Staffan Svärd
Professor at Department of Cell and Molecular Biology; Microbiology and immunology
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 45 58
- Mobile phone:
- +46 70 425 05 94
- E-mail:
- Staffan.Svard@icm.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Husargatan 3
752 37 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Box 596
751 24 Uppsala

Publications
Recent publications
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Host range expansion of asexual parasite can be explained by loss of adaptions in Muller's Ratchet
Part of Nature Communications, 2025
- DOI for Host range expansion of asexual parasite can be explained by loss of adaptions in Muller's Ratchet
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The expanded genome of Hexamita inflata, a free-living diplomonad
Part of Scientific Data, 2025
- DOI for The expanded genome of Hexamita inflata, a free-living diplomonad
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2024
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Part of Nucleic Acids Research, p. 14061-14076, 2024
- DOI for Tetramerization of deoxyadenosine kinase meets the demands of a DNA replication substrate challenge in Giardia intestinalis
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Part of PLOS ONE, 2024
- DOI for Gene co-expression network analysis reveal core responsive genes in Parascaris univalens tissues following ivermectin exposure
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All publications
Articles in journal
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Host range expansion of asexual parasite can be explained by loss of adaptions in Muller's Ratchet
Part of Nature Communications, 2025
- DOI for Host range expansion of asexual parasite can be explained by loss of adaptions in Muller's Ratchet
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The expanded genome of Hexamita inflata, a free-living diplomonad
Part of Scientific Data, 2025
- DOI for The expanded genome of Hexamita inflata, a free-living diplomonad
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Part of Nucleic Acids Research, p. 14061-14076, 2024
- DOI for Tetramerization of deoxyadenosine kinase meets the demands of a DNA replication substrate challenge in Giardia intestinalis
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Part of PLOS ONE, 2024
- DOI for Gene co-expression network analysis reveal core responsive genes in Parascaris univalens tissues following ivermectin exposure
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Part of Nucleic Acids Research, p. 3436-3451, 2023
- DOI for Insights into translocation mechanism and ribosome evolution from cryo-EM structures of translocation intermediates of Giardia intestinalis
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Part of PLOS ONE, 2023
- DOI for Transcriptomics of ivermectin response in Caenorhabditis elegans: Integrating abamectin quantitative trait loci and comparison to the Ivermectin-exposed DA1316 strain
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Adaptation of the late ISC pathway in the anaerobic mitochondrial organelles of Giardia intestinalis
Part of PLoS Pathogens, 2023
- DOI for Adaptation of the late ISC pathway in the anaerobic mitochondrial organelles of Giardia intestinalis
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Transcriptomic analysis of albendazole resistance in human diarrheal parasite Giardia duodenalis
Part of International Journal for Parasitology, p. 9-19, 2023
- DOI for Transcriptomic analysis of albendazole resistance in human diarrheal parasite Giardia duodenalis
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Part of PLoS Pathogens, 2023
- DOI for Trophozoite fitness dictates the intestinal epithelial cell response to Giardia intestinalis infection
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Part of Parasites & Vectors, 2022
- DOI for Ivermectin-induced gene expression changes in adult Parascaris univalens and Caenorhabditis elegans: a comparative approach to study anthelminthic metabolism and resistance in vitro
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A chromosome-scale reference genome for Spironucleus salmonicida
Part of Scientific Data, 2022
- DOI for A chromosome-scale reference genome for Spironucleus salmonicida
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Part of Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2022
- DOI for Giardia intestinalis thymidine kinase is a high-affinity enzyme crucial for DNA synthesis and an exploitable target for drug discovery
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Part of BMC Biology, 2022
- DOI for Combined nanometric and phylogenetic analysis of unique endocytic compartments in Giardia lamblia sheds light on the evolution of endocytosis in Metamonada
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Part of Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022
- DOI for Characterization of Metronidazole-Resistant Giardia intestinalis Lines by Comparative Transcriptomics and Proteomics
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Part of mBio, 2022
- DOI for High-Definition DIC Imaging Uncovers Transient Stages of Pathogen Infection Cycles on the Surface of Human Adult Stem Cell-Derived Intestinal Epithelium
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Part of Genomics, 2022
- DOI for Comprehensive characterization of Cysteine-rich protein-coding genes of Giardia lamblia and their role during antigenic variation
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Part of Trends in Parasitology, p. 605-606, 2022
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A Detailed Gene Expression Map of Giardia Encystation
Part of Genes, p. 1932, 2021
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Part of Frontiers in Immunology, 2021
- DOI for Serglycin-Deficiency Causes Reduced Weight Gain and Changed Intestinal Cytokine Responses in Mice Infected With Giardia intestinalis
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Part of BMC Genomics, 2021
- DOI for Dual RNA-seq transcriptome analysis of caecal tissue during primary Eimeria tenella infection in chickens
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Multimodal regulation of encystation in Giardia duodenalis revealed by deep proteomics
Part of International Journal of Parasitology, p. 809-824, 2021
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Part of International Journal of Parasitology, p. 225-239, 2021
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Part of Parasitology, p. 712-725, 2021
