Senior Researcher in computational phage discovery - GLOBE Institute at the University of Copenhagen, UCPH
Joined April 2010
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7 Dec 2024
Time for a change! I’ll be leaving here soon. You can find me over on BlueSky: bentpetersen.bsky.social. Feel free to connect with me there! #BlueSky #SocialMedia #NewBeginnings #FollowMe
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Bent Petersen retweeted
10 Oct 2025
Thanks to everyone who came by our minilab @KulturnattenKbh tonight🌟
So much fun and engagement with the public🤩
Extracting DNA from strawberries 🍓 tasting edible insects 🦗and looking at orchid seeds 🌱 in the microscopes were some of our more popular hands on activities🌟
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Bent Petersen retweeted
7 May 2025
Want to find new lytic phages .... then obviously look in bacterial genomes !!! Led by
@TSPKU , with @MarthaClokie @panagouras3 , @bentpetersen and many many others...
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Bent Petersen retweeted
13 Jan 2025
Excited about the future of phage therapy? 🌟
Join leading experts at the 1st International Symposium on Advances in Phage Therapeutics!
🗓️ 16-17 June 2025, Braga, Portugal
📋 Abstract deadline: 15 Feb 2025
Details: [skyros-congressos.pt/PhageTh…]"
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8 Jan 2025
New post: Phages are the most abundant organisms on our planet, yet they remain among the least understood due to their extraordinary genetic diversity. We have developed a way to combine traditional approaches to phages with new computational methods.
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This is helping us better understand phages and their genomes: how they interact with bacteria, how they can be used to treat human diseases, and their potential applications in agriculture and aquaculture.
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Bent Petersen retweeted
5 Nov 2024
PhD studentship with @MarthaClokie and me at @Leicester_Phage . Part of larger CF Trust Hub led by @JoJofoth
Selection of bacteriophages for therapeutic use in cystic fibrosis-associated Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections at University of Leicester on FindAPhD.com
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📣#Bakteriofagen - en vild virus der kan redde os alle!
👏Du kan stadig nå at sikre dig en plads på det populære Bakteriofag-kursus som Senior Forsker @bentpetersen afholder @Folkeuni d. 12. december!
Der er allerede over 120 tilmeldte 🤩
Tilmelding👇
fukbh.dk/program/natur-og-un…
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Bent Petersen retweeted
24 Jul 2024
🤩Another BIG conference coming up in 2026!
📣📣📣 Velkommen to #SMBE2026 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Congratulations to the Copenhagen Team on a very convincing presentation and the successful bid.
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Bent Petersen retweeted
11 Jul 2024
The new issue is out! Featuring the temporal dynamics of woolly mammoth genome erosion prior to extinction, and the three-dimensional genome architecture from a 52,000 year old woolly mammoth skin sample!
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To read more from our new issue, click here shorturl.at/6VDCN
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Bent Petersen retweeted
1 Jul 2024
Please mark you calendar! Happy to see that the legacy of @Evergreen_Phage will continue @UTKnoxville hosted by @TomDenes .. Good luck! @VirusOfMicrobes @PhageCanada #phages
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Bent Petersen retweeted
2 Jul 2024
Out in @EvolAppJournal: led by Emily Cavill we show how Seychelles magpie robins lost genetic diversity and accumulated genetic load due to a bottleneck. New populations were established, but lost diversity is v hard to recover, risking long-term survival. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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📣Hear about #bacteriophages and their influence on our #health at this years @Folkemoedet👏
Proud to have Senior Researcher @bentpetersen attend this years @Folkemoedet talking at the brand new #research scene next to our amazing @Globe_UCPH colleagues🤩
folkemoedet.dk/program/progr…
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Bent Petersen retweeted
12 Jun 2024
📣#Bacteriophages can save your life💡
Find our colleague Senior Researcher @bentpetersen at this years @Folkemoedet if you want to hear more about his and his colleagues cool research in #PhageTherapy 🦠🤩
Its June 15 at 13:30 at #ForskerScenen #fmdk
folkemoedet.dk/events/2024/0…
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Bent Petersen retweeted
24 May 2024
I have a newsletter — a top secret newsletter — where I share insights on the use of social media by scientists, and tips that help you develop as a science communicator. I just started, and will be really chuffed if you sign up 😁 !!
mikeyoungacademy.dk/newslett…
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Bent Petersen retweeted
10 May 2024
Excited to announce that Prof. Liu and his Public Health Innovation team from the Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences have joined the phagecompass.dk . They will bring vital resources and expertise from the Varms antibiotic resistance monitoring network.
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23 Apr 2024
Second day of teaching #bioinformatics in the #phageinformatics workshop in Jinan China. Yesterday the students were introduced to #UNIX for the first time, it was an eye opener for many of them. In the morning we will recap the exercises and test their learnings. Later we will
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23 Apr 2024
start exploring sequencing data and run our first QC of the data. They will be trimming the data step by step and visualizing with FastQC after each step to see the effect. It’s important to train students how to treat the raw sequencing data properly to ensure they have a
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23 Apr 2024
Good quality dataset for their further downstream analysis. It’s raining today in China, but I am sure that we will be having a great day :-)
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