Events 2022

Seminar
Genome-scale models of microbial communities and their application to biotechnology
Daniel Machado (Norwegian University of Science & Technology, NO)
22 February 2022, 11:00-12:00 
Host: DTU Biosustain (Sünje J. Pamp)

Seminar
How microbes melt the Greenland ice sheet?
Alexandre Magno Anesio (Aarhus University, AU)
22 February 2022, 13:00 - 14:00
Host: DTU Aqua (Rafael Gonçalves-Araujo and Sigrun Jonasdottir)

Seminar
Back to the Roots: search for the ‘missing’ plant microbes
Jos Raaijmakers (Netherlands Institute of Ecology, NL)
24 February 2022, 13:00 - 14:00
Host: CeMiSt (Ramona Valentina Mateiu)  

Seminar
Making microbes public – mixing science, art and history at Medical Museion
Adam Bencard (University of Copenhagen, DK)
1 March 2022, 11:00-12:00
Host: DTU Biosustain (Sünje J. Pamp)

Seminar
EDDS, a biodegradable complexing agent produced by Amycolatospis japonicum
Evi Stegmann (Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, GE)
8 March 2022, 11:00-12:00
Host: DTU Biosustain (Sünje J. Pamp)

Seminar
What drugs do to our bugs
Kiran Patil (University of Cambridge, UK)
15 March 2022, 11:00-12:00
Host: DTU Biosustain (Sünje J. Pamp)

Get-together 
DTU Microbes Lunch Mingle
Quarterly social gathering (DTU, DK)
23 March 2022, 12:00
DTU Microbes Initiative (Sünje J. Pamp)  

Interactions in Microbial (Model) Communities
Johan Bengtsson-Palme (University of Gothenburg, SE)
28 March 2022, 14:00-15:00
Host: DTU Bioengineering (Lars Jelsbak)

Seminar
Development of a prototyping platform for plastid engineering in plants
Eszter Majer (MIT, USA)
29 March 2022, 11:00-12:00
Host: DTU Biosustain (Sünje J. Pamp)

Seminar
Discovering Carbohydrate-Active Enzymes
Bernard Paul Henrissat (DTU / KAU / CNRS)
5 April 2022, 11:00-12:00
DTU Biosustain (Sünje J. Pamp)  

Seminar
Ecology and importance of heterotrophic nitrogen fixing bacteria in temperate estuarine waters
Lasse Riemann (University of Copenhagen, DK)
5 April 2022, 13:00
Host: DTU Aqua (Rafael Gonçalves-Araujo and Sigrun Jonasdottir)

Award Ceremony & Lecture
The Novozymes Award for Excellence in Biochemical Engineering 
Christina Smolke (Stanford University, USA)
8 April 2022, 14:00-16:00
Host: DTU Biosustain & DTU Bioengineering & Novozymes & BII 

Seminar
Pandemic Reflections
Lone Simonsen (Roskilde University, DK)
26 April 2022, 11:00-12:00
Host: DTU Biosustain (Sünje J. Pamp)

Seminar
Metabolic Engineering of Bacteria for the Production of Natural Products
Sang Yup Lee (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST, KR)
28 April 2022, 14:00-14:45
Host: DTU Biosustain (Tilmann Weber)

Seminar
Environmental Bacteria as Authentic - not metaphorical - Cell Factories
Viktor de Lorenzo (CSIC, ES)
29 April 2022, 13:00-14:00
Host: DTU Bioengineering (Mette Haagen Marcussen)

Seminar
Strategies of Adaptation in Bacterial Persistent Infections
Ruggero La Rosa (DTU Biosustain, DK)
3 May 2022, 11:00-12:00
Host: DTU Biosustain (Sünje J. Pamp)

Seminar
Learning chemistry from fungi to make sustainable chemicals
Pablo Cruz-Morales (DTU Biosustain, DK)
17 May 2022, 11:00-12:00
Host: DTU Biosustain (Sünje J. Pamp)

Guest Lecture
Doing Better Probiotic (and Nutrition) Clinical Studies
Arthur C. Ouwehand (University pf Turku, FI)
23 May 2022, 10:00-11:00 
Host: DTU Food (Martin Iain Bahl)

PhD Defence
Strategies to control Bacteroides in the intestine
Andrea Qvortrup Holst (DTU Food, DK)
23 May 2022, 13:00-16:00
Host: DTU Food (Andrea Holst)

Seminar
Efficient, high-resolution data integration genomic approaches for diseases and sustainable food
Shilpa Garg (University of Copenhagen, DK)
24 May 2022, 11:00-12:00
Host: DTU Biosustain (Sünje J. Pamp)

Seminar
Analyzing Microbes in Us and on Our Planet
Peer Bork (EMBL Heidelberg, GE)
31 May 2022, 11:00-12:00
Host: DTU Biosustain (Sünje J. Pamp)

Workshop & Seminar
What is droplet microfluidics & how it facilitates microbial research?
Several DTU Speakers & DropletGenomics, DK
1 + 2 June 2022, 8:30 - 16:00
Host: DTU Food (Meilee Ling)

Seminar
Nanomaterials meet biology: from atomically sharp knives to cyborgs
Ivan Mijakovic (DTU Biosustain, DK & Chalmers University, SE)
7 June 2022, 11:00-12:00
Host: DTU Biosustain (Sünje J. Pamp)

Seminar
Biofilm antimicrobial susceptibility through an experimental evolutionary lens
Tom Coenye (University of Ghent, BE)
20 June 2022, 11:00 - 12:00
Host: DTU Bioengineering (Ákos T. Kovács)

