Bando Y, Klapper M, Herbst R, Sachse A, Stallforth P, Arndt HD^# (2025) Semiautomated total synthesis of the cyclic lipodepsipeptide anikasin. Org Lett 27(11), 2559-2563.

Günther M^*, Herbst R^*, Ueberschaar N, Hildebrandt D, Reimer L, Stallforth P^# (2025) Global profiling of polyketide synthases in facultative multicellular eukaryotes. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 122(45), e2515852122.

Herbst R, Ibrahim A, Hübner A, Knüpfer U, Regestein L, Wiedemann C, Hellmich UA, Warinner C^#, Stallforth P^# (2025) Actifensin evolution in the human oral cavity over the past 100,000 years. J Am Chem Soc 147(52), 48060-48071.

Klapper M^*, Hübner A^*, Ibrahim A^*, Wasmuth I, Borry M, Haensch VG, Zhang S, Al-Jammal WK, Suma H, Fellows Yates JA, Frangenberg J, Velsko IM, Chowdhury S, Herbst R, Bratovanov EV, Dahse HM, Horch T, Hertweck C, González Morales MR, Straus LG, Vilotijevic I, Warinner C^#, Stallforth P^# (2023) Natural products from reconstructed bacterial genomes of the Middle and Upper paleolithic. Science 380(6645), 619-624.

Günther M^*, Reimer C^*, Herbst R^*, Kufs JE, Rautschek J, Ueberschaar N, Zhang S, Peschel G, Reimer L, Regestein L, Valiante V, Hillmann F^#, Stallforth P^# (2022) Yellow polyketide pigment suppresses premature hatching in social amoeba. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 119(43), e2116122119.

Herbst R, Günther M, Stallforth P (2019) Chemical Ecology of Dictyostelium discoideum. In: Comprehensive Natural Products III Reference Module in Chemistry, Molecular Sciences and Chemical Engineering, Elsevier. (Review)

Klapper M, Braga D, Lackner G, Herbst R, Stallforth P (2018) Bacterial alkaloid biosynthesis: Structural diversity via a minimalistic nonribosomal peptide synthetase. Cell Chem Biol 25(6), 659-665.