Former Bachelor Projects

Practical projects

• Ex vivo investigations of androgen influence on spiggin mRNA in stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus)
• Biological mercury-selenium interactions in the shore crab (Carcinus maenas)
• Investigation of intersex peppery furrow shell (Scrobicularia plana) by histology
• Annual variation in yolk protein levels in the swollen river mussel (Unio tumidus) - important background knowledge for the development of a biomarker.

Literature studies

• Obesogenes – are they a reason for obesity?
• The humoral specific immune system in teleost fish
• Copper regulation in crustaceans
• The role of sex steroid hormones in molluscs
• Food-drug interactions
• Teratogenic effects of pharmaceuticals
• Endocrine disrupting effects of parabens
• The Testicular Dysgenesis Syndrome
• The influence of human genetic polymorphismon the side effects of anti-psychotic pharmaceuticals
• Metabolic syndrome: a possible link to exposure for endocrine disrupting compounds and certain pharmaceuticals
• Effects of weak painkillers on embryo development in humans

Former Master Projects

• The effect of dopamine and serotonin on rotational behavior in embryos of great pondsnail Lymnaea stagnalis
• Effects of serotonin on molluscs. Method development and investigations of the effects of serotonin and escitalopram on Lymnaea stagnalis embryo development and behavior.
• Development of an ELISA for quantification of egg yolk protein in the freshwater mussel Unio pictorum and Unio tumidus. Investigations the influence of food availability on protein concentrations.
• Interactions between mercury and selenium in aquatic organisms
• Endocrine effects in the population of brown trout in Danish streams
• Trenbolone in the environment and effects on rainbow trout pituitary
• Expression and function of ictacalcin in brown trout (Salmo trutta)
• Measurements of cellular accumulation and pump efficiency for determinations of inhibitory effects of pharmaceuticals on efflux pumps in eggs from Lymnaea stagnalis
• Combination effects of quinidine and verapamil on efflux pumps in Lymnaea stagnalis
• Effects of obesogenic chemicals on efflux pumps in embryos of Lymnaea stagnalis.
• Development of computer models, estimating binding affinities, for prediction of in vitro
• activation of the PPAR gamma nuclear receptor by xenobiotics
• The influence of weak painkillers on prostaglandin synthesis and sexual differentiation in zebrafish (Danio rerio)
• Effects of endocrine disrupting chemicals on embryo development in eelpout (Zoarces viviparus)
• Development of OECD guideline for the testing of chemicals
• Intersex in the marine snail Littorina littorea related to areas with TBT exposure
• Effect of selenium on the elimination of methylmercury in crustaceans
• The estrogenic effects of cyclo siloxanes in zebrafish
• The estrogenic effect of biochanin A in brown trout