Jens Bo Andersen

CV

Curriculum vitae, Jens Bo Andersen:

PERSONAL: Born January 12^th 1965 in Copenhagen, Denmark, Danish citizen,

E-mail:  [email protected]

EMPLOYMENT:

 2015-        : Associate professor at Costerton Biofilm Center at the Department of International Health, Immunology and Microbiology, University of Copenhagen.

Project: Molecular mechanisms of cyclic-di-GMP mediated regulation of biofilm formation and biofilm dissolution in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

Identification and characterisation of novel small molecule compounds affecting c-di-GMP metabolism and biofilm formation/dissolution of Pseudomonas aeruginosa.                                     

2013-2015: Associate professor at Costerton Biofilm Center at the Department of International Health, Immunology and Microbiology, University of Copenhagen.

Project: Development of biofilm controlling chemistry to prevent biofilm formation or disperse primary biofilms in paper manufacturing machines

2012-2013: Associate professor at Costerton Biofilm Center at the Department of International Health, Immunology and Microbiology, University of Copenhagen.

Project: Molecular mechanisms of cyclic-di-GMP mediated regulation of biofilm formation and biofilm dissolution in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Establishment and implementation of High Through put Screening (HTS) of small molecule libraries for identification of compounds affecting c-di-GMP metabolism.

2011-2012: Molecular microbiologist at National Food Institute, DTU, Division for Microbiology and Risk Assessment, Technical University of Denmark.

Project: Influence of hypermutator subpopulations on the development of antibiotic resistance.

2008-2011: Molecular microbiologist at National Food Institute, DTU, Division for Microbiology and Risk Assessment, Technical University of Denmark.

Project: Prebiotic carbohydrates for prevention of infections by Listeria monocyte- genes and Salmonella typhimurium.

2004-2008: Molecular microbiologist at Department of Microbiological Food Safety, Danish Institute for Food and Veterinary Research.

Project: Influence of food environment on the infective potential of Listeria monocytogenes.

2002-2004: Associate professor at BioCentrum-DTU, Section for Molecular Microbiology, Technical University of Denmark.

                       Project 1: Bacterial signaling (quorum sensing) in relation to virulence of

                                       Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

                       Project 2: Bacterial signaling (quorum sensing) in relation to food spoilage.

1999-2002: Associate research professor at Department of Microbiology, Technical University of Denmark.

Project: Acyl-Homoserine Lactone mediated communication among bacteria exhibiting antagonism towards plant pathogenic micro fungi in the rhizhosphere.

1997-1999: Assistant research professor at Department of Microbiology, Technical University of Denmark.

Project: Development of GFP (Green Flourescent Protein) based reporter systems for detection of Acyl Homoserine Lactone mediated bacterial communication at the single cell level.

1996-1997: Research assistant at Department of Microbiology, Technical University of Denmark.

Project: Development of GFP (Green Flourescent Protein) based genetic tools for physiological studies of bacteria growing in multispecies biofilms.

1995-1996: Research assistant at GX Biosystems, Symbion, Fruebjergvej 3, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Project:  Establishment of BT insecticidal toxin production in Pseudomonas putida.

1992-1993: Military service at the Royal Danish Airforce, Eskadrille 542, Flyvestation Skalstrup, Denmark.

1991-1992: Research assistant at Department of Microbiology, Technical University of Denmark.

Project: Teaching at the courses ”Experimental biological chemistry”,  ”Experimental microbiology 1” and ”Genetics of industrial microorganisms”

1989-1991: Research assistant at Department of Microbiology, Technical University of Denmark.

Project: Development of genetic reportersystems for studies of Exoprotein secretion in Bacillus subtilis.

EDUCATION:

1989: Master of Science degree from the Technical University of Denmark (31.01.1989)

STAY ABROAD:

1999 at the School of Microbiology and Immunology, University of New South

Wales, Sidney, Australia, visiting the research group of professor Stefan Kjelleberg

(4 weeks).

COURSES: 

DTU’s Project Management Programme for Managers of Research Projects, held at

the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) in Lyngby, Denmark, Autumn of 2011,

arranged by Implement Consulting Group P/S (Denmark).

ABI 3130 Basic Sequencing and Fragment Analysis, held in Copenhagen, September

15-17, 2009, arranged by Applied Biosystems (Sweden).

Real Time Quantitative PCR Core Module, March 12-13, 2009 at the TATAA

Biocenter, Freising, Germany.

Advanced Microarray Data Analysis, January 13-14, 2009 at the J.Craig Venter Institute, Washington, USA

Introduction to Microarray Technology, September 21-24, 2008 at the J. Craig Venter

Institute, Washington, USA

Intenational Training Workshop on the use of GelCompar II and Bionumerics, held in

Copenhagen, February 21-22, 2006, arranged by Applied Maths BVBA (Belgium).  

3^rd Biosapiens Permanent European School in Bioinformatics, held in Madrid,

September 19-23, 2005, arranged by the Biosapiens Network (the VI Framework Program of the European Community).

LANGAUGES: Danish (native)

                           English (fluent)