Most people know the American GPS, but Europe is working hectically to establish a better system called Galileo. The lecture will describe in detail the basic principle of positioning. In addition, the sense of Galileo is better than GPS. Finally, the new areas of application are referred to as many users. After the lecture, there is a general meeting.

The lecture provides an introduction to the network description of living systems, first with the review of logic and basic mechanisms of a molecular free network for a particularly simple way of life, namely a virus that attacks bacteria. It then provides a more general introduction to signal networks, the main point of which is to emphasize the usability of the network paradigm for characterization of complex systems. The lecture will be illustrated with a series of dynamic simulations that can also be found as "Java applets" on the website www.cmol.nbi.dk

It is well known that certain parts of our diets are healthy and other parts barely as healthy. However, we often do not know the underlying explanations, so a new research programme has been launched at KVL to study these observations more closely. The initiative has been named BEST, which stands for "Building a healthy life". BEST is KVL's first strategic venture and focuses on system biology and biomedicine. In the long term, our overarching goal is to identify healthy substances and components in the diet and to clarify the mechanisms that lead to many of the lifestyle diseases that are increasingly causing problems for populations...

Plants are the world's best synthesis chemists. With the background of own research in the base research centre PlaCe will be given successful examples that now by targeted molecular processing it is possible to transfer the whole bio-synthesis pathways for desirable substances from one plant to another and on that it is possible specifically to prevent the formation of substances that make the plants unpalately-GE due to bad taste or toxicity. Many of the enzymes that control the formation of secondary metabolites in plants are membrane-bound and in-going in large metabolons, which as a "conveyor belt" ensures the formation of the end-product without the accumulation of undesirable intermediates. Knowledge of the mechanisms that govern...

The Danish drinking water supply will be reviewed and results from the National Groundwater monitoring programme will be shown. How to gain drinking water in Denmark and who is the one that captures the water. What types of pollutants are found in groundwater and where they exist. The various types of vandalism will be reviewed and a recent study of small private water supply plants providing individual households will also be involved in the lecture. If some of the listeners have their own water supply system, these plants will be the starting point for a discussion with the presenter, which would like to contribute proposals for solving water quality problems in the private water supplies that are threatened by Pollution in...

"We all owe our existence to the weirdness of water". The quote is taken from American biochemist Lawrence Henderson's book "Water and the fitness of Life", which appeared in 1913. Although Henderson's point of view is controversial – both then and today – there is a growing realization that his interpretation of the role of water in biochemical processes was characterized by an impressive foresight. An intense research effort over the last 20 years has thus concluded that the spatial structure of biological molecules and aggregates, including proteins, membranes and DNA, is largely formed because of their interaction with it...

The lecture tells when free water emerged on the ground and where the Earth's water originates. How old is the water? And what context does the occurrence of free water on the surface of the earth have when and how did organic life in the sea arise on Earth. There is also water in other parts of our solar system, and in particular the occurrence of water on Mars and Jupiter's moon, Europe, is interesting in the discussion about life elsewhere in the universe. The distribution of the Earth's water in the sea, ice caps, rivers, lakes and groundwater and the water circuit are shown. Various strategies for the abstraction of drinking water from groundwater or surface water for the purpose of drinking...

What happened and what can we learn from it? 2. Christmas Day 2004 Ramtes the coasts around the Indian Ocean of the largest natural disaster of the past for several centuries. A powerful earthquake that measured 9.3 a tidal wave, a Tsunami that devastated the coasts of the Indian Ocean and led to 2 to 300,000 casualties. There are approximately 900,000 to 1 million earthquakes a year, but only few provoke a Tsunami. In order to induce a Tsunami, there must be a sudden change in the seabed relief in the event of an earthquake or a violent underwater vul outbreak. It happened in connection with the Sumatra earthquake, where...

Wave energy is one of the possible energy sources of the future, and the development of wave energy is very much on the agenda of the day. However, why is wave energy suddenly become such a hot topic? How big is the potential really? Where is the development today seen in the national/international perspective? How do the different wave energy concepts work? What are the barriers to the expansion of the wave energy sector? Will wave energy become a new "wind turbine adventure" in Denmark/abroad? Where does the wave energy stand in 10-20 years? In the lecture, the status of wave energy development will be given and the above issues will be discussed.

In 2005, it was 120 years since Peter Ludvig Panum died 2. May 1885, only 64 years old. He was the originator of the experimental physiologists in Denmark. His successor, Christian Bohr, also died early, only 56 years old in 1911. It created a peculiar dynamism in the development of the experimental physiology in Denmark that its first practitioners did not complete their tenure. Paradoxically, this gave room for the next generations, which relatively quickly took on leading positions in international physiology, first Nobel laureate August Krogh and shortly after the Næstennobel prize winner Einar Lundsgaard. Several of their immediate successors are still alive. The...