Guest lectures and seminars

By Colin Olito from Lund University, Sweded.

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

By Alexander Eiler from the Section for Aquatic Biology and Toxicology, Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo

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

This year's Darwin Day event covers the topic of evolution and medicine. Speakers: Charles Swanton, Felicia Keesing, and Bruce Levin. This event is part of the Oslo Life Science Conference 2021.

By Barbara Fischer, University of Vienna, Austria

By Hans Bauer from the University of Oxford (Department of Zoology)

Invitation to an IBV Zoom Seminar on Coronavirus with George Fu Gao from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and Ottar N. Bjørnstad from Pennsylvania State University

How can we make efficient vaccines against a newly emerging virus, and what can be learned from previous experiences? Invitation to an IBV Zoom Seminar on Coronavirus and vaccine strategies with Gunnveig Grødeland and Inger Sandlie.

By Melinka A. Butenko, Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo

By Michael A. Tranulis from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Oslo, Norway

By Michael Briga from University of Turku, Finland. Note the time: We start at 11.15.

By Geir Ottersen, Institute of Marine Research and CEES, Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo

By Pritty Patel-Grosz, from the Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies (ILN), UiO

This year's Darwin Day event covers a moonshot for biology: Resolving all genomes on earth within a decade! Speakers: Kerstin Lindblad-Toh, Josefin Stiller, Maren Wellenreuther, and Tom Gilbert. This event is part of the Oslo Life Science Conference 10–13 February 2020.

By Laurence D. Hurst from The Milner Centre for Evolution, Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, U.K. (Please note the updated program*.)

Seminar by Sandra Lopez-Aviles from the Centre for Molecular Medicine Norway (NCMM), University of Oslo: "In and out of the cell cycle: Protein phosphatases in the proliferation/quiescence decision".

Seminar by Håvard Jenssen from the Department of Science and Environment at Roskilde University, Denmark: "Biological effects of host defence peptides; templates for future medicine".

Seminar by Pierre Chymkowitch from the Department of Microbiology, Oslo University Hospital: "Adaptive regulation of transcription to maintain cellular homeostasis and identity".