Jarmo
Niemi
Docent, Faculty of Science
Ph.D.
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Areas of expertise
Antibiotic biosynthesis
biology of Streptomyces
protein research
Biography
I was born in Pori, Finland in 1958, graduated from the University of Turku in 1983, got my Ph.D degree in 1998, and was appointed to my present position as lecturer in 2005. I retired in 2026.
I am married and have two children.
I am married and have two children.
Teaching
I have retired from my position as lecturer.
Research
I started work with antibiotic biosynthesis in 1985, when I worked for the Finnish pharmaceutical company Leiras, and have continued it since, except for 1995-1998, when I worked in a project concerning high-throughput screening methods for peptide receptor agonists.
My Ph. D. thesis in 1995 was about "Hybrid Anthracycline Antibiotics: Analysis and Application of Rhodomycin Biosynthetic Genes from Streptomyces purpurascens".
My research concerned the biosynthesis of antibiotics by Streptomyces, its molecular biology, enzymology and structural biology
Publications
Facultative predation expands the ecological repertoire of Streptomyces (2026)
mBio
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Metabolic engineering of doxorubicin biosynthesis through P450-redox partner optimization and structural analysis of DoxA (2026)
Nature Communications
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Diverse Combinatorial Biosynthesis Strategies for C-H Functionalization of Anthracyclinones (2024)
ACS Synthetic Biology
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Pseudouridine-Modifying Enzymes SapB and SapH Control Entry into the Pseudouridimycin Biosynthetic Pathway (2023)
ACS Chemical Biology
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Differential regulation of undecylprodigiosin biosynthesis in the yeast-scavenging Streptomyces strain MBK6 (2021)
FEMS Microbiology Letters
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Characterization of C-nucleoside Antimicrobials from Streptomyces albus DSM 40763: Strepturidin is Pseudouridimycin (2019)
Scientific Reports
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Evolutionary Trajectories for the Functional Diversification of Anthracycline Methyltransferases (2019)
ACS Chemical Biology
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Discovery of the Showdomycin Gene Cluster from Streptomyces showdoensis ATCC 15227 Yields Insight into the Biosynthetic Logic of C-Nucleoside Antibiotics (2017)
ACS Chemical Biology
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Divergent evolution of an atypical S-adenosyl-L-methionine-dependent monooxygenase involved in anthracycline biosynthesis (2015)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Coordinate changes in gene expression and triacylglycerol composition in the developing seeds of oilseed rape (Brassica napus) and turnip rape (Brassica rapa) (2014)
Food Chemistry
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))