AARHUS INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED STUDIES AIAS ANNUAL REPORT 2015/16 AARHUS INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED STUDIES AIAS ANNUAL REPORT 2015/16 AIAS Fellow Xuhui Dong gives his 5-minute presentation at Monday Lunch. CONTENTS AIAS ANNUAL REPORT 2015/16 CONTENTS 4 Directors Account 6 What do AIAS and the name of the rose have in common? 10 Moving epigenetic research into personalized patient care 12 Getting jiggy with it... also on hot or cold days? 14 Living the Metric Life 18 Fellows 36 Fellows Publications and 4 AIAS ANNUAL REPORT 2015/16 DIRECTORS ACCOUNT DIRECTORS ACCOUNT OF 2015-2016 Consolidation and further development has been the order of the day, during the academic year of 15-16. The Institute has been completely full: all 34 offices have been occupied by a fellow during the entire year. Fellows RESEARCH AND EXCHANGE The core aim of AIAS is to strengthen excellent research by offering particularly privileged conditions for the research work and the exchange between the research- ers, also across research areas. AIAS has succeeded in this: AIAS Fellows are producing a steady flow of high pro 6 AIAS ANNUAL REPORT 2015/16 WHAT DO AIAS AND THE NAME OF THE ROSE HAVE IN COMMON? WHAT DO AIAS AND THE NAME OF THE ROSE HAVE IN COMMON? MORE THAN YOU MIGHT THINK... By: Karen Ní Mheallaigh AIAS-COFUND Fellow and Senior Lecturer, University of Exeter, UK Before returning in October to her permanent AIAS is both a place of work and a community, whose sum is more than its individual components. Ello (by Tony Oursler), the Institutes alien resident, greets fellows and vistitors to AIAS. what ways are science and religion alike? What makes a poem a poem? Why is Vitamin B12 good for you? What happe 8 One soon discovers that this is a place where powerful changes happen with higher frequency and intensity than elsewhere: you plunge in, you swim, then you leave. AIAS Fellow Ümit Akbey presenting at Fellows Seminar in the AIAS lecture theatre. WHAT DO AIAS AND THE NAME OF THE ROSE HAVE IN COMMON? AIAS ANNUAL REPORT 2015/16 9 By its nature, an IAS changes in response to its fluctuating personnel, but that does not mean nothing of permanence is accomplished. Fellows are changed by their experiences together, and they bring that influence, e 10 AIAS ANNUAL REPORT 2015/16 MOVING EPIGENETIC RESEARCH INTO PERSONALIZED PATIENT CARE MOVING EPIGENETIC RESEARCH INTO PERSONALIZED PATIENT CARE By: Tomasz K. Wojdacz, AIAS-COFUND Fellow In a relatively short period of only a bit over 30 years, modern epigenetics has transformed our understanding o 11 12 AIAS ANNUAL REPORT 2015/16 GETTING JIGGY WITH IT... The objects of study: Vials with three different species of fruit flies. GETTING JIGGY WITH IT...ALSO ON HOT OR COLD DAYS? ANIMAL DECISION-MAKING UNDER TEMPERATURE STRESS By: AIAS Fellows Djuke Veldhuis and Machteld Verzijden AIAS Fellows Djuke When stress affects mate choice decisions, this could have serious consequences for biodiversity under any circumstances, but the optimal mate choice is particularly difficult when the suitor is stressed and unable to evaluate the available information properly. When stress affects mate choice decis 14 AIAS ANNUAL REPORT 2015/16 LIVING THE METRIC LIFE LIVING THE METRIC LIFE By: Btihaj Ajana, AIAS-COFUND Fellow and Kings College London, UK Self-measurement and tracking have become commonplace practices in recent years. With the explosion of apps and devices enabling the data capturing and monito AIAS Fellow Btihaj Ajana's project website: www.metriclife.net 16 16 AIAS ANNUAL REPORT 2015/16 er understanding of this rising phenomenon and how it is reshaping our relation to our bodies and their vital aspects. PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT AND OUTREACH IN FOCUS In addition to the traditional academic