Per Stenberg

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Associate professor at Department of Ecology and Environmental Science

KBC-Fysiologihuset, Linnaeus väg 6, Umeå, A5 20 21 Umeå universitet, 901 87 Umeå

Our research focus on evolution of cells, organisms and entire ecosystems. We follow changes in these with the aid of DNA sequencing and computationally intensive data analysis methods.

In one project, we follow changes in abundance of all types of organisms (viruses, bacteria, fungi, plants and animals) over decades in swedish ecosystems using weekly air samples and DNA sequencing. These data can be used to study how climate, weather and land-use influence different organisms. The same data can also be used for focused studies of seasonal variations and for making predictions of future abundance of individual species, such as various pests that cause damage to agriculture and forestry.

Mapping the semi-nested community structure of 3D chromosome contact networks

PloS Computational Biology, Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2023, Vol. 19, (7)

Bernenko, Dolores; Lee, Sang Hoon; Stenberg, Per; et al.

The path to immortalization of cells starts by managing stress through gene duplications

Experimental Cell Research, Elsevier 2023, Vol. 422, (1)

Lewerentz, Jacob; Johansson, Anna-Mia; Stenberg, Per

Mapping the semi-nested community structure of 3D chromosome contact networks

Bernenko, Dolores; Lee, Sang Hoon; Stenberg, Per; et al.

Bacterial composition in Swedish raw drinking water reveals three major interacting ubiquitous metacommunities

MicrobiologyOpen, John Wiley & Sons 2022, Vol. 11, (5)

Brindefalk, Björn; Brolin, Harald; Säve-Söderbergh, Melle; et al.

Transposon activity, local duplications and propagation of structural variants across haplotypes drive the evolution of the Drosophila S2 cell line

BMC Genomics, BioMed Central 2022, Vol. 23, (1)

Lewerentz, Jacob; Johansson, Anna-Mia; Larsson, Jan; et al.

Modeling Protein Target Search in Human Chromosomes

Physical Review Research, American Physical Society 2021, Vol. 3, (1)

Nyberg, Markus; Ambjörnsson, Tobias; Stenberg, Per; et al.

FlexTaxD: flexible modification of taxonomy databases for improved sequence classification

Bioinformatics, Oxford University Press 2021, Vol. 37, (21) : 3932-3933

Sundell, David; Öhrman, Caroline; Svensson, Daniel; et al.

Biological amplification of low frequency mutations unravels laboratory culture history of the bio-threat agent Francisella tularensis

Forensic Science International: Genetics, Elsevier 2020, Vol. 45

Dwibedi, Chinmay Kumar; Larsson, Pär; Ahlinder, Jon; et al.

Airborne microbial biodiversity and seasonality in Northern and Southern Sweden

PeerJ, PeerJ 2020, Vol. 8

Karlsson, Edvin; Johansson, Anna-Mia; Ahlinder, Jon; et al.

Exploring a Drosophila Transcription Factor Interaction Network to Identify Cis-Regulatory Modules

Journal of Computational Biology, Mary Ann Liebert 2020, Vol. 27, (8) : 1313-1328

Mahmud, A. K. M. Firoj; Yang, Doo; Stenberg, Per; et al.

Genomic 3D compartments emerge from unfolding mitotic chromosomes

Chromosoma, Springer 2019, Vol. 128, (1) : 15-20

Kumar, Rajendra; Lizana, Ludvig; Stenberg, Per

Mapping the spectrum of 3D communities in human chromosome conformation capture data

Scientific Reports, Nature Publishing Group 2019, Vol. 9

Lee, Sang Hoon; Kim, Yeonghoon; Lee, Sungmin; et al.

A likelihood ratio-based approach for improved source attribution in microbiological forensic investigations

Forensic Science International, Elsevier 2019, Vol. 302

Lindgren, Petter; Myrtennäs, Kerstin; Forsman, Mats; et al.

Highly interacting regions of the human genome are enriched with enhancers and bound by DNA repair proteins

Scientific Reports, Nature Publishing Group 2019, Vol. 9

Sobhy, Haitham; Kumar, Rajendra; Lewerentz, Jacob; et al.

PTE, a novel module to target Polycomb Repressive Complex 1 to the human cyclin D2 (CCND2) oncogene

Journal of Biological Chemistry, American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 2018, Vol. 293, (37) : 14342-14358

Cameron, Sarina R.; Nandi, Soumyadeep; Kahn, Tatyana G.; et al.

Accounting for bacterial overlap between raw water communities and contaminating sources improves the accuracy of signature-based microbial source tracking

Frontiers in Microbiology, Frontiers Media S.A. 2018, Vol. 9

Hägglund, Moa; Bäckman, Stina; Macellaro, Anna; et al.

The gut microbiome participates in transgenerational inheritance of low temperature responses in Drosophila melanogaster

FEBS Letters, John Wiley & Sons 2018, Vol. 592, (24) : 4078-4086

Zare, Aman; Johansson, Anna-Mia; Karlsson, Edvin; et al.

CBP Regulates Recruitment and Release of Promoter-Proximal RNA Polymerase II

Molecular Cell, Vol. 68, (3) : 491-503.e5

Boija, Ann; Mahat, Dig Bijay; Zare, Aman; et al.

Genome contact map explorer: a platform for the comparison, interactive visualization and analysis of genome contact maps

Nucleic Acids Research, Vol. 45, (17)

Kumar, Rajendra; Sobhy, Haitham; Stenberg, Per; et al.

Atrophin controls developmental signaling pathways via interactions with Trithorax-like

eLIFE, Vol. 6

Yeung, Kelvin; Boija, Ann; Karlsson, Edvin; et al.

Interdependence of PRC1 and PRC2 for recruitment to Polycomb Response Elements

Nucleic Acids Research, Vol. 44, (21) : 10132-10149

Kahn, Tatyana G.; Dorafshan, Eshagh; Schultheis, Dorothea; et al.

Scaffolding of a bacterial genome using MinION nanopore sequencing

Scientific Reports, Vol. 5

Karlsson, E.; Larkeryd, A.; Sjödin, Andreas; et al.

CBP binding outside of promoters and enhancers in Drosophila melanogaster

Epigenetics & Chromatin, BioMed Central (BMC) 2015, Vol. 8

Philip, Philge; Boija, Ann; Vaid, Roshan; et al.

Non-coding roX RNAs prevent the binding of the MSL-complex to heterochromatic regions

PLOS Genetics, Vol. 10, (12) : e1004865-

Figueiredo, Margarida L. A.; Kim, Maria; Philip, Philge; et al.

Combinatorial Interactions Are Required for the Efficient Recruitment of Pho Repressive Complex (PhoRC) to Polycomb Response Elements

PLOS Genetics, PLOS 2014, Vol. 10, (7) : e1004495-

Kahn, Tatyana G.; Stenberg, Per; Pirrotta, Vincenzo; et al.

Complete Genome Sequence of Francisella endociliophora Strain FSC1006, Isolated from a Laboratory Culture of the Marine Ciliate Euplotes raikovi

Genome Announcements, Vol. 2, (6) : 6 e01227-14-

Sjödin, Andreas; Öhrman, Caroline; Bäckman, Stina; et al.

HP1a, Su(var)3-9, SETDB1 and POF stimulate or repress gene expression depending on genomic position, gene length and expression pattern in Drosophila melanogaster

Nucleic Acids Research, Vol. 41, (8) : 4481-4494

Lundberg, Lina E; Stenberg, Per; Larsson, Jan

Male X-linked genes in Drosophila melanogaster are compensated independently of the Male-Specific Lethal complex

Epigenetics & Chromatin, BioMed Central (BMC) 2013, Vol. 6, (Article number: 35)

Philip, Philge; Stenberg, Per

Meiosis and Its Deviations in Polyploid Animals

Cytogenetic and Genome Research, Vol. 140, (2-4) : 185-203

Stenberg, Per; Saura, Anssi

HP1a Recruitment to Promoters Is Independent of H3K9 Methylation in Drosophila melanogaster

PLOS Genetics, Vol. 8, (11) : e1003061-

Figueiredo, Margarida L A; Philip, Philge; Stenberg, Per; et al.

Preferential Genome Targeting of the CBP Co-Activator by Rel and Smad Proteins in Early Drosophila melanogaster Embryos

PLOS Genetics, San Francisco: Public Library of Science 2012, Vol. 8, (6) : e1002769-

Holmqvist, Per-Henrik; Boija, Ann; Philip, Philge; et al.

POF Regulates the Expression of Genes on the Fourth Chromosome in Drosophila melanogaster by Binding to Nascent RNA

Molecular and Cellular Biology, American Society for Microbiology 2012, Vol. 32, (11) : 2121-2134

Johansson, Anna-Mia; Stenberg, Per; Allgardsson, Anders; et al.

