Cecilie Ida Cetti Hansen

Cecilie Ida Cetti Hansen serves as a Guest Researcher in the Section for Plant Biochemistry within the Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences at the University of Copenhagen's Faculty of Science. Her research primarily focuses on plant specialized metabolism, with particular expertise in cytochrome P450 enzymes and their role in plant chemical defense mechanisms. Hansen has established and maintains the Plant Cytochrome P450 Database, a comprehensive resource cataloging published land plant cytochromes P450 with known substrates.

Her research interests center around plant specialized metabolism, particularly the evolution and plasticity of biosynthetic pathways. Hansen investigates how plants develop chemical defense systems through the evolution of enzyme families like cytochrome P450s and UDP-glycosyltransferases. Her work spans multiple plant families including Eucalyptus and Brassicaceae, examining how chemical defense mechanisms evolve through gene duplication, neofunctionalization, and pathway assembly. She employs advanced biochemical and analytical techniques including HPLC-MS/MS to characterize plant metabolites and their biosynthetic pathways.

Hansen's publication record demonstrates consistent contributions to understanding plant metabolic evolution, with a particular focus on cytochrome P450 enzymes and their redox partners. Her research reveals how plants dynamically evolve chemical defense systems through recruitment of enzyme families and how membrane organization facilitates metabolic channeling. Her work spans fundamental enzymology to evolutionary biology, providing insights into how plants generate chemical diversity as an adaptive strategy.

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Hansen's research has garnered significant attention in the scientific community, with multiple publications receiving substantial citations and mentions across academic platforms. Her work has been referenced in Wikipedia pages, picked up by news outlets, and widely shared among researchers on academic social media platforms. As a Guest Researcher, she continues to advance our understanding of plant metabolic evolution and specialized metabolism.