Kenneth Klingenberg Barfod
Lektor
Food Microbiology, Gut Health, and Fermentation
Rolighedsvej 26
1958 Frederiksberg C
Education, work experience
2022→Associate Professor Microbiology and Fermentation, FOOD, University of Copenhagen
2021→Research Associate at University of Copenhagen Section for Experimental Animal Models
2017→2022 External Lecturer University of Roskilde (RUC)
2019→2022 Research Associate at National Research Centre for the Working Environment (NRCWE)
2021→2021 Post.doc at University of Copenhagen Section for Experimental Animal Models
2019→2020 Marie Curie Scholar (MCSA) University of Oxford → University of Copenhagen
2017→2019 Researcher (NRCWE) EU Project “NanoPack”
2017→2020 Research Associate, University of Oxford, Dpt. Zoology UK
2016→2017 Post.doc ANIHWA project University of Oxford, Dpt. Zoology UK (Prof Marian Dawkins)
2015→2016 Academic Visitor, University of Oxford, Dpt. Zoology UK (Prof. Martin Maiden)
2015→2015 External Lecturer University of Roskilde (RUC) (Research in Molecular Biology)
2012→2015 Post.doc in Industry, DuPont, Staten Serums Institute (SSI) at NRCWE (Højteknologi Fonden)
2013→2013 Honorary Academic Visitor at IPATIMUP in Porto, Portugal
2011→2011 Honorary Appointment Dept. Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne AU
2010→2011 Post.doc SSI/NRCWE Funded by SSI/Lundbeck Foundation: Airway pathogens in Asthma
2009→2010 Anti-Bio-Terrorism Researcher/analyst at SSI at Danish Government; Centre for Biosecurity and Biopreparedness (CBB). Security Level NATO HEM. *
2005→2009 Ph.D student at NRCWE/IloChip A/S: “Occupational exposure to Bacillus thuringiensis-based
biopesticides- development of an aerosol hazard identification model in mice” (PHD-GRANTED 27.DECEMBER 2010)
2005→2005 Research assistant at NRCWE (Plasmids in Bacillus)
2004→2005 Research assistant DPIL Laboratorium (Cockroaches resistance to pesticides)
2003→2004 Cand.scient. Microbiology. Thesis: “Cellulose degrading gut symbionts of Old House Borer, Hylotrupes bajulus” (GRANTED 2003)
*Publication-gap explanation: My research at CBB/SSI was of a sensitive dual-use nature and was not published. I was recruited to SSI before the finalization of my PhD. At least the equivalent of two scientific papers from CBB is therefore missing from my publication list
Selected conferences, talks, posters and courses
2022 GM-modulation in health and disease, Fecal Microbiota Transplantation and beyond.
2022 Microbiome analysis using 2nd and 3rd generation DNA sequencing Course
2021 Invited Speaker: 28th & 29th of April. https://www.pharmabioticsevent.com/
2021 The Microbiome: From Mother to Child. (Keystone.org)
2021 “Rent a researcher” National Danish Popular sciences day “Anorexia from the biologist pow ”
2020 The Virtual Microbiome Summit https://www.virtualmicrobiomesummit.com/
2018 “Rent a researcher” National Danish Popular sciences day “Memes and evolution”
2017 Modernising Medical Microbiology (Sct. Catherines, Oxford)
2016 Host-Microbiome Interactions in Health and Disease (Cambridge, UK), Lightning talk and poster
2016 ERS the 26th International Congress of the European Respiratory Society London
2016 3rd Microbiome R&D and Business Collaboration Forum London
2016 Biological Sciences Graduate Teacher Training Course (PLT) qualification. Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) Oxford
2015 Gut Microbiota “the search for mechanism” Keystone Symposia 1-6 march (poster)
2015 ECCMID 25th Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, (poster)
2014 EAACI 2014. The European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (poster)
2013 Harvard Business School (Pasteur Talent workshop Series for industrial post.docs)
2013 FRAME: Training school in Experimental Design and statistical analysis of Biomedical animal experiments (UK)
2012 Project manager Course (Research projects) Ministry of employment (BM)
2012 Mini symposium: A systems biology view of host- Microbiome interactions,
2010 8th ASM research meeting on Biodefense and Emerging Diseases in Baltimore USA
2007 Bacillus ACT 2007 Oslo. The 7th International Conference
2006 GA²LEN / EAACI Allergy School; Mouse models of allergy and asthma
2006 Laboratory animal science course (Felasa C)
Fellowships and grants (42> applications- 10 Successful)
2022 Lundbeck Foundation Experiment (2 years)
2020 Dupont Co-funding probiotic research (6Months)
2017 Marie Curie MCSA Horizon2020 EU funding (2yrs)
2016 Short Term Mission grant (European Network of Excellence for Zoonoses research)
2015 Research Travel Grant: 4 Months at Oxford UK (Augustinus Foundation)
2012 Industrial post.doc fellowship (3.5 yrs) from Innovation Foundation/SSI/Dupont
2011 Travel grant University of Melbourne, Australia, Dagmar Marshalls Foundation
2010 Post.doc fellowship “Airway bacteria and asthma in early childhood“ Lundbeck Foundation
2005 PhD scholarship funded in part from biotech company ilochip A/S
2003 Master thesis: Youth Scholarship “Symbiont dependant digestion of cellulose in H. bajulus” Østifterne Fonden
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