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Gitte Kaiser Hartvigsen

Title

Laboratory Technician

Primary affiliation

Gitte Kaiser Hartvigsen

Areas of expertise

  • Sports Medicine
  • Molecular Biology

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Competency Areas
🧪 Methods & Techniques:
• DXA scanning 📊
• Blood sampling 💉
• Muscle biopsy 🏋️‍♂️
• Laboratory analyses 🏗️
• Western Blot 🧬
• ELISA 🧫
• qPCR 🧑‍🔬
• Immunohistochemistry 🔍

• Teaching students in laboratory methods 🏫
• Procurement of equipment & materials 🛒
• Implementation & setup of new equipment and analyses 🛠️
• Sample preparation & shipment of samples on dry ice ❄️
• Invoice management 📑
• Occupational health & safety representative in LAMU & FAMU ⚖️

Job responsibilities

Research projects focusing on the effects of various training interventions in selected patient groups, such as Parkinson’s and MS, as well as healthy participants, including athletes. Additionally, fundamental research is conducted in muscle physiology. Molecular biological analyses and biochemical measurements are performed on both human muscles and animal models to investigate muscle function and muscle metabolism at the cellular level.

Previous positions: Biostructural Chemistry AU, Molecular Biology AU, ACE Bioscience in Odense.

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