Michael Niklaus

ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences — Switzerland

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Life Sciences

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Research Topics

Enzyme Catalysis and Immobilization(3), Plant tissue culture and regeneration(2), Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms(2), Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction(2), Cassava research and cyanide(2)

Publications8 total

Effective engineering of a ketoreductase for the biocatalytic synthesis of an ipatasertib precursor
Communications Chemistry·2024· 20 citedOpen Access
Cover Feature: Multi‐faceted Set‐up of a Diverse Ketoreductase Library Enables the Synthesis of Pharmaceutically‐relevant Secondary Alcohols (6/2021)
ChemCatChem·2021Open Access
Multi‐faceted Set‐up of a Diverse Ketoreductase Library Enables the Synthesis of Pharmaceutically‐relevant Secondary Alcohols
ChemCatChem·2020· 25 cited
Evolution guided engineering to improve C4 photosynthesis
2019Open Access
The molecular evolution of C4 photosynthesis: opportunities for understanding and improving the world’s most productive plants
Journal of Experimental Botany·2018· 36 citedOpen Access
Mutagenesis and Functional Studies with Succinate Dehydrogenase Inhibitors in the Wheat Pathogen Mycosphaerella graminicola
PLoS ONE·2012· 189 citedOpen Access
Efficient transformation and regeneration of transgenic cassava using the neomycin phosphotransferase gene as aminoglycoside resistance marker gene
GM Crops·2011· 14 cited
Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of friable embryogenic calli and regeneration of transgenic cassava
Nature Protocols·2009· 129 cited

Frequent Co-authors

Hans Iding(3), Dennis Wetzl(3), Rebecca Buller(3), Wilhelm Gruissem(2), Hervé Vanderschuren(2), Moritz Voß(2), Robin Küng(2), Takahiro Hayashi(2), Magdalena Jonczyk(2), Gabriel Scalliet(1), Judith Bowler(1), Torsten Luksch(1), Lucy Kirchhofer-Allan(1), Diana Steinhauer(1), Keith Ward(1), Andreas Verras(1), Michael Csukai(1), Antoine Daina(1), Raymonde Fonné‐Pfister(1), Simon E. Bull(1)