About us

Cutting-edge methods and bioinformatics for microbiomics

Meet the team

Since August 2020 DNASense’s daily operations have been managed by a team of four driven and highly specialized individuals. In addition, DNASense has multiple consultants at our disposal, making us equipped for any assignment. For more details, please refer to the extended description of each member below

Mads Toft Søndergaard,
Ph.D.
Chief Executive Officer
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Mads holds a PhD in molecular biotechnology and has extensive experience with diverse and demanding research projects, both in industry and academia. Mads has a solid background in project management and a broad skill set within cellular and molecular biology, protein engineering, assay development, next-generation DNA sequencing and custom bioinformatics. From his pre-academic career, Mads also has encompassing leadership and organization training including ample practical experience.
Mie Bech Lukassen,
Ph.D.
Chief Operating Officer
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Mie holds a PhD in environmental biotechnology with the topic “Off flavour producing bacteria in aquaculture”. She has almost 10 years of experience in a huge variety of molecular analysis methods including DNA/RNA extraction, quantitative PCR, reverse transcriptase PCR, extensive experience in primer design, (meta)genome/(meta)transcriptome library preparation, genotyping by sequencing, and sequencing on Illuminas platforms (MiSeq, HiSeq, NovaSeq).
Rasmus Dam Wollenberg,
Ph.D.
Chief Technology Officer
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Rasmus holds a PhD in fungal biotechnology and has extensive wet lab experience ranging from molecular cloning, genetic engineering, DNA extraction and especially long-read sequencing (Oxford Nanopore Technologies, ONT).  With his extensive skill set, Rasmus supports customers ranging from sequencing novices to expert customers, including large-scale customer projects, hands-on ONT training, and custom built and on-site implementation of state-of-the-art automated bioinformatic workflows. Rasmus also develops novel applications of ONT and data processing procedures in-house.
Henrik Bech Kjeldal,
Ph.D.
Chief Information Officer
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Henrik holds a PhD in molecular biotechnology and has extensive experience with OMICS having worked with mass spectrometry-based proteomics of both prokaryotes and eukaryotes for over 10 years with several years worth of teaching merits in mass spectrometry. A main focus of Henrik’s academic work has been establishing pathways for biodegradation of micropollutants.  Henrik has a broad skill set which includes functional and custom bioinformatics,  development of bioinformatic pipelines and extensive wet lab experience.

Wagma Saei,
MSc.
Research Scientist
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Wagma holds an MSc within molecular biology and fungal genomics and has extensive wet lab skills ranging from genetic engineering, DNA/RNA extraction and Illumina sequencing. She has several years of experience with microbial community profiling for wastewater treatment facilities and amplicon sequencing of challenging samples from industry and life science research. She is very passionate about the application of molecular biology methods for species identification and detection in clinical, agricultural and environmental samples.

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Carl Anton Høegh

Lab technician
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Emma Huus

Lab technician
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Emil Aarre Sørensen,
MSc.
Junior Consultant
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Mads Albertsen, Prof.
Partner
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Per Halkjær Nielsen, Prof.
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Søren Michael Karst, Ph.D.
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Rasmus H. Kirkegaard, Ph.D.
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Kasper Skytte Andersen,
MSc.
Junior Consultant
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Our mission is to make cutting-edge DNA/RNA sequencing and bioinformatics readily available to life science researchers in industry and academia. Our goal is to provide simple solutions to complex problems, transforming complicated data into meaningful and applicable knowledge for our customers.

DNASense history

Founded by renowned researchers in 2014, DNASense is a spin-out company from Aalborg University. DNASense continues to benefit from fruitful collaborations with the groups of Prof. Mads Albertsen and Prof. Per Halkjær Nielsen. This allows us to facilitate fast technology-transfer, often years ahead of our competitors.

We provide easily accessible and actionable results for the most challenging and ambitious sequencing projects. Our business model clearly prioritizes the optimal overall results more so than the lowest sequencing price. We provide top-tier services within our areas of expertise and detailed sparring throughout any project, and thereby confidently achieve the best overall value-for-money.

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Selected publications

Albertsen et al (2013).
Nature Biotechnology, 31 (6), 533-538.

Sereika et al (2022).
Nature Methods, 19, 823–826

Dueholm et al (2022).
Nature Communications,  13, 1908

Karst et al (2018).
Nature Biotechnology, 36(2), 190-195.

Albertsen, M. (2023).
Nature Methods, 20, 30-31.

Trabjerg et al (2023).
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