Previous events - Page 14

Welcome to the annual Darwin Day lectures at the University of Oslo! Lectures by Peter R. Grant, B. Rosemary Grant, Arkhat Abzhanov and Leif Andersson. Since Darwin’s time insights from the fields of genetics, genomics, behavior and ecology have continued to illuminate how and why species evolve. At this event you will hear about the progress that has been made in our understanding of speciation and related topics. The event is part of the Oslo Life Science Conference 11–14 February 2019.

Agnieszka Wrobel is defending her degree of PhD and will presnt her thesis for us at the Evogene seminar.

”The establishment of spruce plantations in native birch forests causes major changes in the belowground fungal communities”

Welcome back to a new semester

The first journal club of 2019 will discuss a study by Anderson et al. on the growth and mutations patterns of one single humongous  individual of the  fungus Armillaria gallica.

Marine Group/CEES Extra seminar by Kirstin Meyer-Kaiser

MSc Roza Berhanu Lemma at Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Novel mechanisms controlling the interplay between SUMOylation, chromatin remodeling and transcription — A study of the functional interaction between the SUMO-protease SENP1, the chromatin remodeler CHD3 and the pioneer transcription factor c-Myb for the degree of PhD.

MSc Inger Lise Nerland Bråte at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Microplastics in marine fish and mussels: occurrence and effects for the degree of PhD.

MSc Inger Lise Nerland Bråte at the Department of Biosciences will give a trial lecture on the given topic: Nanotoxicology: Impacts of engineered nanomaterials on aquatic biota

Doctoral candidate MSc Roza Berhanu Lemma at Department of Biosciences will give a trial lecture on the given topic: Epitranscriptomics - gene regulation through RNA modifications.

Marwa Jalal from School of Pharmacy, UiO, will present for us their Flow Cytometry Cell Sorter at an extra seminar on monday 10th of December.

MSc Meriam Guellil at The Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Disease during the Second Plague Pandemic (14th-18th century CE): Genomic, Metagenomic and Phylogenetic Analysis of ancient DNA from putative plague victims for the degree of PhD.

MSc Meriam Guellil at the Department of Biosciences will give a trial lecture on the given topic: Phylogeography - methods, advantages and pitfalls

CEES Extra seminar by Love Dalén, Swedish Museum for Natural History, Stockholm

Pleiotropy and linkage desiquilibrium will be central to discussions at our next journal club. We will discuss the study of Lotterhos et al. giving new insights into the evolution of genetic architectures.

UiO:Life Science is the co-organizer of a pitching competition for life science pre-startups and early phase startups in Helsinki  in December. The event is part of at the SLUSH side-event Y Science. A SPARK Norway team is among the finalists!

Mathias Andreasen, Hengyi Zhu, Eivind Kverme Ronold, Nick Honkoop and Åshild Fandango Kapperud are all fairly fresh master students that will present their projects in a flash Monday 3rd of December.

MSc Inger Kirstine Olsbu at Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Substrate recognition and redox partner identification in nitric oxide synthases for the degree of PhD.

Doctoral candidate MSc Inger Kirstine Olsbu at Department of Biosciences will give a trial lecture on the given topic: Structure and Functions of the Superfamily of Heme-Copper Oxidases

Late Lunch Talk by Melissah Rowe from CEES

Fabio Antenucci from the Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences at the University of Copenhagen will give a talk entitled "Bacterial outer membrane vesicles and their use in vaccine development" at the upcomming Evogene/CIME extra seminar.

We will discuss the recent study of Mohd-Assaad et al. on the genetic basis of local adaptation in a fungal plant pathogen and genome-wide selection scans to identify loci under selection.

Professor Emeritus Klaus Høiland, from our own section, was just granted funding by the Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre for a new project that he will tell us all about on the coming Evogene section seminar.

MSc Berihun Gebremedhin at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Conservation status of the endangered Walia ibex – genetic variation, habitat suitability and climate change impact for the degree of PhD.