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Nyt projekt: Transfer of biochemical defence between plant species. Læs mere her:https://agro.au.dk/en/current-news/news/show/artikel/plants-may-be-able-to-defend-each-other/

Mit forskningsområde omhandler kemiske stoffer (små molekyler), der forekommer i landbrugsplanterne eller i landbrugsmiljøet. Jeg har opbygget og er team leader for Team Naturstofkemi og Miljøkemi (se under "Yderligere information"). Mit team forsker i a) landbrugsplanternes naturlige kemiske stoffer, der kan have effekter både som alternative plantebeskyttelsesmidler og som sundhedsfremmende stoffer, b) pesticiders skæbne i miljøet samt c) agricultural og environmental metabolomics. 

Min forskning vedrørende landbrugsplanternes naturstoffer omhandler stoffernes forekomst i planterne under varierende dyrkningsforhold og stresspåvirkninger; udskillelsen af stofferne fra landbrugsplanterne, stoffernes omsætning, binding og udvaskning i jordmiljøet; deres effekt på jordens mikrobielle miljø; optagelse og metabolisering i mennesker og dyr; sundhedsfremmende effekter; isolering og strukturopklaring. Vi arbejder med naturstoffer i landbrugsafgrøder og bruger state-of-the-art masse spektrometri (LC-MSMS, LC-MSQTRAP, LC-TOF, GC-TOF og LC-MS-DAD).

Vi har i Team Naturstofkemi og Miljøkemi opbygget en stærk specialisering indenfor benzoxazinoidernes kemi (kvantititativ analyse, metabolisering, strukturopklaring, effekter, syntese, isolering). Benzoxazinoiderne er en gruppe af bioaktive naturstoffer der forekommer i de fleste kornsorter og nogle få tokimbladede planter.  

Min forskning foregår i et bredt interdisciplinært samarbejde med: agronomer, biologer, patologer, molekylærbiologer, veterinærer, ukrudtsforskere, mikrobiologer, statistikere, læger. 

Nuværende eller tidligere Team medlemmer

Aktuel projektdeltagelse eller -ledelse

Elucidation of chemical interactions between cover crops grown in mixture with importance to weed suppression. - PhD project, Hossein Hazrati, 2018-2021. Supervisor.  

Uptake and metabolization of pesticides and phytochemicals in honey bees: toxic or health sustaining effects? - PhD project, Hamidreza Ardalani, 2017-2021. Supervisor.

Identification of new naturally occurring benzoxazinoids and discerning the role of known benzoxazinoids in prostate cancer and auxin activity. - PhD project, Bina Bhattarai, 2017-2020. Supervisor.

Clever plant roots design their associated microbiome to prevent disease. What are the mechanisms behind? - The Danish Council for Independent Research – Technology and Production, 2016-2019. Workpackage leader. 

Use of targeted, semi-targeted and untargeted mass spectrometry for the elucidation of the influence of small molecules on interactions between Arabidopsis and the rhizosphere microorganisms. - PhD project, 2017-2020, Kourosh Hooshmand.

Nylig afsluttet projektdeltagelse eller -ledelse

Arming honeybees with nature's pharmacy. - Individual postdoc project Nanna Hjort Vidkjær. The Danish Council for Independent Research – Technology and Production, 2016-2019. Supervisor.

Root-protected grass. - Green Development and Demonstration Programme. 2015-2019. Work package leader.

Organic cotton for Employment, Growth and Environment. - Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 2015-2019. Work package leader. Supervisor for PhD student Innocent Eclou

Pyretroids in private homes. - Danish Environmental Protection Agency. 2015-2018. Project leader.

RyeproC. Whole grain rye as a functional food for suppression of prostate cancer –elucidating the role of benzoxazinoids and other bioactive constituents. -The Danish Council for Independent Research | Technology and Production Sciences, 2013-2018. Project leader. Supervisor for postdoc Stine Krogh Steffensen.

Specialeprojekter

Jeg tilbyder specialeemner på områder der vedrører vore kurser eller aktuelle eksternt finansierende projekter. Vejledning foregår i samarbejde med mine postdocs og PhD studerende.  

Kursusledelse:

• Jordbrugets økotoksikologi (bachelor) (efterår)
• Bioactive Molecules in Agroecology(MSc Summer University) (PhD course) August 2021
• PhD kursus massespektrometri: Hands-on LC-MSMS analytical chemistry of small molecules (phytochemicals, contaminants and primary metabolites) (PhD-summerschool, 7-18 June 2021). Vi har LC-MSMS, LCMS-QTRAP, LC-TOF og GC-TOF instrumenter til rådighed for vores PhD sommerskole og både erfarne teknikere, vores egne PhD studerende og eksterne eksperter underviser. 

Kommentarer fra deltagere i vores 2019 Hands-on LC-MSMS kursus

• “Possibility to go to the lab on day 1, prepare and run samples right away – really a hands-on course”
• “A very dense schedule with efficient use of time”
• “The most rewarding thing about this course is that it was so much more than I expected. The way of teaching, the hands-on and the teachers were all amazing”
• “It was very nice that a second week was focused on our own projects, where we could run our own samples, optimize methods for own analytes. That was very exciting”
• “It was very nice to combine the basic study with practical study”