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Wolfgang Baumeister

Wolfgang Baumeister

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Biology and Biochemistry
Germany
2026

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
142
Citations
66255
World Ranking
251
National Ranking
18

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Germany Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Germany Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Germany Leader Award
  • 2010 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2002 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2001 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Biochemistry and Biophysics
  • 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

Wolfgang Baumeister is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany and has made significant contributions within the field of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their research spans a broad range of subfields including Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Structural Biology, Epidemiology, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

The primary topics of Wolfgang Baumeister's research focus on Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications, Autophagy in Disease and Therapy, Cellular Transport and Secretion, Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease, Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms, Ubiquitin and Proteasome Pathways, and Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases.

Frequent co-authors in their collaborations include Jürgen M. Plitzko, Qiang Guo, Rubén Fernández-Busnadiego, Florian Beck, and Florian Wilfling.

The scientist has published extensively in several venues. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Trends in Cell Biology
  • Nature Communications
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Nature Methods

Recent notable papers include:

  • "The promise and the challenges of cryo-electron tomography," 2020, FEBS Letters
  • "Stress- and ubiquitylation-dependent phase separation of the proteasome," 2020, Nature
  • "Structural basis for VIPP1 oligomerization and maintenance of thylakoid membrane integrity," 2021, Cell
  • "High-resolution structure and biophysical characterization of the nucleocapsid phosphoprotein dimerization domain from the Covid-19 severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2," 2020, Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
  • "Charting the native architecture of Chlamydomonas thylakoid membranes with single-molecule precision," 2020, eLife

Wolfgang Baumeister has received several awards throughout their career including:

  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2010)
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2002)
  • German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina - Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften for Biochemistry and Biophysics (2001)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

Best Publications

  • The 26S Proteasome: A Molecular Machine Designed for Controlled Proteolysis

    D. Voges;P. Zwickl;W. Baumeister

  • Crystal structure of the 20S proteasome from the archaeon T. acidophilum at 3.4 A resolution.

    Jan Löwe;Daniela Stock;Bing Jap;Peter Zwickl

  • The proteasome - paradigm of a self-compartmentalizing protease

    Wolfgang Baumeister;Jochen Walz;Frank Zühl;Erika Seemüller

  • A subcomplex of the proteasome regulatory particle required for ubiquitin-conjugate degradation and related to the COP9-signalosome and eIF3.

    Michael H Glickman;David M Rubin;Olivier Coux;Inge Wefes

  • The correlation averaging of a regularly arranged bacterial cell envelope protein

    W. O. Saxton;W. Baumeister

  • Macromolecular Architecture in Eukaryotic Cells Visualized by Cryoelectron Tomography

    Ohad Medalia;Igor Weber;Achilleas S. Frangakis;Daniela Nicastro

  • Proteasome from Thermoplasma acidophilum: A threonine protease

    Erika Seemüller;Andrei Lupas;Daniela Stock;Jan Löwe

  • Structural studies by electron tomography: from cells to molecules.

    Vladan Lučić;Friedrich Förster;Wolfgang Baumeister

  • Three-Dimensional Structure of Herpes Simplex Virus from Cryo-Electron Tomography

    Kay Grünewald;Prashant Desai;Dennis C. Winkler;J. Bernard Heymann;J. Bernard Heymann

  • From words to literature in structural proteomics

    Andrej Sali;Robert Glaeser;Thomas Earnest;Wolfgang Baumeister

  • Nuclear Pore Complex Structure and Dynamics Revealed by Cryoelectron Tomography

    Martin Beck;Friedrich Förster;Mary Ecke;Jürgen M. Plitzko

  • Phase separation of a yeast prion protein promotes cellular fitness

    Titus M. Franzmann;Marcus Jahnel;Marcus Jahnel;Andrei Pozniakovsky;Julia Mahamid

  • The molecular sociology of the cell

    Carol V. Robinson;Andrej Sali;Wolfgang Baumeister

  • Visualizing the molecular sociology at the HeLa cell nuclear periphery

    Julia Mahamid;Stefan Pfeffer;Miroslava Schaffer;Elizabeth Villa

  • Molecular architecture of the 26S proteasome holocomplex determined by an integrative approach

    Keren Lasker;Friedrich Förster;Stefan Bohn;Thomas Walzthoeni

  • Chaperonin-mediated protein folding: GroES binds to one end of the GroEL cylinder, which accommodates the protein substrate within its central cavity.

    T. Langer;G. Pfeifer;J. Martin;W. Baumeister

  • The genome sequence of the thermoacidophilic scavenger Thermoplasma acidophilum

    Andreas Ruepp;Werner Graml;Martha-Leticia Santos-Martinez;Kristin K. Koretke

  • Volta potential phase plate for in-focus phase contrast transmission electron microscopy

    Radostin Danev;Bart Buijsse;Maryam Khoshouei;Jürgen M. Plitzko

  • Perspectives of molecular and cellular electron tomography.

    Abraham J. Koster;Rudo Grimm;Dieter Typke;Reiner Hegerl

  • TOM software toolbox: acquisition and analysis for electron tomography

    Stephan Nickell;Friedrich Förster;Alexandros Linaroudis;William Del Net

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrei N. Lupas
Andrei N. Lupas Max Planck Society
Tomohiro Tamura
Tomohiro Tamura National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Friedrich Lottspeich
Friedrich Lottspeich Max Planck Society
Andreas Engel
Andreas Engel University of Basel
Abraham J. Koster
Abraham J. Koster Leiden University Medical Center
Martin Beck
Martin Beck TU Dresden
F. Ulrich Hartl
F. Ulrich Hartl Max Planck Society
Robert Huber
Robert Huber University of Duisburg-Essen
Alasdair C. Steven
Alasdair C. Steven National Institutes of Health
Günther Gerisch
Günther Gerisch Max Planck Society

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