2015

MSc Sunil Mundra at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Richness and community structure of High Arctic fungi through space and time explored using high-throughput sequencing for the degree of PhD.

MSc Anders Kristian Krabberød at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Single cell transcriptomics and genomics – Evolution, phylogeny, and diversity of Radiolaria and their symbionts for the degree of PhD

MSc Kristina Øie Kvile at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Under the surface: Disentangling climate effects on Calanus finmarchicus dynamics in a high latitude system for the degree of PhD

MSc Kristine Moltu at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Signal network analysis of T cell activation – in human T cells from blood donors and patients with colorectal cancer for the degree of PhD

MSc Ana Kucera at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Characterization of novel trafficking pathways from the trans-Golgi network to the endosomal compartments for the degree of PhD.

MSc Anna Virginia Black Mazzarella at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Adaptation to freshwater in the threespine stickleback: New perspectives on old questions for the degree of PhD

MSc Sagnik Sengupta at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Life history traits and thermal adaptation in Folsomia quadrioculata (Collembola) across climate regions for the degree of PhD.

MSc Stefan Jörg Barfeld at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis The transcriptional role of c-Myc in prostate cancer for the degree of PhD.

MSc Audun Sverre Myrset Kvalvaag at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis: Shiga toxin: Uptake and transport in cancer cells for the degree of PhD.

MSc Ralf Stefan Neumann at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis: Regulatory non-coding RNA at the root of animals, analysed using sequencing data and bioinformatic tools for the degree of PhD.

Cand. Scient. Erling L. Meisingset at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Space use of red deer and its implications for management for the degree of PhD.

Master of science in molecular medicine Anja Hortemo Høie at The Department of biosciences will be defending the thesis: 

Studies on the genotoxicity and tumourigenicity of food processing contaminants – with a focus on substituted furans and bioactivation by human sulphotransferases 

for the degree of Ph.D.

Master of science in biotechnology  Xiang Yi Kong  at The Department of biosciences will be defending the thesis Characterization of a novel mouse model lacking lysosomal membrane protein GLMP for the degree of Ph.D.

Master of science in toxicology Martine Muusse at the Department of biology will be defending the thesis Characterization of aryl hydrocarbon receptor agonists in the Norwegian environment for the degree of Ph.D.

Master of science in biology Oda Bjærke at The department of biology will be defending the thesis Effects of predation risk on life history strategies in marine plankton for the degree of Ph.D

Master of science in molecular biosciences Erna Davydova at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis: Identification and characterization of novel evolutionarily conserved protein methyltransferases for the degree of Ph.D.

Master of Science in molecular biosciences Tine Weise Håland  at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Mechanisms regulating the G1-S transition in mammalian cells for the degree of Ph.D.

Master in Molecular Biosciences Margrethe Larsdatter Storm at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Molecular mechanisms of androgen effects on prostate cancer cells for the degree of PhD.

Master in Biology Jo Skeie Hermansen at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis A fruitful affair: speciation by hybridization in Passer sparrows for the degree of PhD.

Master in Molecular biology Einar Eftestøl at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis The role of mechanical stimuli and myonuclei in skeletal muscle hypertrophy for the degree of PhD.