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Inger Skrede from Oslo Mycology Group at Evogene will give the talk entitled "Evolutionary necessities for invading buildings, comparative and population genomic analyses in the dry rot fungus".

Speakers: Eörs Szathmáry, Ferenc Jordan, and András Báldi. [Update: Gabor Foldvari's talk on "Urban ecology of tick-borne diseases: how to anticipate?" has been moved to Wednesday 25 April.]

By Gabor Foldvari, Department of Parasitology and Zoology, University of Veterinary Medicine, Budapest

The theme this year is “Autoimmun sykdom: Arv og miljø”

By Dr. Han Wang, Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University, Yangling and Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.

Daniel Slade from Department of Biochemistry at Virginia Tech, US, will present his talk entitled "Identification and characterization of Fusobacterium nucleatum virulence factors critical for host-pathogen interactions in colorectal cancer"

Henrik Kvalheim Eriksen (Linke group): Colicins - a future tool in preventing bacterial diseases?

Sai Priya Sharma Kandanur (Leo group): Role of Secondary Structure Elements in the Translocator Domain of the Inverse Autotranporter Protein Intimin

Verena Mertes (Butenko group): A Phosphoproteomics approach to unravel the IDA Signalling Pathway

By Erik Svensson, professor in evolutionary ecology at Lund University, Sweden.

Cand. scient. Cecilie Kåsi Nesset at Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Gene Trapping of GLMP Results in a Novel Mouse Model of Liver Fibrosis for the degree of PhD.

Doctoral candidate cand. scient. Cecilie Kåsi Nesset at Department of Biosciences will give a trial lecture on the given topic: Liver fibrosis - Causes, mechanisms and consequences

MSc Addisu Mekonnen Kassie at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Effects of habitat fragmentation and degradation on Bale monkeys (Chlorocebus djamdjamensis) in southern Ethiopia: Integrating ecology, behaviour and population genetics for the degree of PhD.

MSc Addisu Mekonnen Kassie at the Department of Biosciences will give a trial lecture on the given topic: Discuss the potential role of behavioural flexibility in how primates deal with habitat disturbance and how does this potential vary among species

MSc Helle Tessand Baalsrud at Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Adaptation to extremes: How ocean depth and freezing have shaped the evolution of codfishes and notothenioids – a genomic perspective for the degree of PhD

MSc Helle Tessand Baalsrud at the Department of Biosciences will give a trial lecture on the given topic: The role of gene and genome duplication in biological innovation

Principal Investigator Jay F Storz, University of Nebraska.

Yuri van Ekelenburg "The role of small RNA in genomic imprinting and plant fertilization"

Anne Greulich "Cross-generational analysis of short tandem repeat variation in the A.thaliana and G. morhua genome"

Chiara Di Luca - "Mechanisms and drivers of antimicrobial resistance"

Marie Leys - "Phylogeography and evolutionary history of a widespread endophytic fungus of Norway spruce (Lophodermium piceae)"

Jack Leo will give a presentation (~1 h) about his recent trip to Tanzania, which included visiting three national parks, so there will be plenty of pictures of animals (and even a few of plants - and fungi!). Bring some refreshments and enjoy! On Friday 23.2. at 4pm, EvoGene lunchroom.

MSc Mark Adam Scott at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Mitochondrial survival without oxygen for the degree of PhD.

Doctoral candidate MSc Mark Adam Scott at Department of Biosciences will give a trial lecture on the given topic: Why are not all animals tolerant to hypoxia?

Master students

Hawzeen Salah Khalil from The Leo Group will give a short talk entitled "Co-aggregation properties of trimeric autotransporter adhesins"

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Øyvind S. Gulbrandsen from The Morphoplex Group will give a short talk entitled "A multi-gene phylogeny of the green algae (Chlorophyta)"

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Renate Marie Alling from Aalen Group will give a short introduction to her newly started master project entitled "Evolution and molecular function of IDA-LIKE peptides"

MSc Marita Borg Distefano at Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Identification of novel roles of Rab proteins regulating transport between endosomes and Golgi for the degree of PhD.

Doctoral candidate MSc Marita Borg Distefano at Department of Biosciences will give a trial lecture on the given topic:Endocytosis: Vesicular trafficking or organelle maturation?

By Dieter Ebert, Universität Basel, Switzerland

Welcome to the annual Darwin Day celebration at the University of Oslo! This open event is for everybody interested in science and history. All are welcome! Lectures by C. Jessica E. Metcalf, Carla Saleh, Dieter Ebert, Olivia Roth and Sophie Vanwambeke. The event is part of the Oslo Life Science Conference 12–15 February 2018.