Dr. Karin Hjort

Contact information

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• e-mail adress: akshjort (at) googlemail.com

Work description

I completed my PhD at the Uppsala University, Sweden in 2002, working on cell cycle regulation in the archaeal organism Sulfolobus. My main project was to determine the regulation and the timing of the cell cycle periods.

For my first post doc (2003- 2006) at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences I went from the archaeal field into working with bacteria and their beneficial properties (plant growth promoting and antifungal) for the environment.

During my second post doc I will cover the last domain of life, Eukaryotes. My focus will be on the human parasite Entamoeba histolytica and its mitosome, a remnant mitochondrion. E. histolytica is the causative agent of amoebic dysentery and amoebic liver abscesses. The main objective is to determine the function of the mitosome by finding and localizing mitosomal proteins.

Karin has now moved back to Sweden to work in the School of life sciences of Soedertoern University, her new contact details are:

Dr Karin Hjort

School of Life Sciences

Soedertoern University

SE-141 89 Huddinge

Sweden

Karin's publications

• Hjort K, Goldberg AV, Tsaousis AD, Hirt RP, Embley TM. Diversity and reductive evolution of mitochondria among microbial eukaryotes. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. vol 365 p. 713-27 (2010). pubmed
• Hjort K, Lembke A, Speksnijder A, Smalla K and Jansson JK. Community Structure of Actively Growing Bacterial Populations in Plant Pathogen Suppressive Soil. Microb Ecol. (2006). pubmed
• Olsson JA, Nordstrom K, Hjort K and Dasgupta S. Eclipse-synchrony relationship in Escherichia coli strains with mutations affecting sequestration, initiation of replication and superhelicity of the bacterial chromosome. J Mol Biol. vol 334 p. 919-31 (2003). pubmed
• Hjort K and Bernander R. Cell cycle regulation in the hyperthermophilic crenarchaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius. Mol Microbiol. vol 40 p. 225-34 (2001). pubmed
• Hjort K and Bernander R. Changes in cell size and DNA content in Sulfolobus cultures during dilution and temperature shift experiments. J Bacteriol. vol 181 p. 5669-75 (1999). pubmed