Sections within Department of Plant Biology and Biotechnology

The Department of Plant Biology and Biotechnology has four sections. Within each section, staff and students are organised in research groups and smaller units as listes below. 

 

Section for Molecular Plant Biology

Carbohydrates metabolism & phosphate, Associate professor Tom Hamborg Nielsen
Glucosinolates, Professor Barbara Ann Halkier

Photosynthesis and synthetic biology, Professor Poul Erik Jensen
Pathology, Associate professor Hans Jørgen Lyngs Jørgensen
Plant cell walls and cyanobacteria, Associate professor Yumiko Sakuragi

 

Section for Plant Biochemistry 

Cyanogenic glucosides, Professor Birger Lindberg Møller
Molecular evolution, Professor Søren Bak

Physcomitella patens, Associate professor Christina Lunde

Plant infection and stress responses, Associate Professor Michael Lyngkjær
Regulation of metabolism, Associate professor Frederik Rook
Terpenoids, Associate Professor Henrik Toft Simonsen
 

Section for Plant Glycobiology

Cell wall biology and bioenginering, Professor Peter Ulvskov
Plant cell wall biosynthesis and regulation, Associate professor Naomi Geshi
Plant cell wall evolution and diversity, Professor William G. T. Willats

Plant pathology, Professor David Collinge
Starch, Associate professor Andreas Blennow
 

Section for Transport Biology

Biomembranes, Associate Professor Thomas Günther-Pomorski
Cell communication, Professor Alexander Schulz
Plant Innate Immunity, Associate Professor Mari-Anne Newman
P-type pumps, Professor Michael Gjedde Palmgren
Signal transduction, Associate professor Anja T. Fuglsang