Faculty of Biosciences (Biovit)

About the faculty

Faculty of Biosciences contributes to the shape of future food production through basic as well as applied research on the production and use of plants, livestock and fish.

The faculty consists of the departments Department of Livestock and Aquaculture Science, IHA and Department of Plant Science, IPV.

• Contact the faculty
• Employees at the faculty
• For our students
• For our PhD-students

• Studies at Biovit

  English-language master's program:

  Animal Breeding and Genetics
  Animal Science
  Genome science
  Agroecology
  Aquaculture
  Plant Sciences 

  PhD programs:

  Animal and Aquacultural Sciences
  Plant Sciences

  If you have any questions, please contact our study advisors: studieveileder-biovit@nmbu.no

• Research

  Research centres and large research projects

  • NMBU Sustainability Arena: Green and smart cities - GreenSmart
  • NMBU Sustainability Arena: Sustainable food systems
  • Foods of Norway
  • National Center for Urban Agriculture (NCUA)
  • Cigene - Molecular biology lab
  • MEMO-group: Microbial Ecology and Meta-Omics

  Research project

  In addition to the research centres and the large research projects, we have many research projects

  Research sections

  Research sections in Animal and Aquacultural Sciences

  • Breeding, Genetics and Food Production Systems
  • Ethology and Animal Welfare
  • Nutrition and Physiology in Monogastric Animals
  • Ruminant Nutrition and Physiology
  • Genome Biology 

  Research sections in Plant Sciences

  • Genetics, evolution and sustainable crop production
  • Plant biology, sustainable food system and integrated plant protection

• Publications

  Articles in refereed scientific journals

  • Department of Animal and Aquacultural Sciences (IHA)
  • Department of Plant Sciences (IPV)

• Research infrastructure

  Our laboratories and services:

  • Imaging Centre- Microscopy lab
  • LabTek - chemical analyses
  • Plant Cell Lab
  • Centre for fish trials
  • Meatbolism department
  • Cigene - Molecular biology lab

  NMBU laboratories and services:

  • Center for Feed Technology (ForTek)
  • The Livestock Production Research Center (SHF)
  • Centre for Plant Research in Controlled Climate (SKP)

• Employees

  All employees at the faculty

• How we are organized

  The faculty consists of two departments and the scientific staff is divided into profession groups at departmental level.

  Department of Animal and Aquacultural Sciences (IHA)

  The department encompasses the traditional husbandry fields of breeding, nutrition, and ethology. Within these fields, we place particular emphasis on topics such as feed technology and metabolism, quantitative and molecular genetics, and the quality of products made from eggs, milk, and meat.

  We conduct both basic and applied research. The department emphasis on strengthening basic research aimed at biological production systems as well as interdisciplinary research collaboration both within NMBU, nationally and internationally.

  Our subject areas are breeding, quantitative and molecular genetics, nutrition, animal behavior (ethology) and livestock environment, animal welfare, feed production and feed technology, product quality of food and greenhouse gases from livestock farming. Many scientific articles are produced annually at the institute

  Department of Plant Sciences (IPV)

  The department has the national responsibility for education and research on sustainable production and utilisation of plants for food, feed, ornamental and recreational purposes, contributing in this way to NMBUs vision "Knowledge for life."

  We study crop plants and plants in natural ecosystems, addressing major challenges in society related to sustainable plant production.

  We focus on sustainable agriculture, agroecology, safe and sufficient food supply, production innovation, and breeding of improved cultivars, as well as basic plant biology.

  The management at the faculty

  • Dean -Dag Inge Våge (constituted)
  • Head of department at IHA and vice dean research - Gro Steine
  • Head of department at IPV - Åshild Ergon
  • Vice dean education - Dag Inge Våge
  • Head of administration - Nini Hammergrens
    
  • Beside the management group ─ head of the Phd committee - Øystein Holand

• For our bachelor and master students

  On this link you will find information about:

  Internship
  Study plans for students at the Faculty of Biosciences (BIOVIT)
  Theme for degree theses/ Thesis proposals
  Changes in the courses offered at BIOVIT
  Contagion security - requirement for an MRSA test for IHA students after returning from an exchange

• For our PhD-students

  On this link you will find general information about the PhD study

Contact

Phone number: + 47 67 23 26 00
E-mail: post-biovit@nmbu.no
Visiting address: Oluf Thesens vei 6, 1433 Ås

Postal address:
NMBU - Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Faculty of Biosciences
P.O. Box 5003
NO-1432 Ås
Norway