- DOI for Dual RNA-Seq transcriptome analysis of chicken macrophage-like cells (HD11) infected in vitro with Eimeria tenella
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Eukaryote-Conserved Methylarginine Is Absent in Diplomonads and Functionally Compensated in Giardia
Part of Molecular biology and evolution, p. 3525-3549, 2020
- DOI for Eukaryote-Conserved Methylarginine Is Absent in Diplomonads and Functionally Compensated in Giardia
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High Cysteine Membrane Proteins (HCMPs) Are Up-Regulated DuringGiardia-Host Cell Interactions
Part of Frontiers in Genetics, 2020
- DOI for High Cysteine Membrane Proteins (HCMPs) Are Up-Regulated DuringGiardia-Host Cell Interactions
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Part of Cells, 2020
- DOI for The Chymase Mouse Mast Cell Protease-4 Regulates Intestinal Cytokine Expression in Mature Adult Mice Infected with Giardia intestinalis
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Part of Microbial Genomics, 2020
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A chromosome-scale reference genome for Giardia intestinalis WB
Part of Scientific Data, 2020
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Part of FEBS Letters, p. 1313-1325, 2019
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Part of BMC Biology, 2019
- DOI for Oxygen induces the expression of invasion and stress response genes in the anaerobic salmon parasite Spironucleus salmonicida
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Part of Parasites & Vectors, 2019
- DOI for Further evaluation of recombinant Tsol-p27 by enzyme-linked immunoelectrotransfer blot for the serodiagnosis of cysticercosis in pigs from Mozambique
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Identification of Conserved Candidate Vaccine Antigens in the Surface Proteome of Giardia lamblia
Part of Infection and Immunity, 2019
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Proximity Staining using Enzymatic Protein Tagging in Diplomonads
Part of mSphere, 2019
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Part of Molecular Immunology, p. 535-544, 2019
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Part of Molecular and biochemical parasitology (Print), p. 29-38, 2019
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Proteomic diversity in a prevalent human-infective Giardia duodenalis sub-species
Part of International Journal of Parasitology, p. 817-823, 2018
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Part of Infection, Genetics and Evolution, p. 7-16, 2018
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Part of GigaScience, 2018
- DOI for Differential protein expression and post-translational modifications in metronidazole-resistant Giardia duodenalis
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Part of Virulence, p. 879-894, 2018
- DOI for Secreted Giardia intestinalis cysteine proteases disrupt intestinal epithelial cell junctional complexes and degrade chemokines
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Part of Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2018
- DOI for Responses of the Differentiated Intestinal Epithelial Cell Line Caco-2 to Infection With the Giardia intestinalis GS Isolate
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Recent advances in the genomic and molecular biology of Giardia
Part of Acta Tropica, p. 67-72, 2018
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Part of Frontiers in Microbiology, 2017
- DOI for Transcriptomics Indicates Active and Passive Metronidazole Resistance Mechanisms in Three Seminal Giardia Lines
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Part of BMC Biology, 2017
- DOI for Giardia intestinalis mitosomes undergo synchronized fission but not fusion and are constitutively associated with the endoplasmic reticulum
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Giardia-specific cellular immune responses in post-giardiasis chronic fatigue syndrome
Part of BMC Immunology, 2017
- DOI for Giardia-specific cellular immune responses in post-giardiasis chronic fatigue syndrome
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Part of PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2017
- DOI for Characterization of the Giardia intestinalis secretome during interaction with human intestinal epithelial cells: The impact on host cells
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Endoplasmic reticulum is the sorting core facility in the Golgi-lacking protozoan Giardia lamblia
Part of Traffic, p. 604-621, 2017
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Part of BMC Biology, 2016
- DOI for On the reversibility of parasitism: adaptation to a free-living lifestyle via gene acquisitions in the diplomonad Trepomonas sp PC1
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Comparative cell biology and evolution of Annexins in Diplomonads
Part of mSphere, 2016
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Divergent Transcriptional Responses to Physiological and Xenobiotic Stress in Giardia duodenalis
Part of Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, p. 6034-6045, 2016
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Coordinated Changes in Gene Expression Throughout Encystation of Giardia intestinalis
Part of PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2016
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Part of International Journal of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, p. 32-43, 2016
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Human Memory CD4+ T Cell Immune Responses against Giardia lamblia
Part of Clinical and Vaccine Immunology, p. 11-18, 2016
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Comparative genomic analyses of freshly isolated Giardia intestinalis assemblage A isolates
Part of BMC Genomics, 2015
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UV irradiation responses in Giardia intestinalis
Part of Experimental parasitology, p. 25-32, 2015
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Part of Veterinary parasitology, p. 28-34, 2015
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Transcriptional profiling of Giardia intestinalis in response to oxidative stress
Part of International Journal of Parasitology, p. 925-938, 2015
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Time-Dependent Transcriptional Changes in Axenic Giardia duodenalis Trophozoites
Part of PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2015
