Dr. Karin Stensjö
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karin.stensjo@fotomol.uu.se | |
| Phone | 018 - 471 6586 | |
| Cell phone | +467049393112 | |
| Fax | 018 - 471 6844 | |
| Visiting address | Ångströmlaboratoriet Lägerhyddsvägen 1 75237 Uppsala | |
| Postal address | Uppsala University Department of Photochemistry and Molecular Science P.O. Box 523 S-75120 Uppsala Sweden | |
Research Interests
Proteome dynamics in cyanobacteria. For more information about my projects, see below.
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 studies at the Swedish Agricultural University (SLU) in Prof. Lisbeth Jonssons group, where I studied the interaction of plants and pests. I received my PhD in Plant Physiology in 2000. I did postdoctoral studies at the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University (now Copenhagen University) in the group of Prof Birger Lindberg Møller where I used molecular and biochemical techniques to characterise 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; molecular hydrogen from cyanobacteria. Since July 2007 I am an assistant professor (forskar assistent) in Molecular Biomimetics at the dept. of Photochemistry and Molecular Sciences (FotoMol) at Uppsala University. In my research I am exploring the proteome dynamics in cyanobacteria. For more information about my projects see below.
Projects
Project leader of the following projects:
- Protein profiling of filamentous N2 fixing cyanobacteria for H2 production.
- Redox regulation in multicellular cyanobacteria –a proteomics approach
Collaborator or/and supervisor of the following projects:
- Maturation and regulation of the uptake hydrogenase in Nostoc Punctiforme ATCC 29133
- Proteases involved in maturation of hydrogenases in cyanobacteria
- Transcriptional regulation of the hyp-genes coding for proteins involved in maturation of the uptake hydrogenase in two filamentous cyanobacteria
