Newsletter February 2022

Newsletter February 2022

Lagt online: 28.02.2022

A sneak peak in the Departments lab facilities on the ground floor. During the past two weeks no less than 30 marine mammals, including guinea pigs, harbor seals and gray seals have been autopsied by our veterinarians, biologists and laboratory technicians. The autopsies are part of “Faldvildtordningen and Havpattedyrberedskabet” who among others monitor the health status of stranded marine mammals. As can be seen from the picture, we unfortunately see both seals and guinea pigs, which die as a result of bycatch.

IN THIS MONTH'S NEWSLETTER YOU CAN READ ABOUT:

  • Strategic grant prioritization of the Faculty
  • One-day conference for young researchers
  • Temporary worker in the secretariat
  • New HR employee in the secretariat
  • New publishing agreement with Wiley
  • Your advantages as member of Danish Life Science Cluster
  • Information about construction work related to +bus
  • Meeting schedule of the Department committees
  • The Department researchers and students in the media
  • Useful links
  • Future events
  • HR news
  • Peer-reviewed articles 

Strategic grant prioritization of the Faculty 

The Deans have prioritized a number of strategic grants in 2022 - please see list below. Applications must be submitted by the Head of Department. For each grant, the deans have decided on a funding maximum per. application, and at the same time co-financing is requirred between 15 and 50%. As a rule, the grants must be used in 2022, under special circumstances the time frame can be postponed. The ambition is to find and clarify possible projects during the first quarter of 2022. Please ask for templates in the economy team. The Department requires that the co-financing must be `in kind ', ie. the co-financing must be at a cost that is included in the budget. Please contact Casper or Anders in the secretariat, if you have any further questions about the procedures. 

Link to AAU research innovation PoC.

Temporary worker IN THE SECRETARIAT

Please give a warm welcome to Anne Ditte Larsen who is employed as temporary worker in the secretariat in the period of 01.03.2022-31.05.2022. Anne lives in Nørresundby and has previously worked at Aalborg University as academic employee within support and secretarial services. For the past seven years, Anne has also worked with secretarial services and PA related tasks. At the department, Anne will handle the below mentioned tasks which currently belong to the department secretary and PA role.

Department SECRETARY

  • Point of Contact for internal and external inquiries
  • Administration of contact@bio.aau.dk
  • Secretariat and management service of various committees, including the Liaison Committee and the Department Committee
  • Support to international staff and guests

PA FOR Department Head

SUPPORT Function related to STUDY TASKS IN COLLABORATION WITH THE STUDY TEAM

Anne replaces Annemarie Davidsen, who is resigning from her position at the department. Please contact Anne via the following telephone number 9940 3605 and/or by email annedl@bio.aau.dk

NEW HR EMPLOYEE IN THE SECRETARIAT

For a long period of time, we have experienced an increase in employments, including short-term employments, extensions, etc. and at the same time we find it necessary to place all HR-related tasks in one single function. It is therefore with great pleasure that we can now announce that on 01.04.2022 Kathrine Nielsen will take on the position as HR employee in the secretariat. Kathrine has a master's degree in Political Science from Aarhus University and comes from a position at Aarhus University, where she is responsible for all tasks related to PHDs. Prior to that, Kathrine has been employed as Academic employee and PA at Aarhus Municipality and has gained extensive experience with management support.

KATHRINE will BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS AND TASKS:

  • All operational and HR tasks, including employment, resignations, daily operations, etc.
  • Reception of new employees as well as assistance to international employees, guest researchers and PhD students getting setted in Denmark
  • Signing up external consultants
  • Preparation and updating of onboarding material 
  • Mail and mailing lists
  • Registration and updating of secondary employment

In recent years, we have had an agreement with the central HR Department, Hanne Skovrider, who have been responsible for our HR tasks. This agreement will terminate by the end of June 2022 and until then Hanne will still assist with all tasks related to HR and help onboard Kathrine. Please give her a warm welcome. 

One-day conference for young researchers

All PhD students, postdocs, and research assistants at Department of Chemistry and Bioscience are invited to a one-day event on May 20th in Aarhus. The event includes transportation, food, and an exciting programme covering something to learn, something to compeed in, something to solve, and something to discuss. Registration emails will come out within a week – if you do not receive the email, please get in touch with the organizing committee - thank you! (Stine Frey Laursen, Trine Aalborg, Helene Halkjær Jensen, Peter Grouleff Jensen, Nikos Montesantos).

NEW PUBLISHING AGREEMENT WITH WILEY

The Danish universities have once again entered into a major publishing agreement, which will ensure increased access to Danish research. This time, the agreement is with the publishing giant Wiley for the period of 2022-2025. The publishing agreement ensures that researchers from Danish universities can publish free and immediate Open Access (OA) in Wiley's 1360 hybrid journals, when they are corresponding authors on an article. Normally, hybrid journals have articles that can be published for free and for a fee. In addition, the Universities still have full reading access to the Wiley Journal Collection.This agreement is an important step to achieve the goal of the Danish National Open Access Strategy, which aims at 100% Open Access to research articles from the Danish universities in 2025.