Get-together 
DTU Microbes Lunch Mingles
Quarterly social gathering (DTU, DK)
22 June 2022, 11:30-13:00
Host: DTU Microbes Initiative Sünje J. Pamp  

Systems biology elucidates multi-level regulation of biosynthetic gene clusters in Streptomyces
Byung-Kwan Cho (aka BK Cho) (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, KR) 
28 June 2022, 11:00 - 12:00
Host: DTU Biosustain (Sünje J. Pamp)

Seminar
Biogeography, connectivity and evolution of tropical Atlantic oceanic islands
Sergio Floeter (Federal University of Santa Catarina, BR)
30 June 2022, 13:00 - 14:00
Host: DTU Aqua (Rafael Gonçalves-Araujo)

Seminar
Metallo-β-lactamases, evolution of the last frontier of antimicrobial resistance: Does it take two to tango?
Alejandro Vila (University of Rosario, CO)
12 August 2022, 13:00 - 14:00
Host: DTU Biosustain (Sünje J. Pamp)

Seminar
Deciphering unconventional molecular mechanisms driving carbohydrate binding and catalysis
Mario T. Murakami (Brazilian Biorenewables National Laboratory, BR)
18 August 2022, 11:00 - 12:00
Host: DTU Biosustain (Sumesh Sukumara)

Conference
DTU Microbes Initiative Conference 2022
Yearly conference of DTU Microbes Initiative (DTU, DK)
6 September 2022
Host: DTU Microbes Initiative (Sünje J. Pamp)

Sustainability Assessment as a decision-making tool for guiding product innovation in biotechnology
Samir Meramo (DTU Biosustain, DK)
13 September 2022, 11:00 - 12:00
Host: DTU Biosustain (Sünje J. Pamp)

Seminar
Glycosyltransferases: mechanisms, applications, and specificity prediction
David Tezé (DTU Biosustain, DK)
20 September 2022, 11:00 - 12:00
Host: DTU Biosustain (Sünje J. Pamp)

Seminar
The impact of plastic additives on plankton
Sinja Rist (DTU Aqua, DK)
20 September 2022, 13:00 - 14:00
Host: DTU Aqua (Rafael Gonçalves-Araujo and Sigrun Jonasdottir)

Seminar
Microbes assisting the green transition
Irini Angelidaki (DTU Chemical Engineering, DK)
27 September 2022, 11:00 - 12:00
Host: DTU Biosustain (Sünje J. Pamp)

Career Seminar
Academia & Industry: A conversation with an expert
Mikael Rørdam Andersen (Novozymes, DK)
28 September 2022, 11:00 - 12:00
Host: DTU Microbes Initiative (Sünje J. Pamp)

Seminar
Hijacking behavior: Connecting fungal genomes with animal host phenomes using zombie ants as a model
Charissa de Bekker (Utrecht University, NL)
4 October 2022, 10:00 - 11:00
Host: DTU Biosustain (Pablo Cruz-Morales)

Seminar
Lifelike – a graph-powered knowledge consolidation and mining platform tailored to biological sciences
Evelyn Travnik (DTU Biosustain, DK)
24 October 2022, 13:00 - 14:00
Host: DTU Biosustain (Sünje J. Pamp) 

Seminar
Modeling Microbial Communities
Vassily Hatzimanikatis (EPFL, CH)
4 November 2022, 14:30 - 15:30
Host: DTU Biosustain (Sünje J. Pamp) 

Workshop
DTU SmallSteps Workshop
Sofia Sommer (DTU, DK)
11 November 2022, 10:30 – 12:00
Host: DTU AIT & DTU Biosustain (Sünje J. Pamp) 

Seminar
Evaluation of the fermentation potential of lactic acid bacteria isolated from herbs, fruits and vegetables as starter cultures in legumes and nut-based milk alternatives
Claus Heiner Bang-Berthelsen (DTU Food, DK)
22 November 2022, 11:00 - 12:00
Host: DTU Biosustain (Sünje J. Pamp)

Get-together 
DTU Microbes Christmas Lunch Mingle
Quarterly social gathering (DTU, DK)
23 November 2022, 12:00 - 13:00
Host: DTU Microbes Initiative (Sünje J. Pamp)

Genome Engineering: A new engineering discipline emerging in the 2020s - Part 1
Bernhard Palsson (DTU Biosustain, DK & UCSD, USA)
28 November 2022, 13:00 - 14:00
Host: DTU Biosustain (Sünje J. Pamp)

Seminar
A microbial revolution of the food system
Leonie Johanna Jahn (DTU Biosustain, DK)
29 November 2022, 11:00 - 12:00
Host: DTU Biosustain (Sünje J. Pamp)

Seminar
Genome Engineering: A new engineering discipline emerging in the 2020s - Part 2
Bernhard Palsson (DTU Biosustain, DK)
30 November 2022, 11:00 - 12:00
Host: DTU Biosustain (Sünje J. Pamp)

Seminar
Chemometric tools for the analysis of high throughput environmental omics data
Romà Tauler (IDAEA-CSIC, ES)
1 December 2022, 11:00 - 12:00
Host: DTU Biosustain (Igor Marín de Mas)

Seminar
Mining genomes for specialized metabolites
Tilmann Weber (DTU Biosustain, DK) 
6 December 2022, 11:00 - 12:00
Host: DTU Biosustain (Sünje J. Pamp)

Seminar
Large Field of View-Spatially Resolved Transcriptomics at Nanoscale Resolution
Xun Xu (BGI Group, CN)
9 December 2022, 9:00 - 10:00
Host: DTU Biosustain (Jie Zhang)