Karin Stensjö
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Chemistry - Ångström Laboratory; Molecular Biomimetics; Microbial Chemistry
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 65 86
- E-mail:
- karin.stensjo@kemi.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Ångströmlaboratoriet, Lägerhyddsvägen 1
75120 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Box 523
75120 Uppsala
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Associate Professor in Microbial chemistry. The research is focused on cyanobacteria; metabolic and regulatory dynamics, redox regulation, adaptations to changes in the environment with the aim to identify novel targets for genetic engineering of cyanobacteria for biotechnological applications, such as production of biofuels from solar energy and water.
Biography
My interest in cyanobacterial research started when I did my master project “Localization of the nifH transcript in the cyanobacterium Anabaena PCC 7120” in the lab of Prof Lindblad, and consequently received a MSc in Biology from Uppsala University in 1994. Since then I have gathered a broad knowledge in molecular biology, biochemistry, microbiology and plant physiology. I did my PhD at the Swedish Agricultural University (SLU) in Prof. Lisbeth Jonssons group, where I studied the chemical interaction of plants and pests. I received my PhD in Plant Physiology in 2000. I did postdoctoral studies at Copenhagen University(former name KVL)) in the group of Prof Birger Lindberg Møller where I used molecular and biochemical techniques to engineer and characterize the biosynthesis of natural products in plants. I have been a research scientist since 2003, and I have continued in exploring natural products, but now; biofuels from cyanobacteria. Since December 2012 I am an Associate Professor (senior lecturer) in Microbial Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry-Ångström Laboratory, Uppsala University. In my research I am exploring the potential of biofuels production in cyanobacteria by a systems biology approach.

Publications
Selection of publications
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Part of Journal of Proteome Research, p. 1772-1784, 2011
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Part of FEMS Microbiology Letters, p. 152-159, 2011
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Part of Environmental Microbiology, p. 2826-2837, 2010
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Part of Journal of Proteome Research, p. 187-198, 2009
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Part of Journal of Proteome Research, p. 1615-1628, 2008
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Part of Journal of Proteome Research, p. 621-635, 2007
Recent publications
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Part of EESD2025, p. 1-8, 2025
- DOI for Integrating sustainability competencies into molecular biotechnology engineering education: a strategic approach
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Part of Microbial Cell Factories, 2025
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Part of Bioresource Technology, 2025
- DOI for Sustained isobutene production by Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 entrapped in polyvinyl alcohol hydrogel beads
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Part of Microbial Cell Factories, 2025
- DOI for dCas12a-mediated CRISPR interference for multiplex gene repression in cyanobacteria for enhanced isobutanol and 3-methyl-1-butanol production
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Part of Communications Biology, 2025
- DOI for Development of a CRISPR activation system for targeted gene upregulation in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803
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Articles in journal
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Part of Microbial Cell Factories, 2025
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Part of Bioresource Technology, 2025
- DOI for Sustained isobutene production by Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 entrapped in polyvinyl alcohol hydrogel beads
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Part of Microbial Cell Factories, 2025
- DOI for dCas12a-mediated CRISPR interference for multiplex gene repression in cyanobacteria for enhanced isobutanol and 3-methyl-1-butanol production
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Part of Communications Biology, 2025
- DOI for Development of a CRISPR activation system for targeted gene upregulation in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803
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Machine learning predicts system-wide metabolic flux control in cyanobacteria
Part of Metabolic engineering, p. 171-182, 2024
- DOI for Machine learning predicts system-wide metabolic flux control in cyanobacteria
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Optimal energy and redox metabolism in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803
Part of npj Systems Biology and Applications, 2023
- DOI for Optimal energy and redox metabolism in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803
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Part of Archives of Microbiology, 2022
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Part of Green Chemistry, p. 9602-9619, 2022
- DOI for A combined photobiological-photochemical route to C10 cycloalkane jet fuels from carbon dioxide via isoprene
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Part of Metabolic engineering communications, 2021
- DOI for Isobutene production in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 by introducing α-ketoisocaproate dioxygenase from Rattus norvegicus
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Part of Physiologia Plantarum, p. 555-567, 2021
- DOI for Photosynthetic hydrogen production: Novel protocols, promising engineering approaches and application of semi‐synthetic hydrogenases
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Doing synthetic biology with photosynthetic microorganisms
Part of Physiologia Plantarum, p. 624-638, 2021
- DOI for Doing synthetic biology with photosynthetic microorganisms
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Part of Physiologia Plantarum, p. 579-590, 2021
- DOI for Photoautotrophic production of renewable ethylene by engineered cyanobacteria: Steering the cell metabolism towards biotechnological use
