Kandidat projekter
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Acid/base transport and pH homeostasis in pancreatic cancer
Vejleder: Professor Ivana Novak, Ph.D. student Ganga Deshar
Advanced Membrane Protein Research and Biotechnology
Vejleder: Per Amstrup Pedersen
Aerobic and anaerobic energy metabolism in the brown shrimp (Crangon crangon) during moderate hypoxia.
Vejleder: Bent Vismann
Aggressive but sustainable bioreactor conversion in ant fungus gardens
Vejleder: Jacobus J. Boomsma, Morten Schiøtt
Analysis of plant constituents with spectroscopical and chemical methods
Vejleder: Anders Michelsen and Riikka Rinnan
Ant genomics and social evolution
Vejleder: Guojie Zhang and Joel Vizueta
Antibiotic tolerance: a CryoEM study of a tripartite protein-small ligand complex
Vejleder: YONG ZHANG
Antibiotics-tolerance to multi-drug resistant superbugs: molecular studies
Vejleder: YONG ZHANG
Anti-CRISPR proteins: identification and characterization of their molecular mechanisms in inhibiting CRISPR immunity
Vejleder: Xu Peng
Anti-viral immune system CRISPR-Cas type I-D working mechanism
Vejleder: Xu Peng
Arctic aquatic microbiology: seeking answers to pressing questions from an ocean in rapid change
Vejleder: Lasse Riemann and Lisa von Friesen
Are eucalypt leaf volatiles inducible?
Vejleder: Riikka Rinnan (BIO), Elizabeth Neilson (PLEN)
Are modern crop varieties less compatible with their natural symbionts than older ones?
Vejleder: Rasmus Kjøller (BIO), Kristian Holst Laursen (PLEN)
ASHBACK Environmentally safe application of biofuel ash as fertilizers in biofuel production
Vejleder: Flemming Ekelund, Rasmus Kjøller, Mette Vestergård, Søren Christensen, Louise Hindborg Mortensen, Carla Cruz Paredes, Sara Bentzon-Tilia
ATP signaling in inflammation and cancer
Vejleder: Professor Ivana Novak, Ph.D. student Lara Magni
Bacteria fixing N2 in the sea a combination of microbiology, molecular biology and marine biology
Vejleder: Lasse Riemann
Bacterial biofilm formation via cyclic di-GMP binding/effector proteins - molecular and mechanical studies
Vejleder: YONG E. ZHANG
Bacterial composition, diversity and function in marine waters - molecular microbiology projects
Vejleder: Lasse Riemann
Bacterial cooperation in multispecies biofilms associated to food production devices
Vejleder: Søren J. Sørensen og Mette Burmølle
Bacterial symbionts of invertebrates living in extreme habitats
Vejleder: Katrine Worsaae, Lasse Riemann
Bacteriophage control of microbial biofilms - Pseudomonas aeruginosa from cystic fibrosis patients
Vejleder: Mathias Middelboe, Oana Ciofu
Bacteriophage control of microbial biofilms - Vibrio anguillarum in aquaculture settings
Vejleder: Mathias Middelboe
Bacteriophage therapy - a new method for controlling pathogenic bacteria in aquaculture
Vejleder: Mathias Middelboe
Biodiversity and food webs in arctic lakes
Vejleder: Kirsten S. Christoffersen
Biodiversity in afforestation areas
Vejleder: Hans Henrik Bruun
Biodiversity in wilder urban areas
Vejleder: Lars Båstrup-Spohr and Hans Henrik Bruun
Biogenic volatile organic compounds - release from plants, microbes and ecosystems
Vejleder: Riikka Rinnan and others depending on the topic
Biogenic volatile release from decomposing plant leaves across ecosystems
Vejleder: Riikka Rinnan and other relevant persons
Bioluminescence in deep sea starfish
Vejleder: Anders Garm
Brain architecture in the light of evolution
Vejleder: Katrine Worsaae
Can global change determine which zooplankton species will dominate in the Arctic?
Vejleder: Kirsten S. Christoffersen
Can pollutants like pesticides and micro plastic affect the swimming behavior of Daphnia?
