Sonja Billerbeck

731 total citations
28 papers, 476 citations indexed

About

Sonja Billerbeck is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sonja Billerbeck has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 476 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 3 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Sonja Billerbeck's work include Fungal and yeast genetics research (9 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (7 papers) and Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (6 papers). Sonja Billerbeck is often cited by papers focused on Fungal and yeast genetics research (9 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (7 papers) and Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (6 papers). Sonja Billerbeck collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United States and Switzerland. Sonja Billerbeck's co-authors include Sven Panke, Rianne C. Prins, Virginia W. Cornish, Miguel Jiménez, Matthias Heinemann, Michael Schümperli, Alastair Ager, Nili Ostrov, Jef D. Boeke and Michael Shen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Biochemistry.

In The Last Decade

Sonja Billerbeck

24 papers receiving 468 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sonja Billerbeck Netherlands 11 377 124 43 40 31 28 476
Fabienne Hilgers Germany 10 219 0.6× 106 0.9× 45 1.0× 46 1.1× 47 1.5× 18 358
Dennis Binder Germany 10 290 0.8× 95 0.8× 51 1.2× 41 1.0× 29 0.9× 13 415
Megan Garvey Australia 12 376 1.0× 188 1.5× 120 2.8× 49 1.2× 16 0.5× 19 533
Khushal Khambhati India 11 296 0.8× 79 0.6× 24 0.6× 30 0.8× 19 0.6× 24 450
Yiming Niu United States 9 357 0.9× 179 1.4× 16 0.4× 71 1.8× 23 0.7× 12 505
Zehua Bao United States 11 824 2.2× 139 1.1× 68 1.6× 67 1.7× 45 1.5× 17 885
Astrid Weninger Austria 10 593 1.6× 148 1.2× 90 2.1× 59 1.5× 27 0.9× 13 651
Emily T. Beebe United States 11 209 0.6× 70 0.6× 56 1.3× 60 1.5× 10 0.3× 17 283
Rahul Singh India 11 302 0.8× 69 0.6× 67 1.6× 80 2.0× 19 0.6× 31 445
Stéphane Emond France 14 425 1.1× 264 2.1× 133 3.1× 61 1.5× 15 0.5× 18 653

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sonja Billerbeck

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Billerbeck, Sonja, et al.. (2025). Screening a 681-membered yeast collection for the secretion of proteins with antifungal activity. New Biotechnology. 86. 55–72. 2 indexed citations
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Prins, Rianne C. & Sonja Billerbeck. (2025). Small proteins and peptides conferring protection against antimicrobial compounds. Trends in Microbiology. 33(6). 586–602. 1 indexed citations
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Prins, Rianne C. & Sonja Billerbeck. (2025). Protocol to study toxic, immune, and suicidal phenotypes of killer yeast. STAR Protocols. 6(1). 103611–103611. 1 indexed citations
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Kumar, Karan, et al.. (2025). Food production from air: gas precision fermentation with hydrogen-oxidising bacteria. Trends in biotechnology.
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Billerbeck, Sonja, Roy Walker, & Isak S. Pretorius. (2024). Killer yeasts: expanding frontiers in the age of synthetic biology. Trends in biotechnology. 42(9). 1081–1096. 12 indexed citations
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Prins, Rianne C. & Sonja Billerbeck. (2024). The signal peptide of yeast killer toxin K2 confers producer self-protection and allows conversion into a modular toxin-immunity system. Cell Reports. 43(7). 114449–114449. 10 indexed citations
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Beal, Jacob, et al.. (2023). Functional Synthetic Biology. PubMed. 8(1). ysad006–ysad006. 7 indexed citations
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Cornish, Virginia W., et al.. (2023). A Multiplex GPCR‐Mediated Peptide Tagging System for a Growing Yeast Synthetic Biology Toolbox. Helvetica Chimica Acta. 106(12). 1 indexed citations
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Billerbeck, Sonja, et al.. (2023). A Modular Cloning Toolkit Including CRISPRi for the Engineering of the Human Fungal Pathogen and Biotechnology Host Candida glabrata. ACS Synthetic Biology. 12(4). 1358–1363. 9 indexed citations
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Billerbeck, Sonja. (2022). Self-growing environmentally responsive houses made from agricultural waste and fungal mycelia. PubMed. 7(1). ysac003–ysac003. 3 indexed citations
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Billerbeck, Sonja & Virginia W. Cornish. (2022). Peptide-Dependent Growth in Yeast via Fine-Tuned Peptide/GPCR-Activated Essential Gene Expression. Biochemistry. 61(3). 150–159. 3 indexed citations
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Billerbeck, Sonja, et al.. (2022). Natural and engineered cyclodipeptides: Biosynthesis, chemical diversity, and engineering strategies for diversification and high-yield bioproduction.. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1). 100067–100067. 14 indexed citations
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Billerbeck, Sonja. (2021). Synthetic biological toggle circuits that respond within seconds and teach us new biology. PubMed. 6(1). ysab027–ysab027.
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Prins, Rianne C., et al.. (2021). Oligo Pools as an Affordable Source of Synthetic DNA for Cost‐Effective Library Construction in Protein‐ and Metabolic Pathway Engineering. ChemBioChem. 23(7). e202100507–e202100507. 21 indexed citations
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Prins, Rianne C. & Sonja Billerbeck. (2021). A buffered media system for yeast batch culture growth. BMC Microbiology. 21(1). 127–127. 22 indexed citations
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Billerbeck, Sonja. (2020). Directed evolution of synthetic coexistence: a new path towards ecosystem design?. PubMed. 5(1). ysaa025–ysaa025. 1 indexed citations
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Ostrov, Nili, et al.. (2017). A modular yeast biosensor for low-cost point-of-care pathogen detection. Science Advances. 3(6). e1603221–e1603221. 91 indexed citations

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