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
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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.imbim.uu.se/research-groups/infection-and-immunity/guy-lionel/
Photo credit: Chaiko & Markstedt Photography, 2022
Publications
Recent publications
- Host–bacteria interactions (2024)
- Phylogeny and Expansion of Serine/Threonine Kinases in Phagocytotic Bacteria in the Phylum Planctomycetota (2024)
- The evolution of intramitochondriality in Midichloria bacteria (2023)
- TADA (2023)
- Rapid adaptations of Legionella pneumophila to the human host (2023)
All publications
Articles
- Host–bacteria interactions (2024)
- Phylogeny and Expansion of Serine/Threonine Kinases in Phagocytotic Bacteria in the Phylum Planctomycetota (2024)
- The evolution of intramitochondriality in Midichloria bacteria (2023)
- TADA (2023)
- Rapid adaptations of Legionella pneumophila to the human host (2023)
- Early divergence of translation initiation and elongation factors (2022)
- Host Adaptation in Legionellales Is 1.9 Ga, Coincident with Eukaryogenesis (2022)
- Phylogenetic affiliation of mitochondria with Alpha-II and Rickettsiales is an artefact (2022)
- Expression of the qepA1 gene is induced under antibiotic exposure (2021)
- Chromosomal Location Determines the Rate of Intrachromosomal Homologous Recombination in Salmonella (2021)
- Molecular Characterization of Multidrug-Resistant Yersinia enterocolitica From Foodborne Outbreaks in Sweden (2021)
- Heimdallarchaea encodes profilin with eukaryotic-like actin regulation and polyproline binding (2021)
- miComplete (2020)
- Paralogization and New Protein Architectures in Planctomycetes Bacteria with Complex Cell Structures (2020)
- Chlamydia psittaci in Fulmars on The Faroe Islands (2020)
- Legionella pneumophila recurrently isolated in a Spanish hospital (2018)
- The all-intracellular order Legionellales is unexpectedly diverse, globally distributed and lowly abundant. (2018)
- Genomes of two archaeal endosymbionts show convergent adaptations to an intracellular lifestyle. (2018)
- Experimental Determination and Prediction of the Fitness Effects of Random Point Mutations in the Biosynthetic Enzyme HisA (2018)
- Deep mitochondrial origin outside the sampled alphaproteobacteria (2018)
- Asgard archaea are the closest prokaryotic relatives of eukaryotes (2018)
- Origin and evolution of the Bartonella Gene Transfer Agent (2018)
- phyloSkeleton (2017)
- Resurrecting ancestral genes in bacteria to interpret ancient biosignatures (2017)
- Proposal of Coetzeea brasiliensis gen. nov. sp. nov. isolated from larvae of Anopheles darlingi (2016)
- The genome of Rhizobiales bacteria in predatory ants reveals urease gene functions but no genes for nitrogen fixation (2016)
- Proposal of Thorsellia kenyensis sp. nov. and Thorsellia kandunguensis sp. nov., isolated from the larvae of Anopheles arabiensis as members of the family Thorselliaceae fam. nov. (2015)
- Single-cell genomics of a rare environmental alphaproteobacterium provides unique insights into Rickettsiaceae evolution (2015)
- Exploring microbial dark matter to resolve the deep archaeal ancestry of eukaryotes (2015)
- Complex archaea that bridge the gap between prokaryotes and eukaryotes (2015)
- The Archaeal Legacy of Eukaryotes (2014)
- 'Geoarchaeote NAG1' is a deeply rooting lineage of the archaeal order Thermoproteales rather than a new phylum (2014)
- Adaptive Mutations and Replacements of Virulence Traits in the Escherichia coli O104:H4 Outbreak Population (2013)
- A Gene Transfer Agent and a Dynamic Repertoire of Secretion Systems Hold the Keys to the Explosive Radiation of the Emerging Pathogen Bartonella (2013)
- Community-wide plasmid gene mobilization and selection (2013)
- Close Encounters of the Third Domain (2013)
- Genomic diversity of the 2011 European outbreaks of Escherichia coli O104:H4 (2012)
- A genome-wide study of recombination rate variation in Bartonella henselae (2012)
- The archaeal ‘TACK’ superphylum and the origin of eukaryotes (2011)
- genoPlotR (2010)
- M-protein and other intrinsic virulence factors of Streptococcus pyogenes are encoded on an ancient pathogenicity island (2009)
- Low-coverage pyrosequencing reveals recombination and run-off replication in Bartonella henselae strains
- Origin and evolution of key enzymes in the anammox pathway revisited
- Rapid, in-patient adaptations of Legionella pneumophila to the human host
- Genomic insights into two independent events of archaeal endosymbiosis
- High-efficiency transfection of Acanthamoeba castellanii using a cationic polymer
- Host-specific determinants of Legionella pneumophila virulence passaged in single hosts and in alternation
