2026

PhD candidate Matthias Simões Krockenberger at the Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis 'Eap1, a canonical 4E-BP in S. pombe involved in protein homeostasis regulation during stress' for the degree of PhD.

PhD candidate Clare Margaret Andvik at the Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis 'Multiple stressors in Norwegian killer whales: Integrating the effect of chemical pollution with other anthropogenic stressors' for the degree of PhD.

PhD candidate Ethan Wood at the Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis 'Phycosphere microbiome dynamics in filamentous algae: community composition, stability, and patterns across cultivation scales in phycoremediation systems' for the degree of PhD.

PhD candidate Xiang Lu at the Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis 'Boreal lakes as mediators for terrestrial organic carbon processing and greenhouse gas emissions: a case study from Langtjern Norway' for the degree of PhD.

PhD candidate Aina Charlotte Wennberg at the Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis 'Developing novel methods for persistence assessments of chemicals of emerging concern: To be or not to be? That is the question.' for the degree of PhD.

PhD candidate Kamilla Børve Nygård at the Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis 'Exploring the function and enzymology of protein methylation in skeletal muscle' for the degree of PhD.

PhD candidate Even Sletteng Garvang at the Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis 'The impact of microbial parasites on copepods: quantitative answers to a century-old mystery' for the degree of PhD.

PhD candidate Robynne Calypso Nowicki at the Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Oslo, and Department of Arctic Biology, The University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS), is defending the thesis 'Seasonal energetics in Barents Sea macrozooplankton and fish' for the degree of PhD.

PhD candidate Frederik Sebastian Rogge at the Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis 'Normative and Experimental Analyses of Learning-Dependent Representations in the Hippocampal-Parahippocampal System' for the degree of PhD.

PhD candidate Hanna Theodora Noordzij at the Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis 'Dispersal of antibiotic resistance genes and mobile genetic elements in the human infant gut.' for the degree of PhD

PhD candidate Andrea Moen Brodersen at the Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis 'Patient Stratification in Leukemic Diseases - A computational approach for patient stratification and mechanistic understanding using ex vivo drug screens' for the degree of PhD