Dimitris Petroutsos
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Organismal Biology; Physiology and Environmental Toxicology
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 47 83
- Mobile phone:
- +46 70 167 91 12
- E-mail:
- dimitris.petroutsos@ebc.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Evolutionsbiologiskt Centrum EBC
Norbyvägen 18 A - Postal address:
- Norbyvägen 18 A
752 36 Uppsala

Publications
Recent publications
Phototropin connects blue light perception to starch metabolism in green algae
Part of Nature Communications, 2025
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Light, CO2, and carbon storage in microalgae
Part of Current opinion in plant biology, 2025
Part of Algal Research, 2024
- DOI for Red light induces starch accumulation in Chlorella vulgaris without affecting photosynthesis efficiency, unlike abiotic stress
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Light-independent regulation of algal photoprotection by CO2 availability
Part of Nature Communications, 2023
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Widening the landscape of transcriptional regulation of green algal photoprotection
Part of Nature Communications, 2023
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All publications
Articles in journal
Phototropin connects blue light perception to starch metabolism in green algae
Part of Nature Communications, 2025
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Part of Algal Research, 2024
- DOI for Red light induces starch accumulation in Chlorella vulgaris without affecting photosynthesis efficiency, unlike abiotic stress
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Light-independent regulation of algal photoprotection by CO2 availability
Part of Nature Communications, 2023
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Widening the landscape of transcriptional regulation of green algal photoprotection
Part of Nature Communications, 2023
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Adaptive traits of cysts of the snow alga Sanguina nivaloides unveiled by 3D subcellular imaging
Part of Nature Communications, 2023
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Part of Science Advances, 2022
- DOI for Transcriptional regulation of photoprotection in dark-to-light transition: More than just a matter of excess light energy
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Editorial: Microalgae Biology and Biotechnology
Part of Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021
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Part of Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021
- DOI for Consequences of Mixotrophy on Cell Energetic Metabolism in Microchloropsis gaditana Revealed by Genetic Engineering and Metabolic Approaches
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Plastid thylakoid architecture optimizes photosynthesis in diatoms
Part of Nature Communications, 2017
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Investigating mixotrophic metabolism in the model diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum
Part of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences, p. 20160404-20160404, 2017
Photoreceptor-dependent regulation of photoprotection
Part of Current opinion in plant biology, p. 102-108, 2017
Part of Nature Communications, 2016
- DOI for Calredoxin represents a novel type of calcium-dependent sensor-responder connected to redox regulation in the chloroplast
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A blue-light photoreceptor mediates the feedback regulation of photosynthesis
Part of Nature, p. 563-566, 2016
The Water to Water Cycles in Microalgae.
Part of Plant and Cell Physiology, p. 1354-1363, 2016
Energetic coupling between plastids and mitochondria drives CO2 assimilation in diatoms.
Part of Nature, p. 366-9, 2015
Ions channels/transporters and chloroplast regulation.
Part of Cell Calcium, p. 86-97, 2015
Part of Plant Physiology, p. 438-452, 2014
Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, p. 5042-5047, 2014
Part of Plant Physiology, p. 1604-1617, 2014
Glycerolipids in photosynthesis: composition, synthesis and trafficking.
Part of Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, p. 470-80, 2014
Part of Progress in lipid research, p. 68-85, 2014
A Dual Strategy to Cope with High Light in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Part of The Plant Cell, p. 545-557, 2013
Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, p. 17717-17722, 2012
Part of The Plant Cell, p. 2619-2630, 2011
The Chloroplast Calcium Sensor CAS Is Required for Photoacclimation in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Part of The Plant Cell, p. 2950-2963, 2011
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Part of Journal of Biological Chemistry, p. 32770-32781, 2009
- DOI for PGRL1 Participates in Iron-induced Remodeling of the Photosynthetic Apparatus and in Energy Metabolism in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
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Removal of p-chlorophenol by the marine microalga Tetraselmis marina
Part of Journal of Applied Phycology, p. 485-490, 2007
Articles, review/survey
Light, CO2, and carbon storage in microalgae
Part of Current opinion in plant biology, 2025
Chapters in book
A Toolkit for the Characterization of the Photoprotective Capacity of Green Algae.
Part of Plastids, p. 315-323, Springer, 2018