Guest lectures and seminars

By Stéphanie Jenouvrier from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (USA) and Centre d’études Biologiques de Chizé (France)

Lecture titles: "Reconstructing the ancestral organisation of genomes to shed light on their evolution" and "Repeated signatures of local selection across salmonid populations"

"Evolution of thermal tolerance in zebrafish"

Rachael Morgan, PhD candidate (Dept. of Biology, NTNU)

By Michael Ghil from Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, and University of California, Los Angeles

On the occasion of the retirement of Professor Trond Schumacher, you are invited to a special seminar on Ascomycete Evolution and Systematics. The program includes international experts, collaborators of Trond and previous students.

We welcome you all to the launch of the book "Evolutionary Genetics - Concepts, Analysis, and Practice" written by Glenn-Peter Sætre and Mark Ravinet. The book is published by Oxford University Press.

Lecture titles: "On the malleability of proteins and the emergence of novel function" and "Evolutionary trade-offs in the adaptive immune system shape genomic diversity of the MHC"

Hva er egentlig kunnskapsstatusen for havområdene utenfor Antarktis? Arrangører: CEES, Nordområdeutvalget ved Universitet i Oslo og Norsk Polarinstitutt

Title: The role of environmental factors in shaping the population structure of anaerobic subsurface microorganisms.

Camilla Nesbø, Research associate, University of Toronto ​

Title: Antibiotic resistance, transmission and population genomics of the Klebsiella genus

Edward Feil, Professor, University of Bath

Combining computational and experimental approaches, MIT-Professor Christopher Voigt has made outstanding contributions to the fields of synthetic biology and biological engineering. 

By Mark J. Costello from the Institute of Marine Science, University of Auckland, New Zealand

The theme this year is "Alt om antibiotika og antibiotikabruk. Nå og i fremtiden". This is a popular science meeting with presentations in Norwegian. The seminar is open for everyone. 

"Set to change? Lifespan factors influencing neurocognitive trajectories and plasticity"

Prof. Kristine Beate Walhovd (Dept. of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, UiO)

By Bezawork Afework and Afework Bekele from Department of Zoological Sciences (DZS) at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia

Marc Abraham is founder of the Ig Nobel Award ceremony and editor of the Journal of Improbable Research. Ig Nobel prizes are awarded in a wide range of disciplines for research that makes people LAUGH, then THINK.

"Parasites on the brain: How behaviour-manipulating parasites alter host physiology and predator-prey interactions"

Dr. Lauren Nadler (NMBU)

Russ Hodge has witnessed “the good, the bad, and the completely ridiculous” sides of science and its practitioners. In this talk he presents some of the funniest highlights.

By Rob Salguero-Gomez from Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, U.K.

By Rubao Ji from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, U.S.

"Fuel and Friends: Links between metabolic rate and social behaviours in fishes"

Dr. Shaun Killen (Glasgow University)

Seminar for the associate professorship position within protein biochemistry: "Rewiring DNA repair for genome stability or genome haploidisation" by Joao Matos from ETH, Zürich.

Seminar for the associate professorship position within protein biochemistry: "How antibiotics kill bacterial protein production and how bacteria fight back" by Vasili Hauryliuk from Umeå University, Umeå.

Seminar for the associate professorship position within protein biochemistry: "ADP- ribosylation in health and in disease" by Herwig Schüler from Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm.