Globe Student Projects
The Globe Institute offers opportunities for Bachelor and Masters projects in a wide range of fields. If you are interested in any of the projects please contact the supervisor. Projects can also be found on the KU Project & Job website.
- 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)
- Identification of phage Anti-CRISPR 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)
- 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) - Tracking glacial tree refugia using fossil records (
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) - Consequences of extinctions of fruit-eating birds, mammals and reptiles in island communities (
with Julia Heinen and Michael Borregaard) - 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)
- 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)