Karl Persson

Doctor at Industrial Biotechnology

Karl Persson is a postdoc researcher at Chalmers Technical University in the Division of Industrial Biotechnology. He completed his PhD at the University of Gothenburg, researching the genetics of adaptation and evolvability in the model yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. After his PhD, Karl expanded his research focus from model yeast to a broader range of yeast species. Less than 5% of all yeast species have been discovered, and only a handful of yeasts have been tested for their potential use as cell factories. For this reason, Karl conducts bioprospecting to find yeasts that can be useful as efficient cell factories and to transition to a sustainable bioeconomy.

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2024

A unique metabolic gene cluster regulates lactose and galactose metabolism in the yeast Candida intermedia

Kameshwara Venkata Ramana Peri, Le Yuan, Fábio Luis Da Silva Faria Oliveira et al
Applied and Environmental Microbiology. Vol. 90 (10)
Journal article
2023

Understanding gene cluster interactions enables cell factory application of non-conventional yeast Candida intermedia

Kameshwara Venkata Ramana Peri, Fábio Luis Da Silva Faria Oliveira, Karl Persson et al
Conference poster
2023

Regulation of lactose and galactose growth: Insights from a unique metabolic gene cluster in Candida intermedia

Kameshwara Venkata Ramana Peri, Le Yuan, Fábio Luis Da Silva Faria Oliveira et al
Preprint
2023

Understanding gene cluster interactions enables cell factory application of non-conventional yeast Candida intermedia

Kameshwara Venkata Ramana Peri, Fábio Luis Da Silva Faria Oliveira, Karl Persson et al
Conference poster
2022

Adaptation of the yeast gene knockout collection is near-perfectly predicted by fitness and diminishing return epistasis

Karl Persson, Simon Stenberg, Markus J. Tamas et al
G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics. Vol. 12 (11)
Journal article
2022

Genetically controlled mtDNA deletions prevent ROS damage by arresting oxidative phosphorylation

Simon Stenberg, Jing Li, Arne B. Gjuvsland et al
eLife. Vol. 11
Journal article
2022

Domestication reprogrammed the budding yeast life cycle

Matteo De Chiara, Benjamin P. Barré, Karl Persson et al
Nature Ecology & Evolution. Vol. 6
Journal article
2021

Aborting meiosis allows recombination in sterile diploid yeast hybrids

Simone Mozzachiodi, Lorenzo Tattini, Agnès Llored et al
Nature Communications. Vol. 12
Journal article
2020

A yeast living ancestor reveals the origin of genomic introgressions

Melania D’Angiolo, Matteo De Chiara, Jia Xing Yue et al
Nature. Vol. 587 (7834), p. 420-425
Journal article
2020

Intragenic repeat expansion in the cell wall protein gene HPF1 controls yeast chronological aging

Benjamin P. Barré, Johan Hallin, Jia Xing Yue et al
Genome Research. Vol. 30 (5), p. 697-710
Journal article
2020

Aborting meiosis overcomes hybrid sterility

Simone Mozzachiodi, Lorenzo Tattini, Agnès Llored et al
Preprint
2019

Shared Molecular Targets Confer Resistance over Short and Long Evolutionary Timescales

Jing Li, Ignacio Vázquez-García, Karl Persson et al
Molecular Biology and Evolution. Vol. 36 (4), p. 691-708
Journal article
2017

Expression of NADH-oxidases enhances ethylene productivity in Saccharomyces cerevisiae expressing the bacterial EFE

Nina Johansson, Karl Persson, Joakim Norbeck et al
Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering. Vol. 22 (2), p. 195-199
Journal article
2017

Contrasting evolutionary genome dynamics between domesticated and wild yeasts

Jia Xing Yue, Jing Li, Louise Aigrain et al
Nature Genetics. Vol. 49 (6), p. 913-924
Journal article
2014

Ethylene production in relation to nitrogen metabolism in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Nina Johansson, Karl Persson, Paul Quehl et al
FEMS Yeast Research. Vol. 14 (7), p. 1110-1118
Journal article
2014

Comparative sequence analysis and mutagenesis of Ethylene Forming Enzyme (EFE) 2-oxoglutarate/Fe(II)-dependent dioxygenase homologs

Nina Johansson, Karl Persson, Christer Larsson et al
BMC Biochemistry. Vol. 15 (1), p. Art. no. 22-
Journal article

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