activities and outputs of the project (participation in conferences artworks or reflections on their use of self-tracking devic- es and apps, and share their experiences with others. The project is also establishing a social media presence by having a Facebook Page, YouTube channel and a Twitter handle. Overall, this project promises to make a significant contributi FELLOWS 2015-2016 AIAS is both a place of work and a community, whose sum is more than its individual components (AIAS Fellow Karen ní Mheallaigh). This AIAS sum has been composed of 41 fellows from 32 different research institutions and of 18 different nation- alities in the academic year of 2015/16. AIAS Fellows c 20 AIAS ANNUAL REPORT 2015/16 FELLOWS ALEXANDER PANAYATOV AIAS COFUND Junior Fellow Postdoc, previously Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Area of research: Jewish Studies Project title: Minority status and identity: A case study of the Jewish minority in Byzantium My proje FELLOWS AIAS ANNUAL REPORT 2015/16 21 ANJA KAMP AIAS COFUND Junior Fellow Postdoc, previously Molecular Life Science Research Center, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany Area of research: Marine ecology Project title: Diatoms in Darkness and Anoxia The microbial nitrogen cycle is one of the most compl 22 AIAS ANNUAL REPORT 2015/16 FELLOWS CHRISTIAN ULRIK ANDERSEN Jens Christian Skou Junior Fellow Associate Professor, Ph.D., Department of Aesthetics & Communication (Digital Design), Aarhus University Area of research: Software studies Project title: Vector Space The aesthetics of contemporary int FELLOWS AIAS ANNUAL REPORT 2015/16 23 DJUKE VELDHUIS AIAS COFUND Junior Fellow Postdoc, previously University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Area of research: Biological anthropology Project title: Stress in modern human populations: a biocultural approach to assessing the costs and limits of adaption 24 AIAS ANNUAL REPORT 2015/16 FELLOWS IRYNA MAZHAK AIAS COFUND Junior Fellow Associate Professor, previously National University Kyiv Mohyla Academy Kyiv, Ukraine Areas of Research: Public Health and Social Sciences Project title: The Social Determinants of Health and Health Inequities among Working FELLOWS AIAS ANNUAL REPORT 2015/16 25 JESSICA BARKER AIAS COFUND Junior Fellow Postdoc, previously Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, USA Area of research: Evolutionary biology Project title: Inter-group environmental dilemmas: can we scale up from local to global cooperation? 26 AIAS ANNUAL REPORT 2015/16 FELLOWS KARL-ERIK ANDERSSON Dale T. Mortensen Fellow Professor, MD, previously Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, USA Area of research: Urogenital physiology/pharmacology Project title: Aging bladder dysfunction The project is focused on the relation betwe FELLOWS AIAS ANNUAL REPORT 2015/16 27 KIRILL POSTOUTENKO AIAS COFUND Senior Fellow Professor, Comparative literature, University of Helsinki, Finland Area of Research: History of Concepts Project title: Beasts vs. Supermen: Asymmetrical Mapping of Conceptual Landscapes in Bolshe- vik Russia, Nazi Ge 28 AIAS ANNUAL REPORT 2015/16 FELLOWS MADS VAARBY SØRENSEN AIAS COFUND Junior Fellow Associate Professor, previously Institute of Anatomy, University of Zürich, Switzerland Area of research: Renal physiology Project title: The renal natriuretic response following an acute potassium intake Potassium FELLOWS AIAS ANNUAL REPORT 2015/16 29 MARI HATAVARA AIAS COFUND Senior Fellow Professor, Finnish Literature, University of Tampere, Finland Area of research: Literary studies Project title: Mediating Experience: Voices, Images and Narrative Self During my stay at AIAS I am working on the project Med 30 AIAS ANNUAL REPORT 2015/16 FELLOWS ORIETTA DORA CORDOVANA AIAS COFUND Senior Fellow Associate Professor, previously