Bent Petersen

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

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🌟

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/10.110…

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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/PhageTherapy/]"

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.

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.

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

@bentpetersen @Folkeuni @GrundforskFond, @Globe_UCPH, @UCPH_Research, @koebenhavns_uni

📣#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-…

🤩Another BIG conference coming up in 2026!

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! 🦣🦣 To read more from our new issue, click here shorturl.at/6VDCN

Please mark you calendar! Happy to see that the legacy of @Evergreen_Phage will continue @UTKnoxville hosted by @TomDenes .. Good luck! @VirusOfMicrobes @PhageCanada #phages

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/10.1111/ev…

@RyanCookAMR The score I meant, not the paper 😂

@RyanCookAMR Try to modify the paper and see if it changes…

I'm reviewing a paper and some of the text had a real ChatGPT flavour, so I took the first half of the introduction and put it into two different AI detectors. Both of them gave me 100% AI predictions. Is this something that other people are finding? How do we deal with this?

@BrydeLind @stinuslindgreen @novonordiskfond @pharmadanmark @LineFedders Hvad vi har brug for er et sundhedssystem der muliggør brugen af bakteriofager til bekæmpelse af kroniske bakterielle infektioner. Vi har ikke brug for nye metoder til at slå infektioner med, dem har vi allerede, det er blot for besværligt og vi er afhængig af udenlandsk hjælp.

Resistente bakterier stormer frem. Derfor skal vi forebygge og have gang i udviklingen af ny antibiotika. Ellers risikerer vi, at banale infektioner kan udvikle sig til alvorlige tilstande hos sårbare patienter 📢 @BrydeLind hos @novonordiskfond 
#fmdk #gigt #sundpol

📣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/progra…

📣#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/2024/06…

Advocating for #phage therapy #phagetherapy nature.com/articles/s4156…