News about Nature and environment

New Master Student at UCPH

Jakob Klinge Meier started as Master Student in Mette Nicolaisens group

The ideal of freedom in the Anthropocene

Associate Professor Mikael Carleheden and PhD student Nikolaj Schultz have published the article ‘The ideal of freedom in the Anthropocene: A new crisis of legitimation and the brutalization of geo-social conflicts’ in…

Vibrating trucks searched for Denmark's future underground CO2 storage sites

Seismic studies of the deep soil layers in northwest Zealand will help researchers locate soil formations suitable for storing captured CO2 in the near future. The University of Copenhagen is supplying academic expertis…

Speech by Head of Department Svend Christensen for PLEN's 10-year anniversary

PLEN celebrated 10 years of science, education and collaboration in agricultural science, biotechnology and environmental sciences at University of Copenhagen on 14 October 2022. In his anniversary speech, Professor…

AU recruits PhD Student Julie E. Andersen

Julie just started in Prof. Anne Windings group.

Congratulations with the PhD degree Christa

The structure-function relationship in the Nitrate and Peptide Transporter Family’

Greatest increase in animal species can help us understand and control ocean deoxygenation

Deoxygenation can make large areas of the ocean uninhabitable. New study offers knowledge of how oxygen levels affect marine life – this may help us preserve marine ecosystems. “In the past 50 years, we have already los…

DTU recruits PhD Student Adele Pioppi

Adele just started in Prof. Ákos Kovács' group.

Welcome to Fangfei!

PhD in transportomics - Villum Investigator project

New students 2022-2023

MSc, Interns and PUK students in DynaMo

Ph.D. Defence: Asmus Kalckar Olesen

Asmus Kalckar Olesen will defend his Ph.D. thesis entitled: "Deciphering horizontal transfer of plasmids and β-lactamase protection in microbial communities" the 13th of October 2022 at 10:00 The defence takes place in…

...once they learn to coexist - ScienceNEWS.dk

Our Research in the Media Bacteria play an important role in the dairy industry. Lactic acid bacteria are needed to make cheese, buttermilk, yogurt and many other products. New research from Associate professor Mette…

Cover page article in Nucleic Acids Research

Here, we present the first comprehensive analysis of CRISPR-Cas systems across the largest curated dataset of wildtype bacterial and archeal plasmids.

NCSU recruits new postdoc Raven Bough

Raven just started in Assist. Prof. Oliver Baars' group

New revelations about an ancient fish: the secret to swimming upside down

An after-hours trip to Aarhus University Hospital Skejby’s radiology department has shed light on a mysterious and ancient fish, one that remains one of the world’s rarest – the Coelacanth. Researchers from the…

Shiwen Yang - new PhD student

Transporter identification and characterization

Hanne Rabe - DAAD intern

3 months internship working on beneficial bacteria

Zombie fly fungus lures healthy male flies to mate with female corpses

A unique fungus survives by 'bewitching' male flies into mating with dead female flies. The longer a female fly carcass has lain and rotted, the greater the male’s lust. This, according to a new study led by researchers…

Welcome Jeppe - New master student

Jeppe Refshauge Christensen is doing his master studies in Biotechnology for 9 months at the DynaMo Center. He will be working on producing the health promoting glucoraphanin, using baker’s yeast as production platform…

Science StoriesDK: Podcast on Plants Secret Life and Future Crops

In this Science Stories Podcast Head of DynaMo Professor Barbara Ann Halkier talk about her research in plants and sustainable agriculture. The interviewer is Journalist, Jens Degrett. Link to podcast

Bloom festival

Synbio PhD student Britt Wray talks at Bloom science festival

Biotech breakthrough: Sunlight can be used to produce chemicals and energy

New publication in Nature Communications

3 Questions for the Professor

The EUSynBioS series "3 Questions For" features Professor Birger Lindberg Møller

BØRSEN: Synbio Opens New Road for Industry

A feature article with the aims of the Danish Center for Commercialization of Synthetic Biology: To start a new industrial revolution in Denmark