2017

MSc Shixiong Wang at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Investigating signalling and epigenetic factors influencing the functions of transcription factors in breast cancer for the degree of PhD.

MSc Anders Bjørnsgard Aas at Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Root-associated microbes: Spatial Oddities and Methodological Perspectives for the degree of PhD.

MSc Bettina Maria Fuglerud at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis A novel pioneer function of the transcription factor c-Myb for the degree of PhD.

MSc Nicolay Rustad Nilssen at Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis High valence phage display on coat protein pIX for the degree of PhD.

MSc Anastassia Serguienko at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis NEW insights in OLD biology for the degree of PhD.

MSc Bie Ekblad at Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Structure-Function Analysis of Two-Peptide Bacteriocins Produced by Lactobacillus plantarum for the degree of PhD.

MSc Maryia Khomich at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Aquatic biodiversity gradients in Scandinavia – a molecular approach for the degree of PhD.

MSc Kristian Kinden Lensjø at the Departmant of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Extracellular matrix molecules in brain plasticity and memory Processing" for the degree of PhD.

MSc Ole Kristian Tørresen at Department of Bioscience will be defending the thesis De novo assembly and comparative genomics of teleosts for the degree of PhD.

MSc Martin Tobias Speth at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis A new strategy for improving the BCG vaccine against tuberculosis and beyond for the degree of PhD.

MSc Malin C. Bern at Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Engineering of the albumin-FcRn interaction for the degree of PhD.

MSc Ingrid Solberg at Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Behavior and ecology of overwintering sprat Sprattus sprattus for the degree of dr.philos.

Doctoral candidate MSc Floriana Lai at Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Neural effects of future CO2 levels on fish for the degree of PhD.

Cand.scient. Jonas Thormar at Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Disturbance and trophic interactions in Scandinavian eelgrass ecosystems for the degree of PhD.

MSc Christiane Rothe at Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Regulation of Cdk activity in the cell cycle for the degree of PhD.

Cand.scient. Paul Ragnar Berg at Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Genomic divergence in Atlantic cod populations for the degree of PhD.

MSc  Vinay Kumar Aileni at Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Characterization of Human Lysine-specific Protein Methyltransferases in the METTL21 Subgroup for the degree of PhD.

MSc Marit F. Markussen Bjorbækmo at Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Symbiosis in the hidden world of protists – Diversity, interactions and novelty in the marine environment for the degree of PhD.

MSc Kine Marita Knudsen Sand at Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis The FcRn-albumin interaction for the degree of PhD.

MSc Aurora Lie Moen at Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Disc herniation, inflammatory mediators and lumbar radicular pain for the degree of PhD.

MSc Ieva Ailte at Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Regulation of membrane trafficking in cancer cells for the degree of PhD.

MSc Marie Lofstad at Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Activation pathways of the class Ib ribonucleotide reductase in Bacillus cereus for the degree of PhD.

MSc Kim Aleksander Tallaksen Halvorsen at Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Selective harvesting and life history variability of corkwing and goldsinny wrasse in Norway: Implications for management and conservation for the degree of PhD.