Globe student projects
Globe Institute offers opportunities for Bachelor and Masters students to become part of research projects within a wide range of fields at the institute. On this page you can find specific projects that are open for application.
If you are interested in a project, please apply through the KU Project and Job Portal. You can also contact the specific project supervisor for more information.
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You can find more student projects open for application at Globe Institute in the boxes below. If you are interested in any of these projects, please contact the supervisor for more information.
- How is DNA preserved in fossil corals? (with Karina Krarup Sand and Ana Prohaska)
- How do we best retrieve DNA preserved in fossils corals? (with Ana Prohaska and Karina Krarup Sand)
- Evolutionary ecology of three Arctic marine mammal species – the potential for investigating trophic interactions through time using ancient biomolecules (DNA and stable isotopes in seals and polar bears) (with Eline Lorentzen)
- Through the lenses of ancient DNA: Reconstructing the genomic history of Pacific salmon populations (with Ana Prohaska and J. Víctor Moreno Mayar)
- Impacts of past climate changes on tropical coral reefs: Ancient DNA insights (with Ana Prohaska)
- Genomics and conservation of endangered birds using historical and modern genomes (with Hernán E. Morales)
- Dragging DNA from Ivory and Worked Bone (with Matthew Collins)
- Ancient DNA and the evolution of the oral microbiome (with Hannes Schroeder)
- Identifying parasite DNA from metagenomic datasets (with Hannes Schroeder)
- Ancient environmental genomics (with Mikkel Winther Pedersen)
- Simulating the effect of demography on natural selection (with Shyam Gopalakrishnan)
- Sex determination of cremated archaeological human teeth (with Enrico Cappellini)
- Proteomic analysis of palaeosoils (with Enrico Cappellini)
- Palaeogenomics of lost populations of bowhead whales (with Eline Lorenzen)
- Palaeogenomics of llama and alpaca from Atacama desert (with Mick Westbury)
- Evolutionary relationships of extant and extinct brown bears (with Mick Westbury)
- Sociocultural inferences from ancient genomes using spatiotemporal simulation (with Fernando Racimo)
- Inferring the spatio-temporal distribution of polygenic traits in the past (with Fernando Racimo)
- An assessment of population genetic simulators (with Fernando Racimo)
- Haplogroup assignment from low-coverage sequencing data (with Thorfinn Korneliussen)
- Ancient environmental DNA and community composition (with Mikkel Winther Pedersen)
- Ancient malaria DNA (with Frederik Seersholm & Martin Sikora)
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Comparative genomics of the microbial unknown coding sequence space (with Antonio Fernandez Guerra)
- Phage discovery from modern and ancient metagenomic samples (with Thomas Sicheritz-Pontén)
- Machine learning based prediction of bacterial virus host ranges (with Thomas Sicheritz-Pontén)
- Bacteriophage protein function prediction (with Thomas Sicheritz-Pontén)
- Alphafold guided phage proteome comparisons (with Thomas Sicheritz-Pontén)
- Prediction of bacteriophage transcriptional take-over strategies (with Thomas Sicheritz-Pontén)
- Graph machine learning in genome space (with Thomas Sicheritz-Pontén)
- Functional annotations with Protein Language Models (with Thomas Sicheritz-Pontén)
- Large scale genome synteny analysis (with Thomas Sicheritz-Pontén)
- Identification of phage anti-defense proteins (with Thomas Sicheritz-Pontén)
- Lytic vs lysogenic lifestyle predictions (with Thomas Sicheritz-Pontén)
- Feature engineering for machine learning of microbial and viral genomes (with Thomas Sicheritz-Pontén)
- Comparative phylogeny of phages and their hosts (with Thomas Sicheritz-Pontén)
- Prediction of venom proteins from scorpion, snake, spider and snail NGS data (with Thomas Sicheritz-Pontén)
- Simulating ecological and evolutionary genomics dynamics in small populations (with Hernán E. Morales)
- Genomics and conservation of endangered birds using historical and modern genomes (with Hernán E. Morales)
