2023

DECEMBER

Andy joined the group as a shared PhD student with the Rogers Lab. Andy will work on ASICs.
We were awarded a Carlsberg Infrastructure grant.
This will enable us to purchase a FIDA system for biophysical characterization of proteins.

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NOVEMBER

Esther joined the lab as an industrial PhD student with the Rogers Lab and Gubra.

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OCTOBER

Lucas joined the group as a PhD student. Lucas will work on taste receptors.

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SEPTEMBER

We were awarded a departmental grant together with Singe Torekov!
This will allow us to embark on a novel collaboration with the Torekov group.

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AUGUST

Two new students started their MSc projects in the Autzen Group.
Boqi will work on pharmacological characterization of taste receptors.
Jan will work on biochemical and biophysical characterization of NHEs.

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JULY

We were recently awared an Innoexplorer Grant!
This will enable us to take our very latest invented polymer to production.

As we are getting ready for our summer break, we had a lovely Autzen Group summer party.
We started the day with presentations of different methods used in the lab and then did a tresure hunt at the Citadel.
We finished the day with a picnic and delicious Indian food.

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JUNE

Our BSc students Caroline, Emma, Frederik and Maia all passed their BSc projects -
Congrats to all four of them!

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MAY

We have moved and we absolutely dig our new neighbourhood.

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APRIL

The lab is taking in students for the academic year 2023/2024
Contact Henriette if you are interested in joining the team.

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MARCH

The Autzen lab is moving to Department of Biomedical Sciences at UCPH
Come May, the entire team is continuing their research at BMI where Henriette will become tenured Associate Professor.
We are all grateful for the experiences we had at Department of Biology,
but thrilled to start this new chapter.

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FEBRUARY

Four new students started their BSc projects in the Autzen lab
Frederik and Maia will work on pharmacological characterization of taste receptors.
Emma and Caroline will work on biochemical and biophysical characterization of NHEs and cASIC1.

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JANUARY

The cryo-EM supergroup at UCPH is live
We now have monthly meetings with the labs of Azadeh Shahsavar and Thomas Miller
to learn about and discuss methods and research within cryo-EM.
Sigrid started as a research assistant in the Autzen lab
Sigrid will be optimizing BRET assays for bitter receptors

2022

DECEMBER
The holiday spirits have filled the Autzen lab and
we entered a photo in the BMS photo competition for the first time

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NOVEMBER
Postdoc Lukas P Feilen joined the lab!
Lukas will work on Na+/H+ exchangers.
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Congrats Sigrid
who handed in and defended her MSc thesis entitled
”Structural and Functional Characterization of the Human Bitter Receptor T2R38”

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OCTOBER
PhD student Ciara F. Pugh joined the lab!
Ciara will work on developing the native nanodisc technology.

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SEPTEMBER
We are looking for a PhD student to join our team working on taste receptors.
Read more about the position and apply here →

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AUGUST
The lab is back from the holidays, ready for the academic year 2022/2023!

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JULY
The lab has been expanded with a couple of new benches and new assays.
Stay tuned!

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JUNE
We hosted the first open house in the Section for Biomolecular Sciences
where students at BIO dropped by to visit our labs and hear more about our research.
The Autzen Lab was distributing taste strips with bitter compounds on them and assessed the distribution of tasters and non-tasters at BIO.
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Rosa handed in her BSc thesis, and defended it with with flying colours!
We wish Rosa all the best for next semester of her studies which she will spend in Australia.

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MAY
Casper and Sigrid established the cell surface ELISA assay in the lab.
We are grateful for protocols from the Safavi and Gloriam labs.

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APRIL
We are looking for a postdoc and a PhD student to join the team.
Read more about the two positions here →
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Our copolymer AASTY is available for purchase at Cube Biotech.
You can buy a small library of AASTY polymers to test out on your membrane protein.

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MARCH
The lab got its own ultrapure water system.
It doesn’t speak whale nor swim, but we like Dory nevertheless.

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FEBRUARY
Welcome to Rosa Bolm who started her BSc studies in the lab!
Rosa will be working on select mini-G proteins.

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JANUARY
First Autzen Lab paper out!
Milena’s paper
“Characterization of divalent cation interaction with AASTY native nanodiscs”
is out in ACS Applied Polymer Materials
Read it here →

2021

DECEMBER
We got comments back from reviewers on our manuscript
“Characterization of divalent cation interaction with AASTY native nanodiscs”.
The suggestions and concerns were valuable and has improved our work significantly.
The revised version is available on BioRxiv.

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NOVEMBER
Henriette was awarded an Inge Lehmann grant from DFF
The grant will allow the lab to embark on transporters.
Read more about the call and the project here →
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Our workstation Calcifer is all setup, ready to process data
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Sigrid was selected for Novo scholarship programme 2022
The scholarship will support Sigrid dusing her Master Thesis.
Read more about the programme here →
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Matilde, Milena and Casper wrote a commentary
on the ISBUC annual meeting 2021 AlphaFold 2 panel debate:
Alphafold 2 and the future of structural biology →

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OCTOBER
First Autzen Lab Preprint!
We submitted Milena’s study of the AASTY copolymers for publication
and to the preprint server bioRxiv.
The preprint also marks the 1 year anniversary of Milena working in the lab.
Read more about Milena’s work on Twitter →
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PhD student Matilde awarded Mrs. Birgit Levinsen's scholarship
The scholarship will allow Matilde to purchase her own size exclusion column.

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SEPTEMBER
DHL Relay
The lab had its very first lab outing participating in the DHL relay - 5x5 km.
We are already looking forward to next year. 🏃

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AUGUST
Back from summer vacation and new workstation
The lab is back from the summer break
- just in time to set up the first lab workstation, Calcifer 🔥.

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JULY
Lab photo shoot
The lab also enjoyed an afternoon with photographer
Thorbjørn to bring the lab website up to date.

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JUNE
First lab EM workshop
Milena instructed fellow lab members in processing data on Computerome2.

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MAY
Welcome to master student Sigrid Egevang Jensen
Sigrid will work on structural and functional characterization of membrane proteins
involved in taste perception.

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APRIL
The Autzen lab had its first cryo-EM session in April at CFIM.
Matilde started her position as a Ph.D. student.

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MARCH
The lab is celebrating a lot of firsts in February and March!
We had our first negative stain done in the Autzen lab - a mammalian membrane protein in AASTY polymers. We also broke in Chewbacca doing FSEC on several new targets the lab is working on.