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DLN has joined in as co-organizer of the Network Biology meeting organized by NORBIS and CCBIO. Highly renowned international speakers are confirmed for the meeting.

For the Evogene seminar Monday 21th August Sundy Maurice and Jørn Henrik Sønstebø will present the project FunGen and a case study of the genetic structure among 11 polypore fungal species. Fungal Conservation Genetics (FunGen) is a collaborative project with NINA, NIBIO and SLU, aiming to reveal the effect of forest fragmentation on the genetic variation of wood-decay fungi throughout Fennoscandia. Jørn Henrik Sønstebø is a population geneticist who has recently joined the mycology Group, will briefly present his background (NMBU, NIBIO, NIVA, NHM, UiO etc. and how FunGen will benefit from his expertise.

We proudly announce the CEED Wilson lecturer for 2017: Professor John Hernlund from the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI), Tokyo Institute of Technology.

Identification of potential adhesin receptors for Yersinia ruckeri: expression and purification of Yersinia ruckeri Invasin

The International Conference on new Frontiers in Physics aims to promote scientific exchange and development of novel ideas in science with a particular accent on interdisciplinarity.

August 17-26 | Crete, Greece

Luca Visinelli, NORDITA

Weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), which are among the best motivated dark matter (DM) candidates, could make up all or only a fraction of the total DM budget. We consider a scenario in which WIMPs are a subdominant DM component; such a scenario would affect both current direct and indirect bounds on the WIMP-nucleon scattering cross section. In this paper we focus on indirect searches for the neutrino flux produced by annihilation of subdominant WIMPs captured by the Sun or the Earth via either spin-dependent or spin-independent scattering. We derive the annihilation rate and the expected neutrino flux at neutrino observatories. In our computation, we include an updated chemical composition of the Earth with respect to the previous literature, leading to an increase of the Earth’s capture rate for spin-dependent scattering by a factor of 3. Results are compared with current bounds from Super-Kamiokande and IceCube. We discuss the scaling of bounds from both direct and indirect detection methods with the WIMP abundance.

(The slides will be available here)

Abstract

For the human population to maintain a constant size from generation to generation, an increase in fertility must compensate for the reduction in the mean fitness of the population caused, among others, by deleterious mutations. The required increase in fertility due to this mutational load depends on the number of sites in the genome that are functional, the mutation rate, and the fraction of deleterious mutations among all mutations in functional regions. These dependencies and the fact that there exists a maximum tolerable replacement level fertility can be used to put an upper limit on the fraction of the human genome that can be functional. Mutational load considerations lead to the conclusion that the functional fraction within the human genome cannot exceed 25%, and is probably considerably lower.

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Master i farmasi Karin Anna Evelina Svensberg ved Farmasøytisk institutt vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d: Facilitators and Barriers to Pharmacists´ Patient Communication: The Pharmacist Profession, the Regulatory Framework, and the Pharmacy Undergraduate Education.

Please access the abstract for detailed information on the contents of this talk.

Target group: PhD students and advanced master students interested in Systems Biology and Systems Medicine. Course elements: lectures, literature study, tutorials and hands-on modelling

The Abel symposium 2017

Late Lunch Talks on brain evolution in vertebrates by Masahito Tsuboi from CEES. 

This Friday, July 7th, we're discussing a recent paper from the American Naturalist by Brombacher et al. (2017): " The Breakdown of Static and Evolutionary Allometries during Climatic Upheaval".

Hope to see you there!

On 4-6 July 2017, the second conference on the mathematics of energy markets will take place at the Wolfgang Pauli Institute (WPI) in Vienna, Austria. The conference is an activity within the thematic program "Mathematics for Risk in Finance and Energy" at the WPI. 

We welcome participants from academia and industry to take part in this event.  

A pre-conference intensive course will be organized on Monday July 3. The course leader will be Professor Almut Veraart, who will give a course on Ambit stochastics with applications to commodity markets. See here for more details on the intensive course.

”Data fitness for use in conservation planning. Conservation of crop wild relatives in Norway”

Master of Science Jiantuo Gan at the Department of Physics will be defending the thesis Synthesis and Characterization of Cu2O/ZnO Heterojunctions for Applications in Thin Film Solar Cells for the degree of Ph.D.

Master i farmasi Giang Thanh Thi Ho ved Farmasøytisk institutt vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d: Bioactive compounds in flowers and fruits of Sambucus nigra L.

Christopher A. Dirdal has submitted his thesis entitled:

“Metamaterial effective parameters”

in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of PhD in Electronics and Telecommunications at the Department of Electronic Systems, NTNU.

Master of Science Jiantuo Gan at the Department of Physics will give a trial lecture on the given topic: "Chemical gas sensors based on ZnO"

Désirée Silvana Treichler at the Department of Geosciences will be defending her dissertation: Measuring mountain glaciers and snow with a spaceborne laser

Kristina Grete Dunkel at the Department of Geosciences will be defending her dissertation: Earthquakes and metamorphism - Microstructural records of their mutual influences

Doctoral candidate Kristina Grete Dunkel at the Department of Geosciences will give a trial lecture on the given topic: The role of phase transformations for deep earthquakes

The role of STAMP2 in the regulation of autophagy in prostate cancer cells

Doctoral candidate Désirée Silvana Treichler at the Department of Geosciences will give a trial lecture on the given topic: Remote-sensing measurements of cryospheric processes