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2023.08.29

PhD Defence: Sarah Camara

Sarah Camara will defend her Thesis on Thursday 31st August 2023, 13.00

2023.02.01

PhD Defence: Wanli He

Wanli He will defend his Thesis on February 14th at 10:00

Member of the Independent Research Fund Denmark's research council

2022.10.13

Mette Burmølle appointed member of DFF's Research Council

Associate Professor at Section of Microbiology, Mette Burmølle is appointed a member of the…

Ph.D. Defence

2022.09.19

Ph.D. Defence: Asmus Kalckar Olesen

Asmus Kalckar Olesen will defend his Ph.D. thesis entitled: "Deciphering horizontal transfer of…

CRISPR-Cas systems, Plasmid biology, Horizontal gene transfer

2022.09.14

Cover page article in Nucleic Acids Research

Here, we present the first comprehensive analysis of CRISPR-Cas systems across the largest curated…

Biofilm, bacterial interactions

2022.09.14

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

Our Research in the Media Bacteria play an important role in the dairy industry. Lactic acid…

Gut Microbiota Resistome

2022.06.23

Prof. Søren Sørensen receives a grant from Biocodex Microbiota Foundation

Professor Søren Sørensen receives 1.490.000 DKK from the Biocodex Microbiota Foundation, France The…

2022.06.09

Ph.D. defence: Zhuofeng Yu

Zhuofeng Yu will defend his Ph.D. thesis entitled: "The wastewater plasmidome and its derived…

The Human Microbiome

2022.05.20

New grant to Prof. Søren Sørensen from the Independent Research Fund Denmark

Professor Søren Johannes Sørensen has just received 6.188.895 DKK to investigate The Social…

2022.05.20

PhD Defence: Nan Yang

The 31st of May Nan Yang will defend his Ph.D. thesis

2022.04.20

PhD defence: Qinqin Wang

Qinqin Wang will defend her PhD thesis entitled: "The maintenance and spread of cooperative…

Green transition, Social Interaction in bacteria

2021.10.15

New grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark

Green transition grant to Professor Søren Johannes Sørensen

Biofilm, Social interaction, Microbiology

2021.10.07

New publication in npj Biofilms and Microbiomes

Biofilms can act as spatiotemporal reserves for plasmids, allowing them to persist even under…

Antibiotic resistance and public health

2021.09.29

New article in Environment International

In this study, we have used publicly available data to map the mobilizable resistance genes in pig…

Antibiotic resistance

2021.04.28

Extended-Spectrum β‑Lactamase and Carbapenemase Genes are Substantially and Sequentially Reduced during Conveyance and Treatment of Urban Sewage

New article from Section of Microbiology in Environmental Science & Technology. Liguan Li* • Joseph…

The Gut Microbiome and Asthma

2021.04.23

The infant gut resistome associates with E. coli, environmental exposures, gut microbiome maturity, and asthma-associated bacterial composition

New article from Section of Microbiology in Cell Host & Microbiome Xuanji Li • Jakob Stokholm •…

2021.02.22

PhD defence: Shashank Gupta

Shashank Gupta will defend his PhD thesis at Section of Microbiology the 22nd of February.

Climate changes, Soil Microbiology

2021.01.14

Soil microbial legacies differ following drying-rewetting and freezing-thawing cycles

Does drying-rewetting cycles have stronger effects on soil microbial communities and CO2 production…

ERC consolidator Grant

2020.12.10

Mette Burmølle receives the prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant

Associate Professor Mette Burmølle has received the highly acclaimed Consolidator grant from the…

Research Infrastructure

2020.12.01

Big Research Infrastructure Grant to Section of Microbiology

Section of Microbiology at Department of Biology, UCPH receives a big Research Infrastructure Grant…

Asthma in Childhood

2020.11.13

Our recent study on Asthma in Childhood is published in Sci. Transl. Med.

The study results from the newly published study from Section of Microbiology and COPSAC -…

The complex evolutionary battle between bacteria and their viruses

2020.11.10

Publication in Nature Communications

Anti-CRISPRs and the existence of “anti-defense islands”, discoveries that paves the way for futur…

2020.11.04

PhD defence: Sally Mohamed Attia

Invitation to attend Sally Attia's PhD defence

Beneficial bacteria and Health - Baboon Microbiota

2020.08.12

Publication in Animal Microbiome

This study is the first to provide comprehensive analyses of the baboon microbiota across different…

2020.08.11

New article in Microbiome

Environmental shaping of the bacterial and fungal community in infant bed dust and correlations wit…

2020.06.11

Fabric type, washing procedure and your microbiome - ScienceNEWS.dk

Our Research in the Media

2020.05.20

Research breakthrough

CRISPR–Cas and anti-CRISPR: The battle of Gene Editing in the world of bacteria, and how we can…

2020.05.20

New publications in Nature Microbiology and in Nature Methods

Section of Microbiology publishes two new articles: in Nature Microbiology and in Nature Methods. …

2020.05.20

New Publication in ISME Journal and in Environmental Research

High cell densities favor lysogeny: induction of an H20 prophage is repressed by quorum sensing and…