July 2007
Headline News from the Board
New full name for RECETO, to signal the inclusion of biology and microbiology as important elements of the research school.
The acronym RECETO is kept, while the new full name of the research school is:
Research School of Environmental Chemistry, Microbiology, and Toxicology
- 13 new Ph.D. students have begun their work since the January newsletter. They are based at 4 different institutions (KU-LIFE, DTU-FOOD, DTU-E&R, and AU-NERI). Their names and links to descriptions of their project topics are given below.
- RECETO M. Sc. Scholarships – each 30.000 DKr - for the best M.Sc. students who are working on a thesis topic in environmental chemistry, microbiology, and toxicology with one or more of the research groups within RECETO - are now open for application. The purpose of the grant is to ensure that thesis work culminates in a fully developed paper that is submitted to a scientific journal. Applications for the scholarships can be submitted at any time. See details at www.receto.dk.
- RECETO Post-Doc grants with a duration of 3- 6 months can be applied for. The purpose of the grants is to strengthen collaborative research in the research groups within RECETO and to contribute to RECETO educational activities. There are two annual deadlines, August 1, 2007 and March 1, 2008. See details at www.receto.dk.
- RECETO travel grants for participating in Ph.D. courses abroad can be applied for at any time. See details at www.receto.dk.
- New organization for post-graduate education in Denmark. Danish Research Schools are facing new challenges as post-graduate training is reorganized as a consequence of changes to the Danish legislation about universities. Faculties are given the responsibility to organize post-graduate education within Ph.D. Schools – usually with one Ph.D. School per faculty. Irrespective of the new institutional landscapes, Ph.D. students and supervisors continue to have a strong need to network and share knowledge and experience across institutional borders. The RECETO board will make an effort to ensure that RECETO members can continue to collaborate and work at different faculties and institutions. Various initiatives will be taken in the autumn of 2007.
Next board meetings:
- August 10 at KU-NAT
- November 27 at Lund
Conferences and symposia in fields relevant to RECETO
- GESS + COCGI + RECETO EnviroSymp-2007 “Environmental Strategies & Solutions” will be held on November 5-6 at the Faculty of Life Science, University of Copenhagen. Three sessions have been organized: I) Sustainable Energy, II) Tools and Tricks to become a successful Ph.D. student, and iii) Communicate you science. Participation is free for Ph.D. students affiliated with the three research schools (GESS + COCGI + RECETO). A number of free seats are available for M.Sc. students from the research schools on a first come, first served basis. For more information and registration, see the envirosymp website, which will be released in August.
- Analysis of biological assays in Agriculture. Network: Statistics in Agriculture, August 11-17, 2007 – deadline June 25. See link .
- The Second IASTED International Conference on Water Resources Management - WRM 2007. Registration deadline: June 28, 2007. See link .
- Conference: ModelCARE 2007. Contact: Jens Christian Refsgaard ( ) or Heidi Christiansen Barlebo ( ). October 10-13, 2007, Copenhagen.
- Tenth International Symposium on Hyphenated Techniques in Chromatography and Hyphenated Chromatographic Analyzers & Tenth International Symposium on Advances in Extraction Techniques 2008. Submission of contributions deadline: June 30, 2007. Last submission of poster abstracts: December 1, 2007. See link .
- Thematic day on exposure evaluation, Tuesday, September 18,2007, Det Nationale Forskningscenter for Arbejdsmiljø, Copenhagen, in Danish. See link .
Upcoming Ph.D. Courses and other relevant courses
- RECETO Intensive Course: Representative sampling of solids. Characterization and analysis. A collaboration between the research schools Residual Resources Research, RECETO and ACABS research Group. August 27-31, 2007. See link . Deadline has passed, but you can always try for late registration.
- Environmental Soil Chemistry. Week 42 – 44, 2007, Department of Natural Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen. See link
- Coupled geochemical & transport modelling. August 6-10, 2007, Center for Technology and Learning Media (CTLM) room 129, at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado, USA. See link .
- Analysis of biological assays in Agriculture
Network: Statistics in Agriculture, August 11-17, 2007 – deadline June 25. See link
- PhD-Course: Marine Ecotoxicology - From Gene to Ocean, An NMA Advanced Course for PhD students - 3 ECTS. August 19 - 25, 2007, at Kristineberg Marine Research Station, Fiskebäckskil, Sweden. See link .
