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According to Wikipedia, Michael Otmar Hengartner is a Swiss-Canadian biochemist and molecular biologist. From February 2020 he has been president of the ETH Board. Before that he was the president of the University of Zurich and president of the Swiss Rectors' Conference, swissuniversities.

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The biochemistry of apoptosis (2000) (7460)
Molecular mechanisms of cell death: recommendations of the Nomenclature Committee on Cell Death 2018 (2018) (3106)
Classification of cell death: recommendations of the Nomenclature Committee on Cell Death 2009 (2005) (2802)
Molecular definitions of cell death subroutines: recommendations of the Nomenclature Committee on Cell Death 2012 (2011) (2295)
Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring cell death in higher eukaryotes (2009) (2078)
C. elegans cell survival gene ced-9 encodes a functional homolog of the mammalian proto-oncogene bcl-2 (1994) (1220)
Finding function in novel targets: C. elegans as a model organism (2006) (935)
Caenorhabditis elegans gene ced-9 protects cells from programmed cell death (1992) (928)
Essential versus accessory aspects of cell death: recommendations of the NCCD 2015 (2014) (799)
Programmed cell death: alive and well in the new millennium. (2001) (703)
Genetic control of programmed cell death in the Caenorhabditis elegans hermaphrodite germline. (1999) (647)
Microtubule-associated protein 1 light chain 3 alpha (LC3)-associated phagocytosis is required for the efficient clearance of dead cells (2011) (573)
CED-12/ELMO, a Novel Member of the CrkII/Dock180/Rac Pathway, Is Required for Phagocytosis and Cell Migration (2001) (559)
A conserved checkpoint pathway mediates DNA damage--induced apoptosis and cell cycle arrest in C. elegans. (2000) (518)
miRNAs and apoptosis: RNAs to die for (2006) (502)
PaxDb, a Database of Protein Abundance Averages Across All Three Domains of Life* (2012) (455)
mProphet: automated data processing and statistical validation for large-scale SRM experiments (2011) (448)
Programmed cell death in Caenorhabditis elegans. (1994) (404)
Mitochondria as a Target of Environmental Toxicants (2013) (400)
Molecular mechanisms of cell death: recommendations of the Nomenclature Committee on Cell Death 2018 (2018) (323)
Interaction between the C. elegans cell-death regulators CED-9 and CED-4 (1997) (321)
Protein Identification False Discovery Rates for Very Large Proteomics Data Sets Generated by Tandem Mass Spectrometry* (2009) (316)
Engulfment genes cooperate with ced-3 to promote cell death in Caenorhabditis elegans (2001) (308)
Developmental cell biology: Developmental apoptosis in C. elegans: a complex CEDnario (2006) (289)
Deficiency of FANCD2-Associated Nuclease KIAA1018/FAN1 Sensitizes Cells to Interstrand Crosslinking Agents (2010) (286)
Two pathways converge at CED-10 to mediate actin rearrangement and corpse removal in C. elegans (2005) (273)
Caenorhabditis elegans HUS-1 Is a DNA Damage Checkpoint Protein Required for Genome Stability and EGL-1-Mediated Apoptosis (2002) (269)
A pathway for phagosome maturation during engulfment of apoptotic cells (2008) (264)
No death without life: vital functions of apoptotic effectors (2008) (252)
Caenorhabditis elegans inhibitor of apoptosis protein (IAP) homologue BIR-1 plays a conserved role in cytokinesis (1999) (241)
Phagocytosis of Apoptotic Cells Is Regulated by a UNC-73/TRIO-MIG-2/RhoG Signaling Module and Armadillo Repeats of CED-12/ELMO (2004) (222)
Comparative Functional Analysis of the Caenorhabditis elegans and Drosophila melanogaster Proteomes (2009) (220)
Candidate Adaptor Protein CED-6 Promotes the Engulfment of Apoptotic Cells in C. elegans (1998) (217)
Mutations in the α1 subunit of an L‐type voltage‐activated Ca2+ channel cause myotonia in Caenorhabditis elegans (1997) (215)
Translational Repression of C. elegans p53 by GLD-1 Regulates DNA Damage-Induced Apoptosis (2005) (213)
Functional identification of optimized RNAi triggers using a massively parallel sensor assay. (2011) (212)
Dock180 and ELMO1 Proteins Cooperate to Promote Evolutionarily Conserved Rac-dependent Cell Migration* (2004) (211)