- Biological diversity among coffee farms in a biological corridor in Vietnam (with Bo Dalsgaard and Aske Bosselmann)
- Island biogeography of extinct and extant frugivores of the Caribbean (with Bo Dalsgaard)
- Effects of disturbance on the pollination of endangered plants in the Anegada, Caribbean (with Bo Dalsgaard)
- Good shit and bad shit – biodiversity in dung in relation to grazing regimes (with Jacob Heilmann-Clausen)
- Tree regeneration patterns and biodiversity in the gradient from forest to open land (with Jacob Heilmann-Clausen)
- Effects of restored hydrology on biodiversity and habitat structure (with Jacob Heilmann-Clausen)
- Citizen science as tool in conservation biology (with Jacob Heilmann-Clausen)
- Conservation genomics of rare orchids in the fragmented Danish landscape (Ida Hartvig)
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Tracking glacial tree refugia using fossil records (
with Ana Prohaska) - Reconstructing past plant dynamics using ancient pollen DNA (
with Ana Prohaska) - Nectar feeding on Mauritius (
with Michael Krabbe Borregaard) - Preservation of DNA on mineral surfaces across time and space (
with Karina Krarup Sand) - Tracking vector-borne diseases with (e)DNA-methods (
with Anna-Sofie Stensgaard and Christina Islas Lynggaard) - Frugivory and nectar-feeding in the Caribbean (
with Bo Dalsgaard) - Apple pollination studies in Denmark (
with Bo Dalsgaard) - Machine learning in forensic analyses of Environmental DNA (
with Tobias Guldberg Frøslev). - Soil biodiversity patterns from Environmental DNA (
with Tobias Guldberg Frøslev) - Trait-evolution in macrofungi (
with Jacob Heilmann-Clausen) - Changes and patterns in fungal biodiversity in Denmark and Europe (
with Jacob Heilmann-Clausen) - Fungi and their ecological networks with plants and animals (
with Jacob Heilmann-Clausen) - Modeling fossil and sedimentary DNA records to reconstruct megafauna species distributions (
with Fernando Racimo)
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Investigating the interaction between the temperature, gut microbiota and animal behavior (
with Ostaizka Aizpurua) -
Fecal microbiome transplantation to induce behavioural changes in mice (
with Ostaizka Aizpurua) - Global spatial patterns of gut microbiome variability across vertebrates (
with Antton Alberdi). - Relationship between the gut microbiome and allometric features of vertebrates (
with Antton Alberdi) - Modeling gut microbiome variation across vertebrate phylogeny (
with Antton Alberdi) -
Recovering ancient microbes from the environment (
with Antonio Fernandez Guerra) - New methods for evaluating contamination in metagenome-assembled genomes (
with Antonio Fernandez Guerra) - Microbiome potential in wild plant species in relation to distribution (with Ida Hartvig)
- Wild orchids and their microbiomes (with Ida Hartvig)
- Carbon sequestration through the enhanced weathering of Greenlandic Glacial Rock Flour (with Christiana Dietzen)
- Atmospheric and oceanic O2 levels through Earth history (
with Tais Wittchen Dahl) - Dynamics of Paleozoic climate events and biotic crises (
with Tais Wittchen Dahl) - Prospects of Geoengineering as mitigation strategy to combat climate change (
with Tais Wittchen Dahl) - Preservation of ancient DNA in arctic marine sediments (
with Karina Krarup Sand) - Mineral facilitated evolution of life (
with Karina Krarup Sand) - Propagation of antibiotic resistance genes in the environment (
with Karina Krarup Sand)
- Absolute chronology of the first solar system solids (
with James Connelly) - Formation and evolution of planetary building blocks (
with Martin Bizzarro) - Probing the early habitability of Mars using the oldest planetary minerals (
with Martin Bizzarro) - Tracking magmatic processes on asteroids using isotopes (
with Martin Schiller) - Isotope fingerprinting of the Cretaceous-Tertiary impact event (
with Martin Schiller) - Using non-kinetic isotope effects to reconstruct paleo-environments on Earth (
with Martin Schiller) - Exploring Gale crater on Mars with the NASA Curiosity rover (
with Jens Frydenvang)