Fritsche, S., Ellena, V., Demirbas-Uzel, G., Steiger, M. G. 2025. Regulating the glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase encoding gene gsdA and its impact on growth and citric acid production in Aspergillus niger. PLoS One, 20: e0321363.
Ellena, V., Ioannou, A., Kolm, C., Farnleitner, A. H., Steiger, M. G. 2024. Development of a whole-cell SELEX process to select species-specific aptamers against Aspergillus niger. Fungal Biology and Biotechnology, 11:17.
Reinfurt, A., Fritsche, S., Bíró, V., Márton, A., Ellena, V., Fekete, E., Sándor, E., Karaffa, L., Steiger, M. G. 2023. Manganese (II) ions suppress the transcription of the citrate exporter encoding gene cexA in Aspergillus niger. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 11:1292337.
Ellena, V., Steiger, M. G. 2022. The importance of complete and high-quality genome sequences in Aspergillus niger research. Frontiers in Fungal Biology, 3:935993.
Ellena, V., Seekles, S. J., Vignolle, G. A., Ram, A. F. J., Steiger, M. G. 2021. Genome sequencing of the neotype strain CBS 554.65 reveals the MAT1–2 locus of Aspergillus niger. BMC Genomics, 22:679.
Ellena, V., Bucchieri, D., Arcalis, E., Sauer, M., Steiger, M. G. 2021. Sclerotia formed by citric acid producing strains of Aspergillus niger: induction and morphological analysis. Fungal Biology, 125:485-494.
Ellena, V., Sauer, M., Steiger, M. G. 2020. The fungal sexual revolution continues: discovery of sexual development in members of the genus Aspergillus and its consequences. Fungal Biology and Biotechnology, 7:17.
Ellena, V. 2020. Towards a sexual cycle in Aspergillus niger. Doctoral thesis.
Kruis, A. J., Levisson, M., Mars, A. E., van der Ploeg, M., Daza, F. G., Ellena, V., Kengen, S. W. M., van der Oost, J., Weusthuis, R. A. 2017. Ethyl acetate production by the elusive alcohol acetyltransferase from yeast. Metabolic Engineering, 41:92–101.
