Disputaser

PhD candidate Mohamed Julius Kibaja at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Behavioural ecology and conservation of Ashy red colobus monkeys (Piliocolobus tephrosceles) in western Tanzania" for the degree of PhD.

PhD candidate Vegard Sæter Grytting at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "The pro-inflammatory effects of mineral  particles in cells of the human airways" for the degree of PhD.

PhD candidate Yuri Stephan van Ekelenburg at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Investigations on Dynamic Regulation of Genomic Imprinting in the Arabidopsis Endosperm" for the degree of PhD.

PhD candidate Naomi Croft Guslund at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Characterising the Atlantic cod immune system with single-cell transcriptomics" for the degree of PhD.

PhD candidate Clarissa Akemi Kajiya Endo at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Early life stages of Northeast Arctic cod under various climate and demographic stock conditions" for the degree of PhD.

PhD candidate Kaixing Dong at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Bottom-up effects on plankton dynamics in Northeast Atlantic and Arctic seas" for the degree of PhD.

PhD candidate Dereje Tesfaye Delkaso at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "The Omo River guereza (Colobus guereza guereza) in habitats with varying  levels of fragmentation and disturbance in the southern Ethiopian Highlands:  behavioral ecology and phylogeny" for the degree of PhD.

PhD candidate Ganna Reint at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Refinement strategies for  CRISPR Cas9 genome editing" for the degree of PhD.

PhD candidate Ina Meuskens at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Insights into the Binding Mechanism and Function of Bacterial Adhesins - Interactions between YadA and Host Extracellular Matrix Components" for the degree of PhD.

PhD candidate Lorenzo Pin at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "How hydropower induced changes in temperature, quality and quantity of water influences structure and functioning of riverine biofilms" for the degree of PhD.

PhD candidate Daniel Hatlem at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Probing the role of lipopolysaccharides in Gram-negative protein secretion and biogenesis" for the degree of PhD.

Dr Philos candidate Tore Qvenild at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Climatic impact on the crustacean species Lepidurus arcticus, Gammarus lacustris and Eurycercus lamellatus on brown trout Salmo trutta production in a high mountain area in Southern Norway" for the degree of Dr Philos.

PhD candidate Svenja Christiansen at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "From acoustic scattering layers to individuals - behaviour of a mesopelagic fish at different scales" for the degree of PhD.

PhD candidate Anna Theresia Maria ter Schure at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Dung, Dirt & DNA: unearthing past and present biodiversity through eDNA metabarcoding" for the degree of PhD.

PhD candidate Elisabeth Lundsør at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Phytoplankton community dynamics in the Oslofjorden based on a century long time series" for the degree of PhD.

PhD candidate Anette Johansen at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Omics approaches to study mechanisms of anoxia tolerance in crucian carp (Carassius carassius)" for the degree of PhD.

PhD candidate William B. Reinar at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Genomic short tandem repeats as modulators of gene expression and protein function" for the degree of PhD.

PhD candidate Johannes C. Rusch at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Environmental DNA (eDNA) monitoring of two different  freshwater host-pathogen complexes in the interface between nature and aquaculture" for the degree of PhD.

PhD candidate Tonje Sønstevold at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Implications of poly(alkyl cyanoacrylate) nanoparticle- induced cellular stress responses with focus on autophagy" for the degree of PhD.

PhD candidate Eva Lena Fjeld Estensmo at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "The diversity and seasonality of the indoor mycobiome" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

PhD candidate Giovanni Romagnoni at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "The multiple dimensions of spatial ecology in  fisheries management - How climate, economy, and connectivity shape Cod (Gadus morhua) dynamics in a changing North Sea" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

PhD candidate Anna-Marie Winter at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Nonlinearity, irreversibility and surprise – managing Atlantic cod under climate change" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

PhD candidate Kenth-Arne Hansson at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "The relationship between cell physiology and size studied in skeletal muscle fibers" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

PhD candidate Fabienne Krauer at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Temperature, toponyms and thresholds. A modelling approach to understanding the spread of plague during the second pandemic" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.