Program.
​8:30 - 9:00
Registration, poster setup, coffee and tea
9:00 - 9:15
Welcoming by the PhD Day Organizing Committee
Introduction by Head of Department, Niels Kroer
9:15 - 10:15
Opening Keynote Talk: Dr. Stephen Brusatte, University of Edinburgh, UK -
Dinosaur extinction: new insights into an age-old mystery
10:15 - 10:45
10 min. talks:
1. Lara Perryman: Laminin modifications attract Glioblastoma cells to invade the perivascular niche
2. João Martins: Computational calculations of drugs’ performance
​10:45 - 11:00
Flash talks:
1. Athanasios Zervas: Plastome evolution in parasitic plants
2. Andaine Seguin Orlando: Genomic Structure in Europeans dating back at least 36,200 years
3. Sara Harðardóttir: Toxic diatoms in the arctic marine food web: The effect of domoic acid on arctic Calanus copepodites grazing on the diatom Pseudo-nitzschia seriata
​11:00 - 11:45
Morning Poster session, coffee and tea
11:45 - 13:00
10 min. talks:
3. Anne Andersen: Genetic consequences of an extraordinary lifestyle
4. Marie Lisandra Zepeda Mendoza: The evolution of the sanguivorous diet in the vampire bat
5. Signe Lolle: R-gene dependent autoimmunity in Arabidopsis
6. Nynne Ravn: The influence of 23 years of experimental warming on emission of CO2 and its isotopic composition indicates accelerated decomposition of old stock organic carbon
7. Casper-Emil Tingskov Pedersen: Deleterious genetic variation in the Greenlandic Inuit
​13:00 - 13:50
Lunch
13:50 - 14:45
Science Industry and Careers talk: Petter Hartman, CEO for the Medicon Valley Alliance, Copenhagen, Denmark -
Strong-holds and talent attraction in the greater Copenhagen region
​14:45 - 15:30
10 min. talks:
8. Laura MartÃnez: Mop-like replication and diverse replication modes of archaeal rudivirus SIRV2
9. Saria Otani: Stability and variation in the gut and fungus comb microbial communities in fungus-growing termites
10. Carla Cruz Paredes: Using phospholipid fatty acids, and fungal and bacterial growth to evaluate the effects of ash application on forest soils
​15:30 - 15:45
Flash talks:
4. Anna Fotakis: Metagenomics and Proteomics on the Ancient Oral Microbiome
5. Peter de Barros Damgaard: Origins of Turkic-speaking populations
6. Bitao Qiu: Comparative developmental transcriptome study of Convergent evolution in eusociality
​15:45 - 16:15
Afternoon Poster session, coffee and tea
16:15 - 17:15
Closing Keynote Talk: Professor Ada Yonath, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel - Ribosomes and origin of life
​17:15 - 17:30
Thank you and awards
18:00 - 20:00
Dinner
20:00 - Late
Party at mBAR