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Jakob and Viktor have joined our SDU lab to work on different aspects of electrosynthesis to produce valuable chemicals from renewable biogas and renewable electricity. Jakob will do his bachelor thesis with Amelia’s supervision. His thesis deals with green bioplastic production and is incorporated within the framework of the project “Microbial Chemical Plants“. Viktor will do a 10ECTS independent lab study with Mon’s and Amelia’s supervision. His

Amelia will relocate to the University of Massachusetts Amherst for a 6 months period. Her stay at UMASS is supported by the Novo Nordisk Foundation. During this time, Amelia will learn how to metabolically engineer Clostridium ljungdahlii.  This stay is part of the project Microbial chemical plants.

I went to Leipzig to discuss a new collaborative project with my old collaborators (Niculina Musat, Hryhoriy Stryhanyuk, Florin Musat and Hans Richnow) and our new collaborator from MPI Bremen, Prof. Friedrich Widdel. Lots of exciting science was discussed, and we’re ready to learn more about corrosion by methanogens, together.

On the 8th of December, I participated in the poster session of the Lecturer Training Program at SDU. I presented the poster attached, which discusses how students could use spaced-repetition to learn biochemistry concepts. Poster LTP Amelia 2

I went to a course held by Donna Hurfort at SDU on Questioning and it’s impact on learning and teaching. This course concludes my Lecturer Training Program  training at SDU. Soon, I should be a certified University teacher – at least in the nordic countries where this certification is required. Here is a link to the course, if you’re interested to learn more