The genetics of programmed cell death in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. (1994) (206)
Comparative Analysis Reveals Conserved Protein Phosphorylation Networks Implicated in Multiple Diseases (2009) (197)
HIF-1 antagonizes p53-mediated apoptosis through a secreted neuronal tyrosinase (2010) (193)
Activation of C. elegans cell death protein CED-9 by an ammo-acid substitution in a domain conserved in Bcl-2 (1994) (190)
Advances in apoptosis research. (1997) (190)
Apoptosis Corralling the Corpses (2001) (182)
A common set of engulfment genes mediates removal of both apoptotic and necrotic cell corpses in C. elegans (2000) (177)
Transcriptional regulator of programmed cell death encoded by Caenorhabditis elegans gene ces-2 (1996) (174)
The effect of poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation on native and H1-depleted chromatin. A role of poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation on core nucleosome structure. (1989) (171)
C. elegans RAD-5/CLK-2 defines a new DNA damage checkpoint protein (2001) (169)
Syndecan regulates cell migration and axon guidance in C. elegans (2005) (143)
Death and more: DNA damage response pathways in the nematode C. elegans (2004) (139)
PH domain of ELMO functions in trans to regulate Rac activation via Dock180 (2004) (131)
Apoptotic cell death under hypoxia. (2014) (129)
Protection of C. elegans from Anoxia by HYL-2 Ceramide Synthase (2009) (126)
The Molecular Mechanism of Programmed Cell Death in C. elegans (1999) (121)
Apoptosis: Death cycle and Swiss army knives (1998) (121)
The nucleotide excision repair pathway is required for UV-C-induced apoptosis in Caenorhabditis elegans (2007) (116)
A Steric-Inhibition Model for Regulation of Nucleotide Exchange via the Dock180 Family of GEFs (2005) (115)
Nonapoptotic role for Apaf-1 in the DNA damage checkpoint. (2007) (115)
Genome-wide RNAi identifies p53-dependent and -independent regulators of germ cell apoptosis in C. elegans (2004) (113)
Programmed cell death in invertebrates. (1996) (106)
The ins and outs of programmed cell death during C. elegans development. (1994) (98)
Modulation of Chromatin Structure by Poly(ADP-Ribosyl)ation (1988) (95)
Apoptosis CED-4 is a stranger no more (1997) (93)
Caenorhabditis elegans N-glycan Core β-galactoside Confers Sensitivity towards Nematotoxic Fungal Galectin CGL2 (2010) (92)
Caenorhabditis elegans ABL-1 antagonizes p53-mediated germline apoptosis after ionizing irradiation (2004) (90)
The Wnt Pathway Controls Cell Death Engulfment, Spindle Orientation, and Migration through CED-10/Rac (2010) (89)
A lectin‐mediated resistance of higher fungi against predators and parasites (2011) (86)
A quantitative targeted proteomics approach to validate predicted microRNA targets in C. elegans (2010) (84)
The future of model organisms in human disease research (2011) (83)
Regulation of nicotinic receptor trafficking by the transmembrane Golgi protein UNC‐50 (2007) (81)
The Caenorhabditis elegans SH2 domain-containing protein tyrosine phosphatase PTP-2 participates in signal transduction during oogenesis and vulval development. (1998) (79)
Apoptosis: DNA destroyers (2001) (76)
Plasticity of the β-Trefoil Protein Fold in the Recognition and Control of Invertebrate Predators and Parasites by a Fungal Defence System (2012) (73)
jkk‐1 and mek‐1 regulate body movement coordination and response to heavy metals through jnk‐1 in Caenorhabditis elegans (2001) (72)
Analysis of C. elegans intestinal gene expression and polyadenylation by fluorescence-activated nuclei sorting and 3′-end-seq (2012) (71)
Methylated glycans as conserved targets of animal and fungal innate defense (2014) (70)
Aminophospholipid Translocase TAT-1 Promotes Phosphatidylserine Exposure during C. elegans Apoptosis (2007) (69)
Cloning and biochemical characterization of the cyclophilin homologues from the free-living nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. (1996) (69)
The C. elegans LAR-like receptor tyrosine phosphatase PTP-3 and the VAB-1 Eph receptor tyrosine kinase have partly redundant functions in morphogenesis. (2002) (69)
Caenorhabditis elegans DNA mismatch repair gene msh-2 is required for microsatellite stability and maintenance of genome integrity (2002) (69)
