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Microbiology

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91
Citations
30147
World Ranking
649
National Ranking
9

Genetics

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91
Citations
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1039
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Kenn Gerdes publication distribution in Microbiology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Microbiology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Kenn Gerdes sits on this spectrum.

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55 publications 679+

This scientist: 198 publications — 48th percentile

48% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 679 publications or more.

Kenn Gerdes D-index placement in Microbiology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Microbiology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Kenn Gerdes sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 127+

This scientist: 91 D-Index — 89th percentile

89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 127 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Genetics in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Microbiology in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Genetics in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Denmark Leader Award

Overview

Kenn Gerdes is affiliated with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. Their research encompasses fields primarily within Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a significant focus also on Environmental Science. Subfields in their work include Molecular Biology, Genetics, Ecology, Molecular Medicine, and Cell Biology.

The scientist's research topics cover several areas, reflecting a broad interest in bacterial and molecular mechanisms. These topics include:

  • Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Mitochondrial Function and Pathology
  • Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease

Kenn Gerdes has contributed to several peer-reviewed publications. Some recent papers authored or co-authored by them are:

  • Phylogeny Reveals Novel HipA-Homologous Kinase Families and Toxin-Antitoxin Gene Organizations, 2021, mBio
  • Diverse genetic contexts of HicA toxin domains propose a role in anti-phage defense, 2024, mBio
  • Hibernation factors directly block ribonucleases from entering the ribosome in response to starvation, 2021, Nucleic Acids Research
  • Type II and type IV toxin-antitoxin systems show different evolutionary patterns in the global Klebsiella pneumoniae population, 2020, Nucleic Acids Research
  • PasT of Escherichia coli sustains antibiotic tolerance and aerobic respiration as a bacterial homolog of mitochondrial Coq10, 2020, MicrobiologyOpen

Gerdes frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nucleic Acids Research
  • mBio
  • eLife
  • MicrobiologyOpen

The scientist collaborates regularly with several co-authors. Frequent collaborators include:

  • Michael A. Sørensen
  • René L. Bærentsen
  • Ditlev E. Brodersen
  • Stine Vang Nielsen
  • Jeppe Lyngsø

Best Publications

  • Prokaryotic toxin-antitoxin stress response loci.

    Kenn Gerdes;Susanne K. Christensen;Anders Løbner-Olesen

  • Toxin–antitoxin loci are highly abundant in free-living but lost from host-associated prokaryotes

    Deo Prakash Pandey;Kenn Gerdes

  • Mechanisms of bacterial persistence during stress and antibiotic exposure.

    Alexander Harms;Etienne Maisonneuve;Kenn Gerdes

  • Recent functional insights into the role of (p)ppGpp in bacterial physiology

    Vasili Hauryliuk;Gemma C. Atkinson;Katsuhiko S. Murakami;Tanel Tenson

  • Unique type of plasmid maintenance function: postsegregational killing of plasmid-free cells.

    Kenn Gerdes;Poul B. Rasmussen;Soren Molin

  • Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Bacterial Persisters

    Etienne Maisonneuve;Kenn Gerdes;Kenn Gerdes

  • Bacterial persistence by RNA endonucleases

    Etienne Maisonneuve;Lana J. Shakespeare;Mikkel Girke Jørgensen;Kenn Gerdes

  • The bacterial toxin RelE displays codon-specific cleavage of mRNAs in the ribosomal A site.

    Kim Pedersen;Andrey V. Zavialov;Michael Yu. Pavlov;Johan Elf

  • Toxins, Targets, and Triggers: An Overview of Toxin-Antitoxin Biology

    Alexander Harms;Ditlev Egeskov Brodersen;Namiko Mitarai;Kenn Gerdes

  • Retraction Notice to: (p)ppGpp Controls Bacterial Persistence by Stochastic Induction of Toxin-Antitoxin Activity

    Etienne Maisonneuve;Manuela Castro-Camargo;Kenn Gerdes

  • RelE, a global inhibitor of translation, is activated during nutritional stress

    Susanne K. Christensen;Marie Mikkelsen;Kim Pedersen;Kenn Gerdes

  • Plasmid and chromosome partitioning: surprises from phylogeny.

    Kenn Gerdes;Jakob Møller-Jensen;Rasmus Bugge Jensen

  • Toxin–antitoxin Loci as Stress-response-elements: ChpAK/MazF and ChpBK Cleave Translated RNAs and are Counteracted by tmRNA

    Susanne K Christensen;Kim Pedersen;Flemming G Hansen;Flemming G Hansen;Kenn Gerdes

  • The morphogenetic MreBCD proteins of Escherichia coli form an essential membrane‐bound complex

    Thomas Kruse;Jette Bork-Jensen;Kenn Gerdes

  • Molecular Mechanism of Bacterial Persistence by HipA

    Elsa Germain;Daniel Castro-Roa;Nikolay Zenkin;Kenn Gerdes

  • Rapid induction and reversal of a bacteriostatic condition by controlled expression of toxins and antitoxins

    Kim Pedersen;Susanne K. Christensen;Kenn Gerdes

  • Bacterial persistence and toxin-antitoxin loci.

    Kenn Gerdes;Etienne Maisonneuve

  • Programmed cell death in bacteria: proteic plasmid stabilization systems.

    Rasmus Bugge Jensen;Kenn Gerdes

  • RelE toxins from Bacteria and Archaea cleave mRNAs on translating ribosomes, which are rescued by tmRNA

    Susanne K. Christensen;Kenn Gerdes

  • The Escherichia coli relBE genes belong to a new toxin–antitoxin gene family

    Marie Gotfredsen;Kenn Gerdes

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan Löwe
Jan Löwe MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Remy Loris
Remy Loris Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Nicholas R. Thomson
Nicholas R. Thomson Wellcome Sanger Institute
Hanne Ingmer
Hanne Ingmer University of Copenhagen
Philippe J. Sansonetti
Philippe J. Sansonetti Institut Pasteur
Leopold Parts
Leopold Parts Wellcome Sanger Institute
Anders Løbner-Olesen
Anders Løbner-Olesen University of Copenhagen
Boris Macek
Boris Macek University of Tübingen
David Tollervey
David Tollervey University of Edinburgh
David J. Sherratt
David J. Sherratt University of Oxford

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