Previous events - Page 2

By Rosemary Gillespie and George Roderick from the University of California Berkeley, USA

By Lucy Gilbert, University of Glasgow, UK

Evogene proudly presents the first rounds of master flash talks for 2024!  Four master students are currently scheduled to give presentations of their work. 

By Christy Morrissey from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada.

PhD candidate Renate Marie Alling at the Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis 'Environmental and genetic factors affecting endosperm-based post-zygotic hybridization barriers' for the degree of PhD.

Angiosperm species display a huge variation in the form of their inflorescences, flowers and fruits. This diversity has evolved through modifications in the gene regulatory networks (GRNs), which underlie the development of these structures. To understand how gene evolution brings about the divergence of traits, we focus on the MADS-domain transcription factors, which play important roles in the GRNs that regulate flowering and fruit development. We study how gene regulatory networks can change between species, investigating both the specificity of protein-protein and of DNA-protein interactions, as well as divergence in expression profiles. The main topic of our studies is the MADS-domain transcription factor FRUITFULL (FUL), which has a conserved function in the regulation of flowering time, fruit development and woodiness throughout the angiosperms.
 

What does it take to create and sustain environments that support the development of high-level research projects? Registration for the event is now closed.

Genetic screens for antibiotic resistance determinants in Staphylococcus aureus using CRISPR interference libraries.

Morten Kjos is Associate Professor at NMBU

By Knut Wiik Vollset, leader of the Bergen Telemetry Group within the Laboratory for Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (LFI), NORCE Bergen 

The role of transposon activity in shaping cis-regulatory element evolution after whole genome duplication

Simen Rød Sandve is a Professor in genomics at the Faculty of Biosciences at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. 

He will talk about chromatin accessibility, cis-regulatory elements, transposable elements, and whole genome duplication

By Andrew Maccoll, the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom

PhD candidate Melanie Lianne Engelfriet at the Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis 'Characterization of Caenorhabditis elegans METL-13 during health and disease' for the degree of PhD.

PhD candidate Roberto Rossini at the Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "Developing reproducible and efficient computational tools for modeling and analysis of dynamic multi-level 3D genome organization" for the degree of PhD.

The evolution of commensalism in Passer sparrows

Human activity has altered the evolutionary trajectories and ecological circumstances of nearly every species on Earth. What can this tell us about the processes of adaptation and speciation? Can we take advantage of the human impacts on species as means to study evolution and its intersection with ecology? This is the driving aim of my research group, where we use Passer sparrows as a model system. We are focusing on a number of topics including understanding the evolutionary causes and consequences of human-commensalism, repeated adaptation to environmental changes in introduced populations and convergent adaptation to human environments across all bird species. We do this using a multidisciplinary approach including genomics, phylogenetics and ecological analyses. 

This year's Darwin Day event will cover the impact of ancient DNA and the enabling technologies. Open lectures by Anders Götherström, Greger Larson, Christina Warinner, and Phil Slavin.

PhD candidate Adrián Lopez-Porras at the Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "Adaptive Humoral Immunity in Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua), a Teleost Fish with Evolutionary Losses of MHCII and CD4" for the degree of PhD.

Intracellular signaling in bacteria and antimicrobial resistance in a One Health Perspective

Genome sequencing and surveillance of viruses at FHI.

Jon Bråte from FHI (Folkehelseinstituttet; Norwegian Institute of Public Health) will talk about genome sequencing and surveillance of viral pathogens.

The first Evogene seminar of 2024 will be an information meeting where Paul and Kathrine Schou will inform about, among other topics, (tentative) plans for the new Life Science building and the IBV economic situation. 

PhD candidate Sudhagar Balasundaram at the Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "Ecological transitions and evolutionary genomics of the invasive brown rot fungus Serpula lacrymans" for the degree of PhD.

PhD candidate Ane Haarr at the Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "Occurrence and dynamics of organic contaminants in Tanzanian biota: legacies of past production and emerging concerns" for the degree of PhD.

Reidunn Aalen retired with effect from 2023, but she is still a very active professor emerita. We want to invite you to celebrate her contribution to science and education with a symposium!

By Tamara Hiltunen (University of Oulu Finland) and Emmanuel Serrano (Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain)

By Khuong Van Dinh, AQUA, IBV