Human CED-6 encodes a functional homologue of the Caenorhabditis elegans engulfment protein CED-6 (1999) (68)
Differential regulation of DNA damage response activation between somatic and germline cells in Caenorhabditis elegans (2012) (64)
Programmed cell death in the nematode C. elegans. (1999) (63)
C. elegans GLA-3 is a novel component of the MAP kinase MPK-1 signaling pathway required for germ cell survival. (2006) (62)
How the worm removes corpses: the nematode C. elegans as a model system to study engulfment (2001) (61)
URI-1 is required for DNA stability in C. elegans (2006) (60)
Shotgun proteomics data from multiple organisms reveals remarkable quantitative conservation of the eukaryotic core proteome (2010) (59)
Death by Crowd Control (1998) (56)
Loss of the RhoGAP SRGP-1 promotes the clearance of dead and injured cells in Caenorhabditis elegans (2011) (55)
Molecular Basis for Galactosylation of Core Fucose Residues in Invertebrates (2009) (54)
Identification of two signaling submodules within the CrkII/ELMO/Dock180 pathway regulating engulfment of apoptotic cells (2007) (54)
Tales of cannibalism, suicide, and murder: Programmed cell death in C. elegans. (2005) (51)
Calcium dynamics during fertilization in C. elegans (2001) (50)
NER and HR pathways act sequentially to promote UV-C-induced germ cell apoptosis in Caenorhabditis elegans (2011) (48)
Identification and Characterization of a Dimerization Domain in CED-6, an Adapter Protein Involved in Engulfment of Apoptotic Cells* (2000) (48)
LEM-3 – A LEM Domain Containing Nuclease Involved in the DNA Damage Response in C. elegans (2012) (47)
A novel mouse model for inhibition of DOHH-mediated hypusine modification reveals a crucial function in embryonic development, proliferation and oncogenic transformation (2014) (47)
Nematotoxicity of Marasmius oreades Agglutinin (MOA) Depends on Glycolipid Binding and Cysteine Protease Activity* (2011) (45)
Alteration of the nuclear pore complex in Ca2+-mediated cell death (2010) (41)
ccz-1 mediates the digestion of apoptotic corpses in C. elegans (2010) (40)
DEPDC1/LET-99 participates in an evolutionarily conserved pathway for anti-tubulin drug-induced apoptosis (2014) (40)
Establishing a Blueprint for CED-3-dependent Killing through Identification of Multiple Substrates for This Protease* (2007) (40)
Small GTPase CDC-42 promotes apoptotic cell corpse clearance in response to PAT-2 and CED-1 in C. elegans (2014) (39)
WormQTL—public archive and analysis web portal for natural variation data in Caenorhabditis spp (2012) (38)
The phosphoinositide phosphatase MTM-1 regulates apoptotic cell corpse clearance through CED-5–CED-12 in C. elegans (2011) (38)
Caenorhabditis elegans Contains Two Distinct Acid Sphingomyelinases* (1998) (34)
Apoptotic cell death: from worms to wombats ... but what about the weeds? (2021) (33)
The short coiled-coil domain-containing protein UNC-69 cooperates with UNC-76 to regulate axonal outgrowth and normal presynaptic organization in Caenorhabditis elegans (2006) (33)
Genetic control of programmed cell death and aging in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans (1997) (33)
The genes pme-1 and pme-2 encode two poly(ADP-ribose) polymerases in Caenorhabditis elegans. (2002) (32)
Epigenetic Regulation of Histone H3 Serine 10 Phosphorylation Status by HCF-1 Proteins in C. elegans and Mammalian Cells (2007) (32)
eor-1 and eor-2 are required for cell-specific apoptotic death in C. elegans. (2004) (31)
Disruption of the C. elegans Intestinal Brush Border by the Fungal Lectin CCL2 Phenocopies Dietary Lectin Toxicity in Mammals (2015) (29)
Ribosome Synthesis and MAPK Activity Modulate Ionizing Radiation-Induced Germ Cell Apoptosis in Caenorhabditis elegans (2013) (28)
A universal method for automated gene mapping (2005) (28)
Modeling the binding specificity of the RNA-binding protein GLD-1 suggests a function of coding region–located sites in translational repression (2013) (27)
A Network of HSPG Core Proteins and HS Modifying Enzymes Regulates Netrin-Dependent Guidance of D-Type Motor Neurons in Caenorhabditis elegans (2013) (27)
