Primære forskningsområder

Forskningsområder:

Bioinformatik

Populationsgenetik

Sygdomsfremkaldende bakterier i fjerkræ

Taksonomi af bakterier

Pasteurellaceae

Serotypning udfra helgenomsekvens

Probiotika

Undervisning:

Bioinformatik og populationsgenetik

Veterinær bakterie-diagnostik og typning

Svampe af veterinær betydning 

Internationale societies:

Formand for ICSP Subcommitee on Pasteurellaceae

Sekretær (1 September 2026 - ) for ICSP Subcommitees of taxonomy

Medredaktør for Avian Pathology, IJSEM og review board Avian Diseases

Redaktør for Veterinary Microbiology (2024-)

Medlem af ICSP (2026-) (Dansk Mikrobiologisk Selskab)

Medlem EFSA FEED panel og mikrobiologisk arbejdsgruppe (2018-)

CV

Academic degrees

1987 MSc in biology (cand. scient.), Copenhagen University

1991 PhD, Copenhagen University

2006 DVSc (Dr. med. vet.), KVL

Employment

1987 Microbiologist, Danish Food Agency, S?borg, Denmark

1988 PhD student, Dept. Population Biology, Copenhagen University

1991 Post. doc., Biotechnological Institute, DTU, Lyngby, Denmark.

1995 Research assistant professor, Dept. Veterinary Microbiology (now IVP), KVL

1998 Research associate professor, IVP, KVL

2005 Professor with special duties within bioinformatics in veterinary microbiology

2013 Lektor

Kort præsentation

◊ Lærebog: Introduction to Bioinformatics for Microbiology i 2 udgave, samt tysk oversættelse

◊ Online værktøj til MLST og kapsel typning.

◊ Minimal standard for anvendelse af helgenomsekventering til taxonomi

Mulige interessekonflikter

Collaborates with different branches of animal production and biotech industry in different countries including Denmark. This work occationally include externally funded projects. The representatives from the companies are occationally partners in the projects or serve as advisors to the projects. In all these relations I act as an employee of the University of Copenhagen and do not receive any renumeration from the external partners. 

I work as scientific expert for EFSA as a menber of the FEEDAP panel ( - 2029) and as member of the FEED microbiology group. I receive a salary for this work from EFSA. My DOI is published at EFSA