Research events

PhD candidate Tilde Katrina Slotte Hjermann at the Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis 'Habitat selection, migration timing, and grazing patterns of red deer in an agroecosystem' for the degree of PhD.

By Camilla Wikenros from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, and Stein Joar Hegland from Western Norway University of Applied Sciences

PhD candidate Lars Lindsø at the Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis 'The role of small mammals in the enzootic cycle of Lyme disease in northern Europe' for the degree of PhD.

PhD candidate Ejigu Alemayehu Worku at the Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending his thesis 'The mountain nyala in changing landscapes: behavioral ecology, habitat suitability modeling, and land use land cover change' for the degree of PhD.

By Mick Westbury, the Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen

By Mirco Bundshu, Head of the iES Landau, from the Institute for Environmental Sciences, Germany

The paper we will discuss: “Regulatory evolution of innate immunity through co-option of endogenous retroviruses?” by Chuong et al. (2016)

The event is open to anyone interested in attending. Topics include: Scientific talks by EMBO community members, information on funding opportunities for life scientists in Norway, initiatives in scientific publishing and Open Science, and innovative publishing policies. Please register to attend.

At this seminar there will be four 20 minutes lectures by Isabel Barrio, Mathilde Defourneaux, Stefaniya Kamenova and James Speed. Organised by CEES, this seminar is open for all.

PhD candidate Siv Nam Khang Hoff at the Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis 'Elucidating genome-wide divergence and prevalence of chromosomal rearrangements in keystone Arctic teleosts' for the degree of PhD.

By Craig Primmer from the University of Helsinki, and Josefin Stiller from the University of Copenhagen

By Professor Adriana Sánchez from Universidad del Rosario in Colombia.

By Dorte Bekkevold, Senior Researcher at National Institute for Aquatic Resources, Technical University of Denmark

Late Lunch Talk by Iris Bea Ramiro

The REPEAT group (PIs: Kjetill S. Jakobsen and Melinka A. Butenko) are interested in the functional and evolutionary importance of short tandem repeats in genomes. Short tandem repeats are common, but hypermutable regions. This leads to a high number of short tandem repeat variants in a population. We have combined population genomics and experimental approaches to study the impact of short tandem repeat alleles in Arabidopsis, with emphasis on their role in gene regulation and how they impact protein function. Based on our findings from Arabidopsis, we conducted a study of repeats across 1,270 species, including animal, fungal, plant, and other eukaryotic genomes. In this seminar I will present the results from this (recently submitted) study.

NB: NEW DATE MAY 16.

This workshop will feature talks from esteemed scientists, covering topics such as zoonoses, spread of infectious diseases, animal movement and more. Registration to attend the event at the Academy is closed, but you can follow the event via streaming.

At this seminar there will be three 30 minute lectures by Peter Hudson, Ottar N. Bjørnstad, and Andy Dobson. Organized by CEES & Centre for Pandemics and One-Health Research (P1H). The seminar is open for all.

By Sonia Altizer, Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens GA, USA. The seminar is open for all.

By Sean Stankowski, The University of Sussex, UK 

By Thorsten Reusch, from GEOMAR Kiel, Germany

By Assistant Professor Dr. Emiliano Trucchi from the University of Ancona, Italy

PhD candidate Asena Goren at the Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis 'Exploring the roles of seasonality and demography in tick borne disease dynamics' for the degree of PhD.

By Rosemary Gillespie and George Roderick from the University of California Berkeley, USA