School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom Area of research: Ancient history Project title: Ancient Ecosystems. The Roman Frontier in Brita FELLOWS AIAS ANNUAL REPORT 2015/16 31 RIKKE SCHMIDT KJÆRGAARD Jens Christian Skou Junior Fellow Associate Professor, Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO), Aarhus University, Denmark Area of research: Scientific data visualization Project title: Interdisciplinary visual approaches to molecula 32 AIAS ANNUAL REPORT 2015/16 FELLOWS SONIA CORIANI AIAS COFUND Senior Fellow Associate Professor, Department of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences (DSCF), University of Trieste, Italy Area of Research: Theoretical and Computational Chemistry Project title: Response to challenge: Coupled Cluster R FELLOWS AIAS ANNUAL REPORT 2015/16 33 ÜMIT AKBEY AIAS COFUND Junior Fellow Assistant Professor, Leibniz Institute für Molekulare Pharmakologie Berlin, Germany Area of research: Structural Biology Project title: Fighting Bacterial Infections by Targeting Key Proteins Most bacteria form biofilms to su FELLOWS PUBLICATIONS AND ACTIVITIES 36 AIAS ANNUAL REPORT 2015/16 FELLOWS PUBLICATIONS AND ACTIVITIES FELLOWS PUBLICATIONS AND ACTIVITIES PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS, BOOK CHAPTERS Jürgen Elvert is author of the book chapter Horst Günter Krenzler (1933-2012): A life for Europe in: Trade policy between Law, Diplomacy and Scholarship. Liber Am FELLOWS PUBLICATIONS AND ACTIVITIES AIAS ANNUAL REPORT 2015/16 37 Jan Alber is the author of the paper Innovative Eighteenth-Century Fiction: The Case of the Speaking Objects in Circulation Novels in: Anglistentag 2014 Hannover: Proceedings. Ed. Rainer Emig and Jana Gohrisch. Trier: WVT, 2015. 187- 38 AIAS ANNUAL REPORT 2015/16 FELLOWS PUBLICATIONS AND ACTIVITIES Xuhui Dong is co-author of the article Determining Long-Term Trends of Four Fast-Eutrophicated Lakes in China and Finland in: Journal of Agricultural Science , vol.8 no.1, 2016. Paul W. Denton is first-author of the paper Using anima FELLOWS PUBLICATIONS AND ACTIVITIES AIAS ANNUAL REPORT 2015/16 39 Rima Obeid is co-author of the article DNA methylation profiling reveals differences in the three human monocyte subsets and identifies uremia to induce DNA methylation changes during differentiation in: Epigenetics. 2016 Mar 28:0. 40 AIAS ANNUAL REPORT 2015/16 Morten Kyndrup is author of the review En virkelig historie: Hundrede års ensomhed på finsk in the journal: Standart 1, vol. 30, 2016. Sonia Coriani is co-author of the article Molecular Dipole Moments within the Incremental Scheme using the Domain-Specific Basis-Set FELLOWS PUBLICATIONS AND ACTIVITIES AIAS ANNUAL REPORT 2015/16 41 Amy Iler gave a research talk entitled Temporal variation in pollen limitation of three subalpine plant species at the Scandinavian Pollination Ecology conference, 24 October 2015, Silkeborg, Denmark. Toke T. Høye gave the talk Resil 42 AIAS ANNUAL REPORT 2015/16 Sonia Coriani gave the invited seminar The molecular response to electromagnetic fields: a wonderful playground for a computational chemist at the Department of Physics and Nanotechnology, 9 December 2015, Aalborg University, Denmark. Amy Iler gave the research seminar FELLOWS PUBLICATIONS AND ACTIVITIES AIAS ANNUAL REPORT 2015/16 43 Frants H. Jensen gave the invited talk Communication and spatiotem- poral coordination of deep-diving delphinids, 7 March 2016, Bioscience, Aarhus University, Denmark. Ronald Fischer gave the talk Unpackaging collective ritual: behavi 44 AIAS ANNUAL REPORT 2015/16 Btihaj Ajana was an invited participant at the ID2020 Summit at the United Nations Headquarters, 20 May 2016, New York, USA. Amy Iler gave the guest lecture Phenological shifts and species interactions, 23 May 2016, Center for Macroecology, Evolution, and Climate, Unive FELLOWS PUBLICATIONS