Afdelingen for Miljøkemi og Mikrobiologi udbyder hvert år 1-2 ph.d. -kurser/summer schools. På denne side finder du information om aktuelle kurser, kurser der vil blive afholdt til næste år samt information og billeder fra et allerede afholdt kursus.

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Ph.d. kurser/summer schools 2010

Ph.d. kurser/summer schools 2011 - The registration is now open for "The Good, the Bad and Ugly Bacteria"

Ph.d. kurser/summer schools 2012  

Ph.d.-kurser/summer schools 2010

I sommeren 2010 afholdte MIMI ph.d kurset:

• Direct analytical methods for determining exposure and fate of organic chemicals in soils and sediments.

Et lignende kursus vil blive afholdt i 2012.

Billeder fra summer school'en 2010:

Ph.d.-kurser/summer schools 2011 

August 2011 (28/8 - 3/9)

PhD Summer School in Determination of priority pollutants, transformation products and transformation processes in the environment - 5 ECTS

The registration is now open:

Course registration

Flyer:
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Course description:

Priority compounds (e.g. endocrine disrupting compounds, pharmaceuticals, biocides) may be found are in various environmental compartments such as water, soil, air. Many environmental processes are accompanied with environmental transformation reactions. This means that not only is it necessary to look for the parent compounds but their transformation products may be equally important to analyse.

Typical transformations include: biodegradation or biotransformation, photo-oxidation, chemical transformation, hydrolysis, formation of bound residues. All these process may occur or be used in technical processes such as soil cleaning, waste water treatment etc.

Analysis of the priority compounds is not trivial, nor is a prediction of the transformation products and transformation reactions.

This PhD course will address:

How to determine the respective compounds (extraction procedures, clean ups, detection methods with hands-on experience).

Which transformation reactions to be expected and how to determine transformation products (set op of experiments, determination, identification, verification)

How to determine transformation reactions (reaction kinetics, what to learn from them)

Instrumental techniques, demonstrated and used for exercises.

The course will be a mixture of lectures and seminars in combination with laboratory experiments and exercises.

Please contact: Kai Bester, kb@dmu.dk tel.: 4630 1243 or prioritypollutantsPhDcourse2011@dmu

 The good, the bad and the ugly bacteria  

The registration is now open:
The course is cancelled due to too few participants.

• Flyer

  Course description:
  Research in microbiology has often focused on either the bad and the ugly or the good features of the microbes, i.e. their pathogenicity towards humans or their applicability by humans.

  Many facultative pathogenic bacteria have complex life-cycles which might include a saprophytic and surviving stages in the environment and pathogenic stages in humans and other animals. Bacterial groups containing facultative pathogens often consist of species or even strains which differ remarkable in their pathogenic potential. Given these bacteria´s long history of occurrence in and interactions with the environment, including interactions with invertebrates, it is likely that the environment has played an important role in shaping their evolution.

  The Bacillus cereus group, consisting of the species B. cereus, B. anthracis, B. weihenstephanensis, B. thuringiensis, B mycoides and B. pseudomycoides, is such a group of facultative pathogenic bacteria. The species range from the ugly very virulent B. anthracis, causing anthrax, via bad strains of B. cereus causing mild diarrhoea to good strains used as microbial pest control agents and probiotics. Further the group occurs numerously in the environment, where they also might have a role as saprophytes.

  The scope of this summer school is to present and discus the mutual lifecycles of facultative pathogens, their potential virulence and probable good features, and how this might have influenced their evolution. These presentations and discussions will notably be based on examples from the Bacillus cereus group. Further the participants will in practice be presented for a number of methods useful for investigations on these topics.

  Please contact: Niels Bohse Hendriksen, nbh@dmu.dk, tel.: 8715 8473 

  Ph.d.-kurser/summer schools 2012

  • The atmosphere as a bacterial habitat – implications on climate change and public safety

  Course description:
  Microbial life in air has received much attention recently, not only from the research community. Airborne bacteria can play a role in cloud formation and precipitation. They may also interfere with warning systems designed to protect the citizens from aggressive acts. Hence the growth, survival and spreading of microbes in air are being investigated worldwide. Some of this research requires new or unusual techniques, and a close collaboration between biologists, physicists and atmospheric modellers is necessary. This course will give students of these and other disciplines a hands-on insight into some of the research aspects of the new and exciting field, aero-microbiology.

  Kontaktperson: Ulrich Bay Gosewinkel, uka@dmu.dk, tel.: 8715 8617