2019

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.

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.  

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.

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".

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.

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