Physiological and biochemical adaptations to cold and drought in ectothermic animals, physical chemistry of cryoprotectants, membrane/cryoprotectant interactions, water balance in invertebrates, antifreeze protein and ice nucleation protein structure and function, cryptobiosis in tardigrades. At present we are working on the following projects: Ice crystal growth patterns and the function/structure relationships in solutions of antifreeze proteins from the barkbeetle Rhagium inquisitor, the eel pout Zoarces viviparus, the fiord cod Gadus ogac and the mealworm Tenebrio molitor. Purification and characterization of antifreeze proteins from Rhagium inquisitor and Zoarces viviparus. Water balance in T. molitor and the larvae of the tenebrionid beetle Zophobas morio. Freezing tolerance in the sibirean salamander Salamandrella keyserlingi and the frog Rana arvalis. Drought tolerance and control of the locusts Locusta migratoria and Schistocerca gregaria.
Læs om kuldetolerance hos insekter
Drillet, G., Iversen, M.H., Sørensen, T.F., Ramløv, H., Lund, T.and Hansen, B.W. Effect of cold storage upon eggs of a Calanoid copepod, Acartia tonsa (Dana) and their offspring (submitted to Aquaculture, 2005)
Wharton, D.A., Barrett, J., Goodall, G., Marshall, C.J. & Ramløv, H. (2005) Ice-binding protein activity in the Antarctic nematode Panagrolaimus davidi. ( in press Cryobiology)
Voituron, Y., Paaschburg, L., Holmstrup, M., Barré, H. and Ramløv, H. Close relative but not equal before the cold: the case of Rana arvalis and Rana temporaria. (Submitted to Functional Ecology, 2005).
Kristiansen, E., Ramløv, H., Hagen, L., Pedersen, S.A., Andersen, R.A., Zachariassen, K.E.(2005) Isolation and characterization of hemolymph antifreeze proteins from larvae of the longhorn beetle Rhagium inquisitor (L.). Comp.Biochem.Physiol.142(B): 90-97.
Ramløv, H., Wilson, P. and A.L. DeVries. (2005) Investigations of aqueous solutions of antifreeze glycoproteins from the antarctic fish Dissostichus mawsoni using Differential Scannning Calorimetry and nanoliter osmometry. CryoLetters, 26(2): 73-84.
Præbel, K. and Ramløv, H. (2005) Antifreeze activity in the gastrointestinal fluids ofArctogadus glacialis (Peters, 1874) is dependent on food type. J. Exp. Biol, 208(13):2609-2613.
Hansen, L.L., Westh, P., Wright, J.A. and Ramløv, H. (2005) Simultaneous and real-time
measurements of metabolic activity, water exchange and CO2 production rate in
the mealworm Tenebrio molitor L (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae). (submitted J. Insect
Physiol., 2005).
Caprioli, M., Katholm, A.K., Ramløv, H., Ricci, C. and Santo, N. (2004) Trehalose in desiccated rotifers: a comparison between a bdelloid and a monogonont species. Comp.Biochem. Physiol. A, 139:527-532.
Hansen, L. L. Ramløv, H. and Westh, P. (2004) Metabolic activity and water vapour absorption
in the mealworm Tenebrio molitor L. (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae):
real-time measurements by two-channel microcalorimetry, J. Exp. Biol. 2004 207: 545-552.
Bundy, J.G., Holmstrup, M., Nicholson, J.K. and Ramløv, H. (2003) Multivariate metabolic profiling of freeze tolerant and freeze susceptible earthworms using 1H nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. CryoLetters 24:347-358.
Sørensen, T.F. and Ramløv, H. (2002) Maternal-fetal relations in antifreeze activity production in the eel pout Zoarces viviparus. Cryo-Letters, 23:183-190.
Holmstrup, M., Bayley, M. and Ramløv, H. (2002) Supercool or dehydrate? An experimental analysis of overwintering strategies in small permeable arctic invertebrates. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 99(8):5716-5720.
Functional morphology of invertebrates (undergraduate course), Environmental Animal physiology, (gradate course), Polar biology (graduate course), Desert biology (graduate course).
Antifreeze proteins in Zoarces viviparus, Freezing tolerance in the sibirian salamander Salamandrella keyserlingi, Freezing tolerance in the frog Rana arvalis, Antifreeze proteins in the barkbeetle Rhagium inquisitor, Drought tolerance and control of the locusts Locusta migratoria and Schistocerca gregaria, Physical-chemistry of "antifreeze" proteins from the mealworm Tenebrio molitor, Purification of microtubule proteins from the cold tolerant eel pout Zoarces viviparus.