Vejleder: Kirsten S. Christoffersen
Capturing the water purification potential of SolarSack
Vejleder: Charlotte F. Michelsen (Solarsack) and Mette Burmølle (Section of Microbiology)
Carbon dioxide levels as defence against infections in fungus-growing termites
Vejleder: Michael Poulsen and postdoc Nick Bos
CENPERM - Center for Permafrost
Vejleder: Anders Michelsen, Riikka Rinnan, Anders Prieme
Characterisation of Niche-derived signals controlling Intestinal Stem Cell proliferation and gut homeostasis
Vejleder: Ditte Andersen, Julien Colombani
Characterization of the unconventional E2 enzyme Ube2j2, involved in non-lysine ubiquitination
Vejleder: Lars Ellgaard
Chemical Ecology of the birch-moth interaction under climate change
Vejleder: Riikka Rinnan
Climate change effects on arctic plants, ecosystem function and greenhouse gas emission
Vejleder: Anders Michelsen
Climate change effects on moss-associated N fixation
Vejleder: Kathrin Rousk
Combining CRISPR-based genome editing and synthetic biology for efficient genetic engineering
Vejleder: Xu Peng
Cooperation in multispecies biofilm formation
Vejleder: Mette Burmølle og Søren Sørensen
Coral research at Department of Biology / Koralforskning ved Biologisk Institut
Vejleder: Michael Kühl
CRISPRs on Plasmids: Fight Fire with Fire
Vejleder: Jonas Stenløkke Madsen, Joseph Nesme and Rafael Pinilla
Cryptobiosis and environmental stress tolerance in tardigrades
Vejleder: Nadja Møbjerg
DANIDA-projekt: ClimateSmart African Rice
Vejleder: Max Herzog
Daphnia the perfect model organism to study implications of environmental pollution
Vejleder: Kirsten S. Christoffersen
Deep sea viruses: Hadal virus-host system potentially specialized in chitin degradation
Vejleder: Mathias Middelboe, Sachia Jo Traving
Deep sea viruses: Isolation of novel virus-host systems from hadal environments
Vejleder: Mathias Middelboe, Sachia Jo Traving
Designing new enzyme activities de novo
Vejleder: Jakob Winther
Development of bacteriophage resistance in bacterial communities
Vejleder: Mathias Middelboe
Dietary capacity of a termite-associated fungi
Vejleder: Benjamin Conlon and Michael Poulsen
Differential gene expression in multispecies biofilm
Vejleder: Mette Burmølle
Disease management in farming societies of ants
Vejleder: Jacobus J. Boomsma, Morten Schiøtt, postdocs
Disordered proteins in the ubiquitin-proteasome system
Vejleder: Rasmus Hartmann-Petersen
Do bacteria associated with fungus-growing termite guts depend on each other?
Vejleder: Mette Burmølle and Michael Thomas-Poulsen
Do termite-associated bacteria play a role in antimicrobial defense of the colony?
Vejleder: Michael Thomas-Poulsen
Does air pollution affect trees in urban areas or do the trees affect air pollution?
