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PhD candidate Daniel Hatlem at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Probing the role of lipopolysaccharides in Gram-negative protein secretion and biogenesis" for the degree of PhD.

Biological effects of host defence peptides; templates for future medicine.

Professor Christophe Fraser, University of Oxford.

By Johan Watz from Karlstad University, Sweden

By Ronald Jenner from the Natural History Museum, London, UK

By Andy Foote from NTNU, Norway

Open lectures by Detlef Weigel (Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen, Germany) and Anna Wargelius (Institute of Marine Research, Norway). Darwin Day is an international recognition of science and humanity, held in memory of Charles Darwin.

Lectures by visiting guest researchers Mesele Yihune Tamene, Tilaye Wube Hailemariam, Nega Tassie Abate, and Gashaw Tilahun Desta

By Anna Sturrock from the University of Essex, UK

Dr Philos candidate Tore Qvenild at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Climatic impact on the crustacean species Lepidurus arcticus, Gammarus lacustris and Eurycercus lamellatus on brown trout Salmo trutta production in a high mountain area in Southern Norway" for the degree of Dr Philos.

By Rebecca Taylor from Trent University, Ontario, Canada

PhD candidate Svenja Christiansen at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "From acoustic scattering layers to individuals - behaviour of a mesopelagic fish at different scales" for the degree of PhD.

PhD candidate Anna Theresia Maria ter Schure at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Dung, Dirt & DNA: unearthing past and present biodiversity through eDNA metabarcoding" for the degree of PhD.

By Sandra Garces Pastor from UiT The Arctic University of Norway

PhD candidate Elisabeth Lundsør at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Phytoplankton community dynamics in the Oslofjorden based on a century long time series" for the degree of PhD.

By Micah Dunthorn from the Natural History Museum, University of Oslo

PhD candidate Anette Johansen at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Omics approaches to study mechanisms of anoxia tolerance in crucian carp (Carassius carassius)" for the degree of PhD.

PhD candidate William B. Reinar at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Genomic short tandem repeats as modulators of gene expression and protein function" for the degree of PhD.

PhD candidate Johannes C. Rusch at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Environmental DNA (eDNA) monitoring of two different  freshwater host-pathogen complexes in the interface between nature and aquaculture" for the degree of PhD.

PhD candidate Tonje Sønstevold at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Implications of poly(alkyl cyanoacrylate) nanoparticle- induced cellular stress responses with focus on autophagy" for the degree of PhD.

Evogene and OMG are this week hosting three researchers from the French Agricultural Institute (INRA) in Marseilles. They are here in the frame of a collaborative effort between France and Norway through the EU project AURORA -DAAD.

Speakers: Quentin Albert and David Navarro

Evogene and OMG are this week hosting three researchers from the French Agricultural Institute (INRA) in Marseilles. They are here in the frame of a collaborative effort between France and Norway through the EU project AURORA -DAAD.

Speaker: Marie Noelle Rosso

Eörs Szathmáry, Institute of Evolution, Centre for Ecological Research, Budapest and Parmendes Foundation Pullach/Munich 

Open lectures by C. Jessica E. Metcalf and John-Arne Røttingen. The topics are the ecology and evolution of hosts and pathogens, and translating science to policy – the case of pandemic preparedness and response.