News

2024.10.09

Congratulation Christos!

Christos Theodorou was successfully awarded the PhD degree.

2024.09.24

Congratulations LIne!

PhD defence by Line Lykke Hansen on 13 September 2024.

PhD defence

2024.07.02

Congratulations William!

In front of colleagues, family and friends, William Thomas Wajn successfully defended his PhD thesi…

PhD defence

2024.07.02

Congratulations Laura!

In front of colleagues and family, Laura Dethier successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled ‘Fro…

New position

2024.06.06

Jakob Skytte Thorsen - new PhD student!

PhD project on rapeseed cake as the novel food crop

New position

2024.05.06

Welcome to Ruochen - new PhD student!

New PhD student in Plant Microbe Interactions.

2024.02.01

Cover story in Nature Plants

DynaMo paper as cover story in Nature Plants

New Grant

2024.01.04

Deyang Xu receives new NNF grant

Project description: Rapeseed (Brassica napus) is the world’s third largest oilseed crop. The press…

New Grant

2023.12.13

Deyang receives Innoexplorer grant

New grant to explore rapeseed cake as a novel food

2023.12.06

Barbara keynote speaker at Planteværket

State of the union talk by Professor Barbara Ann Halkier

2023.06.27

Green Solution Centre pilot project grant

A pilot project under GSC living lab – “Our plant-based future”.

Breakthrough

2023.04.21

Scientists turn protein-rich waste product into plant-based food

Discovery of method to remove bitter compounds from protein-rich seeds - Nature publication

GRANT

2023.01.16

New NNF communication grant

Emma Aller and Niels Christian Sanden receives grant to build up novel communication platform

New position

2022.09.21

Welcome to Fangfei!

PhD in transportomics - Villum Investigator project

New position

2022.08.10

Shiwen Yang - new PhD student

Transporter identification and characterization

PhD Defence

2022.07.07

Congratulations Michal!

PhD in Engineering Escherichia coli towards production of plant specialized metabolites

PhD Defence

2021.12.22

Congratulations Niels Christian!

PhD in Systemic infrastructure in plants. From sieve elements to seed filling

New Position

2021.10.01

Welcome to Christos - new PhD student in metabolomics

Villum Investigator project

Grant

2021.04.19

Villum Investigator 2021

Barbara Ann Halkier awarded a Villum Investigator grant of 30 million DKK.

MSc Graduation

2021.04.08

Congratulations Noël!

MSc graduation in identification of the glucosinolate transporter complement

MSc Graduation

2020.12.08

Congratulations Mads Emil!

Mads Emil Larsen successfully defended his MSc thesis in Biology-Biotechnology

2020.11.23

Barbara Ann Halkier receives grant from NNF

3 mill. DKR for project on the commercial potential for production of health-promoting glucoraphani…

Grant

2020.06.15

Prestigious Distinguished Investigator grant

Barbara Ann Halkier receives Distinguished Investigator grant from Novo Nordisk Foundation

2020.04.17

Professor Barbara Ann Halkier writes chapter in book gift to H.M. the Queen

The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters celebrates H. M. the Queen's 80th birthday with a…

PhD Defence

2020.02.28

Congratulations Dora!

Dorottya Veres was awarded the PhD degree

Recognition

2019.06.25

Barbara Ann Halkier - new EMBO Member

Barbara Ann Halkier is elected as new Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization

Award

2019.05.22

SPPS innovation prize - Barbara Ann Halkier

DynaMo received the SPPS Plant Innovation Prize 2019 for the transport engineering technology - an…

Public Outreach

2018.10.09

Barbara Ann Halkier at Science and Cocktails

Head of DynaMo Center Professor Barbara Ann Halkier gives a talk at Science and Cocktails on…

2018.01.09

Barbara Ann Halkier in Reuters Video about new robust oil seed crop

‘Plant breeding offers golden future for rapeseed fields’

