Million-støtte fra Villum til forsker-talenter på BIO

Villum Fonden har netop uddelt over 150 millioner kroner til 19 yngre talentfulde forskere, som har potentiale til at yde et markant selvstændigt bidrag til teknisk og naturvidenskabelig forskning. 

Seks af disse forskere er hjemmehørende på SCIENCE-institutter, heraf to på Biologisk Institut:

Yi Jiao, sektion for Terrestrisk Økologi, modtog DKK 7 mio. til projektet:
Peatland Exchange of Atmospheric volatile carbon: Kinetics & mechanisms
Peatlands store more carbon than all global plants combined, but climate change may release a fraction of this carbon as volatile organic compounds, impacting air quality and climate. This project aims to study the processes and mechanisms behind the production and consumption of volatile carbon in peatlands and integrate them into climate models. The grant will establish an independent research group and allow the recruitment of one postdoc and one PhD student.

Robert Krautz, sektion for Bioinformatik og RNA biologi, modtog DKK 7 mio. til projektet:
Deciphering the mechanisms of gene regulation on tissue development
The development of tissues relies on the selective activation of genes in different cell types. Enhancers are short DNA-sequences spread across the genome that  regulate the extent of gene activation in all cells of an organism. However, it has so far been impossible to measure their activity in single cells. To overcome this we will establish new methods and identify key gene regulatory mechanisms defining how cell types and tissues emerge. The grant will fund one PhD student and one postdoc.

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