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Johan Nordgren

Associate Professor, Docent

Docent in Medical Microbiology.

Virus-host interactions in infection and disease

My research in centered on disentangling the evolutionary interplay between virus and host and how this affect risk of infection and disease today.

I mainly study gastrointestinal viruses but also emerging and airborne viruses, often in a global health perspective. Through our studies we want to understand how evolution has shaped host and virus factors that mediate susceptibility and severity to an infection. We are furthermore working with different infection models for functional studies to understand pathogenic mechanisms on a molecular level.


Publications

Latest publications in LiU DiVA

2026

Johan Nordgren, Richard Agren, Marie Hagbom, Hugo Zeberg, Lennart Svensson (2026) Current Opinion in Virology, Vol. 75, Article 101513 (Article, review/survey)

2025

Melissa Govender, Jyotirmoy Das, Francis Hopkins, Cecilia Svanberg, Johan Nordgren, Marie Hagbom, Jonas Klingström, Åsa Nilsdotter-Augustinsson, Yean K. Yong, Vijayakumar Velu, Sivadoss Raju, Johanna Sjöwall, Esaki M. Shankar, Sofia Nyström, Marie Larsson (2025) Cells, Vol. 14, Article 1673 (Article in journal)
Johan Nordgren, Richard Agren, David Ziliang Hu, Magdalena Neijd, Ainash Childebayeva, Kay Prufer, Marie Hagbom, Lennart Svensson, Hugo Zeberg (2025) Molecular biology and evolution, Vol. 42, Article msaf243 (Article in journal)
Yan Cardoso Pimenta, Glenda Maria Santos Moreira, Waldemar da Silva Souza, Alberto Ignacio Olivares Olivares, Lennart Svensson, Jose Paulo Gagliardi Leite, Johan Nordgren, Marcia Terezinha Baroni de Moraes (2025) Infection, Genetics and Evolution, Vol. 134, Article 105804 (Article in journal)
Lennart Svensson, Johan Nordgren, Ake Lundkvist, Marie Hagbom (2025) Viruses, Vol. 17, Article 349 (Article, review/survey)

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