Previous events

PhD candidate Tilde Katrina Slotte Hjermann at the Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis 'Habitat selection, migration timing, and grazing patterns of red deer in an agroecosystem' for the degree of PhD.

By Camilla Wikenros from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, and Stein Joar Hegland from Western Norway University of Applied Sciences

PhD candidate Lars Lindsø at the Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis 'The role of small mammals in the enzootic cycle of Lyme disease in northern Europe' for the degree of PhD.

PhD candidate Synne Arstad Bjørnestad at the Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis 'Shedding light onto the MHC I and TLRs of Atlantic cod, a teleost naturally lacking MHC II' for the degree of PhD.

PhD candidate Ejigu Alemayehu Worku at the Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending his thesis 'The mountain nyala in changing landscapes: behavioral ecology, habitat suitability modeling, and land use land cover change' for the degree of PhD.

By Mick Westbury, the Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen

PhD candidate Sabrina Schultze at the Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis 'From the land to the sea: Dynamics and ecotoxicological implications of rising levels of terrestrially derived organic matter entering river and fjord systems' for the degree of PhD.

By Mirco Bundshu, Head of the iES Landau, from the Institute for Environmental Sciences, Germany

PhD candidate Jingyun Wu at the Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis 'Therapeutic Potential of FTY in Huntington's Disease: Insights from the zQ175dn Mouse Model' for the degree of PhD.

Nils Chr. Stenseth from CEES/IBV will give the talk: "Reconstructing the environmental, biological, and societal drivers of plague outbreaks in Eurasia between 1300 and 1900 CE (Synergy-Plague)"

In this talk, the ERC Synergy project on plague (Synergy-Plague) will be presented. Essentially, the interview presentation given before the ERC panel in Brussels on Sept 11, 2023 will be presented https://www.mn.uio.no/ibv/english/research/projects/synergy-plague/.
This will then be followed by a summary of how we got the this funding - the design of the project, the project development and the proposal writing, the preparation for the interview, etc.

At this seminar there will be four 20 minutes lectures by Isabel Barrio, Mathilde Defourneaux, Stefaniya Kamenova and James Speed. Organised by CEES, this seminar is open for all.

PhD candidate Siv Nam Khang Hoff at the Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis 'Elucidating genome-wide divergence and prevalence of chromosomal rearrangements in keystone Arctic teleosts' for the degree of PhD.

By Craig Primmer from the University of Helsinki, and Josefin Stiller from the University of Copenhagen

By Professor Adriana Sánchez from Universidad del Rosario in Colombia.

In this joint EVOGENE/CEES seminar, professor Adriana Sánchez from Universidad del Rosario in Colombia will give the talk: "Challenges and opportunities in the open ecosystems of Colombia"

Colombia is well-known as the second most biodiverse country in the world. While much research has focused on the tropical rainforests, other ecosystems like the tropical alpine (páramo) and savannas remain relatively understudied. Páramos are neotropical alpine grasslands, located at elevations above 3000 m in the Andean mountain range. They are recognized as one of the fastest-evolving hotspots, characterized by high levels of endemism and over 3500 species of flora. In contrast, the lowland savannas, constituting about 25% of Colombian territory and 30% of its wetlands, have received comparatively less attention in biodiversity studies, despite an estimated 35% of species being endemic to the region. Both grasslands have very different abiotic conditions although fire used to be a common disturbance. This talk aims to introduce both ecosystems, ongoing projects, and potential avenues for future collaborative research.

By Dorte Bekkevold, Senior Researcher at National Institute for Aquatic Resources, Technical University of Denmark

The REPEAT group (PIs: Kjetill S. Jakobsen and Melinka A. Butenko) are interested in the functional and evolutionary importance of short tandem repeats in genomes. Short tandem repeats are common, but hypermutable regions. This leads to a high number of short tandem repeat variants in a population. We have combined population genomics and experimental approaches to study the impact of short tandem repeat alleles in Arabidopsis, with emphasis on their role in gene regulation and how they impact protein function. Based on our findings from Arabidopsis, we conducted a study of repeats across 1,270 species, including animal, fungal, plant, and other eukaryotic genomes. In this seminar I will present the results from this (recently submitted) study.

NB: NEW DATE MAY 16.

At this seminar there will be three 30 minute lectures by Peter Hudson, Ottar N. Bjørnstad, and Andy Dobson. Organized by CEES & Centre for Pandemics and One-Health Research (P1H). The seminar is open for all.

By Sonia Altizer, Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens GA, USA. The seminar is open for all.

PhD candidate Emilie Hernes Vereide at the Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis 'The Effects of Seismic Surveys on Marine Zooplankton' for the degree of PhD.

By Sean Stankowski, The University of Sussex, UK 

By Thorsten Reusch, from GEOMAR Kiel, Germany

By Assistant Professor Dr. Emiliano Trucchi from the University of Ancona, Italy

In this symposium, experts from various disciplines will illuminate the impacts of polyploidization. Polyploidization is a process in genetics where an organism acquires more than two complete sets of chromosomes.

Registration is appreciated to count potential attendees.