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Ólafur Sigmar Andrésson - Professor Emeritus
–
School of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Ólafur Sigmar Andrésson
Íslenska
Professor Emeritus
of Genetics.
Location
Askja / N-153
Email
osa [at] hi.is
Unit
Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences
Website
https://uni.hi.is/osa/
ORCID site
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8451-5671
Research portal – Ólafur Sigmar Andrésson
Courses 2024 - 2025
LÍF223F - Research in molecular biology and biochemistry
Collaboration
Zophonías O. Jónsson, Sigríður H. Þorbjarnardóttir og Guðmundur H. Guðmundsson
,
University of Iceland, Biology Institute
Vivian Miao
,
University of British Columbia
Anna Eliasson Lantz og Jens Neilsen
,
Microbial Biotechnology, DTU
Valgerður Andrésdóttir
,
Tilraunastöðina að Keldum
Education
1979
,
Ph.D.
,
University of Wisconsin
,
Ph.D in biochemistry and genetics
1979
,
Framhaldsnám
,
University of Edinburgh
,
EMBO Long Term Fellowship
1975
,
Framhaldsnám
,
University of Iceland
,
Biology
1975
,
Undirbúningsnám
,
University of Tromsö
,
Experimental Biology
1974
,
B.Sc
,
University of Iceland
,
B.Sc. biology
1971
,
Stúdentspróf
,
,
Professional Experience
2003 -
,
Professor of genetics,
University of Iceland
1981 -
2003,
,
University of Iceland
1979 -
1981,
Post-doc,
University of Edinburgh
Published works
2024
Increased biocrust cover and activity in the highlands of Iceland after five growing seasons of experimental warming
Plant and Soil
2023
Mycobiont-specific primers facilitate the amplification of mitochondrial small subunit ribosomal DNA
MycoKeys
2022
Environmental change alters nitrogen fixation rates and microbial parameters in a subarctic biological soil crust
Oikos
Novel methods to characterise spatial distribution and enantiomeric composition of usnic acids in four Icelandic lichens
Phytochemistry
Novel methods to characterise spatial distribution and enantiomeric composition of usnic acids in four Icelandic lichens
Phytochemistry
2019
The lichen symbiosis re-viewed through the genomes of Cladonia grayi and its algal partner Asterochloris glomerata
BMC Genomics
Faster nitrogen cycling and more fungal and root biomass in cold ecosystems under experimental warming: a meta‐analysis
Ecology
2018
Distinctive characters of Nostoc genomes in cyanolichens
BMC Genomics
2016
Fungal and cyanobacterial gene expression in a lichen symbiosis
Fungal Biology
Nutrient scavenging activity and antagonistic factors of non-photobiont lichen-associated bacteria
World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
A fast and inexpensive high-throughput protocol for isolating high molecular weight genomic DNA from lichens
Herzogia
Peltigera islandica, a new cyanolichen species in section Peltigera ('P. canina group')
Lichenologist
Two mutations in the vif gene of maedi-visna virus have different phenotypes, indicating more than one function of Vif
Virology
2015
Analysis of the peltigera membranacea metagenome indicates that lichen-associated bacteria are involved in phosphate solubilization
Microbiology (United Kingdom)
High-throughput sequencing in studies of lichen population biology
2014
Lichen-symbiotic cyanobacteria associated with Peltigera have an alternative vanadium-dependent nitrogen fixation system
European Journal of Phycology
Effects of abiotic stressors on lutein production in the green microalga Dunaliella salina
Microbial Cell Factories
2013
Metagenomic natural product discovery in lichen provides evidence for a family of biosynthetic pathways in diverse symbioses
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Lichen genomics
Studies on Recombination Processes in two Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Endogenous Genes, NIT1 and ARG7
Protist
Enhancement of carotenoid biosynthesis in the green microalga Dunaliella salina with light-emitting diodes and adaptive laboratory evolution
Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
2012
LEC-2, a highly variable lectin in the lichen Peltigera membranacea
Symbiosis
Expression of lec-1, a mycobiont gene encoding a galectin-like protein in the lichen Peltigera membranacea
Symbiosis
Mitochondrial genomes from the lichenized fungi Peltigera membranacea and Peltigera malacea
Fungal Biology
2009
Cloning and heterologous transcription of a polyketide synthase gene from the lichen Solorina crocea
Mycological Research
2008
Mutational analysis of a principal neutralization domain of visna/maedi virus envelope glycoprotein
Journal of General Virology
2007
Duplicated sequence motif in the long terminal repeat of maedi-visna viras extends cell tropism and is associated with neurovirulence
Journal of Virology
Optimization of heterologous production of the polyketide 6-MSA in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Biotechnology and Bioengineering
