Microbes in Plants

"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 use the theory of evolution as a framework for discovery and engineering of specialized metabolites from Fungi and Bacteria."

| Pablo Cruz-Morales, DTU Biosustain          

"Our research is focused on plant beneficial microbes and microbiomes with the aim of finding ´microbial solutions´ that support plant health. Key areas include microbe/microbiome engineering, mechanisms and regulation ofgenes and secondary metabolites in relation to plant beneficial activities and in microbe-microbe and microbe-plant interactions."

| Lars Jelsbak, DTU Bioengineering

"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 group works with plant and soil microbiome to understand the chemical ecology and evolution among the community members. We use adaptive evolution for probiotic strains, examine their interaction with resident or synthetic microbial community members, and test the influence of engineered microbiome on plant health."

| Ákos T. Kovács, DTU Bioengineering

"My research is related to microbes and evaluating secondary metabolites in an evolutionary perspective. Application of machine learning in exploring in-situ NMR based metabolomics in microbial systems. I collaborate with several research groups both at DTU Bioengineering and DTU Biosustainability on NMR based structure elucidation of unknown secondary metabolites from bacteria, fungi, marine and plant species."

| Charlotte Held Gotfredsen, DTU Chemistry

"My research aims at utilizing beneficial microbes and their secondary metabolites for human health and agriculture. To achieve this, we combine natural product chemistry, microbiology and genomics. Currently we have a strong focus on Actinobacteria."

| Ling Ding, DTU Bioengineering

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

|Mads Clausen, DTU Chemistry

"We are providing access to laboratory facilities, including GMO, MultiLab and Chemistry, manned with skilled technicians for supporting student and research startups within the 'wet'-areas at DTU."

| Kristine Garde, DTU Skylab

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

| Andreas Laustsen, DTU Bioengineering