Tidligere arrangementer - Side 14

PhD candidate Fabienne Krauer at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Temperature, toponyms and thresholds. A modelling approach to understanding the spread of plague during the second pandemic" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Blocking the Inhibitory Prostaglandin E2 Signaling Pathway with Small Molecules to Restore T Cell Function

Late Lunch Talk by Anneke ter Schure

By Alexander Eiler from the Section for Aquatic Biology and Toxicology, Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo

This week we discuss a paper on genomics of rapid parallel adaptation in the marine snail Littorina saxatilis.

Organelle DNA is less protected than nuclear DNA and the risk of mutations could be high. How do eukaryotic organelles avoid the gradual buildup of deleterious mutations in the organelle DNA until function is lost?

By Mikkel Sinding from the Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College, Dublin/Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen

Late Lunch Talk by Rita Austin

This year's Darwin Day event covers the topic of evolution and medicine. Speakers: Charles Swanton, Felicia Keesing, and Bruce Levin. This event is part of the Oslo Life Science Conference 2021.

Årets Darwin Day tar for seg evolusjon og medisin. Foredragsholdere: Charles Swanton, Felicia Keesing, og Bruce Levin.

This week we discuss a paper on pollen and eDNA preserved in old guano deposits from two caves in Jamaica.

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.

Structural and functional studies of the inhibition of peptide deformylase – A potential antibiotic target

Doctoral candidate Misganaw Tamrat Gessese at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Conservation status and behavioral ecology of the endangered Swayne’s hartebeest (Alcelaphus buselaphus swaynei) in Ethiopia" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

This week we discuss a paper on connectivity and structure in albacore tuna inferred from morphometrics, genetics and modelling particle drift modelling.

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

By Barbara Fischer, University of Vienna, Austria

Late Lunch Talk by Eivind Andreas Baste Undheim

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.

Ecology and connectivity of coastal spawning areas of pleuronectidae as inferred from egg distribution and oceanographic modelling

This week we discuss a paper on genome skimming. The paper presents the potential for using low-coverage shotgun data for species identification, moving forward from more traditional barcoding approaches.

Turf mats characterization along the Norwegian Skagerrak coastline

A Study of Ex Vivo Drug Screen Survival Predictions in AML Patients for Clinical Application

Attachment sites of different life stages of Ixodes ricinus ticks and infection of tick-borne pathogens in roe deer, red fox, badger and squirrel

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.

Post-transcriptional gene regulation in developing oocytes of C. elegans

This week we discuss a paper on structural genomic variation. The study reports on resequencing of >1000 wild sunflowers and finds large non-recombining haplotype blocks that are associated with ecologically relevant traits and soil and climate characteristics.

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.

Development of a Bioluminescent Resonance Energy Transfer-Based Photodynamic Therapy Model for the Treatment of Cancer

The effect of pollination boxes and anthesising inflorescences on relative density of Elaeidobius kamerunicus in an oil palm plantation in West Kalimantan

Late Lunch Talk by Alberto Valero-Gracia

We discuss how population genomics approaches can be applied to wildlife conservation and management.

Read mapping on graph-based reference genomes

Deciphering the Nuclear Localization and Regulation of Neochromosomes in Liposarcoma

The Potential Role of NFAT Transcription Factors During Muscle Endurance Training

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.

Late Lunch Talk by Anna Komisarczuk

Spatiotemporal single cell analysis of human colonic macrophages

Late Lunch Talk by Edda Johannesen

Late Lunch Talk by Kjetil Voje

The transcriptome of Gadus morhua and its discordance with the genome

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.

Sydney Harbour contamination: modelling food web bioaccumulation of dioxins

Effects of various polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons on cell signaling pathways with a particular focus on inflammation

Differential gene expression in Passer sparrows and the effect of hybridization and adaptation

Neurotoxicity of biodiesel exhaust particles in vitro and in ovo using PC12 cells and the chicken embryo model

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.

By Hans Bauer from the University of Oxford (Department of Zoology)