• Plant pathway discovery of interesting high-value natural products including diterpenoids, vanillin and derivatives, carminic acid and related compounds, and cannabinoids
• Transfer of entire biosynthetic pathways to the chloroplast to obtain light driven synthesis of high-value products with carbon dioxide from the air as the sole carbon source
• Cyanogenic glucosides as a model system for studying metabolic channeling
• Natural Deep Eutectic Solvents as liquid crystals for high-density storage of bioactive natural products in soluble form in living cells without auto-toxicity effects
• The linkage between lysine metabolism and systemic acquired resistance (SAR)
• The role of N-hydroxy amino acids in biology
• The establishing of a C-glucosyl transferase platform
• Ethics, communication and legal aspects related to synthetic biology such as gene editing technologies

For students wishing to work within these topics,. M.Sc. and B.Sc. projects are currently available. Please contact blm@plen.ku.dk

• ERC Advanced grant for “Light-driven Chemical Synthesis using Cytochrome P450s” Metabolic highways and metabolons
• VILLUM Research Center for Plant Plasticity: Plasticity manifested in supramolecuar complexes and Biotechnological applications of plant plasticity
• Lundbeck Foundation: “Brewing Diterpenoids” with focus on diterpenoids as drug leads for treatment of movement related diseases as Parkinson´s and Alzheimer´s
• Novo Nordisk Foundation: “Desert-loving Therapeutics” with focus on identification of diterpenoids with interesting therapeutic properties within Eremophila species in the Western Australian desert
• Australian Research Council:
• Australia’s native sorghums: discovering new wild crop relatives
• Light-driven P450: Using Photosynthesis to Power Fine Chemical Production
• Evolution of the marsupial gut microbiome and adaptation to eucalypt toxins

• Birger Lindberg Møller
• Cecilie Ida Cetti Hansen
• Alexandra Bianca Maimann
• Thies Gülck
• Victor Forman
• Camilla Knudsen Baden
• Nethaji Janeshawari Gallage
• Mohammad Saddik Motawie
• Irini Pateraki
• Allison Heskes
• Nikolaj Lervad Hansen
• Dan Luo
• Oliver Gericke
• Sara Thodberg
• Nanna Heinz
• Anne Blem Mitchell
• Johan Andersen-Ranberg

Are you interested in doing a project, you can read more about your options in the project database

Project database for students

Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences have various bachelor and master programs.

Read more about the options here

• Center for Synthetic Biology
• VILLUM Research Center for Plant Plasticity

The interaction of many different types of researchers in this group results in a highly interdisciplinary and active research environment. In addition to the basic research that we do, we like to see our research applied and therefore we collaborate with many different types of industries. Below you will find a selection of our network.

Australia	University of Queensland: Phil Hugenholtz (koala microbiome), Ben Hankamer (light driven P450s), Elizabeth Gillam (ancestral sequence reconstruction). Currently funded by Australian Research Council University of Melbourne: Ian Woodrow (eucalypt terpenoids), Mike Bayly (plant systematics, chloroplast genome sequencing) University of South Australia: Susan Semple (natural products chemistry and aboriginal contact person) University of Perth: Bevan Buirchell (botanist)
Faculty of Science (UCPH)	Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences: Poul Erik Jensen Sotirios Kampranis Irini Pateraki Department of Chemistry Bo Wegge Laursen Karen Martinez Dimitrios Stamou Tom André Jos Vosch, spectrometry Nikos Hatzakis Niels Bohr Institute Kell Mortensen Lise Arleth Jesper Nygaard
Faculty of Health (UCPH)	Søren Balling Engelsen (FOOD, Chemometrics) Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology Ulrik Gether Claus Juhl Løland Søren Gøgsig Faarup Rasmussen Kenneth Lindegaard Madsen Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology Dan Stærk, NMR structure elucidation
Faculty of Humanities (UCPH)	Department of Media, Cognition and Communication Maja Horst, Communication, Philosophy, Ethic Sune Holm
Faculty of Law (UCPH)	Center for Information and Innovation Law Timo Minssen Ana Nordberg
Others	Evolva biotech, Chr. Hansen, River Stone Professor MSO David Budtz Pedersen, AAU, Interdisciplinarity Documentary Film maker Phie Ambo, Alpha Film bioART, Jens Hauser, UCPH, Dept of Arts and Cultural Studies, Medical Museion Associate professor Alfred Birkegaard Hansted, Roskilde Universitet Collaboratorium by HeleneElsass Center BiologiGaragen, Martin Malthe Borch etc. We have a large number of important additional collaborators who may be identified from our joint publications.