Buffering and proteolysis are induced by segmental monosomy in Drosophila melanogaster

Nucleic Acids Research, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2012, Vol. 40, (13) : 5926-5937

Lundberg, Lina E; Figueiredo, Margarida L A; Stenberg, Per; et al.

Sequence signatures involved in targeting the male-specific lethal complex to X-chromosomal genes in Drosophila melanogaster

BMC Genomics, BioMed Central 2012, Vol. 13 : 97-

Philip, Philge; Pettersson, Fredrik; Stenberg, Per

msl2 mRNA is bound by free nuclear MSL complex in Drosophila melanogaster

Nucleic Acids Research, Oxford University Press 2011, Vol. 39, (15) : 6428-6439

Johansson, Anna-Mia; Allgardsson, Anders; Stenberg, Per; et al.

Normalization of high dimensional genomics data where the distribution of the altered variables is skewed

PLOS ONE, Vol. 6, (11) : e27942-

Landfors, Mattias; Philip, Philge; Rydén, Patrik; et al.

Buffering and the evolution of chromosome-wide gene regulation

Chromosoma, Springer 2011, Vol. 120, (3) : 213-225

Stenberg, Per; Larsson, Jan

Alternative Epigenetic Chromatin States of Polycomb Target Genes

PLoS Genetics, Public Library of Science 2010, Vol. 6, (1) : e1000805-

Schwartz, Yuri B.; Kahn, Tatyana G.; Stenberg, Per; et al.

Buffering of segmental and chromosomal aneuploidies in Drosophila melanogaster

PLOS Genetics, Vol. 5, (5)

Stenberg, Per; Lundberg, Lina E.; Johansson, Anna-Mia; et al.

Cytology of Asexual Animals

Lost Sex: The Evolutionary Biology of Parthenogenesis, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands 2009 : 63-74

Stenberg, Per; Saura, Anssi

Painting of fourth and chromosome-wide regulation of the 4th chromosome in Drosophila melanogaster.

EMBO J, Vol. 26, (9) : 2307-2316

Johansson, Anna-Mia; Stenberg, Per; Bernhardsson, Carolina; et al.

POF and HP1 bind expressed exons, suggesting a balancing mechanism for gene regulation

PLoS Genet, Vol. 3, (11) : e209-

Johansson, Anna-Mia; Stenberg, Per; Pettersson, Fredrik; et al.

Organization and regulation of sex-specific thioredoxin encoding genes in the genus Drosophila.

Dev Genes Evol, Vol. 217, (9) : 639-50

Svensson, Malin J; Stenberg, Per; Larsson, Jan

Sequence signature analysis of chromosome identity in three Drosophila species

BMC Bioinformatics, Vol. 6, (158) : 1-17

Stenberg, Per; Pettersson, Fredrik; Saura, Anja O; et al.

Painting of fourth in genus Drosophila suggests autosome-specific gene regulation

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Washington: National Academy of Sciences 2004, Vol. 101, (26) : 9728-9733

Larsson, Jan; Svensson, Malin J; Stenberg, Per; et al.

Distribution, mechanisms and evolutionary significance of clonality and polyploidy in weevils

Agricultural and Forest Entomology, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing 2004, Vol. 6, (4) : 259-266

Stenberg, Per; Lundmark, Magnus

Drosophila CBP cooperates with GAGA factor to induce high levels of Pol II promoter-proximal pausing

Boija, Ann; Holmqvist, Per-Henrik; Philip, Philge; et al.

Airborne eDNA captures the diversity and dynamics of a subarctic ecosystem across three decades

Karlsson, Edvin; Sullivan, Alexis R.; Svensson, Daniel; et al.

CBP functions outside of promoters and enhancers in Drosophila melanogaster

Philip, Philge; Boija, Ann; Mannervik, Mattias; et al.

Painting of fourth in Drosophila spermatogenesis

Svensson, Malin J.; Stenberg, Per; Johansson, Anna-Mia; et al.

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Evolutionary biology

Research projects

11 March 2025 until 10 March 2027

Unobvious relations from the world’s largest eDNA dataset

1 June 2017 until 1 September 2020

Historical trends in Swedish biodiversity

1 January 2017 until 31 December 2026

Swedish Biodiversity In Time and Space

Published: 01 Nov, 2021

Millions to research on the role of forests in climate change