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Part of PLOS Genetics, 2014
- DOI for The genome of Spironucleus salmonicida highlights a fish pathogen adapted to fluctuating environments
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Rolf Bernander (1956-2014): pioneer of the archaeal cell cycle Obituary
Part of Molecular Microbiology, p. 903-909, 2014
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Gene expression changes during Giardia-host cell interactions in serum-free medium
Part of Molecular and biochemical parasitology (Print), p. 21-23, 2014
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Part of BMC Microbiology, p. 256, 2013
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Transcriptome Profiling of Giardia intestinalis Using Strand-specific RNAseq
Part of PloS Computational Biology, 2013
- DOI for Transcriptome Profiling of Giardia intestinalis Using Strand-specific RNAseq
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Hydrogenosomes in the diplomonad Spironucleus salmonicida
Part of Nature Communications, p. 2493, 2013
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Part of PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2012
- DOI for Common Coinfections of Giardia intestinalis and Helicobacter pylori in Non-Symptomatic Ugandan Children
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Allelic sequence heterozygosity in single Giardia parasites
Part of BMC Microbiology, 2012
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Part of Eukaryotic Cell, p. 864-873, 2012
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Part of PLOS ONE, 2012
- DOI for Arginine Consumption by the Intestinal Parasite Giardia intestinalis Reduces Proliferation of Intestinal Epithelial Cells
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Laboratory cryo soft X-ray microscopy
Part of Journal of Structural Biology, p. 267-272, 2012
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Alpha-1 Giardin is an Annexin with Highly Unusual Calcium-Regulated Mechanisms
Part of Journal of Molecular Biology, p. 169-181, 2012
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Stable transfection of the diplomonad parasite Spironucleus salmonicida
Part of Eukaryotic Cell, p. 1353-1361, 2012
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Part of PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2012
- DOI for Detection of Giardia duodenalis Assemblages A and B in Human Feces by Simple, Assemblage-Specific PCR Assays
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Transcriptional changes in Giardia during host-parasite interactions
Part of International Journal for Parasitology, p. 277-285, 2011
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Part of Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases, p. 95-99, 2011
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Part of PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2011
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Part of Experimental parasitology, p. 804-810, 2011
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The minimal kinome of Giardia lamblia illuminates early kinase evolution and unique parasite biology
Part of Genome Biology, 2011
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Human Cellular Immune Response Against Giardia lamblia 5 Years After Acute Giardiasis
Part of Journal of Infectious Diseases, p. 1779-1786, 2011
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Part of Vaccine, p. 9529-9537, 2011
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Part of BMC Genomics, 2010
- DOI for Large genomic differences between the morphologically indistinguishable diplomonads Spironucleus barkhanus and Spironucleus salmonicida
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Part of Veterinary parasitology, p. 159-160, 2008
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Dominance of Giardia assemblage B in León, Nicaragua.
Part of Acta Tropica, p. 44-53, 2008
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Eukaryotic RNase P RNA mediates cleavage in the absence of protein
Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, p. 2062-2067, 2007
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Protein phosphatase 2A plays a crucial role in Giardia lamblia differentiation
Part of Molecular and biochemical parasitology (Print), p. 80-89, 2007
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Giardia lamblia-induced changes in gene expression in differentiated Caco-2
Part of Infect Immun, p. 8204-8, 2005
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Secretory antibodies against Giardia intestinalis in lactating Nicaraguan women.
Part of Parasite Immunol, p. 163-9, 2005
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Developmental changes in the adhesive disk during Giardia differentiation.
Part of Mol Biochem Parasitol, p. 199-207, 2005
Articles, review/survey
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Update on Giardia: Highlights from the seventh International Giardia and Cryptosporidium Conference
Part of Parasite, 2020
- DOI for Update on Giardia: Highlights from the seventh International Giardia and Cryptosporidium Conference
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Host specificity in the Giardia duodenalis species complex
Part of Infection, Genetics and Evolution, p. 335-345, 2018
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An up-date on Giardia and giardiasis
Part of Current Opinion in Microbiology, p. 47-52, 2016
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Drug resistance in Giardia duodenalis
Part of Biotechnology Advances, p. 888-901, 2015
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Behind the smile: cell biology and disease mechanisms of Giardia species
Part of Nature Reviews Microbiology, p. 413-422, 2010
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Part of BMC Genomics, p. 51, 2007
Chapters in book
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Part of Molecular Medical Microbiology, p. 3107-3119, Elsevier, 2023
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Part of Giardia And Giardiasis, Pt B, p. 139-171, Elsevier, 2020
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Recent advances in functional research in Giardia intestinalis
Part of Giardia And Giardiasis, Pt B, p. 97-137, Elsevier, 2020
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The genome of Giardia and other diplomonads
Part of Anaerobic Parasitic Protozoa: Genomics and Molecular Biology, p. 23-44, Caister Academic Press, 2010