Research events

Lifestyle diseases such as cardiovascular disease or diabetes result from malfunctioning processes in multiple organs developing over a long period of time. How can we learn to diagnose these processes at an early stage from indirect measurements of proteins in the bloodstream?

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By Michael Matschiner from the Natural History Museum, University of Oslo

This week we discuss a paper on palaeogenomic reconstruction.

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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.

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

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.

By Barbara Fischer, University of Vienna, Austria

Late Lunch Talk by Eivind Andreas Baste Undheim

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.

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.

Late Lunch Talk by Alberto Valero-Gracia

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

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