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Dan I. Andersson

Dan I. Andersson

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Microbiology
Sweden
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Microbiology

D-Index
92
Citations
35313
World Ranking
617
National Ranking
9

Genetics

D-Index
89
Citations
31256
World Ranking
1115
National Ranking
12

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Microbiology in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Microbiology in Sweden Leader Award

Overview

Dan I. Andersson is affiliated with Uppsala University in Sweden and has contributed extensively to the fields of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. Their body of work spans over 104 publications in biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, and 46 in medicine. Within these broad areas, the scientist has focused on subfields including molecular biology, molecular medicine, genetics, pharmacology, and pollution.

Their research topics prominently include antibiotic resistance in bacteria, antibiotics pharmacokinetics and efficacy, evolution and genetic dynamics, pharmaceutical and antibiotic environmental impacts, bacterial genetics and biotechnology, bacterial identification and susceptibility testing, and antibiotic use and resistance.

Dan I. Andersson has published in several frequent venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), EFSA Journal, PLoS Biology, Scientific Reports, and Nature Communications. These publications serve as key platforms demonstrating the scientist's ongoing engagement with cutting-edge microbiological and biochemical research.

Significant recent papers authored or co-authored by Dan I. Andersson include the following:

  • Antibiotic resistance: turning evolutionary principles into clinical reality (2020) in FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Coauthors frequently collaborating with Dan I. Andersson include:

  • Nikos Fatsis-Kavalopoulos
  • Karin Hjort
  • Marta López-Alonso
  • Avelino Álvarez-Ordóñez
  • Omar Warsi

Within their recent work, research efforts have addressed the physiology and genetics of bacterial responses to antibiotic combinations, molecular mechanisms of collateral sensitivity to specific antibiotics, and the metabolic fitness landscapes predicting the evolution of antibiotic resistance.

Dan I. Andersson's research has had an interdisciplinary scope, intersecting core molecular biology and medicine with environmental and pharmacological aspects of antibiotics. Their publications reflect detailed exploration of evolutionary principles related to antibiotic resistance and clinical applications.

Best Publications

  • Antibiotic resistance and its cost: is it possible to reverse resistance?

    Dan I. Andersson;Diarmaid Hughes

  • Selection of resistant bacteria at very low antibiotic concentrations.

    Erik Gullberg;Sha Cao;Otto G. Berg;Carolina Ilbäck

  • Microbiological effects of sublethal levels of antibiotics

    Dan I. Andersson;Diarmaid Hughes

  • The biological cost of antibiotic resistance

    Dan I Andersson;Bruce R Levin

  • Definitions and guidelines for research on antibiotic persistence

    Naomi N.Q. Balaban;Sophie Helaine;Kim Lewis;Martin Ackermann;Martin Ackermann

  • Mechanisms and consequences of bacterial resistance to antimicrobial peptides

    Dan I. Andersson;Diarmaid Hughes;Jessica Z. Kubicek-Sutherland

  • Effects of environment on compensatory mutations to ameliorate costs of antibiotic resistance.

    J Björkman;I Nagaev;O G Berg;Diarmaid Hughes

  • Persistence of antibiotic resistant bacteria.

    Dan I Andersson

  • The biological cost of mutational antibiotic resistance: any practical conclusions?

    Dan I Andersson

  • Selection of a Multidrug Resistance Plasmid by Sublethal Levels of Antibiotics and Heavy Metals

    Erik Gullberg;Lisa M. Albrecht;Christoffer Karlsson;Linus Sandegren

  • Persistence of antibiotic resistance in bacterial populations

    Dan I. Andersson;Diarmaid Hughes

  • Ohno's dilemma: Evolution of new genes under continuous selection

    Ulfar Bergthorsson;Dan I. Andersson;John R. Roth

  • Mutation frequency and biological cost of antibiotic resistance in Helicobacter pylori

    Britta Björkholm;Maria Sjölund;Per G. Falk;Otto G. Berg

  • Mechanisms and clinical relevance of bacterial heteroresistance.

    Dan I Andersson;Hervé Nicoloff;Karin Hjort

  • Evolution of high-level resistance during low-level antibiotic exposure.

    Erik Wistrand-Yuen;Michael Knopp;Karin Hjort;Sanna Koskiniemi

  • Evolution of antibiotic resistance at non-lethal drug concentrations.

    Dan I. Andersson;Diarmaid Hughes

  • Antibiotic susceptibility testing in less than 30 min using direct single-cell imaging

    Özden Baltekin;Alexis Boucharin;Eva Tano;Dan I. Andersson

  • Virulence of antibiotic-resistant Salmonella typhimurium

    Johanna Björkman;Diarmaid Hughes;Dan I. Andersson

  • Bacterial gene amplification: implications for the evolution of antibiotic resistance

    Linus Sandegren;Dan I Andersson

  • Predicting antibiotic resistance

    José L. Martínez;Fernando Baquero;Dan I. Andersson

Frequent Co-Authors

Diarmaid Hughes
Diarmaid Hughes Uppsala University
Otto G. Berg
Otto G. Berg Uppsala University
John R. Roth
John R. Roth University of California, Davis
Otto Cars
Otto Cars Uppsala University
Charles G. Kurland
Charles G. Kurland Lund University
Måns Ehrenberg
Måns Ehrenberg Uppsala University
Johan Åqvist
Johan Åqvist Uppsala University
Lars Engstrand
Lars Engstrand Karolinska Institute
Sven Hoffner
Sven Hoffner Karolinska Institute

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