Volker Herzig

Volker Herzig

University of the Sunshine Coast

H-index: 34

Oceania-Australia

About Volker Herzig

Volker Herzig, With an exceptional h-index of 34 and a recent h-index of 26 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at University of the Sunshine Coast, specializes in the field of venoms, toxins, neuropharmacology, toxinology, insecticides.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Novel Scorpion Toxin ω-Buthitoxin-Hf1a Selectively Inhibits Calcium Influx via CaV3. 3 and CaV3. 2 and Alleviates Allodynia in a Mouse Model of Acute Postsurgical Pain

Enlighting the toxinological dark matter of spider venom enzymes

Genetically encoded libraries and spider venoms as emerging sources for crop protective peptides

Development of a soybean leaf disc assay for determining oral insecticidal activity in the lepidopteran agricultural pest Helicoverpa armigera

Unmasking trends and drivers of the international arachnid trade

Grand challenges in arachnid toxinology and biochemistry

Two Novel Mosquitocidal Peptides Isolated from the Venom of the Bahia Scarlet Tarantula (Lasiodora klugi)

The Predatory Stink Bug Arma custos (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) Produces a Complex Proteinaceous Venom to Overcome Caterpillar Prey

Volker Herzig Information

University

Position

Associate Professor

Citations(all)

4236

Citations(since 2020)

2482

Cited By

2759

hIndex(all)

34

hIndex(since 2020)

26

i10Index(all)

69

i10Index(since 2020)

58

Email

University Profile Page

University of the Sunshine Coast

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Volker Herzig Skills & Research Interests

venoms

toxins

neuropharmacology

toxinology

insecticides

Top articles of Volker Herzig

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Novel Scorpion Toxin ω-Buthitoxin-Hf1a Selectively Inhibits Calcium Influx via CaV3. 3 and CaV3. 2 and Alleviates Allodynia in a Mouse Model of Acute Postsurgical Pain

International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Dan Wang

Volker Herzig

Zoltan Dekan

K Johan Rosengren

Colton D Payne

...

2024/1

Enlighting the toxinological dark matter of spider venom enzymes

bioRxiv

Josephine Dresler

Volker Herzig

Andreas Vilcinskas

Tim Lueddecke

2024

Genetically encoded libraries and spider venoms as emerging sources for crop protective peptides

Elena Marone Fassolo

Shaodong Guo

Yachen Wang

Stefano Rosa

Volker Herzig

2024/4/16

Development of a soybean leaf disc assay for determining oral insecticidal activity in the lepidopteran agricultural pest Helicoverpa armigera

Toxicon

Yachen Wang

Shaodong Guo

Tomer Ventura

Ritesh Jain

Karl E Robinson

...

2024/2/1

Unmasking trends and drivers of the international arachnid trade

Frontiers in Arachnid Science

Volker Herzig

Tobias J Hauke

Tim Lüddecke

2023

Grand challenges in arachnid toxinology and biochemistry

Frontiers in Arachnid Science

Volker Herzig

2023/10/12

Two Novel Mosquitocidal Peptides Isolated from the Venom of the Bahia Scarlet Tarantula (Lasiodora klugi)

Toxins

Jamila Ahmed

Andrew A Walker

Hugo D Perdomo

Shaodong Guo

Samantha A Nixon

...

2023/6/27

The Predatory Stink Bug Arma custos (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) Produces a Complex Proteinaceous Venom to Overcome Caterpillar Prey

Biology

Yuli Qu

Andrew A Walker

Ling Meng

Volker Herzig

Baoping Li

2023/5/9

Towards a generic prototyping approach for therapeutically-relevant peptides and proteins in a cell-free translation system

Nature Communications

Yue Wu

Zhenling Cui

Yen-Hua Huang

Simon J de Veer

Andrey V Aralov

...

2022/1/11

The tarantula venom peptide Eo1a binds to the domain II S3-S4 extracellular loop of voltage-gated sodium channel Nav1. 8 to enhance activation

Frontiers in Pharmacology

Irina Vetter Jennifer R Deuis

Lotten Ragnarsson

Samuel D Robinson

Zoltan Dekan

Lerena Chan

...

2022

The deadly toxin arsenal of the tree-dwelling Australian funnel-web spiders

International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Fernanda C Cardoso

Sandy S Pineda

Volker Herzig

Kartik Sunagar

Naeem Yusuf Shaikh

...

2022/10/28

The Tarantula Toxin ω-Avsp1a Specifically Inhibits Human CaV3.1 and CaV3.3 via the Extracellular S3-S4 Loop of the Domain 1 Voltage-Sensor

Biomedicines

Volker Herzig

Yong-Cyuan Chen

Yanni K-Y Chin

Zoltan Dekan

Yu-Wang Chang

...

2022/5/4

Multitarget nociceptor sensitization by a promiscuous peptide from the venom of the King Baboon spider

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Rocio K Finol-Urdaneta

Rebekah Ziegman

Zoltan Dekan

Jeffrey R McArthur

Stewart Heitmann

...

2022/2/1

The biology and evolution of spider venoms

Tim Lüddecke

Volker Herzig

Bjoern M Von Reumont

Andreas Vilcinskas

2022/2

Muscle spasms–A common symptom following theraphosid spider bites?

Toxicon

Tobias J Hauke

Volker Herzig

2021/3/1

A spider-venom peptide with multitarget activity on sodium and calcium channels alleviates chronic visceral pain in a model of irritable bowel syndrome

Pain

Fernanda C Cardoso

Joel Castro

Luke Grundy

Gudrun Schober

Sonia Garcia-Caraballo

...

2021/2/1

Love bites–Do venomous arachnids make safe pets?

Toxicon

Tobias J Hauke

Volker Herzig

2021/1/30

Multipurpose peptides: the venoms of Amazonian stinging ants contain anthelmintic ponericins with diverse predatory and defensive activities

Biochemical pharmacology

Samantha A Nixon

Samuel D Robinson

Akello J Agwa

Andrew A Walker

Shivani Choudhary

...

2021/10/1

Pharmacological Inhibition of the Voltage-Gated Sodium Channel NaV1.7 Alleviates Chronic Visceral Pain in a Rodent Model of Irritable Bowel Syndrome

ACS Pharmacology & Translational Science

Yan Jiang

Joel Castro

Linda V Blomster

Akello J Agwa

Jessica Maddern

...

2021/6/7

Animal venoms—curse or cure?

Volker Herzig

2021/4/12

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Co-Authors

H-index: 46
Wayne Hodgson

Wayne Hodgson

Monash University

H-index: 39
Eivind Andreas Baste Undheim

Eivind Andreas Baste Undheim

Universitetet i Oslo

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