Name: Søren Mørk
Date and Place of Birth: January 8th 1978, Copenhagen
Nationality: Danish
Civil status: Married with Marianne. Children: Simon (2002), Alva (2004) and Frida (2007)
Address: Bentzonsvej 3, 2. 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark
Email: soer@ruc.dk
Homepage: http://akira.ruc.dk/~soer
Phone: +45 20869215
2007: MSc. Biology, University of Copenhagen, DK
2001: BSc. Biology, University of Copenhagen, DK
2007- : Ph.D Fellow, Department of Science, Systems and Models, University of Roskilde, DK
2005-2006: Research Assistant, Genetics and Microbiology Group, Department of Ecology, Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, DK
2001-2005: Member of the Curriculum Course Committee for Evolutionary Biology at the University of Copenhagen
2001-2005: Member of workgroup on non-coding DNA at the Department of Evolutionary Biology, Biological Institute, University of Copenhagen
2001: Member of workgroup on DNA retrieval from Martian ice (International Mars Cryoscout Discussion group (NASA)) at the Department of Evolutionary Biology, Biological Institute, University of Copenhagen
2006: Invited speaker at Astrobiology Seminar, April 20th. NORDITA. Title of Talk: A Cool Life
2004: Attended First Nordic Project Meeting on Astrobiological Problems for Physicists, January 8th to 10th. Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen
2003: Invited speaker at the MARS symposium and workshop, April 30th. Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen. Title of Talk: JAWS
2001-2005: Invited speaker at the Molecular Evolution course for biology students at the University of Copenhagen
2001: Invited to the NASA - NATO Advanced Studies Institute on "Perspectives in Astrobiology" conference September 29th to October 10th. Chania, Crete (Cancelled)
2005: Dronning Margrethe and Prins Henriks Fond, DKr: 25.000,-
2002: University of Copenhagen Biotechnology Scholarship for M.Sc. students, DKr 58.000,-
Rukov JL, Irimia M, Mørk S, Lund VK, Vinther J and Arctander P (2007) High Qualitative and Quantitative Conservation of Alternative Splicing in Caenorhabditis elegans and Caenorhabditis briggsae. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 24: 909-917
Bjørnlund L, Mørk S, Vestergård M and Rønn R. 2006. Trophic interactions between rhizosphere bacteria and bacterial feeders influenced by phosphate and aphids in barley. Biology and Fertility of Soils. 43: 1-11
Hansen AJ, Willerslev E, Mørk S, Hedegaard MM, Rønn R and Jeffares DC. 2002. JAWS: Just add water system -- a device for detection of nucleic acids in the Martian ice caps. Proceedings of the Second European workshop on Exo/Astrobiology Graz, Austria (ESA SP-518, Novembre 2002) (ed. H. Lacoste), pp. 309-311. ESA Publication Division, ESTEC
Engel J and Mørk S (2001) Kunsten at puste liv i fossile knogler. Naturens Verden. 8-9: 12-21 (In Danish)
Bruun E., Haack-Sørensen T., Mogensen P and Mørk S (2001) Havets Troldmænd. Naturens Verden. 4: 18-23 (In Danish)
Kauppinen S, Alsbo C, Nielsen PS, Jeffares DC, Mourier T, Mørk S, Arctander P, Tommerup N, Tolstrup N and Vissing H. 2003. Oligonucleotides Useful for Detecting and Analyzing Nucleic Acids of Interest - PCT Application No DK/03/00715. PCT publication No. WO2004/035819
Rønn R and Mørk S. 2005. Analysis of bacterial community structure in soil microcosms. Methods to detect microbes and microbial diversity in soil. Online Workshop of the American Phytopatological Society - July 14th - September 1st, 2005. (http://www.apsnet.org/online/soilmicrobes)
Rønn R, Bjørnlund L, Mørk S and Vestergård M. (2005) Food quality of bacteria and protozoan grazing in soil. Annual meeting of the Scandinavian Section of the Society of Protozoologists. Marine Biological Laboratory, Elsinore, Denmark, May 26th 2005
Lisa Bjørnlund. Genetics and Microbiology Group, Department of Ecology, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen. lbj@life.ku.dk
Professor Anders Krogh. Centre for Bioinformatics, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen. akrogh@binf.ku.dk
6 years of molecular and microbiological laboratory experience, including cloning, mRNA analysis, quatitative RT-PCR, sequencing, microarray development, ancient DNA analysis, soil microcosms, and nematode/bacterial culturing.
Python, Perl, Prolog, PRISM, R.