Gerrit Brandis
Associate senior lecturer/Assistant Professor at Department of Cell and Molecular Biology; Molecular Biology
- E-mail:
- gerrit.brandis@icm.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Husargatan 3
752 37 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Box 596
751 24 Uppsala
- Academic merits:
- Docent in Molecular Life Science
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Keywords
- antibiotic resistance
- experimental evolution
- bacterial genetics
- chromosomal organization

Publications
Selection of publications
Mutation supply and relative fitness shape the genotypes of ciprofloxacin-resistant Escherichia coli
Part of Molecular biology and evolution, p. 1029-1039, 2017
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The Selective Advantage of Synonymous Codon Usage Bias in Salmonella
Part of PLOS Genetics, 2016
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Autoregulation of the tufB operon in Salmonella
Part of Molecular Microbiology, p. 1004-1016, 2016
Part of Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, p. 680-685, 2015
Recent publications
Part of RSC Chemical Biology, 2026
Part of Communications Biology, 2026
- DOI for Evolutionary trajectories determine feasibility of collateral sensitivity-based antibiotic treatment strategies in critical bacterial pathogens
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Part of Microbiology Spectrum, 2025
Translational impacts of enzymes that modify ribosomal RNA around the peptidyl transferase centre
Part of RNA Biology, p. 31-41, 2024
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Antibiotic perseverance increases the risk of resistance development
Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2023
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All publications
Articles in journal
Part of RSC Chemical Biology, 2026
Part of Communications Biology, 2026
- DOI for Evolutionary trajectories determine feasibility of collateral sensitivity-based antibiotic treatment strategies in critical bacterial pathogens
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Part of Microbiology Spectrum, 2025
Translational impacts of enzymes that modify ribosomal RNA around the peptidyl transferase centre
Part of RNA Biology, p. 31-41, 2024
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Antibiotic perseverance increases the risk of resistance development
Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2023
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Part of Molecular biology and evolution, 2022
- DOI for Positive Selection during Niche Adaptation Results in Large-Scale and Irreversible Rearrangement of Chromosomal Gene Order in Bacteria
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Evolution of Bacterial Interspecies Hybrids with Enlarged Chromosomes
Part of Genome Biology and Evolution, 2022
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Part of Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, p. 77-83, 2021
- DOI for Resistance/fitness trade-off is a barrier to the evolution of MarR inactivation mutants in Escherichia coli
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Genetic Architecture and Fitness of Bacterial Interspecies Hybrids
Part of Molecular biology and evolution, p. 1472-1481, 2021
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Chromosomal Location Determines the Rate of Intrachromosomal Homologous Recombination in Salmonella
Part of mBio, 2021
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Part of Genome Biology and Evolution, 2021
- DOI for Reconstructing the Evolutionary History of a Highly Conserved Operon Cluster in Gammaproteobacteria and Bacilli
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Expression of the qepA1 gene is induced under antibiotic exposure
Part of Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, p. 1433-1440, 2021
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Part of Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, p. 606-615, 2021
- DOI for Mutant RNA polymerase can reduce susceptibility to antibiotics via ppGpp-independent induction of a stringent-like response
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Part of PLOS Genetics, 2020
- DOI for The SNAP hypothesis: Chromosomal rearrangements could emerge from positive Selection during Niche Adaptation
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Part of Molecular biology and evolution, p. 1637-1646, 2020
- DOI for Population Bottlenecks Strongly Influence the Evolutionary Trajectory to Fluoroquinolone Resistance in Escherichia coli
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Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, p. 3185-3191, 2020
- DOI for Antibiotic resistance by high-level intrinsic suppression of a frameshift mutation in an essential gene
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Measuring Homologous Recombination Rates between Chromosomal Locations in Salmonella
Part of Bio-protocol, 2019
Part of Molecular biology and evolution, p. 1990-2000, 2019
- DOI for Operon Concatenation Is an Ancient Feature That Restricts the Potential to Rearrange Bacterial Chromosomes
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Part of Molecular Microbiology, p. 697-710, 2018
- DOI for Co-evolution with recombination affects the stability of mobile genetic element insertions within gene families of Salmonella
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Part of Scientific Reports, 2018
- DOI for Mechanisms of fitness cost reduction for rifampicin-resistant strains with deletion or duplication mutations in rpoB.
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Transcriptional Regulation Buffers Gene Dosage Effects on a Highly Expressed Operon in Salmonella
Part of mBio, 2018
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Mutation supply and relative fitness shape the genotypes of ciprofloxacin-resistant Escherichia coli
Part of Molecular biology and evolution, p. 1029-1039, 2017
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Ciprofloxacin selects for RNA polymerase mutations with pleiotropic antibiotic resistance effects
Part of Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, p. 75-84, 2017
Part of Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, p. 3016-3024, 2017
- DOI for Fitness cost constrains the spectrum of marR mutations in ciprofloxacin-resistant Escherichia coli: Multiple Antibiotic-Resistance, Gram-Negative Bacteria, Multidrug Efflux Pump, Urinary-Tract-Infections, Fluoroquinolone Resistance, Quinolone Resistance, Mechanisms, Expression, Sequence, Soxs
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Part of MICROBIAL CELL, p. 275-277, 2017
- DOI for Having your cake and eating it - Staphylococcus aureus small colony variants can evolve faster growth rate without losing their antibiotic resistance
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Part of mBio, 2017
- DOI for Alternative Evolutionary Pathways for Drug-Resistant Small Colony Variant Mutants in Staphylococcus aureus
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The Selective Advantage of Synonymous Codon Usage Bias in Salmonella
Part of PLOS Genetics, 2016
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Part of Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, p. 324-332, 2016
Autoregulation of the tufB operon in Salmonella
Part of Molecular Microbiology, p. 1004-1016, 2016
Part of Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, p. 680-685, 2015
Part of Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, p. 2493-2497, 2013
Fitness-compensatory mutations in rifampicin-resistant RNA polymerase
Part of Molecular Microbiology, p. 142-151, 2012
Part of Microbiology, p. 2060-2072, 2012
Articles, review/survey
Rifampicin Resistance: Fitness Costs and the Significance of Compensatory Evolution
Part of Antibiotics, p. 206-216, 2013
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