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Thorvaldsensvej 40, 1871 Frederiksberg C
Thorvaldsensvej 40
1871 Frederiksberg C
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Research area
Plants produce a multitude of complex metabolites to navigate their interaction with the environment, e.g. as defense compounds. Some of these compounds are used by humans for medicine, food supplements, color pigments etc, while others are important determinants of crop plants’ nutritional value for humans and fodder crops for animals. For a number of years I have been investigating the physiological roles and catabolism of cyanogenic glycosides, mainly using the crop plant sorghum as a model, but also Lotus japonicus, cassava, barley and almond. Cyanogenic glycosides serve important roles in plants as deterrents of attack from herbivores and microorganisms. However, they also serve other, less investigated, roles in plants, and most of my research has focused on elucidating these functions and the associated enzymatic pathways. This work has caused me to frequently discover atypical enzymatic functions, one of them a reductive cleavage reaction carried out by glutathione transferase enzymes (GSTs) in a pathway for recovery of nitrogen from cyanogenic glucosides. The enzyme family of GSTs is large and complex and with very few identified physiological functions. With a young investigator grant from the VILLUM Foundation my group focus on revealing other functions of GSTs in specialized metabolism.
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Current funding
Co-PI of Semper Ardens grant from The Carlsberg Foundation, total 19 mill dkk
VILLUM Young Investigator grant, The VILLUM Foundation, Denmark, grant number 19151
Selected publications
Education
Dec. 2007 PhD in Plant Biochemistry, University of Copenhagen, DK
Mar. 2003 MSc in Environmental Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, DK
Positions and research stays
2018- Research group leader at Dept. of Plant and Environmental Sciences, UCPH, DK
2014- Associate Professor at Dept. of Plant and Environmental Sciences, UCPH, DK
2008-2014 Postdoc at Dept. of Plant Biology and Biotechnology, UCPH, DK
2004-2007 PhD-student at Dept. of Plant Biology and Biotechnology, UCPH, DK
2004-2019 Short-term research stays: University of Queensland, Autralia; Durham University, United Kingdom; Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences (DIAS) (now part of Aarhus University), Denmark; Reflab, Copenhagen University Hospital, Denmark
Scientific focus areas
Grants
2020 Co-PI of Semper Ardens grant from The Carlsberg Foundation, total 19 mill dkk
2019 DFF-ERC, 958.000 dkk, IRFD, grant no. 9126-00003B
2018 VILLUM Young Investigator, 10 mill dkk, VILLUM Foundation, grant no. 19151
2016 Rated A in phase 2 of the 2016 ERC StG call
2012 Co-PI, VILLUM Research Centre “Plant Plasticity”, VILLUM Foundation, grant no. VKR023054
2009 Co-applicant of five-year project, 13 mill dkk, IRFD, grant no. 0602–00999B
2008 Personal postdoctoral Globalisation fellowship: two years awarded by UCPH
2004 PhD scholarship, awarded by Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University
Management experience and institutional responsibilities
2020- Member of the Copenhagen Plant Science Center scientific committee
2020 Completed UCPH course: ‘Leading Research’
2019- Member of departmental research committee
2018- Research group leader, Plant Metabolic Plasticity Group
2016- Member of metabolomics platform steering group
2009-2018 Coordinator of research topic: Endogenous turnover of cyanogenic glucosides
International collaborators
MSI: Professor Anders Meibom, University of Lausanne, Switzerland; Bruker Daltonics, Germany
Glutathione transferases, gene editing and crop science: Professor Robert Edwards, Newcastle University, UK; Professor Dean Riechers, University of Illinois, USA; Professor Ian Godwin, University of Queensland, Australia.
Plant-pathogen interactions:
Gerhard Adam, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Vienna, Austria
Supervision and teaching
PhD-students: Currently 4; Completed 6
Postdocs: Currently 1; Past 2
Teaching: B.Sc. level biochemistry, metabolomics, Mass Spectrometry Imaging
Selected conference presentations
2020 Plant Biology 2020, American Society of Plant Biology World summit. Online.
2019 Ourcon VII (global forum on mass spectrometry imaging), Saint-Malo, France.
2015 Invited talk: 250th ACS National Meeting, American Chemical Society, Boston, USA.
2012 Invited talk: Plant Biotech Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
2010 Banff Conference for Plant Metabolism, Banff, Canada
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