Focus Areas:
Erfðatækni, Örverufræði, Efnaskiptaverkfræði, Efnaskiptalíkön
Peer-reviewed Articles:
Thordis Kristjansdottir, Gudmundur O Hreggvidsson, Elisabet Eik Gudmundsdottir, Snaedis H Bjornsdottir, Olafur H Fridjonsson, Sigmar Karl Stefansson, Eva Nordberg Karlsson, Justine Vanhalst, Birkir Reynisson, Steinn Gudmundsson. A genome-scale metabolic reconstruction provides insight into the metabolism of the thermophilic bacterium Rhodothermus marinus - (2025) . FEMS Microbiology Ecology, Volume 101, Issue 1.
Israt Jahan Mukti, Roya R. R. Sardari, Thordis Kristjansdottir, Gudmundur O. Hreggvidsson, Eva Nordberg Karlsson . Medium development and production of carotenoids and exopolysaccharides by the extremophile Rhodothermus marinus DSM16675 in glucose-based defined media - (2022) . Microbial Cell Factories, Article number: 220 (2022).
Kristjansdottir, T, Bosma, E. F., Santos, F., Özdemir, E., Herrgård, M. J., França, L., Ferreira, B. S., Nielsen, A. T., Gudmundsson, S.. A metabolic reconstruction of Lactobacillus reuteri JCM1112 and analysis of its potential as a cell factory - (2019) . Microbial Cell Factories, 18, article no. 186.
Ron, EYC, Plaza, M., Kristjánsdóttir, T., Sardari, RRR, Björnsdóttir, SH, Guðmundsson, S., Hreggviðsson, G.Ó., Turner, C., van Niel, EWJ, Nordberg-Karlsson, E. . Characterization of carotenoids in Rhodothermus marinus - (2018) . Microbiology Open, 7(1), e00536.
Doktorsritgerð / PhD thesis: Development of non-model bacteria as cell factories – Focusing on metabolic modelling and engineering of Rhodothermus marinus and Lactobacillus reuteri. 2022. University of Iceland, Faculty of Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science.
Adalsteinsson et al. 2021. “Efficient genome editing of an extreme thermophile, Thermus thermophilus, using a thermostable Cas9 variant”. Sci Rep. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-89029-2.
Kristjansdottir et al. 2020. “Engineering the carotenoid biosynthetic pathway in Rhodothermus marinus for lycopene production”. Metab Eng Commun. doi: 10.1016/j.mec.2020.e00140.
Hreggvidsson et al. 2020. “Chapter 16 – Biocatalytic refining of polysaccharides from brown seaweeds”. Sustainable Seaweed Technologies, pp. 447-504. Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-817943-7.00016-0.
Allahgholi et al. 2020. “Composition analysis and minimal treatments to solubilize polysaccharides from the brown seaweed Laminaria digitate for microbial growth of thermophiles”. Journal of Applied Phycology. doi: 10.1007/s10811-020-02103-6.