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75
Citations
16635
World Ranking
5424
National Ranking
394

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1994 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 1991 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Genetics/Molecular Biology and Cell Biology
  • 1956 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

Overview

Widmar Tanner is affiliated with the University of Regensburg in Germany and has contributed research primarily in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine. Their work spans several subfields including Molecular Medicine, Epidemiology, and Endocrinology.

The scientist's research topics prominently feature studies on Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria, Mycobacterium research and diagnosis, and investigations related to Vibrio bacteria.

Widmar Tanner has collaborated frequently with various coauthors, among them Hannah Greenwald, E Pawluk, Lucien Dieter, Sigrid C. Roberts, and Thomas Mathew.

Their recent publication record includes a paper titled Bacterial recolonization of hospital sink biofilms, published in 2025 in the Journal of Hospital Infection.

  • Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
  • Mycobacterium research and diagnosis
  • Vibrio bacteria research studies

  • Hannah Greenwald
  • E Pawluk
  • Lucien Dieter
  • Sigrid C. Roberts
  • Thomas Mathew

  • Bacterial recolonization of hospital sink biofilms (2025), Journal of Hospital Infection

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Medicine

  • Molecular Medicine
  • Epidemiology
  • Endocrinology

Participation in various scientific organizations and academies is part of the professional record of Widmar Tanner. These include membership in Academia Europaea since 1994, membership in the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in the fields of Genetics/Molecular Biology and Cell Biology since 1991, fellowship of the American Association for the Advancement of Science since 1956, and membership in the European Molecular Biology Organization.

Best Publications

  • Transport of Sugars

    Li Qing Chen;Lily S. Cheung;Liang Feng;Widmar Tanner

  • Extracellular Invertase Is an Essential Component of Cytokinin-Mediated Delay of Senescence

    Maria Encarnacioén Balibrea Lara;Maria-Cruz Gonzalez Garcia;Tahira Fatima;Rainer Ehneß

  • The specific site of tunicamycin inhibition in the formation of dolichol-bound N-acetylglucosamine derivatives

    L. Lehle;W. Tanner

  • Protein glycosylation in yeast.

    Widmar Tanner;Ludwig Lehle

  • Protein O-mannosylation

    Sabine Strahl-Bolsinger;Martina Gentzsch;Widmar Tanner

  • Protein glycosylation, conserved from yeast to man: a model organism helps elucidate congenital human diseases.

    Ludwig Lehle;Sabine Strahl;Widmar Tanner

  • Specific lipid requirements of membrane proteins—a putative bottleneck in heterologous expression

    M Opekarová;W Tanner

  • Visualization of protein compartmentation within the plasma membrane of living yeast cells.

    Katerina Malínská;Jan Malínský;Miroslava Opekarová;Widmar Tanner

  • The PMT gene family: protein O-glycosylation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae is vital.

    Martina Gentzsch;Widmar Tanner

  • Membrane potential governs lateral segregation of plasma membrane proteins and lipids in yeast.

    Guido Grossmann;Miroslava Opekarová;Jan Malinsky;Ina Weig-Meckl

  • New potential cell wall glucanases of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and their involvement in mating.

    Corinna Cappellaro;Vladimir Mrsa;Widmar Tanner

  • Specific labelling of cell wall proteins by biotinylation. Identification of four covalently linked O-mannosylated proteins of Saccharomyces cerevisiae

    Vladimir Mrsă;Thomas Seidl;Martina Gentzsch;Widmar Tanner

  • Plasma membrane microdomains regulate turnover of transport proteins in yeast

    Guido Grossmann;Jan Malinsky;Wiebke Stahlschmidt;Martin Loibl

  • Pir Proteins of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Are Attached to β-1,3-Glucan by a New Protein-Carbohydrate Linkage

    Margit Ecker;Rainer Deutzmann;Ludwig Lehle;Vladimir Mrsa

  • O-mannosyl glycans: from yeast to novel associations with human disease.

    Tobias Willer;M Carmen Valero;Widmar Tanner;Jesus Cruces

  • Transpiration, a prerequisite for long-distance transport of minerals in plants?

    W. Tanner;H. Beevers

  • The hexose carrier from Chlorella. cDNA cloning of a eucaryotic H+-cotransporter.

    Norbert Sauer;Widmar Tanner

  • The Role of Dolicholmonophosphate in Glycoprotein Biosynthesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

    Chandra Bhan Sharma;Peter Babczinski;Ludwig Lehle;Widmar Tanner

  • The Determination of the Membrane Potential of Chlorella vulgaris

    Ewald Komor;Widmar Tanner

  • Protein-O-glycosylation in yeast: protein-specific mannosyltransferases.

    Martina Gentzsch;Widmar Tanner

Frequent Co-Authors

Ewald Komor
Ewald Komor University of Bayreuth
Ludwig Lehle
Ludwig Lehle University of Regensburg
Norbert Sauer
Norbert Sauer University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Andrej Hasilik
Andrej Hasilik Philipp University of Marburg
Reinhard Rachel
Reinhard Rachel University of Regensburg
Thomas Roitsch
Thomas Roitsch University of Copenhagen
Rainer Deutzmann
Rainer Deutzmann University of Regensburg
Wolf B. Frommer
Wolf B. Frommer Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Otto Kandler
Otto Kandler Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Ira Herskowitz
Ira Herskowitz University of California, San Francisco

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