Events - Page 3

Professor Emeritus James Anderson, University of Toronto will present a talk entitled "Clonal evolution and genome stability in a 2500 year old fungal individual".

Marie Curie researcher Andrej Ondracka from Multicellgenome Lab at IBE-CSIC will present "The coenocytic cycle of Sphaeroforma and the origins of animal development"

Title: The role of environmental factors in shaping the population structure of anaerobic subsurface microorganisms.

Camilla Nesbø, Research associate, University of Toronto ​

Title: Antibiotic resistance, transmission and population genomics of the Klebsiella genus

Edward Feil, Professor, University of Bath

Marie Curie researcher Pedro Martin-Sanchez from Oslo Mycology Group (OMG) at the Evogene Section will present a talk entitled "Material-deteriorating fungi - from rock-art caves to your house"

Simen Hermansen, Håkon Muland Kenich, Tor Arne Justad and Mathias Andreasen are all master students at the EVOGENE section. They will present their projects in a flash Monday 6th of May.

MSc Ida Marie Johannessen at Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Endosperm-based post-zygotic hybridization barriers in Arabidopsis for the degree of PhD.

Prof. Dr. Elena Conti from The Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany and Botanic Garden at University of Zurich, Switzerland, will give the talk entitled "Heterostyly: From ecology to genomics".

Guest researcher, Cristian Oliver, from  Universisdad Austral de Chile will give the joint EVOGENE-CIME Seminar on the 8th of April. He will give the talk entitled "Piscirickettsia salmonis: a fastidious pathogen for the Chilean aquaculture industry".

MSc Ella Thoen at Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Functional versatility and diversity in the plant root mycobiome for the degree of PhD.

Identification and Functional Characterization of microRNAs in Ichthyosporea.

We will discuss the recent study of Gray et al. that uses ecological niche modelling and coalescent analyses to infer the phylogeography of the Anolis sericeus complex.

Enrique Rojas from The Center for Genomics & Systems Biology, Department of Biology, New York University, US, will give the talk entitled "Comparative Mechanics of Cell Growth and Survival".

David Bass from The Centre for Environment, Aquaculture and Fisheries Science (Cefas) at the The Natural History Museum in London, UK, will give the talk entitled "Host-associated eukaryotes: another tip of the iceberg".

Romain Briandet from the Micalis Institute, a mixed research unit associating INRA, AgroParisTech and the Paris-Saclay University Project, is here to serve as an opponent for Agnieszka Wrobels defense. He will give a talk at an Evogene Extra seminar entitled "Biofilm, the third dimension that makes the difference".

Keywords: biofilms, architecture, antimicrobials, bacterial pathogens, multispecies interactions, real-time confocal imaging.

MSc Agnieszka Wrobel at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Structural and functional studies of the Yersinia ruckeri inverse autotransporters for the degree of PhD.

Agnieszka Wrobel is defending her degree of PhD and will presnt her thesis for us at the Evogene seminar.

”The establishment of spruce plantations in native birch forests causes major changes in the belowground fungal communities”

Welcome back to a new semester

The first journal club of 2019 will discuss a study by Anderson et al. on the growth and mutations patterns of one single humongous  individual of the  fungus Armillaria gallica.

 

Marwa Jalal from School of Pharmacy, UiO, will present for us their Flow Cytometry Cell Sorter at an extra seminar on monday 10th of December.

Pleiotropy and linkage desiquilibrium will be central to discussions at our next journal club. We will discuss the study of Lotterhos et al. giving new insights into the evolution of genetic architectures.

Mathias Andreasen, Hengyi Zhu, Eivind Kverme Ronold, Nick Honkoop and Åshild Fandango Kapperud are all fairly fresh master students that will present their projects in a flash Monday 3rd of December.

Fabio Antenucci from the Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences at the University of Copenhagen will give a talk entitled "Bacterial outer membrane vesicles and their use in vaccine development" at the upcomming Evogene/CIME extra seminar.

We will discuss the recent study of Mohd-Assaad et al. on the genetic basis of local adaptation in a fungal plant pathogen and genome-wide selection scans to identify loci under selection.