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Exploring the functional relevance of genetic regions associated with rheumatoid arthritis

Liliana Velasco-Sevilla, Universität Hamburg

The Standard Model (SM) has successfully described most part of the interactions of elementary particles, however it has many free parameters, most of them related to the masses and the mixing of its fermions. The Higgs mechanism explains the existence the SM fermion masses, but it does not explain the mass spectrum, the mixing pattern and the number of generations of matter. These three last issues are collectively known as the flavour problem and the Charge-Parity (CP) violation is known as the CP problem.

Flavour and CP observables constrain severely extensions of the SM. However, this is a chance to test mechanisms that could solve flavour and CP issues and which may be only realizable in supersymmetry or other extensions of the SM. Then, I will review recent flavour and CP observations. In the third part, I will talk about the possibilities to solve these problems in supersymmetry. Finally, I will mention perspectives to identify signatures of the supersymmetric flavour violating parameters from experiments at the LHC. 

Guillaume Sauvin at the Department of Geosciences will be defending his dissertation: Integrated geophysics for mapping of quick-clay landslide-prone areas in Norway

Doctoral candidate Guillaume Sauvin at the Department of Geosciences will give a trial lecture on the given topic: The life of a landslide monitored through geophysics

Friday seminar by Christos Lynteris

Welcome to the GeoHyd Lunch Seminar Friday 4 April. Meet up in AUD I in the Geology building.

Cand. pharm Maria Ulvestad ved Farmasøytisk institutt vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d: Studies of hepatic drug transport and metabolism in different model systems.

Prof. Sigbjorn Hervik, University of Stavanger

This week we will discuss the genetics of body shape divergence. We will read a paper by Franchini et al. entitled "Genomic architecture of ecologically divergent body shape in a pair of sympatric crater lake cichlid fishes". This paper was recently published in Molecular Ecology alongside a perspective piece by Rogers and Jamniczky entitled "The shape of things to come in the study of the origin of species?".

Dr. Alexander Schnurr (TU Dortmund) holder et seminar med tittelen: A Canonical Way to Derive Properties of Lévy-Type Processes

Bryan Zaldivar, Université Libre de Bruxelles

This talk is about mechanisms to generate the observed Dark Matter abundance, which has not been in thermal equilibrium with the radiation plasma in the early universe. They are complementary to the standard "WIMP" paradigm. Special focus on the inflationary reheating period is given. Finally, some thoughts about possible implications of primordial gravitational waves's measurements on Dark Matter are presented.

Identification and Modulation of Esterases Involved in the Metabolism of Heroin

Friday seminar by Juha Merilä

Welcome to the GeoHyd Lunch Seminar Friday 28 March. Meet up in AUD I in the Geology building.

Master i farmasi Paula Marie Bräunlich ved Farmasøytisk institutt vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d: Bioactive constituents in aronia berries.

Signe Riemer-Sørensen, Post-Doctoral researcher, ITA

We read an older paper on distinguishing between the Red Queen and Court Jester today. Download the pdf here: Barnkosky 2001 Paleobiology

This week we will discuss an interesting perspective on phenotypic evolution, slightly outside the topic of speciation but definitely of high interest to many of us. I hope many of you can join. The paper we will discuss is a perspective by Stevan J. Arnold entitled "Phenotypic evolution: the ongoing synthesis".

Peygham Ghaffari Nooran at the Department of Geosciences will be defending his dissertation: Wind and wave-induced currents over sloping bottom topography, with application to the Caspian Sea

Doctoral candidate Peygham Ghaffari Nooran at the Department of Geosciences will give a trial lecture on the given topic: Instabilities in the atmosphere and oceans

Professor Massimo Fornasier, from the Technical University of Munich, is visiting the department /CMA. This is his second lecture.

Friday seminar by Nicholas Salamin

Welcome to the GeoHyd Lunch Seminar Friday 21 March. Meet up in AUD I in the Geology building.

Mohamed Amedjkouh, Professor, Kjemisk institutt, UiO