Lionel Guy
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology; Infection and Immunity; Lionel Guy
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 42 46
- E-mail:
- lionel.guy@imbim.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- BMC
Husargatan 3
752 37 UPPSALA - Postal address:
- Box 582
751 23 UPPSALA
- ORCID:
- 0000-0001-8354-2398
Short presentation
I'm an Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer at the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology. My research explores how microorganisms, particularly bacteria, adapt to hosts, and how their relationships evolve over time.
Link to my website: https://www.uu.se/en/department/medical-biochemistry-and-microbiology/research/guy-lionel
Photo credit: Chaiko & Markstedt Photography, 2022

Publications
Recent publications
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Origin and evolution of key enzymes in the anammox pathway revisited
Part of Genome Biology and Evolution, 2026
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High-efficiency transfection of Acanthamoeba castellanii using a cationic polymer
Part of Cell Reports Methods, 2026
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Origin and Evolution of Key Enzymes in the Anammox Pathway Revisited
Part of Genome Biology and Evolution, 2025
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Host-Specific Adaptation of Legionella pneumophila to Single and Multiple Hosts
Part of Molecular biology and evolution, 2025
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Machine learning detection of heteroresistance in Escherichia coli
Part of EBioMedicine, 2025
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All publications
Articles in journal
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Origin and evolution of key enzymes in the anammox pathway revisited
Part of Genome Biology and Evolution, 2026
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High-efficiency transfection of Acanthamoeba castellanii using a cationic polymer
Part of Cell Reports Methods, 2026
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Origin and Evolution of Key Enzymes in the Anammox Pathway Revisited
Part of Genome Biology and Evolution, 2025
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Host-Specific Adaptation of Legionella pneumophila to Single and Multiple Hosts
Part of Molecular biology and evolution, 2025
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Machine learning detection of heteroresistance in Escherichia coli
Part of EBioMedicine, 2025
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Part of Genome Biology and Evolution, 2024
- DOI for Phylogeny and Expansion of Serine/Threonine Kinases in Phagocytotic Bacteria in the Phylum Planctomycetota
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The evolution of intramitochondriality in Midichloria bacteria
Part of Environmental Microbiology, p. 2102-2117, 2023
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TADA: Taxonomy-Aware Dataset Aggregator
Part of Bioinformatics, 2023
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Rapid adaptations of Legionella pneumophila to the human host
Part of Microbial Genomics, 2023
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Host Adaptation in Legionellales Is 1.9 Ga, Coincident with Eukaryogenesis
Part of Molecular biology and evolution, 2022
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Phylogenetic affiliation of mitochondria with Alpha-II and Rickettsiales is an artefact
Part of Nature Ecology & Evolution, p. 1829-1831, 2022
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Early divergence of translation initiation and elongation factors
Part of Protein Science, 2022
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Part of Frontiers in Microbiology, 2021
- DOI for Molecular Characterization of Multidrug-Resistant Yersinia enterocolitica From Foodborne Outbreaks in Sweden
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Chromosomal Location Determines the Rate of Intrachromosomal Homologous Recombination in Salmonella
Part of mBio, 2021
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Heimdallarchaea encodes profilin with eukaryotic-like actin regulation and polyproline binding
Part of Communications Biology, 2021
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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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Paralogization and New Protein Architectures in Planctomycetes Bacteria with Complex Cell Structures
Part of Molecular biology and evolution, p. 1020-1040, 2020
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Part of Microbes and infection, p. 356-359, 2020
- DOI for Chlamydia psittaci in Fulmars on The Faroe Islands: A Causative Link to South American Psittacines Eight Decades After a Severe Epidemic
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miComplete: weighted quality evaluation of assembled microbial genomes
Part of Bioinformatics, p. 936-937, 2020
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Asgard archaea are the closest prokaryotic relatives of eukaryotes
Part of PLOS Genetics, 2018
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Deep mitochondrial origin outside the sampled alphaproteobacteria
Part of Nature, p. 101-105, 2018
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Part of FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 2018
- DOI for The all-intracellular order Legionellales is unexpectedly diverse, globally distributed and lowly abundant.
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Origin and evolution of the Bartonella Gene Transfer Agent
Part of Molecular biology and evolution, p. 451-464, 2018
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Genomes of two archaeal endosymbionts show convergent adaptations to an intracellular lifestyle.
Part of The ISME Journal, p. 2655-2667, 2018
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Part of Environmental Research, p. 638-646, 2018
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Part of Molecular biology and evolution, p. 704-718, 2018
- DOI for Experimental Determination and Prediction of the Fitness Effects of Random Point Mutations in the Biosynthetic Enzyme HisA
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phyloSkeleton: taxon selection, data retrieval and marker identification for phylogenomics
Part of Bioinformatics, p. 1230-1232, 2017
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Resurrecting ancestral genes in bacteria to interpret ancient biosignatures
Part of Philosophical Transactions. Series A, 2017
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Part of Scientific Reports, p. 1-11, 2016
- DOI for The genome of Rhizobiales bacteria in predatory ants reveals urease gene functions but no genes for nitrogen fixation
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Proposal of Coetzeea brasiliensis gen. nov. sp. nov. isolated from larvae of Anopheles darlingi
Part of International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, p. 5211-5217, 2016
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Part of International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, p. 444-451, 2015
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Exploring microbial dark matter to resolve the deep archaeal ancestry of eukaryotes
Part of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences, 2015
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Complex archaea that bridge the gap between prokaryotes and eukaryotes
Part of Nature, p. 173-179, 2015
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Part of The ISME Journal, p. 2373-2385, 2015
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The Archaeal Legacy of Eukaryotes: A Phylogenomic Perspective
Part of Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology, 2014
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Part of The ISME Journal, p. 1353-1357, 2014
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Part of PLOS ONE, 2013
- DOI for Adaptive Mutations and Replacements of Virulence Traits in the Escherichia coli O104:H4 Outbreak Population
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Community-wide plasmid gene mobilization and selection
Part of The ISME Journal, p. 1173-1186, 2013
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Part of PLOS Genetics, 2013
- DOI for A Gene Transfer Agent and a Dynamic Repertoire of Secretion Systems Hold the Keys to the Explosive Radiation of the Emerging Pathogen Bartonella
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A genome-wide study of recombination rate variation in Bartonella henselae
Part of BMC Evolutionary Biology, p. 65, 2012
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Genomic diversity of the 2011 European outbreaks of Escherichia coli O104:H4
Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2012
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genoPlotR: comparative gene and genome visualization in R
Part of Bioinformatics, p. 2334-2335, 2010
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Part of BMC Genomics, 2009
- DOI for M-protein and other intrinsic virulence factors of Streptococcus pyogenes are encoded on an ancient pathogenicity island
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Genomic insights into two independent events of archaeal endosymbiosis
Articles, review/survey
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Part of FEMS Microbiology Reviews, 2024
- DOI for Host–bacteria interactions: ecological and evolutionary insights from ancient, professional endosymbionts
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Close Encounters of the Third Domain: The Emerging Genomic View of Archaeal Diversity and Evolution
Part of Archaea, p. 202358, 2013
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The archaeal ‘TACK’ superphylum and the origin of eukaryotes
Part of Trends in Microbiology, p. 580-587, 2011
Manuscripts (preprints)
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Rapid, in-patient adaptations of Legionella pneumophila to the human host
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High-efficiency transfection of Acanthamoeba castellanii using a cationic polymer
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