Dennis Sandris Nielsen

Dennis Sandris Nielsen

Professor with special responsibilities

  • Microbiology and Fermentation

    Fødevarebygningen, Building: 85-4-H434

    1958 Frederiksberg C

    Phone: +45 35 33 32 87Mobile: +45 51 33 03 62
ORCID: 0000-0001-8121-1114

Primary fields of research

  • Microbial behavior in complex environments.
  • The association between the mammalian gut microbiome (GM), health and disease and how GM is influenced by diet, pre- and probiotics (in vivo and in vitro).
  • The role of bacteriophages in the gastrointestinal tract
  • Targeted interventions to manipulate the gut microbiome (bacteriophages etc.)
  • Fermented Foods (cocoa, wine, coffee, indigenous fermented foods, fermentation as flavour enhancer, fermentation as a tool to improve nutritional value)
  • Rapid methods for culture-dependent and culture-independent (qPCR, high throughput sequencing) characterisation of complex microbiological communities.
  • Coupling of bioinformatic and chemical/spectroscopic data using multivariate data analysis.

Teaching

  • Responsible for the course ”Basal Cell and Molecular Biology” (BSc-level)
  • Co-responsible for the courses ’’Cool Climate Viticulture and Enology” og ”Applied ’Cool Climate Viticulture and Enology” (MSc-level).
  • Lecturer on several microbiology B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. courses.
  • Supervisor and co-supervisor on numerous B.Sc. and M.Sc. projects. Main supervisor of 10+ PhD-students 

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