AND ACTIVITIES Ronald Fischer went on field research in Mauritius to study participants in an extreme ritual and measure physiological and psychological responses as people go through the ritual (including a follow-up study). Mauritius, 9-18 July 2016. Isabel Kusche presented th 46 AIAS ANNUAL REPORT 2015/16 Consuelo Manetta and Orietta Cordovana in collaboration with Vladimir Stolba, Aarhus University, received a grant of DKK 50,000 by the Carlsberg Foundation for the conference Bifocal Perspectives on the Black Sea, 2 December 2015. Rima Obeid received a FSS-Pregraduate s AIAS Fellow Isabel Kusche presenting at Fellows Monday Lunch. Djuke Veldhuis contributed to the article and the included academic quiz at videnskab.dk : Tip en 13er: Hvad laver forskeren? Online at videnskab. dk: 5 May 2016. Tomasz K. Wojdacz and his research method for cancer diagnostics was quote AIAS EVENTS The AIAS Fellows Seminar Series is a recurrent event at the Institute, but not the only one. Fellows have organized a substantial number of both disciplinary and multi-disciplinary events: conferences, workshops and guest lectures that have created a platform for exchange and collaboration between t AIAS EVENTS AIAS Fellows Seminar: What is Interface Criticism? On aesthetics, criti- cism and the post-digital by AIAS Fellow Christian Ulrik Andersen, 7 September 2015 AIAS Guest Lecture: HIV Persistence: Unraveling the hidden virus from beautiful images by Prof., Dr. Jacob Estes, National Cancer I AIAS EVENTS AIAS Guest Lecture: Aeschylus and War in Europe: Martones Teatro di Guerra by Prof. Isabelle Torrance, Department of Classics, University of Notre Dame, USA; invited by AIAS Fellow Karen ní Mheallaigh, 4 November 2015 AIAS Conference: CoLuAa XXIV 2015: Two-days meeting for macromo- lecul AIAS ANNUAL REPORT 2015/16 AIAS Fellows Seminar: Attributing Political Minds: Narratological Analysis of Politicians Personal Blogs by AIAS Fellow Mari Hatavara, 2 May 2016 AIAS Lecture: Folate and B12 role in one-carbon metabolism and epigenetic regulation by AIAS Fellow Rima Obeid, 11 May 2016 AIA HOSTED EVENTS Institutes and departments at Aarhus University as well as external institutions have continued to utilize the excellent facilities at AIAS. Also in the future, the Institute welcomes AU and external scholars to continue organizing academic events at AIAS and to keep engaging with the AIAS Fellows 56 AIAS ANNUAL REPORT 2015/16 HOSTED EVENTS Workshop: Reproducible Analysis and Dynamic Documents Using Stata organized by E. F. Haghish, University of Freiburg, 1 September 2015 Lundbeckfond Lecture: Gåden bag Astma, Eksem og Allergi organized by Folkeuniversitetet, 2 September 2015 DANDRITE Networ HOSTED EVENTS Conference: Aesthetics, Ethics and Biopolitics of the Posthuman organ- ized by Mads Rosendahl Thomsen and Jakob Wamberg, Faculty of Arts, Aarhus University, 10-11 December 2015 ARC Project: Commencing the Bering Strait Project organized by AIAS Former Fellow Rane Willerslev and Sean ON 58 AIAS ANNUAL REPORT 2015/16 ORGANISATION, STAFF AND FUNDING ORGANISATION, STAFF AND FUNDING BOARD OF DIRECTORS ADVISORY BOARD Jørgen Frøkiær Professor, Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health, Aarhus University, Vice-Chair Bertil Andersson Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Si ORGANISATION, STAFF AND FUNDING AIAS ANNUAL REPORT 2014/15 SELECTION BOARD STAFF Heide Schulz-Vogt Professor. Dr., Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research, Germany Morten Kyndrup AIAS Executive Director, Professor, kyndrupaias.au.dk Li Bennich-Björkman Professor, Uppsala Universitet, Sweden Marian 60 Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies Aarhus University Høegh-Guldbergs Gade 6B DK-8000 Aarhus C Denmark PHONE: +45 8715 3692 E-MAIL: infoaias.au.dk WEB: aias.au.dk AIAS ANNUAL REPORT 2015/16