These potential supervisors are offering projects for students starting in 2021.
The research topics listed below give an idea of the research in each supervisor’s lab. Follow the links to their lab webpages and read their publications to find out more.
The following supervisors are also part of CPH Bioscience PhD but are not offering long-term projects for students starting in 2021: Elisabetta Ferretti, Elke Ober, Kim Bak Jensen, Jiri Lukas, Niels Mailand, Jakob Nilsson, Tune H. Pers, Camilla Scheele.
Applicants to CPH Bioscience PhD must explain their research interests in their application, but are not committed to any particular group until after joining the programme.
New pre-doc students must complete three short rotation projects in different labs, then make an agreement with one of their rotation supervisors to host their long-term (PhD) project. The ultimate PhD project is developed in collaboration between the supervisor and student, according to their mutual interests.
Each student applies to and is initially recruited by one of the four Centers. However, it is possible to do rotation projects at other Centers; and students may apply to change Center after completing their rotation projects.
Center for Stem Cell Biology (DanStem)
Mariaceleste Aragona – Tissue architecture: addressing stem cell dynamics in epithelia
Josh Brickman – Integrating signalling with transcription in lineage specification
Bo Porse – Single cell proteomics to delineate heterogeneity in normal and malignant hematopoiesis
Jakub Sedzinski – How to build a tissue? Combining cell developmental biology, biophysics, and systems biology approaches to understand morphogenesis
Palle Serup – Control of cell fate in fetal pancreas and organoids by oscillating Notch signalling
Joachim Weischenfeldt – Oncogenic 3D chromatin organisation changes in leukemia
Jan Żylicz – Epigenetic and metabolic regulation of early development
Center for Protein Research (CPR)
Søren Brunak – Understanding how pathways and diseases overlap in multi-morbidity patients with more than one disease
Chuna Choudhary – Systems-wide analysis of cell signaling networks
Julien Duxin – Understanding the repair mechanisms of chemotherapeutic induced DNA-protein crosslinks
Anja Groth – Molecular mechanisms in chromatin replication and epigenome maintenance
Lars Juhl Jensen – Network biology: large-scale biomedical data and text mining
Nils Krietenstein (starting Oct 1) – Technology development to investigate chromatin organization with high resolution
Eva Kummer – Structure and function of macromolecular machines from human mitochondria
Matthias Mann – Mass spectrometry based proteomics for clinical applications in metabolic diseases and cancer
Guillermo Montoya – cryoEM of protein complexes involved in genome instability
Michael Lund Nielsen – Characterizing post-translational modifications by quantitative proteomics
Jesper V. Olsen – Global analysis of disease signaling pathways by quantitative phosphoproteomics
Simon Rasmussen – Deep learning for human genome, proteome and microbiome variation in health and disease
Nicholas Taylor – Revealing the mechanisms of biomolecular machines using high-resolution cryo-electron microscopy
Center for Basic Metabolic Research (CBMR)
Ken Arnold – (1) History of museums; (2) Relation of arts & sciences; (3) Public engagement with medicine & sciences
Manimozhiyan Arumugam – Gut microbial metabolites modulating host metabolism
Romain Barrès – Epigenetic gametic inheritance in metabolic diseases
Adam Bencard – Cultural, philosophical and historical contexts for metabolic science, and the complex meetings between science and the public
Christoffer Clemmensen – Neuroendocrine regulation of satiety: Transforming molecular insights into therapeutic strategies
Atul Deshmukh – Protein dynamics in response to diet and physical exercise using mass spectrometry-based proteomics
Brice Emanuelli – Mechanisms linking adipose tissue functions and plasticity to metabolic health
Thomas Frimurer – Molecular modeling and structure-based drug design
Zach Gerhart-Hines – Environmental control of adipose tissue metabolism and systemic energy homeostasis
Matthew Gillum – The sweet tooth
Niels Grarup – Physiological impact of the human genome in metabolism
Torben Hansen – Multi-omics profiling to understand the molecular etiology of childhood obesity and to improve preventive and treatment strategies
Jens Juul Holst – Organ perfusion for studies of molecular mechanisms behind secretion of gut and pancreatic hormones
Tuomas Kilpeläinen – Gene-environment interaction in obesity and metabolic health
Thomas Moritz – Understanding the function of metabolites using quantitative metabolomics and dynamic metabolomics
Kei Sakamoto – Uncovering molecular and cellular signaling mechanisms that control metabolic functions
Thue W. Schwartz – Signaling metabolites and their GPCR sensors as autocrine and paracrine regulators of metabolic function and cancer cell metabolism and defense mechanisms
Jonas Thue Treebak – Defining the role of NAD+ generating/consuming pathways for maintaining metabolic health and tissue function
Louise Whiteley – (1) Media representations of metabolic research; (2) Cultural perspectives on mind-gut-microbiome connections; (3) Science-society relations
Center for Biosustainability (CFB)
Irina Borodina – Metabolic Engineering of yeast for bio-based chemicals
Pablo Cruz-Morales (at CFB from Sept 18) – Natural Products are the best source of medicines, but they are difficult to find and make. I use the theory of evolution and synthetic biology to discover drugs faster and cheaper
Michael Krogh Jensen – Yeast synthetic biology
Ivan Mijakovic – Metabolic engineering of a CO2 fixation pathway in Bacillus subtilis – cell factories to counter climate change
Alex Toftgaard Nielsen – Production of biochemicals using bacterial cell factories
Lars Keld Nielsen – Data-driven design of cell factory
Pablo I. Nikel – Advanced engineering of bacterial cell factories for bioproduction of new-to-Nature molecules
Morten Nørholm – Microbial evolution and synthetic biology
Morten Sommer – Constructing sustainable microbial foods
Tilmann Weber – Next generation genome mining for antibiotics and other specialized metabolites
Ditte Hededam Welner – Enzyme engineering and structural biology for biosustainability