Microbes in Humans

"My research is focused on the utilization of dietary and host-derived glycans by the human gut microbiota to design new glyco-based interventions to promote health and combat disease."

 

| Maher Abou Hachem, DTU Bioengineering

 

 

"The group focuses on microbiota-host interactions in health and disease, with a specific emphasis on factors shaping development of life-style related diseases."

 

| Susanne Brix Pedersen, DTU Bioengineering

 

 

"We use the theory of evolution as a framework for discovery and engineering of specialized metabolites from fungi and bacteria."

 

| Pablo Cruz-Morales, DTU Biosustain

 

 

"I study interactions between diet and the human gut microbiome and health with a focus on early life."

 

| Martin Laursen, DTU Food

 

 

"My research involves the development of nanobodies against pathogens such as gastrointestinal and plant pathogens."

 

| Andreas Laustsen, DTU Bioengineering

 

 

"My research is on food and soil microbiomes, including recombinant protein production in microbial cell factories (bacteria, yeast, fungi), genetic determinants of lactic acid bacteria and filamentous fungi in regard to taste and texture, growth of microbial biomass or cell factories on waste streams, food fermentations, starter culture design, as well as biodiversity discovery and strain isolation."

 

| Leoni Jahn, DTU Biosustain

 

 

"Our research includes in silico identification of gut bacteria utilizing dietary fibers (e.g., alginate, resistant starch, plant cell wall polysaccharides) and discovery, production as well as characterization of structure function relationships of the involved bacterial enzymes. We are also interested in microbial consortia from various environments."

 

|Birte Svensson, DTU Bioengineering

 

 

"We are interested in small molecules that perturb biological systems, including microbe biology."

 

| Mads Clausen, DTU Chemistry

 

 

"I work with Lactic Acid Bacteria (LAB) and other food microorganisms. I am interested in optimizing food fermentations and using safe bacteria for production of valuable ingredients, e.g., from food waste. Furthermore, I am interested in using LAB to prevent growth of pathogens and food spoilage microorganisms, including fungi."

 

| Christian Solem, DTU Food

 

 

"My group focuses on the intestinal microbiota. We study microbial metabolism of dietary compounds, effects of antibiotics and xenobiotics on the microbial ecosystem of the gut, and derived health effects of these processes."

 

| Tine Rask Licht, DTU Food

 

 

"I work on the development of simple skin-friendly drug delivery patches that in a controlled manner release active compounds, such as antimicrobial agents, for an extended period of time."

| Anne Ladegaard Skov, DTU Chemical Engineering

 

"Our research is focused on antibiotic resistant, epidemic “high-risk clones” of the hospital pathogenPseudomonas aeruginosa. We work to determine and target the molecular mechanisms underlying the evolution and success of these clones."

| Lars Jelsbak, DTU Bioengineering

 

 

"My main focus is research in global epidemiology, surveillance, antimicrobial resistance, and population structure of mainly food and waterborne pathogens. Our work includes the development and implementation of methods and guidelines that can support efforts to build the capacity of the global monitoring of antimicrobial resistance and increase the quality of monitoring data. Our group has a special focus on developing and implementing ring tests to validate pheno- and genotypic antimicrobial resistance data."

 

| Rene Hendriksen, DTU Food

 

 

"I am mostly interested in ancient bacteria and viruses."

 

| Gabriel Renaud, DTU Health Technology

 

 

"We investigate non-conventional yeasts to develop better microbial cell factories for industrial production of high-value products from complex feedstocks such as waste-streams and salty hydrolysates. We also investigate the fundamental metabolism of yeasts to better understand stress responses associated to recombinant protein production (enzymes and biotherapeutics peptides), through combined multi-omics analyses and systems biology approaches."

 

| José Luis Martínez, DTU Bioengineering

 

"My research is focused on microbial food cultures for food fermentation, involving lactic acid bacteria. We investigate fermentation of bovine milk, camel milk, and plant-based fermentations. Particular focus is given to the proteolytic system and the specificity of the cell envelope proteinase. Identification of peptides derived from food proteins with potential use as functional food ingredients is central in this research."

| Egon Bech Hansen, DTU Food

 

 

"My research involves the development of a data-focused biofoundry. Furthermore, we are creating a C1 Metabolic Atlas to capture the full range of natural C1 metabolism as a basis to engineer synthetic C1 metabolism. In addition, we work on viral vector production."

 

| Lars Nielsen, DTU Biosustain

 

 

"My main focus in the field are bacterial polysaccharides and their structure, biosynthesis and immunology. This is of relevance for diagnostics and the treatment of infections. The focus of recent studies has been on Streptococcus pneumoniae."

 

| Jens Duus, DTU Chemistry

 

 

"My research interests include: Data science, machine learning, statistical learning, spectral image analysis, pattern recognition, dimension reduction, outlier detection; within industrial and educational applications."

 

| Line Clemmensen, DTU Compute

 

 

"Our aim is to advance non-invasive magnetic resonance imaging tools for studying metabolism in living biological systems. We are especially interested in understanding the metabolic interplay between pathogenic bacteria and the gut and how this is modulated by metabolites from the microbiome and probiotic bacteria. We currently use cell-based infection models but work towards advancing our techniques to organ-on-a-chip and tissue models."

 

| Pernille Rose Jensen, DTU Health Technology

 

 

"I am developing biosensors to detect pathogens in food, environmental and clinical samples."

 

| Yi Sun, DTU Health Technology

 

 

"In my group we use culinary R&D to produce flavorful novel fermentations, improve food system sustainability, and drive interdisciplinary research on human–microbial ecology and evolution in the fermented food environment."

 

| Joshua Evans, DTU Biosustain

 

 

"We are interested in signaling and regulation in bacterial cells, focusing in particular on regulatory phenomena based on protein phosphorylation. Most of our research activities are carried out on Bacillus subtilis. Our laboratory specializes in bacterial protein-tyrosine kinases (BY-kinases), serine/threonine kinases of the Hanks-family, phosphoproteomics other “omics” approaches aiming at global studies of the phosphorylation-based regulatory networks in both model and pathogenic bacteria."

 

| Ivan Mijakovic, DTU Biosustain

 

 

"In our research group we develop technologies for designing, engineering, and screening of yeast cells. We have strong expertise in the development of biosensors to facilitate HTP screening, mimic olfaction, cell-cell communication and fusion, as well as control of metabolism. We also apply pathway discovery and machine learning for refactoring biosynthesis of bioactive plant alkaloids in yeast cells."

 

| Michael Krogh Jensen, DTU Biosustain

 

 

"In my group, we use microorganisms to convert biomass (agricultural residues, agro-industrial wastes and side streams, food wastes, wood, plants and seaweeds) into chemicals, food ingredients, biofuels and high-value compounds. We develop robust strains of bacteria and non-conventional yeasts to efficiently convert sugars from complex media such as biomass hydrolysates. We also investigate the physiology of the microorganisms under different stress conditions and correlate it with their performance to grow/produce to develop and predict more efficient biomanufacturing processes."

 

| Solange Mussatto, DTU Bioengineering

 

 

"My research is on structural and biochemical work on bacterial membrane transporters and autotransporters, as well as squalene monooxidases from fungi."

 

| Jens Preben Morth, DTU Bioengineering

 

 

"The overarching theme, or question, my research addresses is how microbes act and interact in their environment, and how we can investigate and utilize their behavior by analyzing the molecules they comprise and produce."

 

| Mikkel Bentzon-Tilia, DTU Bioengineering