Nomination

2017.12.14

DynaMo research nominated Best Danish Research 2017

Vote at videnskab.dk for the new oilseed crop that can resist global warming

Grant

2017.11.24

Barbara Ann Halkier receives grant from the NNF

3 million DKK to develop and implement new synthetic biology tools

Translational biology

2017.04.01

Nature Biotechnology cover story by DynaMo researchers

The cover story of the April 2017 issue of Nature Biotechnology is written by DynaMo researchers in…

BREAKTHROUGH

2017.03.28

Mustard seeds without mustard flavor: new robust oilseed crop can resist global warming

University of Copenhagen and the global player Bayer CropScience have successfully developed a new…

Midterm evaluation

2016.12.21

DynaMo Center receives second funding period

Upon a very positive midway evaluation the DynaMo Center of Excellence, headed by Professor Barbara…

Publication

2016.06.01

Paper on transport of plant hormones published in Nature Communications

'The Arabidopsis NPF3 protein is a Gibberellin transporter'

Street level

2015.08.14

Barbara Ann Halkier on the fence of the new Niels Bohr Building

Large picture portraits of Barbara Ann Halkier and 14 other prominent researchers from the Faculty…

Video abstract

2015.08.03

DynaMo paper in Trends in Plant Science selected for video abstract

A video by Barbara Halkier, Hussam Nour-Eldin and Morten Egevang Jørgensen highlights the August…

GRANT

2015.06.26

Barbara Halkier partner in EU-funded project on fighting disease in oil seed rape crops

Together with partners in the UK, Holland, Germany and Poland, Head of DynaMo Professor Barbara Ann…

Blue Book

2015.06.02

Barbara Halkier listed in the Danish Who's Who (Kraks Blå Bog)

Among this year's 244 new entries, 12 are selected for special mention on the Who’s Who web portal …

Outreach

2015.04.07

Barbara Halkier and Hussam Nour-Eldin give public lecture at the Danish Festival of Research 'Forskningens Døgn'

On natural plant products at the Royal Danish Academy Friday 24 April 2015 (in Danish)

GRANT

2014.10.20

Barbara Halkier receives grant from Novo Nordic Foundation

2.7 mill kr to optimize microbial production of the health-promoting glucoraphanin

Publication

2014.09.17

DynaMo researchers publish model of leaf margin defence

New paper in Plant Physiology by Svend Roesen Madsen, Hussam Nour-Eldin and Barbara Ann Halkier

Outreach

2014.08.28

New video: Science Lecture by Barbara Ann Halkier

Plan(t)s for the future

Glucosinolates

2014.08.18

10 DynaMo members attend the Third International Glucosinolate Conference in Wageningen 12-15 October 2014

Barbara Halkier keynote speaker and Hussam Nour-Eldin invited speaker

RECOGNITION

2014.05.21

Barbara Ann Halkier new Member of the Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters

Head of DynaMo is appointed new member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters

2013.11.21

Photos from the Innovaton Award Ceremony

The Award Ceremony took place as part of the University's annual Commemoration Ceremony where also…

2013.11.14

5 DynaMo researchers receive UCPH Innovation Award

For groundbreaking research in plant biotechnology with high potential for environment and society

Publication

2013.09.02

Paper on long-distance transport in Plant Cell

Postdoc Tonni Grube Andersen and Associate Professor Hussam Nour-Eldin are shared first authors on …

Video

2013.05.15

Food for talk video: Barbara Halkier in dialog with Henrik Boserup

As one of six experts on plants and food production Head of DynaMo Barbara Ann Halkier was…

2013.03.12

Curiosity Pays Off

DynaMo in Danish National Research Foundation publication

2012.12.05

Best Danish Research Result 2012: Made edible

The Danish science portal Videnskab.dk has awarded Professor Barbara Halkier and her plant research…

2012.08.05

New technology eliminates plant toxins

Paper by DynaMo researchers in Nature