Your advantages as member of Danish Life Science Cluster

The Danish Life Science Cluster works to translate the unique Danish research and knowledge within life science and welfare technology into new and better commercial solutions for the benefit of companies, healthcare, municipalities and citizens throughout Denmark. As a member of the Danish Life Science Cluster, we at AAU have access to a number of membership benefits. Among other things, you have the opportunity to participate in a number of different events - both in your local area and nationally. By clicking on events on our webpage, you can see which special membership benefits apply to you. You also have the opportunity to participate in several networks for free, including green conversion, internationalization, artificial intelligence, mobile robots, etc. Read more about the Danish Life Science Cluster here

Information about construction work related to +bus

In collaboration with the university hospital Aalborg University supports urban development. +Bus help develop public transport and bicycles tracks. This leaves more room for creating urban green spaces instead of car parking. +Bus and better routes for cyclists are crucial for Gigantium, UCN, Aalborg University and Aalborg University Hospital. +Bus will be a direct link to the city center and the rest of North Jutland, and an alternative means of transport and the highway.

POSSIBLE SIDE EFFECTS:

  • Periodic interruptions in electricity, water and heating supply
  • Dust and noise
  • Vibrations
  • Blocked access and escape routes to the buildings

If changes in operating conditions AAU Facility Support will inform you. 

  • Busses will be affected.
  • Bertil Ohlins Vej will be closed by 1 March 2022 - 1 December 2022.
  • You will find signs with detours during this period.
  • On campus, the road is widened so that two buses can pass each other.
  • Traffic lights will be established at Frederiks Bajers Vej and Selma Lagerløfs Vej.

Stage 10.2.

Stage 10.2. The new bus route extends from Bertil Ohlins Vej / Fredrik Bajers Vej and all the way to Bertil Ohlins Vej / Selma Lagerlöfs Vej.

Below markings show the transition that pedestrians and cyclists can use during the period when road work is in progress.

Meeting schedule for the Department committees

Being involved in the governing bodies at Aalborg University is one way to increase your influence and support the positive development of the university. We would like to encourage everybody to participate in this process. Therefore, in the future, an updated meeting schedule for each Department committee will be included in the newsletter, so that you know in good time when the meetings are scheduled. Please note that the agenda is prepared well in advance of the meetings, which is why any subject for the agenda should be submitted to the committee's representatives no later than one month before the date of the meeting. You will find the representatives of the committees here.

Liaison Committee

  • 22 March 2022
  • 24 May 2022
  • 27 October 2022
  • 14 December 2022

Department committee

  • 16 March 2022
  • 25 May 2022
  • 12 October 2022
  • 13 December 2022

Safety committee

  • TBA

Study board

  • 26 January 2022
  • 2 marts 2022
  • 6 april 2022
  • 27 april 2022
  • 24 maj 2022
  • 22 juni 2022
  • 24 august 2022
  • 28 september 2022
  • 25 oktober 2022
  • 23 november 2022
  • 14 december 2022

THE DEPARTMENT RESEARCHERS AND STUDENTS IN THE MEDIA

seful links

FUTURE EVENTS​​​​​​​​

If you want to stay updated on events and guest lectures organized by the Department, please visit the Department web for more information. If you plan to host or coordinate an activity yourself, please forward the information to Camilla (cakr@bio.aau.dk) or Line Christensen (lch@bio.aau.dk) who will provide the relevant information on the web. 

HR NEWS

New employments

Research assistant:

  • Tobias Bruun Pedersen, 1.4.2022 (Chemistry, Esbjerg)
  • Amalie Berg, 15.3.2022 (Biotechnology)

POSTDOC:

  • Virender Kumar, 1.5.2022 (Biotechnology)
  • Cristina Cvitanich, 1.3.2022 (Chemistry)

AC-FULDMÆGTIG:

  • Anne Ditte Larsen, 1.3.2022 (Sekretariatet)

HR-MEDARBEJDER:

  • Kathrine Nielsen, 1.4.2022 (Sekretariatet)

Resignations:

  • Palle Duun Rohde, 28.2.2022 (Biotechnology)
  • Miriam Peces Gomez, 31.3.2022 (Biotechnology)
  • Sofie Albrekt Hansen, 31.3.2022 (Laboratory Technician)
  • Camilla Kristensen, 31.3.2022 (Sekretariat)
  • Annemarie Davidsen, 31.3.2022 (Sekretariat)

Peer-reviewed ARTICLES

New peer review articles registered in Pure 28.01.2022 - 28.02.2022

Boffa, V., Fabbri, D., Calza, P., Revelli, D., & Christensen, P. V. (2022). Potential of nanofiltration technology in recirculating aquaculture systems in a context of circular economy. Chemical Engineering Journal Advances, 10, [100269]. 