Áhrif stökkbreytinga í hvarfstöð alkalísks fosfatasa
RAUST - Tímarit um raunvísindi og stærðfræði
2006
Taugasækni mæði-visnuveirunnar
Fléttuverkfræði - Tilraunir til að betrumbæta lífið
2005
Mucosal vaccination with an attenuated maedi-visna virus clone
Vaccine
Simultaneous mutations in CA and Vif of maedi-visna virus cause attenuated replication in macrophages and reduced infectivity in vivo
Journal of Virology
2004
Taugasækni mæði-visnuveiru
Duplicated sequence motif in the long terminal repeat of maedi-visna virus extends cell tropism and is associated with neurovirulence
Taugasækni mæði-visnuveirunnar
The vif gene of maedi-visna virus is essential for infectivity in vivo and in vitro
Virology
2001
Primary structure of cold-adapted alkaline phosphatase from a Vibrio sp. as deduced from the nucleotide gene sequence
Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Protein Structure and Molecular Enzymology
Microbes everywhere. CAFF (Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna)
2000
Heat-labile bacterial alkaline phosphatase from a marine Vibrio sp
Enzyme and Microbial Technology
Clostridium perfringens beta-toxin forms multimeric transmembrane pores in human endothelial cells
Microbial Pathogenesis
Cloning and heterologous expression of Solorina crocea pyrG
Current Genetics
The long terminal repeat is a determinant of cell tropism of maedi-visna virus
Journal of General Virology
1999
Naturally occurring mutations within 39 amino acids in the envelope glycoprotein of maedi-visna virus alter the neutralization phenotype
Journal of Virology
1998
Biological and genetic differences between lung- and brain-derived isolates of maedi-visna virus
Virus Genes
Visna virus dUTPase is dispensable for neuropathogenicity
Journal of Virology
Site-directed mutagenesis of Clostridium perfringens beta-toxin
FEMS Microbiology Letters
Immune response to recombinant visna virus Gag and Env precursor proteins synthesized in insect cells
Virus Research
1997
In vivo and in vitro infection with two different molecular clones of visna virus
Virology
1996
Erratum
FEMS Microbiology Letters
1995
Expression and purification of Clostridium perfringens beta-toxin glutathione S-transferase fusion protein
FEMS Microbiology Letters
Cloning and sequence analysis of the DNA ligase-encoding gene of rhodothermus marinus, and overproduction, purification and characterization of two thermophilic DNA ligases
Gene
1994
Sequence Variation in the Envelope Gene and the LTR of Maedi‐Visna Virus
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
Renibacterium salmoninarum, the causative agent of bacterial kidney disease in salmonid fish, detected by nested reverse transcription-PCR of 16S rRNA sequences
Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Pathogenic Proviral Molecular Clone of Neurovirulent Visna Virus
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
The sequence of the single 16S rRNA gene of the thermophilic eubacterium Rhodothermus marinus reveals a distant relationship to the group containing Flexibacter, Bacteroides, and Cytophaga species
Journal of Bacteriology
1993
Nucleotide sequence and biological properties of a pathogenic proviral molecular clone of neurovirulent visna virus
Virology
Role of the immune response in visna
1991
Human and ovine lentiviral infections compared
Comparative Immunology, Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
1987
Subclasses of IgG from whales
Developmental and Comparative Immunology
1985
supN ochre suppressor gene in Escherichia coli codes for tRNA(Lys)
Journal of Bacteriology
Leucine tRNA family of Escherichia coli
Journal of Bacteriology
1983
DNA sequences of yeast H3 and H4 histone genes from two non-allelic gene sets encode identical H3 and H4 proteins
Journal of Molecular Biology
1980
Isolation and characterization of lambda transducing phages for the E. coli genes ksgA and pdxA
MGG Molecular & General Genetics
Some properties of the ribosomal RNA methyltransferase encoded by ksgA and the polarity of ksgA transcription
MGG Molecular & General Genetics
Genetic organization and restriction enzyme cleavage map of the ksgA-pdxA region of the Escherichia coli chromosome
MGG Molecular & General Genetics
1978
Mutations determining generalized resistance to aminoglycoside antibiotics in Escherichia coli
MGG Molecular & General Genetics
1976
Deletions of ribosomal protein genes in Escherichia coli merodiploids heterozygous for resistance to streptomycin and spectinomycin
MGG Molecular & General Genetics
Keywords for Specialisation:
the lichen symbiome. Bioactive compounds in lichens and their genes
Lichen genomics
Surrogate expression in bacteria and fungi
Molecular genetics
Genomics
Genetic engineering
Biotechnology
Bioinformatics
Cyanobacterial nitrogen fixation in association with lichens and mosses. Alternative nitrogenases in cyanobacteria
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