
Student projects
The Globe Institute currently offers the following projects for BSc and MSc students:
Ancient genomics and proteomics
- Haplogroup assignment from low-coverage sequencing data, find more details here (Supervisor: Thorfinn Sand Korneliussen)
- Dragging DNA from Ivory and Worked Bone (Supervisor: Matthew Collins)
- Ancient DNA and the evolution of the oral microbiome (Supervisor: Hannes Schroeder)
- Identifying parasite DNA from metagenomic datasets (Supervisor: Hannes Schroeder)
- Simulating the effect of demography on natural selection (Supervisor: Shyam Gopalakrishnan)
- Sex determination of cremated archaeological human teeth (Supervisor: Enrico Cappellini)
- Proteomic analysis of palaeosoils (Supervisor: Enrico Cappellini)
- Proteomic analysis of airborne protein residues (Supervisor: Enrico Cappellini)
- Palaeogenomics of lost populations of bowhead whales (Supervisors: Eline Lorenzen)
Computational Biodiscovery
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Comparative genomics of the microbial unknown coding sequence space (Supervisor: Antonio Fernandez Guerra)
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Biosynthetic Gene Clusters in the unknown coding sequence space (Supervisor: Antonio Fernandez Guerra)
- Phage discovery from modern and ancient metagenomic samples (Supervisor: Thomas Sicheritz-Pontén)
- Machine learning based prediction of bacterial virus host ranges (Supervisor: Thomas Sicheritz-Pontén)
- Bacteriophage protein function prediction (Supervisor: Thomas Sicheritz-Pontén)
- Identification of phage Anti-CRISPR proteins (Supervisor: Thomas Sicheritz-Pontén)
- Lytic vs lysogenic lifestyle predictions (Supervisor: Thomas Sicheritz-Pontén)
- Feature engineering for machine learning of microbial and viral genomes (Supervisor: Thomas Sicheritz-Pontén)
- Comparative phylogeny of phages and their hosts (Supervisor: Thomas Sicheritz-Pontén)
- Prediction of venom proteins from scorpion, snake, spider and snail NGS data (Supervisor: Thomas Sicheritz-Pontén)
Macroecology and Environmental DNA
- Ancient environmental DNA from sediments (Supervisor: Mikkel Winther Pedersen)
- Nectar feeding on Mauritius (Supervisor: Michael Krabbe Borregaard)
- Preservation of DNA on mineral surfaces across time and space (Supervisor: Karina Karup Sand)
- Tracking vector-borne diseases with (e)DNA-methods (Supervisors: Anna-Sofie Stensgaard and Christina Islas Lynggaard)
- Island biogeography of extinct and extant frugivores of the Caribbean (Supervisor: Bo Dalsgaard)
- Frugivory and nectar-feeding in the Caribbean (Supervisor: Bo Dalsgaard)
- Effects of disturbance on the pollination of endangered plants in the Anegada, Caribbean (Supervisor: Bo Dalsgaard)
- Apple pollination studies in Denmark (Supervisor: Bo Dalsgaard)
- Consequences of extinctions of fruit-eating birds, mammals and reptiles in island communities worldwide (supervisors: Julia Heinen and Michael Borregaard)
- Machine learning in forensic analyses of Environmental DNA (Supervisor: Tobias Guldberg Frøslev).
- Soil biodiversity patterns from Environmental DNA. (Supervisor: Tobias Guldberg Frøslev).
Sources of variatibility in biodiversity assessment with environmental DNA. (Supervisor: Tobias Guldberg Frøslev). How many species? Estimating total biodiversity of rarely studies groups. (Supervisor: Tobias Guldberg Frøslev). Man vs machine: Validating/comparing biodiversity patterns from environmental DNA with other methods. (Supervisor: Tobias Guldberg Frøslev).
Hologenomics and microbial metagenomics
- Investigating the interaction between the temperature, gut microbiota and animal behaviour (Supervisor: Ostaizka Aizpurua)
- Fecal microbiome transplantation to induce behavioural changes in mice (Supervisor: Ostaizka Aizpurua)
- Global spatial patterns of gut microbiome variability across vertebrates (Supervisor: Antton Alberdi).
- Relationship between the gut microbiome and allometric features of vertebrates (Supervisor: Antton Alberdi)
- Modeling gut microbiome variation across vertebrate phylogeny (Supervisor: Antton Alberdi)
- Recovering ancient microbes from the environment (Supervisor: Antonio Fernandez Guerra)
- New methods for evaluating contamination in metagenome-assembled genomes (Supervisor: Antonio Fernandez Guerra)
Earth System Sciences
- Atmospheric and oceanic O2 levels through Earth history (Supervisor: Tais Wittchen Dahl)
- Dynamics of Paleozoic climate events and biotic crises (Supervisor: Tais Wittchen Dahl)
- Prospects of Geoengineering as mitigation strategy to combat climate change (Supervisor: Tais Wittchen Dahl)
- Preservation of ancient DNA in arctic marine sediments (Supervisor: Karina Karup Sand)
- Mineral facilitated evolution of life (Supervisor: Karina Karup Sand)
- Propagation of antibiotic resistance genes in the environment (Supervisor: Karina Karup Sand)
Solar System evolution
- Absolute chronology of the first solar system solids (Supervisor: James Connelly)
- Formation and evolution of planetary building blocks (Supervisor: Martin Bizzarro)
- Probing the early habitability of Mars using the oldest planetary minerals (Supervisor: Martin Bizzarro)
- Tracking magmatic processes on asteroids using isotopes (Supervisor: Martin Schiller)
- Isotope fingerprinting of the Cretaceous-Tertiary impact event (Supervisor: Martin Schiller)
- Using non-kinetic isotope effects to reconstruct paleo-environments on Earth (Supervisor: Martin Schiller)
- Exploring Gale crater on Mars with the NASA Curiosity rover (Supervisor: Jens Frydenvang)
If you are interested in any of the projects please contact the supervisor directly.