Research Projects

On-going projects (December 2023)

  • ColiShield: A food supplement for precision-balancing the gut microbiome and reducing risk of E. coli infections. Innovation fund supported project lead by Bactolife. Postdoc Patricia Elizabeth Arias Orozco, professor Lone Gram
  • Curing EU aquaculture by co-creating health and welfare innovations (Cure4Aqua). EU project. PhD student Despoina Athena-Vasileiadi, professor Lone Gram. Coordinated by Ivona Mladineo
  • R2R fabrication of pro-bacterial surfaces (R2R ProBac). PhD student Xavier Ferrer Florensa, professor Lone Gram. NNF-funded project coordinated by Rafael Taboryski
  • Marine biodiversity as sustainable resource of disease suppressive microbes and bioprotectants for aquaculture and crop diseases (MARBLES). PhD student Dóra Smahajcsik and research assistant Mathilde Carujo Mira Emidio de Almeida. Funded by EU Horizon2020. Coordinated by professor Gilles van Wezel. Assistant professor Shengda Zhang, professor Lone Gram.
  • Engineered algal microbiomes for sustainable aquaculture and biotech (EngAlMi). A PhD project funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation. PhD student Line Roager, Associate professor Mikkel Bentzon-Tilia, Professor Lone Gram
  • Center for Microbial Secondary Metabolites (CeMiSt) 2018-2028. www.cemist.dtu.dk A center of excellence funded by the Danish National Research Foundation. Center leader: Professor Lone Gram, associate professors Mikael Lenz Strube and  Mikkel Bentzon-Tilia and assistant professor Shengda Zhang, post docs Nathalie Nina Suhr Eiris Henriksen, Morten Dencker Schostag, PhD students Peter Bing Svendsen and Lauge Alfastsen

Newly ended projects

  • Mining fungal genomes for enzymes and secondary metabolites. A PhD project funded by BGI Research. PhD student Ting Yang. Associate professor Mikael Lenz Strube
  • Characterization and use of chitinases from marine bacteria 2017-2020. A PhD project funded by China Scholarship Council co-funded with DTU. PhD student Xiyan Wang, postdoc Shengda Zhang, Professor Lone Gram
  • EcoTech. From Ecology to Technology - unraveling to bioactive potential of marine bacteria. 2017-2021.A PhD and postdoc project funded by the Research Council for Technology and Production. PhD student Yannick Buijs (bacteriology). Postdocs Thomas Isbrandt (natural product chemistry) and Shengda Zhang (molecular bacteriology), professor Lone Gram
  • Genomic screening of the bioactivity diversity of algae. A PhD project funded by BGI Research. PhD student Linzhou Li. Senior Scientist Eva Sonnenschein
  • Microbiomes of soil and marine environments. A PhD project funded by BGI Research. PhD student Yayu Wang. Associate professor Mikael Lenz Strube, Professor Lone Gram
  • The effect of culture conditions on the bictive potential of marine bacteria  2016-2020. A PhD project funded by Villum Foundation and DTU Bioengineering PhD student Sara Skjøtt Paulsen
  • Interaction between fish probiotic roseobacters and the natural microbiota in aquaculture settings 2016-2019. A PhD project funded by DTU Bioengineering. PhD student Karen Kiesbye Dittmann
  • Development of electrochemically deposited surfaces based on copper and silver with antibacterial effect 2016-2019. An industrial PhD project funded by Innovation Fund Denmark. Collaboration between DTU BioEngineering and Elplatek A/S, DTU Mechanic and Copenhagen University. PhD student Nicole Ciacotich
  • Reducing antibiotic use in marine larviculture by a novel combinatory probiotic strategy (ProAqua) 2013-2018 www.proaqua.dk. Funded by the Committee for Strategic Research in Health, Food and Welfare. Headed by DTU Bioengineering/ professor Lone Gram. From DTU Bioengineering: PhD student Bastian Barker Rasmussen, Torben Grotkær and postdoc Paul D’Alvise. Collaborative partners: University of Copenhagen, Venøsund skaldyr, Maximus, University of Bergen, ACD Pharmaceuticals, Selonda, Hellenic Center for Marine Research, BGI Europe.
  • Biosynthetic pathways and expression platforms for marine bioactive compounds. 2017-2019. A postdoc project funded by H.C. Ørsted fellowship programme cofunded by Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions. postdoc Shengda Zhang