2020.07.03 | Grant
Ebbe S. Andersen is awarded a DKK 10 million Ascending Investigator Grant from the Novo Nordisk Foundation’s Research Leader Programme. The research project aims at using recently developed RNA nanotechnology-based assembly lines, sensors and nanorobots to improve biochemical reactions inside cells. The potential outcome will be improved bacterial…
2020.06.25 | Research, Knowledge exchange
A new paper from Jørgen Kjems' group at iNANO and MBG describes how expression of non-coding RNA changes during epileptic seizures in rodents. The authors found that inhibiting a specific set of microRNAs (miRNAs) by antisense technology reduced seizure frequency in a mouse model, suggesting that these RNA molecules could serve as possible targets…
2020.06.16 | Grant
Joseph Lyons is one of the nine talented researchers who will become a Lundbeckfonden fellow in 2020. And the grant that comes with the appointment enables him to establish his own research group and devote himself to research for the next five years at the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics/DANDRITE, Aarhus University.
2020.06.11 | Research
It is difficult wage war without causing collateral damage , and the same goes for our immune system when it has to fight viral infections, such as influenza and COVID-19. Research by a team from The Crick Institute and Aarhus University describes how an immune response prevents the rebuilding of damaged lung tissue after infection with viruses…
2020.06.02 | Grant
Daniel Otzen and collaborators, Jørgen Kjems and Victoria Birkedal from the Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO) and the company Fida Biosystems, have received DKK 3.8 million from the Innovation Fund Denmark to develop a screening system to identify drugs that are able to combat COVID-19.
2020.05.18 | Grant
With a grant of DKK 6,181,260 (USD 900,000) from the Independent Research Fund Denmark, Associate Professor Bjørn Panyella Pedersen can now increase his research efforts to gain a better understanding of the mechanisms behind cholesterol uptake.
2020.05.18 | Grant
The Independent Research Fund Denmark (DFF) - Nature and Universe - grants DKK 23.4 million to seven researchers at the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics.
2020.05.13 | Research
Ever wondered if you could see through the body of a living organism and observe the dynamic interplay between cells and nanoparticles injected into the bloodstream? This is now possible as the use of transgenic zebrafish embryos now offers a unique opportunity for intravital microscopy at imaging resolutions unrivalled by existing mammalian…
2020.05.07 | Awards
Thibaud Dieudonné, who is currently postdoc in Poul Nissen’s research group, was awarded the prize for his PhD thesis entitled “Functional and Structural characterization of lipid flippases: the yeast Drs2p/Cdc50p and the disease-related human ATP8B1/CDC50A complexes”.
2020.04.29 | People
With Professor Christian Bendixen's untimely death, the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics has lost an excellent researcher and a good colleague. Christian Bendixen died suddenly from a blood clot at the age of 57. We are all deeply affected.
2020.04.27 | Grant
One of the major challenges of reopening the community, during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, is having access to a rapid and reliable test for SARSCoV2 infection. With fundings from Independent Research Fund Denmark Professor Jørgen Kjems will, in collaboration with researchers from DTU and Rigshospitalet, develop a method that can detect the…
2020.04.15 | People
In March, Ernst-Martin Füchtbauer was elected president of the largest international society for people working with genetically modified animals, namely the International Society for Transgenic Technology (ISTT).
2020.03.30 | Research
The demand for energy is growing and so is the demand for alternative energy solutions, which includes living sources of electricity. In collaboration with an international team, Thomas Boesen and his iNANO colleagues have created microbial energy cells and shows a method for improving the efficiency of bioelectrical systems.
2020.03.25 | Grant
Narcis Adrian Petriman, Ronja Driller and Jan Heiner Driller from the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics at Aarhus University receive the highly prestigious Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship. It is the first time that the Department obtains three fellowships in one application round.
2020.03.20 | Research
The discovery of a female-specific acoustic behavior sheds new light on Drosophila mating, sexual dimorphisms of neuronal circuits and the impact of seminal fluid molecules on nervous system and behavior.
