Julia Maria Kloos


Head engineer

Job description

I am involved in projects focusing on antibiotic resistance (Closing the diagnostic gap in adaptive antimicrobial resistance of multi-drug resistant Gram-negative pathogens) and microbiome research (Gut Microbiome-based Biomarkers to Prevent Infections by Antimicrobial Resistant Bacteria in Infancy; Compositional and metabolic changes of the gut microbiome in childhood cancers).

Besides research, I also take over administrative and teaching related tasks.


  • Julia Kloos, João A Gama, Joachim Hegstad, Ørjan Samuelsen, Pål J Johnsen :
    Piggybacking on Niche Adaptation Improves the Maintenance of Multidrug-Resistance Plasmids
    Molecular Biology and Evolution (MBE) 2021 ARKIV / DOI
  • Julia Maria Kloos, Joao Pedro Alves Gama, Pål Jarle Johnsen, Ørjan Samuelsen :
    Host dependent maintenance of a blaNDM-1-encoding plasmid in clinical Escherichia coli isolates
    Scientific Reports 2020 DOI
  • Julia Maria Kloos, Pål Jarle Johnsen, Klaus Harms :
    Tn1 transposition in the course of natural transformation enables horizontal antibiotic resistance spread in Acinetobacter baylyi
    Microbiology (Reading) 2020 ARKIV / DOI
  • Nicole L. Podnecky, Elizabeth Aarag, Julia Maria Kloos, Vidar Sørum, Raul Primicerio, Adam Paul Roberts et al.:
    Conserved collateral antibiotic susceptibility networks in diverse clinical strains of Escherichia coli.
    Nature Communications 10. September 2018 ARKIV / DOI
  • Maria Chiara Di Luca, Vidar Sørum, Irina Starikova, Julia Maria Kloos, Nils Fredrik Hülter, Mohammed Umaer Naseer et al.:
    Low biological cost of carbapenemase-encoding plasmids following transfer from Klebsiella pneumoniae to Escherichia coli
    Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 2016 DOI
  • Ane Live Gunnes Utnes, Vidar Sørum, Nils Fredrik Hülter, Raul Primicerio, Joachim Hegstad, Julia Maria Kloos et al.:
    Growth phase-specific evolutionary benefits of natural transformation in Acinetobacter baylyi
    The ISME Journal 2015 DOI
  • Veronika Kucharová Pettersen, Julia Maria Kloos :
    Dritbra» hvis ungdom gir oss avføringen sin
    19. February 2024 DATA / ARKIV
  • Julia Maria Kloos, Lea Jänisch, Anna Kaarina Pöntinen, Ørjan Samuelsen, Pål Jarle Johnsen, Jukka Corander et al.:
    Different metabolic proficiency among dominant ExPEC lineages
    2022
  • João Alves Gama, Julia Maria Kloos, Joachim Hegstad, Ørjan Samuelsen, Pål Jarle Johnsen :
    Plasmid cost alleviation as a consequence of niche-adaptation
    2021
  • Julia Maria Kloos, João Alves Gama, Joachim Hegstad, Ørjan Samuelsen, Pål Jarle Johnsen :
    Plasmid Cost Alleviation By Hitchhiking On Niche-adaptation
    2021
  • Julia Maria Kloos, Joao Pedro Alves Gama, Joachim Hegstad, Ørjan Samuelsen, Pål Jarle Johnsen :
    E. coli Niche Adaptation Improves Plasmid Maintenance
    2021
  • Sören Abel, Anel Mahmutovic, Aaron Nicholas Gillman, Aime Manzi, Natasha-Anne Robson Moe, Silje Lauksund et al.:
    How to blast a biofilm
    2018
  • Julia Maria Kloos, Joao Pedro Alves Gama, Ørjan Samuelsen, Pål Jarle Johnsen :
    Klebsiella pneumoniae MDR-encoding plasmids in clinical isolates of uropathogenic Escherichia coli: plasmid-host co-evolution and its effect on fitness cost of plasmid-mediated resistance
    2018
  • Julia Maria Kloos, Joao Pedro Alves Gama, Ørjan Samuelsen, Pål Jarle Johnsen :
    Plasmid-host co-evolution of Klebsiella pneumoniae MDR-encoding plasmids in clinical isolates of uropathogenic Escherichia coli: effect on fitness cost of plasmid-mediated resistance
    2018
  • Julia Maria Kloos, Kaare Magne Nielsen, Pål Jarle Johnsen, Klaus Harms :
    Natural transformation of Acinetobacter baylyi by transposons
    2017
  • Julia Maria Kloos, Kaare Magne Nielsen, Pål Jarle Johnsen, Klaus Harms :
    Transposition during natural transformation facilitates spread of antibiotic resistance determinants in Acinetobacter baylyi
    2016

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