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Genetics and Molecular Biology
Germany
2024

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Genetics

D-Index
70
Citations
19020
World Ranking
2268
National Ranking
167

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Zsuzsanna Izsvák is affiliated with the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in Germany. Their research primarily falls within the broader field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a significant focus on Molecular Biology, Genetics, Plant Science, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Oncology.

The scientist's work encompasses several main topics, including:

  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
  • Virus-based gene therapy research
  • Chromosomal and Genetic Variations
  • Retinal Development and Disorders
  • RNA Interference and Gene Delivery
  • Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms

Zsuzsanna Izsvák has contributed to multiple recent papers that highlight various aspects of molecular and cellular biology:

  • Human endogenous retrovirus HERV-K(HML-2) RNA causes neurodegeneration through Toll-like receptors, 2020, JCI Insight
  • Chemical-induced chromatin remodeling reprograms mouse ESCs to totipotent-like stem cells, 2022, Cell Stem Cell
  • Recapitulating early human development with 8C-like cells, 2022, Cell Reports
  • Targeting CD33 in Chemoresistant AML Patient-Derived Xenografts by CAR-CIK Cells Modified with an Improved SB Transposon System, 2020, Molecular Therapy
  • Efficient generation of osteoclasts from human induced pluripotent stem cells and functional investigations of lethal CLCN7-related osteopetrosis, 2020, Journal of Bone and Mineral Research

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Zsuzsanna Izsvák include:

  • Zoltán Ivics
  • Gabriele Thumann
  • Manvendra Singh
  • Tamás Raskó
  • Amit Pande

Zsuzsanna Izsvák has published extensively in several scientific venues. Notably, they have multiple publications in the following journals and platforms:

  • Journal of Visualized Experiments
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • PLoS ONE
  • JCI Insight
  • Molecular Therapy - Methods & Clinical Development

Best Publications

  • Molecular Reconstruction of Sleeping Beauty, a Tc1-like Transposon from Fish, and Its Transposition in Human Cells

    Zoltán Ivics;Perry B Hackett;Ronald H Plasterk;Zsuzsanna Izsvák;Zsuzsanna Izsvák

  • Ten things you should know about transposable elements

    Guillaume Bourque;Kathleen H. Burns;Mary Gehring;Vera Gorbunova

  • Molecular evolution of a novel hyperactive Sleeping Beauty transposase enables robust stable gene transfer in vertebrates

    Lajos Mátés;Marinee K L Chuah;Eyayu Belay;Boris Jerchow

  • Somatic integration and long-term transgene expression in normal and haemophilic mice using a DNA transposon system.

    Stephen R. Yant;Leonard Meuse;Winnie Chiu;Zoltan Ivics

  • Resident aliens: the Tc1/mariner superfamily of transposable elements.

    Ronald H.A Plasterk;Zsuzsanna Izsvák;Zoltán Ivics

  • Primate-specific endogenous retrovirus-driven transcription defines naive-like stem cells

    Jichang Wang;Gangcai Xie;Manvendra Singh;Avazeh Tashakkori Ghanbarian

  • Sleeping Beauty, a wide host-range transposon vector for genetic transformation in vertebrates.

    Zsuzsanna Izsvák;Zoltán Ivics;Ronald H Plasterk

  • Progress and prospects in rat genetics: a community view.

    Timothy J Aitman;John K Critser;Edwin Cuppen;Anna Dominiczak

  • Transposon-mediated genome manipulation in vertebrates.

    Zoltán Ivics;Meng Amy Li;Lajos Mátés;Jef D Boeke

  • Gibbon genome and the fast karyotype evolution of small apes

    Lucia Carbone;R. Alan Harris;Sante Gnerre;Krishna R. Veeramah;Krishna R. Veeramah

  • Chromosomal Transposition of a Tc1/Mariner-Like Element in Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells

    Guangbin Luo;Zoltán Ivics;Zsuzsanna Izsvák;Allan Bradley

  • Common physical properties of DNA affecting target site selection of sleeping beauty and other Tc1/mariner transposable elements.

    Thomas J. Vigdal;Christopher D. Kaufman;Zsuzsanna Izsvák;Zsuzsanna Izsvák;Daniel F. Voytas

  • Sleeping Beauty Transposition: Biology and Applications for Molecular Therapy

    Zsuzsanna Izsvák;Zsuzsanna Izsvák;Zoltán Ivics

  • Development of hyperactive sleeping beauty transposon vectors by mutational analysis.

    Hatem Zayed;Zsuzsanna Izsvák;Zsuzsanna Izsvák;Oliver Walisko;Zoltán Ivics

  • Molecular domestication of transposable elements: from detrimental parasites to useful host genes.

    L. Sinzelle;Z. Izsvák;Z. Izsvák;Z. Ivics

  • Comparative analysis of transposable element vector systems in human cells

    Ivana Grabundzija;Markus Irgang;Lajos Mátés;Eyayu Belay

  • Identification of functional domains and evolution of Tc1-like transposable elements

    Zoltan Ivics;Zsuzsanna Izsvak;Zsuzsanna Izsvak;Adam Minter;Perry B. Hackett

  • The Frog Prince: a reconstructed transposon from Rana pipiens with high transpositional activity in vertebrate cells

    Csaba Miskey;Zsuzsanna Izsvák;Ronald H. Plasterk;Zoltán Ivics

  • Dna-based transposon system for introducing nucleic acid into dna of cell

    Perry B Hackett;ビー. ハケット,ペリー;Zoltan Ivics;イフィックス,ツォルタン

  • The DNA‐bending protein HMGB1 is a cellular cofactor of Sleeping Beauty transposition

    Hatem Zayed;Zsuzsanna Izsvák;Zsuzsanna Izsvák;Dheeraj Khare;Udo Heinemann;Udo Heinemann

Frequent Co-Authors

Zoltán Ivics
Zoltán Ivics Paul Ehrlich Institut
Perry B. Hackett
Perry B. Hackett University of Minnesota
Thierry VandenDriessche
Thierry VandenDriessche Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Laurence D. Hurst
Laurence D. Hurst University of Bath
Craig C. Garner
Craig C. Garner Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Thalia Papayannopoulou
Thalia Papayannopoulou University of Washington
André Lieber
André Lieber University of Washington
Daniel Scherman
Daniel Scherman Université Paris Cité
Balázs Sarkadi
Balázs Sarkadi TTK Research Centre for Natural Sciences
Michal Pravenec
Michal Pravenec Czech Academy of Sciences

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