- COURSE: UCODE_2005 and PEST: Universal Inversion Codes for Automated Calibration. September 13-15, 2007, Geosciences Center, Copenhagen, Denmark. See link .
- RA-COURSES - Course in Receptor-mediated toxicity. October 22-26, 2007, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. Registration deadline is August 24, 2007. See link
- MSc and PhD-course: Bioinformatics for environmental scientists. 5-day course in Helsinki, January 7-11, 2008. Link not yet available. See SoilSoc Network website in September, or find mailing address on link .
- Tenth International Symposium on Hyphenated Techniques in Chromatography and Hyphenated Chromatographic Analyzers & Tenth International Symposium on Advances in Extraction Techniques 2008. Site Oud Sint-Jan, Bruges (Belgium), January 28 - February 1, 2008. See link .
Vacancies
- Post-Doc Researcher for a five years period (Coimbra, Portugal): Use of standard ecotoxicity tests and the development of ecologically relevant testing methodologies for assessing the environmental quality of estuarine ecosystems - Application deadline: 25th August – See link .
- Prospective PhD students to study in New Zealand: Funded by the New Zealand Government and administered by Education New Zealand, the New Zealand International Doctoral Research Scholarships provide funding for international students to study at New Zealand universities. Applications Deadline: 5pm on Monday the 16th of July (NZ Time). Additional information at link .
New Ph.D. students in RECETO
- Jesper Riis Christiansen, Cand. scient. University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Life Sciences, Forest & Landscape. Exchange of the greenhouse gasses N2O and CH4 from forest soils. Supervisor: Per Gundersen. Project description .
- Karin Jørgensen, M.Sc. (agro). University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Life Sciences, Department of Agricultural Sciences. Improved environmental impact of fibre fraction from separated animal slurry – Variability, composting and effects on crop nutrient supply and soil quality (FIBCOFERT). Supervisor: Lars Stoumann Jensen. Project description .
- Julie Katrine Jensen, Cand. Silv. University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Life Sciences, Department of Natural Sciences. Phytoremediation of contaminated soils. Supervisor: Peter E. Holm. Project description .
- Xenia Thorsager Trier, M.Sc. DTU - National Food Institute. The environment and food contact materials as sources of polyfluorinated contaminants in food. Supervisors: Kit Granby, Hans Christian Bruun Hansen, Jan Åke Jönsson. Project description .
- Ole Rüdiger Sjøholm, Cand.scient. University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Life Sciences, The Department of Ecology, Section of Genetics and Microbiology. Development of bacterial whole cell biosensors for the pesticide dichlobenil. Supervisor: Ole Nybroe. Project description .
- Allan Simonsen, Cand.scient. (Biology). GEUS, Department of Geochemistry. Mechanisms and adaptive processes underlying microbial degradation of ecological relevant contaminant concentrations. Supervisor: Jan Sørensen.S Project description .
- Mélanie Marie Paulin, Cand.scient. University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Life Sciences, The Department of Ecology, Section of Genetics and Microbiology. Regulation of degradation enzyme activity and gene expression in contaminant degrading soil microorganisms as affected by root exudate components. Supervisor: Jan Sørensen.
- Rikke Tjørnhøj, DTU, Environment & Resources. Water quality objectives for sulfonylurea herbicides: Detection and protection limits. Supervisor: Ole Kusk.
- Malene Søltoft, DTU - National Food Institute. Bioactive metabolites in crops, diets and human samples. Supervisor: Pia Knuthsen, John Nielsen. Project description .
- Anita Forslund. University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Life Sciences, Department of Veterinary Pathobiology. Survival and transport of pathogens in soil. Supervisor: Anders Dalsgaard.
- Annette Klæstrup Møller, Cand.scient. National Environmental Research Institute, Department of Environmental Chemistry and Microbiology. Bioaccumulation of Mercury in Arctic Food Webs. Supervisor: Niels Kroer. Project description
- Kristian Holst Laursen, Cand. Agro. University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Life Sciences, Department of Agricultural Sciences. OrgTrace - Content and bioavailability of essential trace elements and bioactive compounds in cereals and vegetables cultivated in four diverse organic agricultural systems. Supervisor: Søren Husted. Project description
- Vinni Mona Hansen, Cand.scient. National Research Centre for the Working Environment. Human eksponering for mikroorganismer i grønsagsproduktion. Supervisors: Jørgen Eilenberg, Nicolai Vitt Meyling, Annette Mette Madsen.
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