A Conserved Role for SNX9-Family Members in the Regulation of Phagosome Maturation during Engulfment of Apoptotic Cells (2011) (26)
Natural Genetic Variation Influences Protein Abundances in C. elegans Developmental Signalling Pathways (2016) (26)
Sugar Antennae for Guidance Signals: Syndecans and Glypicans Integrate Directional Cues for Navigating Neurons (2006) (26)
Biotoxicity assays for fruiting body lectins and other cytoplasmic proteins. (2010) (25)
Generic Comparison of Protein Inference Engines* (2011) (23)
Apoptosis and the shape of death. (1997) (22)
Deleted in cancer 1 (DICE1) is an essential protein controlling the topology of the inner mitochondrial membrane in C. elegans (2006) (22)
Cleaning up the mess: cell corpse clearance in Caenorhabditis elegans. (2012) (22)
Selected Elements of Herpes Simplex Virus Accessory Factor HCF Are Highly Conserved in Caenorhabditis elegans (1999) (22)
RIP-chip-SRM—a new combinatorial large-scale approach identifies a set of translationally regulated bantam/miR-58 targets in C. elegans (2012) (21)
Long-term C. elegans immobilization enables high resolution developmental studies in vivo. (2018) (20)
Cooperative target mRNA destabilization and translation inhibition by miR-58 microRNA family in C. elegans (2015) (20)
Apoptosis. Death by crowd control. (1998) (19)
Natural Genetic Variation Differentially Affects the Proteome and Transcriptome in Caenorhabditis elegans * (2016) (19)
Dimerization of the fungal defense lectin CCL2 is essential for its toxicity against nematodes (2016) (19)
DNA-damage-induced checkpoint pathways in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. (2000) (16)
Programmed Cell Death: A rich harvest (1994) (16)
Rearrangements of the nucleosome structure in chromatin by poly(ADP-ribose). (1992) (16)
Tickling Macrophages, a Serious Business (2004) (16)
Post-transcriptional control of executioner caspases by RNA-binding proteins (2016) (15)
Genetics of apoptosis. (1997) (14)
Translational Repression of p53 by GLD-1 Regulates DNA Damage-Induced Apoptosis (2005) (14)
A worm rich in protein: Quantitative, differential, and global proteomics in Caenorhabditis elegans. (2010) (14)
Erratum: Translational repression of C. elegans p53 by GLD-1 regulates DNA damage-induced apoptosis (Cell (February 11, 2005) 120 (357-368) PII: S0092-8674(04)01170-5 and DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2004.12.009) (2005) (12)
Cooperative target mRNA destabilization and translation inhibition by miR-58 microRNA family inC (2017) (11)
Programmed cell death: from development to disease (1996) (10)
Loss of the RhoGAP SRGP-1 promotes the clearance of dead and injured cells in Caenorhabditis elegans (2011) (10)
A dynamic physical model of cell migration, differentiation and apoptosis in Caenorhabditis elegans. (2012) (9)
Correction: Plasticity of the β-Trefoil Protein Fold in the Recognition and Control of Invertebrate Predators and Parasites by a Fungal Defence System (2012) (9)
The HUPO initiative on Model Organism Proteomes, iMOP (2012) (9)
Life and Death Decisions: ced-9 and Programmed Cell Death in Caenorhabditis elegans (1995) (8)
Cell biology: Dying to hold you (2008) (7)
Cell biology: Divide and conquer (2005) (7)
Pharmacia Biotech & Science Prize (1995) (6)
Nuclear pore complex during neuronal degeneration: cracking the last barrier! (2010) (6)
Differential regulation of germ line apoptosis and germ cell differentiation by CPEB family members in C. elegans (2017) (5)
Genome maps. VI. Caenorhabditis elegans. Wall chart. (1995) (4)
Programmed cell death in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans (1997) (4)
Out-of body experiences: cell-free cell death. (1995) (4)
Model Organisms Proteomics—From Holobionts to Human Nutrition (2013) (4)
Predictive Modelling of Stem Cell Differentiation and Apoptosis in C. elegans (2012) (4)
MINA-1 and WAGO-4 are part of regulatory network coordinating germ cell death and RNAi in C. elegans (2019) (4)
Year : 2004 Dock 180 and ELMO 1 proteins cooperate to promote evolutionarily conserved Rac-dependent cell migration (2006) (3)
The initiative on Model Organism Proteomes (iMOP) Session September 6, 2011, Geneva, Switzerland (2012) (3)
Apoptosis: Corralling the Corpses Minireview (2001) (3)
15 Cell Death (1997) (3)
