PhD defenses

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.

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.

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 Dabao Sun Lü at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Fungi contain multitudes: Tempo and modes of evolution in the purplepore bracket fungus Trichaptum" for the degree of PhD.

PhD candidate Yupeng Zhang at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Investigation of methylome, transcriptome and phenotypic changes induced by temperature during asexual and sexual reproduction in the woodland strawberry (Fragaria vesca)" for the degree of PhD.

PhD candidate Nadeem Joudeh at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Escherichia coli-mediated palladium nanoparticle synthesis" for the degree of PhD.

PhD candidate Yuri Stephan van Ekelenburg at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Investigations on Dynamic Regulation of Genomic Imprinting in the Arabidopsis Endosperm" for the degree of PhD.

PhD candidate Ina Meuskens at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Insights into the Binding Mechanism and Function of Bacterial Adhesins - Interactions between YadA and Host Extracellular Matrix Components" for the degree of PhD.

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.

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 Eva Lena Fjeld Estensmo at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "The diversity and seasonality of the indoor mycobiome" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.