Jonas Lauritsen

Biography

With a love for learning, DIY-projects, and biotechnology, Jonas assume the role of automation specialist, where he helps implement and optimise laboratory protocols and workflows with special focus on automation integration.

Jonas is educated as an engineer in biotechnology with both a BSc and MSc from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), with an exchange semester at ETH Zurich. Here, he focused on microbiology with emphasis on microbiomes in soil communities and their members interactions.

Following his education Jonas has presume the role as research assistant at DTU to develop new microbial methodologies, and later as team leader at DTU’s covid19 pipeline. For the latter, he also began the journey of understanding and using robotics in molecular biology, which combine with capability to build PC, landed him as automation specialist at the AlberdiLab at Globe Institute. From here, the CODICUM project employed him and his skillset to modernise the laboratory infrastructures in the area of robotics.

Research

Jonas is a firm believer that biotechnology serves a critical pivot point for modernising and address society challenges. Jonas’s research goal is to develop, improve, and disseminate methodologies and knowledge, increasing the quality in research. Some of the examples are:

Jonas has developed an amplicon-based method to better distinguish between Pseudomonas species in soil community, improving the resolution of them with the aim to understand their influence in soil interactions with plant pathogens. *Article

Jonas has optimised in-house DNA extraction methods which extract high quality DNA from a variety of animal samples, while minimise time spent and reduce resource waste. *Article

Jonas has developed publicly available OT-2 script for EHI workflow, empowering the community to integrate OT-2 automation in their laboratory work. *Render

Jonas has developed a high-throughput automation flow, that takes 192 samples from DNA fragmented to amplified DNA libraries in less than 9 hours work. *BioRxiv

In CODICUM, Jonas is transferring laboratory protocols to OT-2s to increase work capacities. Additionally, he is building the laboratory information management structure behind, to maintain good research conduct, while reducing time spent on mass sample management.

Contact

University of Copenhagen 

Globe Institute

Øster Farimagsgade 5, Building 7, 

1353 København K, Denmark 

e: Jonas.lauritsen@sund.ku.dk