Bo Jensen

Current research

Basic issues in physiology regarding fungal life and product formation are investigated. Some of the themes are listed below:

• Fungal strategies of wood decomposition.
• Heat shock proteins and heat shock factors governing the regulation of the heat shock and the ability of thermophilic fungi to adapt to heat.
• Search for homologies between different thermophilic fungi. An approach to find the origin of thermophily at lest in fungi.
• Stress-induced correlations between growth and differentiation of filamentous fungi and their formation of enzymes and antibiotics.
• Factors governing product formation and improvement thereof.

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Born: 14 September 1948, married, 3 children.
Home address: Jespervej 20 Dk-3400 Hillerød, Denmark

Education
1988: Lic.scient. (PhD) in fungal physiology at University of Copenhagen (KU).
1984: Cand.scient (MSc) from KU.

Employment
1994-present: Associate Professor at Section for Evolution and Microbiology, KU
1990-1994: Assisstant Professor Department of General Microbiology, KU
1988-1990: Postdoc, Department of General Microbiology, KU
1985-1988: PhD scholarship from FTU hosted by Department of General Microbiology, KU.

Administrative and organisational skills
2008- Chairman for Danish Microbiological Society- part of FEMS.
2002- Censorship at the Technical educations in Denmark.
2001- Censorship at University of Aarhus
2000-2005 Chief Scientific Officer in the Biotech firm Culture Screening ApS
2000- Member of the Board of Danish Microbiological Society.

Teaching activities
Teacher at the courses: Almen mikrobiologi, Experimental microbiology, Microbial Biotechnology
Currently adviser for 1 PhD student, 1 master student and 1 bachelor student.
Graduated master students since 1999: 17

Scientific activities
Fungal degradation of organic compounds and regulation of product formation in microorganisms.
Member of the project group “Store Skibe”.