CPH Bioscience PhD defenses
Seventy-eight Copenhagen Bioscience PhD students have defended their theses so far – including all of the students that started in 2016, 2017 and 2018. Since the beginning of 2026: David Kouvchinov. We look forward to celebrating more defenses in the coming months.
Student Publications
First-author publications from CPH Bioscience PhD students since the start of 2025 include: tRNA-mediated plasmid stabilization for antibiotic-free applications in Escherichia coli (Ana G. V. Sepulchro); Deciphering histone mark-specific fine-scale chromatin organization at high resolution with Micro-C-Chip (Mariia Metelova); Sustainable natural product glycosylation: A critical evaluation of biocatalytic and chemical approaches (Felipe Mejia-Otalvaro); Deep visual proteomics reveals an in vivo-like phenotype of orthotopically transplanted human colon organoids (Frederik Post); Mechanism and cellular actions of the potent AMPK inhibitor BAY-3827 (Conchita Fraguas Bringas); Effect of ultra-processed food consumption on male reproductive and metabolic health (Jessica Preston); Just bypass it: mechanisms of DNA damage tolerance (Sidak Minocha); Mapping early human blood cell differentiation using single-cell proteomics and transcriptomics (Benjamin Furtwängler); Synthetic C1 metabolism in Pseudomonas putida enables strict formatotrophy and methylotrophy via the reductive glycine pathway (Justine Turlin); Multi-omics analysis of thermogenic lipolysis in brown adipocytes (Matthias Anagho-Mattanovich); Multi-omics characterization of acquired olaparib resistance in BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutant breast cancer cell lines (Holda Anagho-Mattanovich); Simple and robust in vivo engineering of plasmid DNA at any copy number in Escherichia coli (Ana G V Sepulchro); RBPseg: Toward a complete phage tail fiber structure atlas (Victor Klein-Sousa); NAD depletion in skeletal muscle does not compromise muscle function or accelerate aging (Sabina Chubanava); Seven critical challenges in synthetic one-carbon assimilation and their potential solutions (Giusi Favoino); Food insecurity promotes adiposity in mice (Claudia Gil); Geophagia in pregnancy and its association with nutritional status – A prospective cohort study in rural north-eastern Tanzania (Erica Eberl); Deep visual proteomics reveals DNA replication stress as a hallmark of signet ring cell carcinoma (Sonja Kabatnik); Transcriptomics signatures of cold acclimated adipocytes reveal CXCL12 as a Brown autocrine and paracrine chemokine (Marina Agueda-Oyarzabal); Fate mapping in mouse demonstrates early secretory differentiation directly from Lgr5+ intestinal stem cells (Isidora Banjac).
Our students have contributed to at least 299 scientific publications since the programme began in Sept 2016 – including articles in Nature, Science and Cell.
Keep up the good work, everyone!
CPH Bioscience PhD Legacy
The Copenhagen Bioscience PhD programme recruited 109 international students over seven years (2016-2022). Many are enrolled as PhD students at DTU and UCPH currently, but the programme is no longer recruiting new students. CPH Bioscience PhD alumni have gone on to jobs including group leader, post-doc, consultant, patent attorney, scientist in industry, journal editor – and we are very proud of all their achievements.