21 September 2021

New PhD Student at DTU

New staff

Caja Dinesen has finished her Master's Degree and started as PhD Student in INTERACT from 1st of September 2021 under the supervision of Professor Ákos Kovács.

PhD Student Caja Dinesen

Photo of Caja DinesenI'm a new PhD student in INTERACT. I have a master’s degree in Biotechnology from the Technical University of Denmark, where I previously worked with plant-microbe interactions and elicitation of secondary metabolites in Bacillus subtilis.

In INTERACT, I will be working on the interaction between B. subtilis and the wheat microbiome with the focus of studying microbial signaling linked to plant beneficial traits including secondary metabolites.

Place of employment: Technical University of Denmark, DTU Bioengineering, Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine