27 September 2018

Hussam Nour-Eldin presents at the ‘Vin & Videnskab’ series

Public Outreach

DynaMo partner Hussam Nour-Eldin is invited to give a talk about 'Poisonous plants on the menu' at 'Vin & Videnskab'

DynaMo partner Associate Professor Hussam Nour-Eldin is invited to give a talk in the popular science dissemination series ‘ Vin & Videnskab’ hosted by the Natural History Museum of Denmark.

The theme of the evening is ‘Poison’ and Hussam Nour-Eldin will together with researchers from DTU Tropical Pharmacology Laboratory, Department of Biology at University of Copenhagen, and a representative from ‘Giftlinjen’ at Bispebjerg Hospital, take part in a discussion of poison in its diverse facets.

Hussam will talk about how plants in a fascinating way use poison to defend themselves against pathogens and herbivores and how we humans try to deal with these poisonous defense mechanism to exploit the plants as crops.

The event takes place on 3 October 2018.

For further details, see https://snm.ku.dk/kalender/2018/vinvidenskab-efteraar/gift/