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Biodiversity and evolutionary biology
Our research on biodiversity and evolutionary biology includes studies within the fields of conservation biology/genetics, phylogenetics, biodiversity at different scales and within different taxa, and adaptation of organisms to the environment. We aim to understand how genetic and plastic mechanisms shape adaptation to natural and anthropogenic environmental change, how evolutionary processes shape population genomics, and interactions between animals, plants and pathogens, and the factors that impact on biodiversity at various scales. We use a wide range of approaches including population genomic and sequencing methodologies, experimental evolution, network analyses, and laboratory/greenhouse/field experiments and observations.
Main research topics
- Inbreeding and genetic drift in small populations
- Adaptation to variable and stressful environments
- Population genetics/genomics
- Genetic architecture of complex traits
- Biodiversity along environmental scales in the field
- Other field experiments aiming at understanding physiological mechanisms underlying ecological phenomena in response to environmental cues
- Species interactions on a macro-ecological scale.
Topics and methods that we work with:
- Molecular and Quantitative Genetics
- Network analysis
- Metabolome analysis
- Gene expression analysis
- Proteomics
- Population genetics
- Microbiomes
- Bioinformatics
- Photosynthesis and respiration
- Insect ecology and physiology
- Plant ecology and physiology
- Natural ecology/Macroecology
- Network biology
- Species distribution modelling
- Evolution
- Agriculture
- Biodiversity measures
- Botany
Vision
Biodiversity is vanishing at a rate unprecedented for millennia. We have the vision to document impacts of biotic and abiotic factors on organismal, population and ecosystem levels (global and local species extinction) and to provide solutions to the current biodiversity crisis.
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Applied supramolecual chemistry
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Chemical process engineering
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Functional genomics
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Environmental chemical engineering
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Environmental microbiology
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Medical biotechnology
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Environmental bioscience and biomonitoring
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Biodiversity and evolutionary biology
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Biorefineries
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Technological platforms
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Bioengineering
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Disordered materials
Contact
Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology
Torsten Nygaard Kristensen
Email: tnk@bio.aau.dk
Tel: +45 6146 3375
Adaptation to variable and stressful environments
Genetic architecture of complex traits
Biodiversity and nature management
Species interactions on a macro-ecological scale
Latest publications
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Facilities
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Collaborative partners
- Aage V Jensens Naturfond
- Aalborg Zoo
- Bioproduction (https://bioproduction.dk/)
- Randers regnskov
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People
Staff:
- Professor Cino Pertoldi
- Professor Torsten Nygård Kristensen
- Associate professor Majken Pagter
- Associate professor Dan Bruhn
- Associate professor Simon Bahrndorff
- Postdoc Michael Ørsted
- PhD student Natasja Krog Noer
- PhD Student Julie Strand
- PhD Student Line Holm Andersen
- Affiliated researcher Michael Paul Jensen
- Technician Helle Blendstrup
Master students:
- Andreas Havbro Faber (afaber15@student.aau.dk)
- Nanna Hornum Toft Kristensen (nhkr13@student.aau.dk)
- Laura Skrubbeltrang Hansen (lsha15@student.aau.dk)
- Alex Jørgensen (ajarg14@student.aau.dk)
- Simone Stidsborg (sstids14@student.aau.dk)
We are aligned with the following UN Sustainable Development Goals:
