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Marc Abraham is founder of the Ig Nobel Award ceremony and editor of the Journal of Improbable Research. Ig Nobel prizes are awarded in a wide range of disciplines for research that makes people LAUGH, then THINK.

MSc Sandra Gran Stadniczeñko at Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis DIVERSITY AND COMMUNITY DYNAMICS OF PROTISTS AND THEIR VIRUSES IN THE SKAGERRAK for the degree of PhD.

Prof. Dr. Elena Conti from The Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany and Botanic Garden at University of Zurich, Switzerland, will give the talk entitled "Heterostyly: From ecology to genomics".

Doctoral candidate MSc Sandra Gran Stadniczeñko at Department of Biosciences will give a trial lecture on the given topic: Ecological community assembly theory and its application to microbes

Russ Hodge has witnessed “the good, the bad, and the completely ridiculous” sides of science and its practitioners. In this talk he presents some of the funniest highlights.

Guest researcher, Cristian Oliver, from  Universisdad Austral de Chile will give the joint EVOGENE-CIME Seminar on the 8th of April. He will give the talk entitled "Piscirickettsia salmonis: a fastidious pathogen for the Chilean aquaculture industry".

By Rob Salguero-Gomez from Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, U.K.

MSc Ella Thoen at Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Functional versatility and diversity in the plant root mycobiome for the degree of PhD.

Doctoral candidate MSc Ella Thoen at Department of Biosciences will give a trial lecture on the given topic: Decomposition activity by ectomycorrhizal fungi - potential and ecological significance - lessons from culturing, enzymology to the omics area

Identification and Functional Characterization of microRNAs in Ichthyosporea.

By Rubao Ji from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, U.S.

Seminar for the associate professorship position within protein biochemistry: "Rewiring DNA repair for genome stability or genome haploidisation" by Joao Matos from ETH, Zürich.

Seminar for the associate professorship position within protein biochemistry: "How antibiotics kill bacterial protein production and how bacteria fight back" by Vasili Hauryliuk from Umeå University, Umeå.

MSc Heidi Dietrichson Pharo at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Urine-based detection of bladder cancer - optimizing technology and identifying DNA methylation biomarkers for the degree of PhD.

MSc Heidi Dietrichson Pharo at the Department of Biosciences will give a trial lecture on the given topic: The diversity of liquid biopsies in cancer - opportunities and technological Challenges.

Seminar for the associate professorship position within protein biochemistry: "ADP- ribosylation in health and in disease" by Herwig Schüler from Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm.

Seminar for the associate professorship position within protein biochemistry: "An extracellular network of Arabidopsis receptor kinases controls plant development and defenses" by Elwira Smakowska from Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, Wien.

Seminar for the associate professorship position within protein biochemistry: "Centromere - part of the chromosome that ensures genomic stability" by Nikolina Sekulic from NCMM and Department of Chemistry, UiO.

Seminar for the associate professorship position within protein biochemistry: "Structural redox biochemistry: A flavin-based enzyme activation network" by Hans-Petter Hersleth from Department of Biosciences, UiO.

We will discuss the recent study of Gray et al. that uses ecological niche modelling and coalescent analyses to infer the phylogeography of the Anolis sericeus complex.

Enrique Rojas from The Center for Genomics & Systems Biology, Department of Biology, New York University, US, will give the talk entitled "Comparative Mechanics of Cell Growth and Survival".

David Bass from The Centre for Environment, Aquaculture and Fisheries Science (Cefas) at the The Natural History Museum in London, UK, will give the talk entitled "Host-associated eukaryotes: another tip of the iceberg".

Romain Briandet from the Micalis Institute, a mixed research unit associating INRA, AgroParisTech and the Paris-Saclay University Project, is here to serve as an opponent for Agnieszka Wrobels defense. He will give a talk at an Evogene Extra seminar entitled "Biofilm, the third dimension that makes the difference".

Keywords: biofilms, architecture, antimicrobials, bacterial pathogens, multispecies interactions, real-time confocal imaging.

MSc Agnieszka Wrobel at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Structural and functional studies of the Yersinia ruckeri inverse autotransporters for the degree of PhD.