Vejleder: Riikka Rinnan
Ecotoxicology of soil organisms
Vejleder: Flemming Ekelund
Effect of microbiome composition on plant nutritional status
Vejleder: Nikolaj Lunding Kindtler, Flemming Ekelund, Kristian Holst Laursen
Effects of direct development on the neuromuscular formation in an annelid
Vejleder: Katrine Worsaae
Effects of environmental pollutants on freshwater organisms
Vejleder: Kirsten S. Christoffersen
Effects of plant genotype and soil on rhizosphere microbiome
Vejleder: Nikolaj Lunding Kindtler, Flemming Ekelund
Effects of year-round horse grazing in a heterogeneous urban nature reserve
Vejleder: Hans Henrik Bruun
Enzyme design and evolution
Vejleder: Martin Willemoës
Evolutionary ecology of parasitoid richness
Vejleder: Hans Henrik Bruun
Exploring feather chemical compounds and their defensive properties of Papua New Guinean birds
Vejleder: Michael Poulsen and Kasun Bodawatta
Flood tolerance of dryland crops
Vejleder: Ole Pedersen
Freeze-thaw effects on greenhouse gas emission, investigated by on-line concentration and isotope analyses
Vejleder: Anders Michelsen
Gene expression co-evolution between farming ants and farmed fungal crops
Vejleder: Jacobus J. Boomsma, Morten Schiøtt
Grazing ecology and biodiversity in the forest-grassland ecotone
Vejleder: Hans Henrik Bruun
Heavy metal effects on moss-associated N fixation
Vejleder: Kathrin Rousk
Heavy metals in fungi
Vejleder: Rasmus Kjøller, Flemming Ekelund, Jesper Liengaard Johansen
Historical changes to the plant diversity of Denmark during the past 250 years
Vejleder: Hans Henrik Bruun
Horizontal gene transfer - Spread of antibiotic resistance
Vejleder: Søren J. Sørensen
Host specificity of moss-associated cyanobacteria
Vejleder: Kathrin Rousk
How epithelia are built? Understanding the mechanisms governing epithelial morphogenesis
Vejleder: Assoc. Prof. Jakub Sedzinski
How low can you go activity of permafrost microorganisms at very low temperature
Vejleder: Anders Priemé
How skin stem cells engage to maintain tissue function in physiology and disease?
Vejleder: Mirna Perez-Moreno
How to behave when you know nothing?
Vejleder: Anders Garm
How widespread is cyanobacterial colonization of mosses?
Vejleder: Kathrin Rousk, Aya Permin
Invasive species: A threat to nature or a cultural imagination?
Vejleder: Flemming Ekelund (Biology) Claus Emmeche (Center for Naturfilosofi og Videnskabsstudier)
Invasive zebra mussel is it a problem?
Vejleder: Kirsten S. Christoffersen
Investigating microbial diversity by analysis of distant variable regions of 16S rRNA using MiSeq paired end sequencing
Vejleder: Søren J. Sørensen
Lakes as islands: Do size matter?
Vejleder: Lars Båstrup-Spohr, Michael Krabbe Borregaard
Linking eye morphology to functionality
Vejleder: Katrine Worsaae
Luciferases - structure, function and biotechnology
Vejleder: Jakob Winther
Marine viruses at hadal depths in deep sea trenches
Vejleder: Mathias Middelboe, Sachia Jo Traving
Microbial abundance and diversity in dust samples collected from homes of kids with asthma
Vejleder: Søren Sørensen
Microbial consortia that optimize plant growth
Vejleder: Flemming Ekelund
Microbial production and uptake of volatile organic compounds
Vejleder: Riikka Rinnan (BIO) and Christian Albers (GEUS)
Microbial responses to drying and rewetting
Vejleder: Anders Priemé
Microbiology of thawing permafrost
Vejleder: Anders Priemé
Molecular mechanisms behind growth optimization and stress responses in bacteria
Vejleder: Sine Lo Svenningsen and Michael A. Sørensen
Molecular mechanisms underlying cilia-related kidney disease
Vejleder: Lotte Bang Pedersen
Moss-associated nitrogen fixation as an important N input in terrestrial ecosystems
Vejleder: Kathrin Rousk
Moss-cyanobacteria associations: are they mutualists or parasites?
Vejleder: Kathrin Rousk
Name a new parasite!
Vejleder: Rune Stensvold, Laboratory of Parasitology, Statens Serum Institut and Søren Sørensen, Section of Microbiology, UCPH
Nitrogen cycling in arctic ecosystems: at present and in future
Vejleder: Riikka Rinnan, Jing Tang
Novel signal transduction components regulating brown adipocyte biology
Vejleder: Jacob B. Hansen
Occupational exposure to microorganisms at wastewater treatment plants and biowaste plants
Vejleder: Mette Burmølle
On the quest to waterproofing crops submergence tolerance of wheat or rice
Vejleder: Ole Pedersen
Optimizing water purification by SolarSack
Vejleder: Charlotte F. Michelsen (Solarsack) and Mette Burmølle (Section of Microbiology)
Orchids: which factors determine their distribution?
