World's Best Scientists 2026 revealed!
Lotte Søgaard-Andersen

Lotte Søgaard-Andersen

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
60
Citations
9910
World Ranking
12197
National Ranking
872

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2008 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Microbiology and Immunology

Overview

Lotte Søgaard-Andersen is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany and conducts research primarily in the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work spans several subfields including Molecular Biology, Genetics, Ecology, Plant Science, and Endocrinology.

The scientist's research topics encompass:

  • Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing
  • Biochemical and Structural Characterization
  • Protist diversity and phylogeny

Frequent publication venues for Søgaard-Andersen include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Bacteriology
  • Nature Communications
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • PLoS Genetics

Co-authors that have frequently collaborated with the scientist are:

  • Timo Glatter
  • Marco Herfurth
  • María Pérez-Burgos
  • Anke Treuner-Lange
  • Luís António Menezes Carreira

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Lotte Søgaard-Andersen include:

  • PilY1 and minor pilins form a complex priming the type IVa pilus in Myxococcus xanthus, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Characterization of the Exopolysaccharide Biosynthesis Pathway in Myxococcus xanthus, 2020, Journal of Bacteriology
  • Biomolecular condensate drives polymerization and bundling of the bacterial tubulin FtsZ to regulate cell division, 2023, Nature Communications
  • The small GTPase MglA together with the TPR domain protein SgmX stimulates type IV pili formation in M. xanthus, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Biosynthesis and function of cell-surface polysaccharides in the social bacterium Myxococcus xanthus, 2020, Biological Chemistry

Among the awards received, Søgaard-Andersen was elected to the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2008 for contributions in Microbiology and Immunology.

Best Publications

  • Bacterial solutions to multicellularity: a tale of biofilms, filaments and fruiting bodies.

    Dennis Claessen;Daniel E. Rozen;Oscar P. Kuipers;Lotte Søgaard-Andersen

  • Architecture of the type IVa pilus machine.

    Yi Wei Chang;Yi Wei Chang;Lee A. Rettberg;Anke Treuner-Lange;Janet Iwasa

  • Collective Motion and Nonequilibrium Cluster Formation in Colonies of Gliding Bacteria

    Fernando Peruani;Jörn Starruss;Vladimir Jakovljevic;Lotte Søgaard-Andersen

  • The RNA-Binding Protein Hfq of Listeria monocytogenes: Role in Stress Tolerance and Virulence

    Janne K. Christiansen;Marianne H. Larsen;Hanne Ingmer;Lotte Søgaard-Andersen

  • Correlated cryogenic photoactivated localization microscopy and cryo-electron tomography.

    Yi-Wei Chang;Songye Chen;Songye Chen;Elitza I Tocheva;Anke Treuner-Lange

  • Identification of small Hfq-binding RNAs in Listeria monocytogenes

    Janne Kudsk Christiansen;Jesper Sejrup Nielsen;Tine Ebersbach;Poul Valentin-Hansen

  • Extracellular biology of Myxococcus xanthus

    Anna Konovalova;Tobias Petters;Lotte Søgaard-Andersen

  • PilB and PilT Are ATPases Acting Antagonistically in Type IV Pilus Function in Myxococcus xanthus

    Vladimir Jakovljevic;Simone Leonardy;Michael Hoppert;Lotte Søgaard-Andersen

  • Regulation of the type IV pili molecular machine by dynamic localization of two motor proteins.

    Iryna Bulyha;Carmen Schmidt;Peter Lenz;Vladimir Jakovljevic

  • The FruA signal transduction protein provides a checkpoint for the temporal co-ordination of intercellular signals in Myxococcus xanthus development.

    Eva Ellehauge;Mads Nørregaard-Madsen;Lotte Søgaard-Andersen

  • Bioinformatics and Experimental Analysis of Proteins of Two-Component Systems in Myxococcus xanthus

    Xingqi Shi;Sigrun Wegener-Feldbrügge;Stuart Huntley;Nils Hamann

  • Identification of the C-signal, a contact-dependent morphogen coordinating multiple developmental responses in Myxococcus xanthus

    Sune Lobedanz;Lotte Søgaard-Andersen

  • Regulation of dynamic polarity switching in bacteria by a Ras‐like G‐protein and its cognate GAP

    Simone Leonardy;Mandy Miertzschke;Iryna Bulyha;Eva Sperling

  • Arginine-rhamnosylation as new strategy to activate translation elongation factor P.

    Jürgen Lassak;Eva C Keilhauer;Maximilian Fürst;Kristin Wuichet

  • A flexible partnership: the CytR anti‐activator and the cAMP–CRP activator protein, comrades in transcription control

    Poul Valentin-Hansen;Lotte Søgaard-Andersen;Henrik Pedersen

  • Coupling of protein localization and cell movements by a dynamically localized response regulator in Myxococcus xanthus

    Simone Leonardy;Gerald Freymark;Sabrina Hebener;Eva Ellehauge

  • Intercellular C-signaling in Myxococcus xanthus involves a branched signal transduction pathway.

    Lotte Sogaard-Andersen;Frank J. Slack;Harvey Kimsey;Dale Kaiser

  • Comparative Genomic Analysis of Fruiting Body Formation in Myxococcales

    Stuart Huntley;Nils Hamann;Sigrun Wegener-Feldbrügge;Anke Treuner-Lange

  • High-Force Generation Is a Conserved Property of Type IV Pilus Systems

    Martin Clausen;Vladimir Jakovljevic;Lotte Søgaard-Andersen;Berenike Maier

  • Structural analysis of the Ras-like G protein MglA and its cognate GAP MglB and implications for bacterial polarity.

    Mandy Miertzschke;Carolin Koerner;Ingrid R Vetter;Daniela Keilberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Grant J. Jensen
Grant J. Jensen California Institute of Technology
Stephan Dahlke
Stephan Dahlke Philipp University of Marburg
Volkhard Kaever
Volkhard Kaever Hannover Medical School
Urs Jenal
Urs Jenal University of Basel
Alexander Goesmann
Alexander Goesmann University of Giessen
Miguel A. Valvano
Miguel A. Valvano Queen's University Belfast
Anke Becker
Anke Becker Philipp University of Marburg
Hanne Ingmer
Hanne Ingmer University of Copenhagen
Dale Kaiser
Dale Kaiser Stanford University
Erhard Bremer
Erhard Bremer Philipp University of Marburg

If you think any of the details on this page are incorrect, let us know.

Report an issue

We appreciate your kind effort to assist us to improve this page, it would be helpful providing us with as much detail as possible in the text box below:

Best Scientists Citing Lotte Søgaard-Andersen

Trending Scientists

Recently Published Articles