Events - Page 2

Entering new dimensions of the genome

The mycobiont community above the alpine forest line may act as a barrier to seedling establishment of Betula pubescens.

PhD candidate Chris Hadjineophytou at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Protein glycosylation in the genus Neisseria: coordinated evolution of glycan biosynthesis and substrate targeting" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Investigating the effects of loop modifications on the folding of outer membrane protein X

Doctoral candidate Ina Jungersen Andresen at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Genomic- and transcriptomic investigations of the giant green alga Acetabularia acetabulum Resurrecting a forgotten model system to study cell morphogenesis" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate  at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Molecular investigation of receptor kinase signaling specificity in Arabidopsis thaliana" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Assessing local adaptations in a widespread forest fungus by in vitro growth experiments

Doctoral candidate Thomas Trunk at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Characterization and comparative analyses of type Vd-secreted phospholipases expressed in pathogenic bacteria" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Lophiostomataceae and Lophiotremataceae - A phylogenetic and taxonomic study of two ascomycete families.

Seed based hybridization barriers in Cochlearia

Synnøve Smebye Botnen at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Biodiversity in the dark: root-associated fungi in the Arctic for the degree of PhD.

Changes in the soil fungal community across the mountain birch forest line ecotone

Peptide Signaling and the Evolution of Land Plants

Outer membrane vesicles produced by respiratory tract bacteria are powerful weapons for increased survival in the host.

Silvia Bulgheresi

Assistant professor, University of Vienna

Decennia of research on model organisms has provided us with a wealth of biochemical detail and in-depth understanding of mitochondria. But, do we really understand mitochondrial biochemistry?

Allison Williams is a researcher at Institut Pasteur, Department of Microbiology in France. 

The team representing UiO at this years iGEM will present their project

Peris is currently a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Agrochemistry and Food Technology in Valencia, Spain. In December he will move to Oslo and start a post doc position at EvoGene, working on genomics of fungal speciation with Inger Skrede and the Oslo Mycology Group.

MSc Nelson Wang at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Bacterial protein glycosylation: a perspective from the genus Neisseria for the degree of PhD.

Professor Michael Hickerson from the City College of New York will give a presentation entitled "Merging Comparative Phylogeography with Community Ecology with high-throughput biodiversity surveys".

Three researchers from the University of Minnesota will present their work on fish health/aquatox, resistome assessments and distribution of antibiotic resistance through birds.  

”Functional and evolutionary investigations of the plant signaling peptide IDL1”

Molecular Mechanism of Hairpin Formation and Passenger Secretion in the Inverse Autotransporter Intimin