About
The DTU Microbes Initiative supports interactions, collaborations, and dialogue among all who work with microbe-relevant topics at DTU. We strive to support you on your path towards significant contribution to the pursuit of knowledge, innovation, and education - to ultimately benefit humans, animals, plants, and the environment. We also support scientific advice to public institutions as well as industry.
Microbial Solutions for Global Challenges
At DTU, we are unravelling the identity, evolution, and functions of microbes and microbiomes. We reveal the underlying mechanisms and interactions between microbes and their respective environment that i) contribute to health & disease in humans, animals, and plants, ii) govern biochemical cycles in natural and disturbed environments, and iii) support biotechnologies for the treatment of waters, and the industrial production of food and pharmaceuticals.
DTU researchers are using this knowledge to create technologies and strategies that provide sustainable solutions to global challenges, such as the treatment of diseases, promotion of health, counteracting climate change and loss of biodiversity, facilitating sustainable agriculture and food production, providing clean and safe waters and substitute fossil-based products with biomass based biochemicals, biofuels, and bioenergy.
We use quantitative engineering approaches to develop technologies including biologics, metabolic engineering, genetic engineering, fluidics, nanotechnology, and computational solutions to monitor and manage microbes and microbiomes.
At DTU, we are unravelling the identity, evolution, and functions of microbes and microbiomes. We reveal the underlying mechanisms and interactions between microbes and their respective environment that i) contribute to health & disease in humans, animals, and plants, ii) govern biochemical cycles in natural and disturbed environments, and iii) support biotechnologies for the treatment of waters, and the industrial production of food and pharmaceuticals.
DTU researchers are using this knowledge to create technologies and strategies that provide sustainable solutions to global challenges, such as the treatment of diseases, promotion of health, counteracting climate change and loss of biodiversity, facilitating sustainable agriculture and food production, providing clean and safe waters and substitute fossil-based products with biomass based biochemicals, biofuels, and bioenergy.
We use quantitative engineering approaches to develop technologies including biologics, metabolic engineering, genetic engineering, fluidics, nanotechnology, and computational solutions to monitor and manage microbes and microbiomes.