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Overview

Zoran Nikoloski is affiliated with the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology in Germany. Their research spans multiple domains within biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant contributions focused on molecular biology and plant science. The primary fields of study include:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Their subfields of expertise incorporate molecular biology, plant science, genetics, biomedical engineering, and renewable energy, sustainability, and the environment. Key subfields are:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Plant Science
  • Genetics
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

Nikoloski's research topics cover several focused areas including microbial metabolic engineering and bioproduction, bioinformatics and genomic networks, biofuel production and bioconversion, gene regulatory network analysis, photosynthetic processes and mechanisms, genetic mapping and diversity in plants and animals, and algal biology and biofuel production. The main topics of their work are:

  • Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction
  • Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
  • Biofuel production and bioconversion
  • Gene Regulatory Network Analysis
  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
  • Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
  • Algal biology and biofuel production

Frequent collaborators in their research include Philipp Wendering, Zahra Razaghi-Moghadam, Hao Tong, Anika Küken, and Marius Arend.

Nikoloski has published extensively in various scientific venues, with the most frequent being:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature Communications
  • PLoS Computational Biology
  • Scientific Reports

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Nikoloski include:

  • Machine learning approaches for crop improvement: Leveraging phenotypic and genotypic big data, 2020, Journal of Plant Physiology
  • Carbon flux through photosynthesis and central carbon metabolism show distinct patterns between algae, C3 and C4 plants, 2021, Nature Plants
  • KATANIN and CLASP function at different spatial scales to mediate microtubule response to mechanical stress in Arabidopsis cotyledons, 2021, Current Biology
  • A Biostimulant Obtained from the Seaweed Ascophyllum nodosum Protects Arabidopsis thaliana from Severe Oxidative Stress, 2020, International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Genome-wide association of the metabolic shifts underpinning dark-induced senescence in Arabidopsis, 2021, The Plant Cell

Best Publications

  • On Modularity Clustering

    U. Brandes;D. Delling;M. Gaertler;R. Gorke

  • Metabolic control and regulation of the tricarboxylic acid cycle in photosynthetic and heterotrophic plant tissues.

    Wagner L. Araújo;Adriano Nunes-Nesi;Zoran Nikoloski;Lee J. Sweetlove

  • Metabolic Fluxes in an Illuminated Arabidopsis Rosette

    Marek Szecowka;Robert Heise;Takayuki Tohge;Adriano Nunes-Nesi

  • PlaNet: Combined Sequence and Expression Comparisons across Plant Networks Derived from Seven Species

    Marek Mutwil;Sebastian Klie;Takayuki Tohge;Federico M Giorgi

  • On finding graph clusterings with maximum modularity

    Ulrik Brandes;Daniel Delling;Marco Gaertler;Robert Görke

  • Genome Wide Association in tomato reveals 44 candidate loci for fruit metabolic traits

    Christopher Sauvage;Vincent Segura;Guillaume Bauchet;Rebecca Stevens

  • Maximizing Modularity is hard

    U. Brandes;D. Delling;M. Gaertler;R. Goerke

  • Identification and Mode of Inheritance of Quantitative Trait Loci for Secondary Metabolite Abundance in Tomato

    Saleh Alseekh;Takayuki Tohge;Regina Wendenberg;Federico Scossa

  • Integrative Comparative Analyses of Transcript and Metabolite Profiles from Pepper and Tomato Ripening and Development Stages Uncovers Species-Specific Patterns of Network Regulatory Behavior

    Sonia Osorio;Rob Alba;Zoran Nikoloski;Andrej Kochevenko

  • Metabolic variation between japonica and indica rice cultivars as revealed by non-targeted metabolomics

    Chaoyang Hu;Jianxin Shi;Sheng Quan;Bo Cui

  • Relationships of Leaf Net Photosynthesis, Stomatal Conductance, and Mesophyll Conductance to Primary Metabolism: A Multispecies Meta-Analysis Approach

    Jorge Gago;Danilo de Menezes Daloso;Carlos María Figueroa;Jaume Flexas

  • Genetic Determinants of the Network of Primary Metabolism and Their Relationships to Plant Performance in a Maize Recombinant Inbred Line Population

    Weiwei Wen;Weiwei Wen;Kun Li;Saleh Alseekh;Nooshin Omranian

  • Metabolite profiling and network analysis reveal coordinated changes in grapevine water stress response

    Uri Hochberg;Asfaw Degu;David Toubiana;Tanya Gendler

  • Gene regulatory network inference using fused LASSO on multiple data sets.

    Nooshin Omranian;Jeanne M. O. Eloundou-Mbebi;Bernd Mueller-Roeber;Zoran Nikoloski

  • Systems Analysis of the Response of Photosynthesis, Metabolism, and Growth to an Increase in Irradiance in the Photosynthetic Model Organism Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

    Tabea Mettler;Timo Mühlhaus;Dorothea Hemme;Mark-Aurel Schöttler

  • Protein-protein interactions and metabolite channelling in the plant tricarboxylic acid cycle

    Youjun Zhang;Katherine F. M. Beard;Corné Swart;Susan Bergmann

  • Bottom-up Metabolic Reconstruction of Arabidopsis and Its Application to Determining the Metabolic Costs of Enzyme Production

    Anne Arnold;Zoran Nikoloski

  • Inner composition alignment for inferring directed networks from short time series.

    S. Hempel;A. Koseska;J. Kurths;J. Kurths;Z. Nikoloski

  • Decreased Nucleotide and Expression Diversity and Modified Coexpression Patterns Characterize Domestication in the Common Bean

    Elisa Bellucci;Elena Bitocchi;Alberto Ferrarini;Andrea Benazzo

  • Metabolic profiling of a mapping population exposes new insights in the regulation of seed metabolism and seed, fruit, and plant relations.

    David Toubiana;Yaniv Semel;Takayuki Tohge;Romina Beleggia

Frequent Co-Authors

Alisdair R. Fernie
Alisdair R. Fernie Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology
Joachim Selbig
Joachim Selbig Max Planck Society
Takayuki Tohge
Takayuki Tohge Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Lothar Willmitzer
Lothar Willmitzer Max Planck Society
Staffan Persson
Staffan Persson University of Copenhagen
Mark Stitt
Mark Stitt Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology
Yariv Brotman
Yariv Brotman Tel Aviv University
Bernd Mueller-Roeber
Bernd Mueller-Roeber University of Potsdam
Saleh Alseekh
Saleh Alseekh Max Planck Society
Wagner L. Araújo
Wagner L. Araújo Universidade Federal de Viçosa

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