Program
08:30-09:00
Registration and Poster Set Up
Coffee Truck
WELLCOME AND INTRODUCTION
09:00-09:15
Welcome by the PhD Day Organizing Committee
Introduction by Head of Department, Niels Kroer
MORNING SESSION:
09:15-10:15
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Curtis Suttle, PhD
Marine Virologist, University of British Columbia.
Title: "Viruses – Frenemies in the Sea"
10:15-10:30
Asker Brejnrod: “Biomarker discovery in metabolome of pediatric Crohns”
10:30-10:45
Melissa Ilardo: “Physiological adaptation to breath hold diving in Indonesian sea
nomads”
10:45-11:00
PhD-student flash talks: Gianna Maurer, Ryan K. Waples, Felipe Torquatoa
11:00-11:15
Coffee break and poster session
11:15-11:30
Julius Nielsen: "Tales of the Greenland shark”
11:30-11:45
Caio Rebula: “Structural and proteomics analyses reveal novel mechanisms and functions of a disordered protein"
11:45-12:00
Klara Junker: “Biocontrol yeast: molecular characterization of predacious Saccharomycopsis species”
12:00-12:15
PhD-student flash talks: Rafael Rodrigues da Costa, Mikkel Sinding
12:15-13:15
Lunch break and networking
AFTER-LUNCH SESSION: “Career and innovation in the life science industry”
13:15-13:35
Keynote speaker: Søren Bregenholt, PhD (Novo Nordisk)
Corporate Vice President, R&D External Relations, Innovation Sourcing and Strategy
at Novo Nordisk, Board chairman of the Medicon Valley Alliance (MVA)
Title: “A career in the pharmaceutical industry”
13:35-13:55
Keynote speaker: Rasmus Just, PhD (Zealand Pharma)
Director of External Sourcing and Research Partnerships and Board member at Zealand Pharma
Title: “From peptide to patient - 10 years with Zealand Pharma”
14:00-14:45
Panel discussion: “The future of PhDs within the life science industry”
Søren Bregenholt (Novo Nordisk), Rasmus Just (Zealand Pharma), Niels Kroer (Head of Department of Biology)
Coffee break and poster session
14:45-15:30
AFTER-NOON SESSION:
15:30-16:30
16:30-16:45
16:45-17:00
17:00-17:15
17:15-17:30
17:30-18:00
18:00-20:00
20:00-01:00
Keynote speaker: Gerard Kleywegt, PhD
Senior Team Leader: Protein Data Bank in Europe EMBL-EBI
Title: "The Wonderful World of Structure Archiving - What’s Happening and What’s Next?
Anne Færch Jørgensen: “Discovering New Drug Targets for Type 2 Diabetes in the Model Organism Drosophila melanogaster”
Maria Dalby: “Characterizing age-dependent regulatory variation in the human
frontal lobe region"
Joanito Liberti: “Seminal fluid protein evolution at the transition between single and
multiple queen-mating in fungus-growing ants”
Thank you, voting for best presentation and awards
Poster session and networking event