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Part of Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Bioenergetics, 2019
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Part of PLOS ONE, 2019
- DOI for The Dps4 from Nostoc punctiforme ATCC 29133 is a member of His-type FOC containing Dps protein class that can be broadly found among cyanobacteria
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Part of PLOS ONE, 2018
- DOI for Design and characterization of a synthetic minimal promoter for heterocyst-specific expression in filamentous cyanobacteria
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Part of Journal of Biological Chemistry, p. 16635-16646, 2018
- DOI for Differential biochemical properties of three canonical Dps proteins from the cyanobacterium Nostoc punctiforme suggest distinct cellular functions
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Harnessing transcription for bioproduction in cyanobacteria
Part of Physiologia Plantarum, p. 148-155, 2018
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Part of FEMS Microbiology Letters, 2018
- DOI for Homologous overexpression of NpDps2 and NpDps5 increases the tolerance for oxidative stress in the multicellular cyanobacterium Nostoc punctiforme
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Part of Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Bioenergetics, p. 1766-1776, 2016
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Part of Molecular Biotechnology, p. 1003-1009, 2015
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Part of FEMS Microbiology Letters, 2015
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Part of BMC Genomics, 2014
- DOI for Analysis of the early heterocyst Cys-proteome in the multicellular cyanobacterium Nostoc punctiforme reveals novel insights into the division of labor within diazotrophic filaments
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Part of Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, p. 3809-3818, 2014
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Part of Environmental Microbiology, p. 829-844, 2014
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Production of Squalene in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803
Part of PLoS ONE, 2014
- DOI for Production of Squalene in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803
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Part of Applied and Environmental Microbiology, p. 273-276, 2012
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Part of International journal of hydrogen energy, p. 8828-8833, 2012
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Part of Ambio, p. 163-168, 2012
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Part of Journal of Proteome Research, p. 1772-1784, 2011
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Part of BMC Research Notes, 2011
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Part of FEMS Microbiology Letters, p. 152-159, 2011
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Part of Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Bioenergetics, p. 1152-1161, 2011
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Part of Environmental Microbiology, p. 2826-2837, 2010
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Part of Applied and Environmental Microbiology, p. 880-890, 2010
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Part of Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Bioenergetics, p. 252-263, 2009
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Characterization of the hupSL promoter activity in Nostoc punctiforme ATCC 29133
Part of BMC Microbiology, p. 54, 2009
- DOI for Characterization of the hupSL promoter activity in Nostoc punctiforme ATCC 29133
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Part of BMC Microbiology, p. 53, 2009
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Characterization of the hupSL promoter activity in Nostoc punctiforme ATCC 29133
Part of BMC Microbiology, p. 54, 2009
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Part of Journal of Proteome Research, p. 187-198, 2009
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Part of Journal of Proteome Research, p. 1615-1628, 2008
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Transcription of the extended hyp-operon in Nostoc sp. strain PCC 7120
Part of BMC Microbiology, p. 69, 2008
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Part of Journal of Proteome Research, p. 621-635, 2007
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Part of Photosynthesis. Energy from the Sun, 2007
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Part of Planta, p. 1010-1023, 2006
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Part of Plant Physiology, p. 71-84, 2004
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Part of Plant Physiology, p. 844-846, 2003
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Part of Physiologia Plantarum, p. 496-502, 2000
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Part of Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica - Section B, p. 107-112, 1998
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Cyanogenic glycosides and their metabolic enzymes in barley in relation to nitrogen levels.
Part of Acta Physiologiae Plantarum, p. 367-372, 1997
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Part of FEMS Microbiology Letters
Articles, review/survey
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Synthetic biology in marine cyanobacteria: Advances and challenges
Part of Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022
- DOI for Synthetic biology in marine cyanobacteria: Advances and challenges
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Synthetic Biology in Cyanobacteria: Engineering and Analyzing Novel Functions
Part of Methods in Enzymology, p. 539-579, 2011
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Biomimetic and Microbial Approaches to Solar Fuel Generation
Part of Accounts of Chemical Research, p. 1899-1909, 2009
Chapters in book
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Photosynthetic Hydrogen Production: Mechanisms and Approaches.
Part of In State of the Art and Progress in Production of Biohydrogen, Bentham eBooks, 2011
Conference papers
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Part of EESD2025, p. 1-8, 2025
- DOI for Integrating sustainability competencies into molecular biotechnology engineering education: a strategic approach
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