The Good, the Bad, and the Tasty

Faglige nøgleord: enzymes, food, bioconversion, fermentation, sustainability

Oplæg tilgængeligt på: Engelsk og spansk

Enzymes are the molecular machines that make chemistry happen in living organisms. Each enzyme is built to do a specific job, grabbing the right molecules and transforming them into desired products. Enzymes are powerful tools for bioconversion and sustainable chemistry. In this talk, I use my PhD project as a concrete example of how we can use fungal enzymes to improve plant-based foods. Plant ingredients are sustainable but come with nutritional problems that hinder their acceptance. Enzymes produced by fungi during fermentation can help as they secrete them to break down plant cell walls and proteins, freeing nutrients and changing the food’s properties. I’ll explain how we study enzymes in practice through my PhD workflow:
• Practical theory background: what enzymes are, how, where, and when to find them. Exercises for understanding enzymes and biological chemistry.
• Enzyme desk studies: how bioinformatics can help us understand biology from the comfort of our sofa.
• Watching the machines at work: we ferment plant material and measure enzyme activity, or we make our own enzymes in the lab - guide to be the best experimentalist.
The idea is to turn fermentation into something designable: choosing the right fungi and enzyme toolkits to make plant-based foods that are sustainable and genuinely tasty.

Opdateret af Sofie Marie Møller Nielsen den 9. april 2026

Fag og faglige nøgleord

Dette oplæg passer for eksempel godt til:

Bioteknologi

Nøgleord:

enzymes
food
bioconversion
fermentation
sustainability

Sprog og form på besøget

Klassebesøg eller foredrag?

Dette oplæg kan tilpasses enten til en klasse (op til ca. 28 elever), hvor den ph.d.-studerende har mulighed for at have dialog med eleverne, eller til en større forsamling, så det får karakter af foredrag.

Sprog?

Dette oplæg er tilgængeligt på engelsk og spansk.

Digitalt eller fysisk besøg?

Den ph.d.-studerende kommer gerne ud på jeres skole til et fysisk besøg, men møder jer også digitalt via platformen Zoom, hvis I foretrækker det.

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Taja Andersen Brenneche

Kommunikationsmedarbejder

AKM

45 25 10 57
tajab@adm.dtu.dk

Opdateret af Sofie Marie Møller Nielsen den 9. april 2026