A very warm welcome to the new members of the group working in our newly started center NanoPANS: Functionalized Nanocarriers sending anti-PArkinson drugs to central and peripheral Nerve Systems.
Front: Rasmus Torstensen (MSc student).
Second row: Viktoriia Svistelnik (visiting student from University College Dublin), Johanne Holm Carlson (MSc student) and Katy Dewison (postdoc).
Third row: Fordosa Abdirisak Ali Nur and Kaija Lusser (both MSc students).
Daniel and Janni are at the back.
Also a warm welcome to Finn Weustenfeld from University of Heidelberg who will be in our group until January 2026. Finn will work on catalytic amyloid, supervisor by Samuel Peña-Díaz.
A warm (re)welcome to Bjørk Isaksen and Mathias Carstensen who are starting up new projects in EnZync, building on their previous work in the group. Bjørk will devote her MSc thesis to crystallographic studies of plastic-degrading enzymes with Deniz Bicer as her practical supervisor, while Mathias will focus on the exploration of epoxy-degrading enzymes, supervised by Rosie Graham.
18th August 2025: Today Deniz Bicer ably defended his PhD mid-way report (Part A) "Fragment Based Active Site Exploration of Polyurethane Degrading Amidases" co-supervised by Daniel, Søren Thirup and Preben Morth (DTU). Our able opponent was Professor Michael Gajhede (Copenhagen U). Congratulations Deniz!
26th June 2025: Congratulations to Bjørn Bjerre Berg for defending his thesis "Expression and screening of Rhomboid membrane proteins for structural and functional studies" and to Dr. Morten Nørholm (formerly DTU, now Novo Nordisk A/S) for his work as opponent.
25th June 2025: Today Nicolai Petersen defended his MSc thesis "A Fluorescence Approach to Novel PURase Discovery" with very able examination questions from Professor Kaare Teilum (Copenhagen U). Congratulations! Here the candidate is pictured left with other intrepid plastic degraders and right with Kaare and Daniel.
23rd June 2025: Today Jeremias Widmann defended his Part A thesis report "Chaperones and their role in metabolostasis". Congratulations! Thanks to Dr. Céline Galvagnion (Copenhagen University) for her fine work as opponent.
16th June 2025: Congratulations to Malthe Kjær Bendtsen for defending his part A (mid way) thesis report "Harnessing Nature's Catalysts: Novel Enzymes for Polyurethane Recycling" and many thanks to opponent Dr. Peter Fojan (Aalborg University) for his work in assessing this!
7th February 2025: Many congratulations to Marcos López Hernández for a very strong and convincing defence today of his PhD thesis Green Surfactants in Detergent Formulations: Interactions and Synergies Between Surfactants and Enzymes. Also many thanks to the opponents, Drs. Annette Langkilde (Copenhagen University) and Niki Baccile (Sorbonne University) for excellent critique and discussion. Here Marcos is flanked by Niki, Daniel, Jan and Annette (top left), just emerged from the defence (bottom left) and gearing up for celebrations (right).
