Wu;Arthur F. J. Ram

  • Comparison of different transformation methods for Aspergillus giganteus

    Vera Meyer;Dirk Mueller;Till Strowig;Ulf Stahl

  • Practical Approach for Reliable Detection of AmpC Beta-Lactamase-Producing Enterobacteriaceae

    Silke Polsfuss;Guido V. Bloemberg;Jacqueline Giger;Vera Meyer

  • Expanding the ku70 toolbox for filamentous fungi: establishment of complementation vectors and recipient strains for advanced gene analyses

    Neuza D. S. P. Carvalho;Mark Arentshorst;Min Jin Kwon;Vera Meyer

  • Using Non-homologous End-Joining-Deficient Strains for Functional Gene Analyses in Filamentous Fungi

    Mark Arentshorst;Arthur F. J. Ram;Vera Meyer;Vera Meyer

  • 5S rRNA Promoter for Guide RNA Expression Enabled Highly Efficient CRISPR/Cas9 Genome Editing in Aspergillus niger

    Xiaomei Zheng;Ping Zheng;Kun Zhang;Timothy C. Cairns

  • The antifungal protein from Aspergillus giganteus causes membrane permeabilization.

    T. Theis;M. Wedde;V. Meyer;U. Stahl

  • The carbon starvation response of Aspergillus niger during submerged cultivation: insights from the transcriptome and secretome

    Benjamin M Nitsche;Benjamin M Nitsche;Thomas R Jørgensen;Thomas R Jørgensen;Michiel Akeroyd;Vera Meyer

  • Two zinc finger transcription factors, CrzA and SltA, are involved in cation homoeostasis and detoxification in Aspergillus nidulans.

    Anja Spielvogel;Anja Spielvogel;Helen Findon;Herbert N. Arst;Lidia Araújo-Bazán

  • The 2008 update of the Aspergillus nidulans genome annotation: a community effort.

    Jennifer Russo Wortman;Jane Mabey Gilsenan;Vinita Joardar;Jennifer Deegan

  • Functional characterization of Rho GTPases in Aspergillus niger uncovers conserved and diverged roles of Rho proteins within filamentous fungi.

    Min Jin Kwon;Mark Arentshorst;Eelke D. Roos;Cees A. M. J. J. van den Hondel

  • A small protein that fights fungi: AFP as a new promising antifungal agent of biotechnological value.

    Vera Meyer

  • Additional file 8: of Comparative genomics reveals high biological diversity and specific adaptations in the industrially and medically important fungal genus Aspergillus

    Ronald de Vries;Robert Riley;Ad Wiebenga;Guillermo Aguilar-Osorio

Frequent Co-Authors

Arthur F. J. Ram
Arthur F. J. Ram Leiden University
Ulf Stahl
Ulf Stahl Technical University of Berlin
Ronald P. de Vries
Ronald P. de Vries Utrecht University
Gerhard H. Braus
Gerhard H. Braus University of Göttingen
Peter J. Punt
Peter J. Punt Leiden University
Bernard Henrissat
Bernard Henrissat Technical University of Denmark
Jennifer R. Wortman
Jennifer R. Wortman Broad Institute
Jens Christian Frisvad
Jens Christian Frisvad Technical University of Denmark
Axel A. Brakhage
Axel A. Brakhage Leibniz Association
Gustavo H. Goldman
Gustavo H. Goldman Universidade de São Paulo

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