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Welcome to the DTU iGEM wiki!
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Meet the DTU team
We are 10 students and 4 supervisors participating in this years iGEM competition. Our team can be characterized as being very diverse both culturally and scientifically as you can easily see from our background descriptions. This has been considered as a big advantage by all of us and due to language confusions we had a lot of fun!
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The team in Paris for the iGEM workshop (Malthe is missing).
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Our Team of Students
Anastasiya S. Haugaard
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Scientific Background
Molecular Biology and Chemistry
About me
I am Ukrainian and I have been living in Denmark for about 8 years. I have finished international high school IB (International Baccalaureate) at Nørre Gymnasium. Then I went to study at Roskilde University, where I received a Bachelor degree in Molecular Biology and Chemistry. Currently I am taking Masters in Biotechnology at DTU. I am mostly interested in Biomedical Microbiology and that is why I follow this study line. In my spare time I enjoy travelling, reading good books and spending time with my friends and family, especially by making “movies and dinner” times, etc. I am also going to a gym and doing other sports on regular basis.
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Anja Sander
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Scientific Background
Molecular Biomedicine
About me
I am original from Germany, but now I lived in Denmark for about 14 years and I like it ;-) I started to study Medicine at Aarhus University, just to find out that I, instead of treating patients, like more to do research on the causes of a given disease. That is why I have taken a bachelors degree in Molecular Biomedicine at Copenhagen University and now continue with my master studies at DTU. Bacteria are my love and therefore I want to specialize in Biomedical Microbiology. Besides bacteria, my academic focus is on immunology, medicine, antibiotic resistance and infection mechanisms, but also what it means to conduct good science and experimental set-ups incl. scientific writing. I am going to write my master thesis at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in the USA and I am really looking forward to this! In my spare time I enjoy spending my time with my husband, family and friends. I love indoor climbing, some day I will try outdoor climbing of course (until then practice, practice...), but it is a fascinating sport, believe me ;-) One of my dreams is to travel around the world, but at the moment the duration of time must be shorter than 80 days ;-)
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Annemi Ingebrekt Jollmann
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Scientific Background
Chemistry and Biotechnology Engineering
About me
Born and raised in Denmark, and having finished a Bachelor degree in Diploma Chemistry & Biotechnology at the Technical University of Denmark, I continued onto the Master degree in Biotechnology which I currently have one and a half years left in. My interests lie within Microbiology in terms of my studies. In my spare time I love to travel and play any form of games, sports wise I enjoy skiing. As I don’t have an extensive international background as the rest of my team has, I look forward to going on exchange and having an international experience of my own.
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Grzegorz 'Greg' Slodkowicz
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Scientific Background
Computer Science
About me
Originally from Poland, I moved to Denmark (through Ireland) two years ago. My undergrad studies were in Computer Science and now I'm in Systems Biology programme at DTU. My interests include teaching programming, biological networks and mathematical modeling. When not in front of a computer, I enjoy cooking, biking and squash.
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Juliet Frederiksen
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Scientific Background
Chemical Engineering
About me
I am half Danish and half Kenyan and grew up on the exotic Island of Mombasa, Kenya. I moved to Denmark when I was 15 years old, at which point I attended an international high school, IB (International Baccalaureate). After receiving my IB diploma, I started studying Chemical Engineering at DTU because I believe that everything in life is essentially chemistry ;). Other than my passion for chemistry and laughing, I am an avid runner and love spending time with my friends or relaxing in a café with a good book.
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Lisa Blanc Iversen
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Scientific Background
Biotechnology Engineering
About me
I’m half danish and half argentinian but I grew up in Denmark. I got my linguistic high school diploma in 2002 and after that I spent some years working, travelling and studying math, chemistry and physics so that I could start my studies at DTU. At this moment I’m pregnant and the baby is due the end of November. In my spare time I enjoy spending time with my friends or my husband. I used to play soccer but now I’m only allowed to watch it on TV.
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Martin Malthe Borch
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Scientific Background
Biotechnology Engineering
About me
I enjoy life when I’m in the wild nature the mountains, on or below big waves. I am fascinated by unbelievable organisms, plants and animals and by the balance and complexity of nature and what we can learn from it. I find gratification by experiencing cultural diversity and new perspectives on life; through people I meet their story, traditions, music and food. I am trying to merge all this into my study to become a biological engineer. I have specialized in biorefinery and bioreactor design, and I’m going to work on Risø-DTU developing a sustainable biorefinery platform, for the future sustainable agricultural and industrial production by microorganism. I am a professional rescue diver, surf lifeguard and climbing instructor. I am fluent in English, French Spanish and Danish.
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Maya Friis Kjaergaard
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Scientific Background
Biotechnology Engineering
About me
I am 100% Danish and I grew up north of Copenhagen. I study biotechnology at DTU, and at the moment I’m doing my master degree. I went to highschool in a town called Nyborg where I completed the international IB programme. I have lived in Spain several times, both with my family and alone, and I therefore speak fluent Spanish. I love the Spanish culture, especially the food and the night life. In my free time I like being with my friends, run, bike and play music. I also like to travel and experience the world which is why I spent a semester of my master degree in the US. Professionally, my interests are stem cells, immunology, cell biology and synthetic biology.
