Københavns Universitets Videoportal

Microbes to help crops survive climate change

Thu, 01 Feb 2024 14:17:11 GMT

Hear how Associate Professor Christopher James Barnes aims to use a hologenomic approach to make plants e.g. crops like barley and their microbes better at surviving droughts and climate change.

CAN SALMON PICK ITS OWN GUT MICROBIOTA.mp4

Wed, 26 Apr 2023 12:25:06 GMT

A new study by Rasmussen et al. 2023 in ISME finds that wild Atlantic salmon has an unique and surprisingly stable microbiota.

New advanced technologies: Gut-on-a-chip and organoids research

Wed, 05 Apr 2023 13:03:03 GMT

In this explainer video you meet Assistant Professor Ostaizka Aizpurua and Associate Professor Sandra Breum Andersen as they explain their exciting research at Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics. Both researchers use new exciting technologies: Gut-on-a-chip and organoids respectively to answer their interesting questions within hologenomics.

What is the 3D'omics project?

Thu, 15 Dec 2022 13:36:20 GMT

In this first explainer video, we introduce the 3D'omics EU H2020 project at Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics as well as the projects aims.

Podcast: Illustrating the microbiome.mp4

Thu, 15 Dec 2022 13:21:22 GMT

In this episode of the Evolutionary Hologenomics Podcast, we chat with Daphne Perlman from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel about her research work in microbiology, as well as scientific illustration and data visualisation.

Halloween special spooky microbes.mp4

Wed, 09 Nov 2022 13:04:32 GMT

October is Halloween month, so we did a special spooky episode with Professor Rob Dunn from North Carolina State University!

Microbes are everywhere and they are an indivisible part of us, influencing from our health, to the way we smell to even our behaviour. There are around 200 000 species of microbes in your house! Cleaning your house too much actually results in selecting for the 2% that are the bad ones. So...Since microbes are here to stay and are an integral part of us, we need to make peace with that and start acknowledging them as such. Have you tried talking to the microbes in your belly button?
Scary can take many forms, so here is a scary ending note: one of the microbes historically commonly found in breast milk and the gut of babies is becoming rarer and rarer and we don’t know why.

Microbiome Inception Video Abstract, Jaelle Brealey.mp4

Thu, 12 May 2022 13:22:13 GMT

Video abstract for the Microbiome 'Inception' paper by Jaelle Brealey (NTNU) and Morten Limborg (CEH)

Evolutionary Hologenomics Podcast ep5: Journal club_ food additives, gut...

Fri, 22 Apr 2022 15:14:29 GMT

In this episode, we chat with PhD student Jacob Agerbo Rasmussen about his research in salmonids and their microbiome. Since Jacob had two papers published recently, we decided to switch up the format of the podcast a bit and make it like a journal club.
We start by introducing the structure of a scientific research paper, and then dive into Jacob’s papers, which focus on the effect of food additives (probiotics and synbiotics) on the gut microbiome of rainbow trout and how that affects either health or disease.

Evolutionary Hologenomics Podcast episode 4 - Salmon and tapeworm...

Fri, 22 Apr 2022 15:04:17 GMT

In this episode, we chat with guest researcher and postdoc at NTNU Jaelle Brealey about salmon microbiome and macrobiome. We discuss salmon health and zoom in and out of different compartments to see what bacteria are in the salmon gut, as well as in tapeworms that live in the salmon. Think Matryoshka dolls! Yes, tapeworms don’t have an intestine but they have their own microbiome! Now that the can of worms is open, we have the foundation to answer many other questions that are important for both basic science, as well as applied science, especially related to health.

Evolutionary Hologenomics Podcast episode 3 - Marsupials and pouch...

Fri, 22 Apr 2022 14:49:57 GMT

In this episode, we chat with postdoc Raphael Eisenhofer about all things marsupial! From evolution, to the joys of field work to some pretty cool molecular biology research on pouch microbiome. Raphael has been doing this amazing work for the past two years and now he joins CEH to work on Convergence Hologenomics.

MICROBES – Metabolic science on display in the 'The World is in You'

Wed, 08 Dec 2021 09:21:56 GMT

Learn how CBMR's science ended up on display at 'The World is in You' – a major exhibition at Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen.

In this video, CBMR Associate Professor Mani Arumugam discusses how his research into the microbiome and its role in metabolic health and disease was integrated into the exhibition.

With him is Associate Professor Adam Bencard from the Medical Museion, one of the four curators of the exhibition, which examines the many ways that people and the planet are connected.

The Medical Museion is a museum of medical history and also, like CBMR, part of the University of Copenhagen. While they are home to a historic collection of medical objects and put on exhibitions, they also carry out research. Some of this research takes place within CBMR, under the research programme Metabolic Science in Culture.

This is a unique collaboration whose goal is situate metabolic science in cultural, historical, and philosophical context through humanities and science communication research, which in turn informs innovative public engagement practices.

FindingPheno develops new tools to disentangle biological interactions...

Mon, 08 Feb 2021 09:45:11 GMT

The FindingPheno project will improve how we understand and utilise the functions provided by microbiomes in combating human diseases as well as the way we produce sustainable food for future generations. This newly funded EU Research and Innovation Action awarded to Assoc Prof Shyam Gopalakrishnan and Assoc Prof Morten Limborg, both from Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics and colleagues across Europe, will start on the 1st of March and be placed within the Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics. In this video Coordinator and Assoc Prof Shyam Gopalakrishnan explains about the project

Meet the Researchers - Postdoc Aoife tells about her involvement in the Earth...

Tue, 12 Jan 2021 09:02:00 GMT

Meet the Researchers - Postdoc Aoife explains about her interesting research in hologenomics which is part of the Earth Hologenome Initiative and the Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics.

A hologenomic approach to sustainable food production

Tue, 22 Sep 2020 13:59:11 GMT

This animated video explains the Holofood EU project at Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics and how we use the hologenomic approach to create a more sustainable food production for future generations. The animation is produced by the Holofood EU project and Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics together with the production company Madeclear.