Jennie Berglund

I am a PhD student at the Wallenberg Wood Science Center and the division of Wood Chemistry and Pulp Technology.

I work with fundamental research about the structure and properties of hemicelluloses. Understanding how the structure influences their properties is important from a technical aspect since we need more knowledge about these wood polysaccharides in order to increase the technical utilization. This is also important from a biological standpoint, and I want to get a broader understanding about why the nature designed hemicelluloses the way it did.

E-mail: jebergl@kth.se

Publications:

[1] J. Berglund et al., "A molecular dynamics study of the effect of glycosidiclinkage type in the hemicellulose backbone on the molecularchain flexibility," The Plant Journal, 2016.

[2] R. Bi, J. Berglund et al., "The degree of acetylation affects the microbial degradability of mannans," Polymer degradation and stability, vol. 133, pp. 36-46, 2016.

[3] A. Martinez-Abad, J. Berglund et al. "Regular Motifs in Xylan Modulate Molecular Flexibility and Interactions with Cellulose Surfaces". Plant Physiology, vol. 175, 1579-1592, 2017.

[4] J. Berglund et al. "The structure of galactoglucomannan impacts the degradation under alkaline conditions". Cellulose, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10570-018-1737-z, 2018.

[5] Arnling Bååth et al. "Mannanase hydrolysis of spruce galactoglucomannan focusing on the influence of acetylation on enzymatic mannan degradation". Biotechnology for Biofuels, https://doi.org/10.1186/s13068-018-1115-y, 2018.