Vejleder: Flemming Ekelund, Rasmus Kjøller
Oxidative folding of disulfide-rich cone snail toxins
Vejleder: Lars Ellgaard
Oxygen consumption and oxygen debt in the common whelk (Buccinum undatum) during aerial storage.
Vejleder: Bent Vismann
Phenological shifts as a consequence of climate change
Vejleder: Hans Henrik Bruun
Predicting bacterial evolution in complex biofilm communities
Vejleder: Mette Burmølle and Henriette Røder
Primary cilia and cellular signaling in health and disease
Vejleder: Lotte Bang Pedersen & Søren Tvorup Christensen
Projects in the Microenvironmental Ecology Group / Marine Biology / Microbiology
Vejleder: Michael Kühl
Prophages ticking time bombs or key genetic elements in bacterial hosts?
Vejleder: Mathias Middelboe
Re-colonization, diversity and ecophysiology of plants following experimental treatments in danish heath
Vejleder: Anders Michelsen (and others depending upon specific content)
Regulated intracellular protein degradation to counter disease
Vejleder: Rasmus Hartmann-Petersen
Restoration of natural forests
Vejleder: Hans Henrik Bruun
Salinity tolerance of the invasive Pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas).
Vejleder: Bent Vismann
Social interactions and population structure
Vejleder: Søren J. Sørensen og Mette Burmølle
Soil gas profiles in Danish ecosystems
Vejleder: Riikka Rinnan (BIO) and Christian Albers (GEUS)
Specialeprojekt for 1-2 personer omkring arbejdsrelateret eksponering for mikroorganismer på spildevands- og bioaffaldsanlæg
Vejleder: Mette Burmølle
Structural destabilization as a trigger for hereditary disease
Vejleder: Rasmus Hartmann-Petersen
Structure and function of membrane proteins in detergent-free systems
Vejleder: Henriette Elisabeth Autzen
Submergence-tolerance of wheat (Triticum aestivum) - help it cope with future climate changes!
Vejleder: Ole Pedersen
Surveillance of microbial small talk using Trojan horses
Vejleder: Urvish Trivedi and Rodrigo Chávez
Targeted screening for antibiotic-producing bacteria associated with fungus-growing termites
Vejleder: Michael Thomas-Poulsen
Targeting membrane repair processes in cancer cells
Vejleder: Martin W. Berchtold
Temporal variation in the feeding habits of individual Eurasian otters (Lutra lutra) inferred from stable isotopes in vibrissae
Vejleder: Anders Michelsen
Termite fungus crops as human food
Vejleder: Michael Poulsen, PhD student Suzanne Schmidt, Postdoc Nick Bos
The arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi of Plantago major and their role in regulating plant defences
Vejleder: Christopher James Barnes and Rasmus Kjøller
The core bacterial genome of fungus-farming termite microbiomes
Vejleder: Michael Poulsen and PhD students Veronica Sinotte and Robert Murphy
The interconnection between biofilm formation and horizontal gene transfer
Vejleder: Søren J. Sørensen, Mette Burmølle og Jonas Stenløkke Madsen
The lower limit of oxyregulation (Pcrit) at different temperatures in the brown shrimp (Crangon crangon).
Vejleder: Bent Vismann
The moss food web: Interactions between moss, micro and mesofauna
Vejleder: Flemming Ekelund, Kathrin Rousk
The moss microbiome: interactions between mosses and microorganisms
Vejleder: Flemming Ekelund and Kathrin Rousk
The thermal window for aerobic scope in shallow water marine invertebrates.
Vejleder: Bent Vismann
Underwater photosynthesis of wheat or rice during submergence
Vejleder: Ole Pedersen
Urban biodiversity
Vejleder: Hans Henrik Bruun
Virus-driven reprogramming of bacterial traits
Vejleder: Mathias Middelboe
Waterproofing crops
Vejleder: Ole Pedersen
Whats on a jelly mind - structure and function of a box jellyfish brain
Vejleder: Anders Garm
Will a wetter High Arctic be greener?
Vejleder: Signe Lett, Anders Michelsen