Macêdo, W. V., Poulsen, J. S., de Oliveira, G. H. D., Nielsen, J. L., & Zaiat, M. (2022). Tetrabromobisphenol A (TBBPA) biodegradation in acidogenic systems: One step further on where and who. Science of the Total Environment, 808, 152016. [152016]. 

Genene, Z., Lee, J. W., Lee, S. W., Chen, Q., Tan, Z., Abdulahi, B. A., Yu, D., Kim, T. S., Kim, B. J., & Wang, E. (2022). Polymer Acceptors with Flexible Spacers Afford Efficient and Mechanically Robust All-Polymer Solar Cells. Advanced Materials, 34(6). 

Sørensen, T., Petersen, C., Fechete, L. I., Nielsen, K. L., & Sondergaard, T. E. (2022). A Highly Contiguous Genome Assembly of Arthrinium puccinoides. Genome Biology and Evolution. 

de Jonge, N., Poulsen, J. S., Vechi, N. T., Kofoed, M. V. W., & Nielsen, J. L. (2022). Wood-Ljungdahl pathway utilisation during in situ H2 biomethanation. Science of the Total Environment, 806(Pt 3), 151254. [151254]. 

Boinot, M., Karakas, E., Koehl, K., Pagter, M., & Zuther, E. (2022). Cold stress and freezing tolerance negatively affect the fitness of Arabidopsis thaliana accessions under field and controlled conditions. Planta, 255(2), [39]. 

McDevitt, A. D., Coscia, I., Browett, S. S., Ruiz-González, A., Statham, M. J., Ruczyńska, I., Roberts, L., Stojak, J., Frantz, A. C., Norén, K., Ågren, E. O., Learmount, J., Basto, M., Fernandes, C., Stuart, P., Tosh, D. G., Sindicic, M., Andreanszky, T., Isomursu, M., ... Wójcik, J. M. (2022). Next-generation phylogeography resolves post-glacial colonization patterns in a widespread carnivore, the red fox (Vulpes vulpes), in Europe. Molecular Ecology, 31(3), 994-1006. 

Melis, C., Pertoldi, C., Ludington, W. B., Beuchat, C., Qvigstad, G., & Stronen, A. V. (2022). Genetic Rescue of the Highly Inbred Norwegian Lundehund. genes, 13(1), [163]. 

Lomwongsopon, P., & Varrone, C. (2022). Contribution of Fermentation Technology to Building Blocks for Renewable Plastics. Fermentation, 8(2)(47).

Ferreira, A. R., Breinholt, L., Kaarsholm, K. M. S., Sanchez, D. F., Chhetri, R. K., Muff, J., & Andersen, H. R. (2022). Feasibility study on produced water oxidation as a pretreatment at offshore platform. Process Safety and Environmental Protection, 160, 255-264. 

Lukassen, M. B., Menanteau-Ledouble, S., de Jonge, N., Schram, E., & Nielsen, J. L. (2022). Impact of water quality parameters on geosmin levels and geosmin producers in European recirculating aquaculture systems. Journal of Applied Microbiology, 132(3), 2475-2487. 

Østergaard, M. B., Strunck, A., Boffa, V., & Jørgensen, M. K. (2022). Kinetics of Strontium Carbonate Formation on a Ce-Doped SrFeO3 Perovskite. Catalysts, 12(3), 265. 

Zheng, J., Wang, S., Varrone, C., Zhou, A., Kong, X., Li, H., Yu, L., & Yue, X. (2022). Mechanism, electrochemistry and biotoxicity analysis of the biodegradation of sulfadiazine on Nickel(Ⅱ)/Manganese(Ⅱ)-modified graphite felt bioanode. Environmental Research, 210(112928), [112928]. 

He, J. Y., Peng, X., Liang, P. P., Xiang, W., Li, D., Xie, J. L., Wu, L., Yu, D., & Cao, Z. (2022). Platinum Nanoparticles and Carbon Nanopolymer Composite as Sensor for Highly Sensitive Determination of Salbutamol in Pork Meat and Pork Liver. International Journal of Electrochemical Science, 17, [220217]. 

Duan, T., Chen, Q., Yang, Q., Hu, D., Cai, G., Lu, X., Lv, J., Song, H., Zhong, C., Liu, F., Yu, D., & Lu, S. (2022). Simple thiazole-centered oligothiophene donor enables 15.4% efficiency all small molecule organic solar cells. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 10, 3009-3017.

Alex Kibangou, V., Lilly, M., Busani Mpofu, A., de Jonge, N., Oyekola, O. O., & Jean Welz, P. (2022). Sulfate-reducing and methanogenic microbial community responses during anaerobic digestion of tannery effluent. Bioresource Technology, 347(1), [126308].