2018

Marwa Jalal from School of Pharmacy, UiO, will present for us their Flow Cytometry Cell Sorter at an extra seminar on monday 10th of December.

Mathias Andreasen, Hengyi Zhu, Eivind Kverme Ronold, Nick Honkoop and Åshild Fandango Kapperud are all fairly fresh master students that will present their projects in a flash Monday 3rd of December.

Fabio Antenucci from the Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences at the University of Copenhagen will give a talk entitled "Bacterial outer membrane vesicles and their use in vaccine development" at the upcomming Evogene/CIME extra seminar.

Professor Emeritus Klaus Høiland, from our own section, was just granted funding by the Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre for a new project that he will tell us all about on the coming Evogene section seminar.

Elwira Smakowska from Gregor Mendel Institute (GMI), Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, will give the talk entitled "An extracellular network of Arabidopsis leucine-rich repeat receptor kinases control plant development and defenses".

Reidun Sirevåg from the Section for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UiO, will give a talk entitled "From hot springs to crystals. Confessions of a female scientist" at the Evogene seminar 22nd of October.

This years iGEM (International Genetically Engineered Machine) team from UiO will present their project entitled "Canditect - Fast detection of vulvovaginal Candida albicans using CRISPR/dCas9"

Pierre Gladieux is a research scientist at UMR BGPI, INRA Montpellier, France and he will give a talk entitled "Disease emergence and pathogen speciation".

Eric Gelhaye will give a short talk entitled "From fungal detoxification systems to tree ecological traits" and Mélanie Morel-Rouhier will give a short talk entitled "Oak extractive-induced stress reveals the involvement of new enzymes in the detoxification response of Phanerochaete chrysosporium"

Leticia Pérez-Izquierdo from Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Soil and Environment in Uppsala will give the talk entitled "Fungal community shifts along a fire severity gradient in a Boreal forest"

Group Leader Pilar Cubas from The National Centre for Biotechnolgy (CNB) in Madrid, Spain, will give the presentation entitled "To grow? To sleep? a bud ́s decision"

Read more about Cubas' reasearch here

Stefan Schild from The Institute of Molecular Biosciences at The University of Graz, Austria, will give the talk etitled "Multi-faceted roles of bacterial membrane vesicles".

To read more about Schild's research go here.

Prof. Rudolf Bohm from Texas A&M University -Kingsville, will give a talk at a joint Evogene / Fyscell Seminar this week entitled "How Drosophila Neural Circuits Can be Used to Study Disease Mechanisms".

Inger Skrede from Oslo Mycology Group at Evogene will give the talk entitled "Evolutionary necessities for invading buildings, comparative and population genomic analyses in the dry rot fungus".

Daniel Slade from Department of Biochemistry at Virginia Tech, US, will present his talk entitled "Identification and characterization of Fusobacterium nucleatum virulence factors critical for host-pathogen interactions in colorectal cancer"

Henrik Kvalheim Eriksen (Linke group): Colicins - a future tool in preventing bacterial diseases?

Sai Priya Sharma Kandanur (Leo group): Role of Secondary Structure Elements in the Translocator Domain of the Inverse Autotranporter Protein Intimin

Verena Mertes (Butenko group): A Phosphoproteomics approach to unravel the IDA Signalling Pathway

Yuri van Ekelenburg "The role of small RNA in genomic imprinting and plant fertilization"

Anne Greulich "Cross-generational analysis of short tandem repeat variation in the A.thaliana and G. morhua genome"

Chiara Di Luca - "Mechanisms and drivers of antimicrobial resistance"

Marie Leys - "Phylogeography and evolutionary history of a widespread endophytic fungus of Norway spruce (Lophodermium piceae)"

Jack Leo will give a presentation (~1 h) about his recent trip to Tanzania, which included visiting three national parks, so there will be plenty of pictures of animals (and even a few of plants - and fungi!). Bring some refreshments and enjoy! On Friday 23.2. at 4pm, EvoGene lunchroom.

Master students

Hawzeen Salah Khalil from The Leo Group will give a short talk entitled "Co-aggregation properties of trimeric autotransporter adhesins"

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Øyvind S. Gulbrandsen from The Morphoplex Group will give a short talk entitled "A multi-gene phylogeny of the green algae (Chlorophyta)"

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Renate Marie Alling from Aalen Group will give a short introduction to her newly started master project entitled "Evolution and molecular function of IDA-LIKE peptides"