2020

PhD candidate Elise Holter Thompson at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Perineuronal nets in memory processing and behavior" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Dr Philos candidate Eve M. Jourdain at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Dietary variations and specializations of killer whales (Orcinus orca) in Norway" for the degree of Dr Philos.

Doctoral candidate Martin Falck at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Differentiation of human embryonic stem cells towards neural progenitor cells to study the effect of paracetamol on prenatal brain development" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

PhD candidate Christine Syrowatka at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Evolvability and Robustness: A Paradox in Evolutionary Theory" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Vilte Stonyte at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Different aspects of the response to environmental challenges in fission yeast: roles of PP2A-B56 and a novel 4E-BP" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Tariku Mekonnen Gutema at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Behavioral ecology of the African wolf (Canis lupaster) and its implication for Ethiopian wolf (Canis simensis) conservation in the Ethiopian Highlands" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Lise Ellefsen Sandquist at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Novel mechanisms of DNA damage and replication stress signaling: Functional roles of the WDR82/PNUTS-PP1 phosphatase complex" 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.

Doctoral candidate Hedda Johannesen at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Unmasking the Assassin - A structural and functional analysis of the anti-tumour antibody 14F7: providing new insight into the NeuGc GM3 binding mechanism" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Ketil Stoknes at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Circular food; crops from digested waste in a controlled environment" 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 Synnøve Smebye Botnen ved Institutt for biovitenskap vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden PhD: Biodiversity in the dark: root-associated fungi in the Arctic.

MSc Sissel Hauge at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Targeting cancer cells through inhibition of cell cycle checkpoint kinases for the degree of PhD.