Siv G. E. Andersson

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Siv G. E. Andersson
Born
Siv Gun Elisabeth Andersson

1959 (age 64–65)
EducationPh.D.
Alma materUppsala University
Scientific career
FieldsEvolutionary biology
InstitutionsUppsala University, University of Cambridge
Doctoral advisorCharles Kurland
Websitewww.icm.uu.se/molecular-evolution/andersson-siv/

Siv Gun Elisabeth Andersson (born 1959) is a Swedish

evolutionary biologist, professor of molecular evolution at Uppsala University.[1] She is member of both the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and of Engineering.[2][3] She is also Head of basic research at the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation[4] and has been co-director of the Swedish national center for large-scale research Science for Life Laboratory between 2017 and 2021.[5] Her research focuses on the evolution of bacteria
, mainly on intracellular parasites.

Education and career

Andersson grew up in Horndal, Dalarna. Her mother was home care assistant and her father was employed in the wood industry.[6] She studied Biology at Uppsala University, since the programme was the only one that had a course about DNA. She defended her PhD in molecular biology in 1990, under the supervision of Charles Kurland.[7] She applied for a postdoctoral stipend from EMBO to continue her research in the United States, but ended up obtaining a research position at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge.[6] She became professor of molecular evolution in 2000, at the Uppsala University's Evolutionary Biology Center.[6] She was elected at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 2005.[2]

Andersson has been very active in developing the Swedish national center for large-scale research Science for Life Laboratory, especially its DNA sequencing and bioinformatics platforms. She served as Co-director for the center between 2017 and 2021.[5]

During the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, she contributed, together with Lars Engstrand and with the financial support of the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, to establish the first large-scale testing facility in Sweden[8][9]

Research

Andersson's research first focused around the role of codon usage in shaping bacterial genomes.[10] After her postdoctoral fellowship, she contributed to sequence one of the first genome of an obligate intracellular parasite, Rickettsia prowazekii, the causative agent of epidemic typhus.[11]

In her later career, her research continued to explore bacteria and their relationships with their different hosts.[12] In particular, she is interested in the genomic consequences of long-term associations of intracellular bacteria.[13] She explored the evolution of Bartonella,[14] Wolbachia,[15] and Planctomycetota,[16] among others.

Andersson has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles, and has an h-index of 61, as of 2022.[17]

Notable awards and honors

References

  1. ^ ""Researcher Profile: Siv Andersson"". Retrieved 2022-03-08.
  2. ^ a b ""KVA Medlemssida Siv Andersson"" (in Swedish). Retrieved 2022-03-09.
  3. ^ a b ""IVA Medlemssida Andersson, Siv"" (in Swedish). Retrieved 2022-03-09.
  4. ^ ""New Program on Data-Driven Life Science"". 26 October 2020. Retrieved 2022-03-08.
  5. ^ a b ""Siv Andersson new Co-Director for SciLifeLab"". 18 May 2017. Retrieved 2022-03-08.
  6. ^ a b c ""Tidningen Curie: Hon blev DNA-forskare för att förstå livet"" (in Swedish). 28 February 2017. Retrieved 2022-03-09.
  7. OCLC 22568986
    . Retrieved 2021-01-16.
  8. ^ ""Siv Andersson: Från nyfikenhet till nytta under pandemin"" (in Swedish). Retrieved 2022-03-09.
  9. ^ Törnwall, Mikael (20 May 2020). ""Wallenbergs coronakupp: byggde ett labb utan lov"". Svenska Dagbladet (in Swedish). Retrieved 2022-03-09.
  10. PMID 2194095
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  11. S2CID 4379381
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  12. S2CID 40576224
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  13. PMID 16099701
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  14. PMID 23555299
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  15. PMID 19307581
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  16. PMID 31808939
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  17. ^ "Google Scholar: Siv Andersson". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
  18. ^ ""Letterstedska prisen 2002"" (in Swedish). KVA. 4 March 2002. Retrieved 2021-01-14.
  19. ^ "People in the EMBO Communities". people.embo.org. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
  20. ^ ""Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien: Nya ledamöter invalda, pressmeddelande 2005-02-10" (in Swedish). Retrieved 2022-03-09.
  21. ^ ""Laureates"" (in Swedish). KVA. Retrieved 2021-01-17.
  22. ^ "Miljonanslag för stark forskningsmiljö till Uppsala" (in Swedish). 2005-02-17. Retrieved 2021-01-14.
  23. ^ "ESEB Officers - ESEB | European Society for Evolutionary Biology". eseb.org.
  24. ^ "Bee bacteria working as vitamin factories | Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation". kaw.wallenberg.org. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
  25. ^ ""75 million in Wallenberg grant extension to Gunnar von Heijne - Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics"". www.dbb.su.se. Retrieved 2021-01-14.
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