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Patrick Fortuna
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Scientific Background
Biotechnology Engineering
About me
I’m a South African that has been living and studying in Denmark for the last 7 years, yet have also lived in Canada. After having finished my International Baccalaureate (IB) high school diploma I continued onto the Technical University of Denmark where I’m currently finishing my bachelor degree in Biotechnology. My interests within my studies are genetic engineering, synthetic biology, and molecular cell biology. Outside of the books I spend most of my time on sports, ranging from rugby to any form of functional strength and conditioning workouts. On all other occasions I’ll be either spending time with friends, doing some travelling, or enjoying food.
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Thomas Trolle
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Scientific Background
Biochemistry
About me
I’m half Danish, half Chinese and was born in Copenhagen. At the age of 4, I moved to Hong Kong with my family, where we lived for 8 years before moving back to Denmark. After 3 years of primary school and 3 years of high school, I got my high school diploma in 2006 at Virum Gymnasium. I went on to study biochemistry at Copenhagen University and got my bachelors degree in 2009. I am currently halfway through the Masters Program in Systems Biology at DTU. My interests include immunology, bioinformatics and protein structure. In my spare time I enjoy playing computer games and spending time with my friends.
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Our Supervisors
Chris Workman
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Scientific Background
Christopher Workman is associate professor at the Center of Biological Sequence Analysis (CBS) at DTU. Dr. Workman has nine years of combined biotech industry and post-graduate experience. This includes three years of postdoctoral training in a leading Systems Biology lab at the University of California, San Diego headed by Dr. Trey Ideker. During this period he led a project that resulted in a map of transcriptional regulatory pathways that control the DNA damage response in yeast and a first author publication in Science. Dr. Workman has developed a number of bioinformatic tools and analysis methods that support research in transcriptional regulation. He has extensive experience analyzing gene expression microarray data from almost all technology platforms. In particular, he has pioneered improved methods of Affymetrix probe-level data analysis and has contributed to the widely used Bioconductor project. He has also contributed as a developer for the Cytoscape open source project. (reference http://www.phenoxigen.eu/index.php?id=3)
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Mogens Kilstrup
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Scientific Background
Mogens Kilstrup received his master degree in 1986 in biochemistry from the University of Copenhagen as well as his PhD degree in Molecular biology in 1992. After a Post doctoral position at DTU from 1993, he was appointed as associate professor in 2000 and advanced to professor in 2008 at Center for Systems Microbiology (CSM) at DTU.
Professor Kilstrup´s areas of expertise include gene regulation, microbial physiology, and molecular biology, with emphasis on medically and industrial important bacteria as ''Salmonella enterica'', ''Escherichia coli'' and ''Lactococcus lactis'' using both genetic and DNA recombinant techniques. Special expertise is found in the area of stress response and the genetics and physiology of nucleotide metabolism. Current major research project is the analysis of global regulatory networks (stress response) in ''L. lactis'', including physiological studies, proteomics (2D-gel electrophoresis coupled to mass spectrometry), transcriptomics (transcriptional analysis using DNA Microarray), and biochemical characterization of regulatory systems. He is the author or co-author of more than 25 scientific papers that have been cited more than 900 times, and has international collaboration with a number of scientific groups.
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Peter Ruhdal Jensen
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Scientific Background
Peter Ruhdal Jensen is professor and leader of the Center for Systems Microbiology at the Institute of Systems Biology (DTU-BIOSYS). He finished his education at DTU as a civil engineer in 1988, later he also got a PhD from DTU. He had a post.doc position at the Netherlands Cancer Institute in the Netherlands from 1992 to 1994. He has been associate professor at DTU from 1995 and became professor at DTU in 2006. His areas of research include Systems Biology, Molecular Biology, Genetics and Microbial Physiology. Professor Ruhdal Jensen works with microbiological systems and applies control analysis and modeling to describe complex properties of biological systems. He uses both bacteria and yeast as model systems, with focus on bacteria for industrial production processes. He has been the author or co-author of more than 80 articles, and has collaborated with a number of research groups around the world. |
Sébastien Lemire
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Scientific Background
Sebastien Lemire has a post.doc position at the Center for Systems Microbiology (CSM) at DTU. He arrived in Denmark in May 2009 after a PhD in the lab of Lionelllo Bossi in Gif-Sur-Yvette, France and 2 years of post.doc in the lab of Tetsuro Yonesaki at Osaka University, Japan. He has also worked in the USA during his masters degree and there the virus for phages infected him and he got interested in the genetics approach to biological questions. He is especially interested in the regulation of lysogeny in Salmonella prophages and how those phages contribute to Salmonella virulence.
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