Erratum: From promising to practical: tools to study networks of neurons (2010) (2)
mProphet : A general and flexible data model and algorithm for automated SRM data processing and statistical error estimation (2010) (2)
Nuclear pore complex during neuronal degeneration (2010) (2)
Apoptosis in C. elegans (2007) (2)
Programmed cell death: from development to disease. Meeting report. (1996) (2)
C. elegans as a Model System for Germ Cell Death (1997) (2)
development oogenesis and vulval phosphatase PTP-2 participates in signal transduction during SH 2 domain-containing protein tyrosine Caenorhabditis elegans (1998) (2)
Caenorhabditis elegans RAD-5/CLK-2 defines a new DNA damage checkpoint protein (2001) (1)
Correction: Long-term C. elegans immobilization enables high resolution developmental studies in vivo. (2018) (1)
Year : 2011 A conserved role for SNX 9-family members in the regulation of phagosome maturation during engulfment of apoptotic cells (2011) (1)
Loss of Acetylcholine Signaling Reduces Cell Clearance Deficiencies in Caenorhabditis elegans (2016) (1)
Cell Death in C. elegans (2009) (1)
Celebrating life (and death) (1996) (1)
DATELINE: New York - The Cell Death Society's ‘Mechanisms of Cell Death' (1997) (0)
Year : 2002 Caenorhabditis elegans DNA mismatch repair gene msh-2 is required for microsatellite stability and maintenance of genome (2006) (0)
Science Signaling Pawson and Rune Linding ( 28 July 2009 ) (2009) (0)
Why publish single observations? Because Science Matters. (2016) (0)
Apoptotic cell death in disease—Current understanding of the NCCD 2023 (2023) (0)
Orderly dismantling of a cell. (1997) (0)
ErratumNonapoptotic Role for Apaf-1 in the DNA Damage Checkpoint (2012) (0)
OVERVIEW of the POSTER ABSTRACTS (listed by topics) (2004) (0)
Comparative proteomics and transcriptomics in two C. elegans wild-type strains (2013) (0)
Combining Genetic Variation with Targeted Knock-downs to Construct Gene Networks of Complex Human Diseases in C. elegans (2011) (0)
X-ray structure of the CCL2 lectin in complex with sialyl lewis X (2015) (0)
is a summary of a session presented at the third annual German – American Frontiers of Science symposium , held June 20 – 22 , 1997 at the Kardinal Wendel Haus in Munich , Germany . Advances in apoptosis research (1997) (0)
Studying the effect of natural variation on protein abundance in C. elegans (2013) (0)
signaling pathway required for germ cell survival GLA-3 is a novel component of the MAP kinase MPK-1 (2006) (0)
DEVELOPMENT AND REGENERATION (2003) (0)
Identification of the glycan target of the nematotoxic fungal galectin CGL2 in Caenorhabditis elegans (2010) (0)
C. elegans germ cell death (1999) (0)
MINA-1 and WAGO-4 are part of regulatory network coordinating germ cell death and RNAi in C. elegans (2019) (0)
Genetic and molecular analysis of the C.elegans cell survival gene ced-9 (1994) (0)
Acid sphingomyelinase regulates RAS signaling functions (2000) (0)
Faculty Opinions recommendation of C. elegans ORFeome version 1.1: experimental verification of the genome annotation and resource for proteome-scale protein expression. (2003) (0)
Translational Repression of C. elegans p53 by GLD-1 Regulates DNA Damage-Induced Apoptosis (2005) (0)
Review Mitochondria as a Target of environmental Toxicants (2013) (0)
Apoptosis : corralling the corpses Hengartner , (2006) (0)
FLP detection of InDels of various sizes in homozygotes and heterozygotes (2011) (0)
Caenorhabditis elegans N-glycan Core Î²-galactoside Confers Sensitivity towards Nematotoxic Fungal Galectin CGL2; ; PLoS pathogens; (2010) (0)
C. Elegans as a Disease Model for Neuroacanthocytosis (2004) (0)
Correction: A Network of HSPG Core Proteins and HS Modifying Enzymes Regulates Netrin-Dependent Guidance of D-Type Motor Neurons in Caenorhabditis elegans (2014) (0)
Identification and Characterization of Novel Nematode Cell Death Genes and Their Mammalian Homologs. (1998) (0)
Correction: Plasticity of the β-Trefoil Protein Fold in the Recognition and Control of Invertebrate Predators and Parasites by a Fungal Defence System (2012) (0)
X-ray structure of the dimeric CCL2 lectin in native form (2015) (0)

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