Postdoctoral Researchers

I am a Postdoc at the Center for Microbial Secondary Metabolites at DTU Bioengineering. I have a background within bacteriology and microbial ecology. My PhD project focused on the impact of secondary metabolites on the ecology and evolution of Bacillus subtilis in soil derived communities. My work include secondary metabolite profiling on soil, genetic modification, and transposons insertion sequencing analysis to understand the function of secondary metabolite on bacterial physiology and development in the soil

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I am a molecular microbiologist with background in soil microbiology and a focus on microbial community response to changes in the soil environment using transcriptomics and metatranscriptomic analyses .I have joined CeMiSt April 2021 to understandi the role of secondary metabolites in a microbial community thorough transcriptomics and metatranscriptomics analyses. My work is also focusing on investigating and developing extraction protocols for RNA from environmental samples, such as Bryozoa and soil, and co-culture of microalgae with secondary metabolite producing bacteria.

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My current research is centered around utilizing synthetic biology to improve our understanding of specialized metabolites and their potential role(s) in natural environments. In my research, I build genetic circuits that respond to the presence of specialized metabolites with an output measured as genetic memory. The tunable sensitivity of these circuits will potentially allow for greatly improved in situ detection of microbially produced specialized metabolites. I aim to develop a number of circuits responding to diverse metabolites and use them to record the presence of specialized metabolites in natural environments, such as soil and to investigate chemical metabolite signaling in microbiomes.

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