Study advisors BIOVIT
Please feel welcome to contact us at email:
studieveileder-biovit@nmbu
Internship can give you as a student relevant work experience, professional contacts, practical learning and important experience outside the university.
Here you may find the study plans for the our English study programs at the Faculty of biosciences:
Study plans sorted by the students admission year:
Master in Agroecology
Master in Animal Science
Master in Aquaculture
Master in Feed Manufacturing Technology
Master in Genome Science
Master in Plant Sciences
Master in Urban Agriculture
From the academic year 2024/25 there will be a few changes in the courses offered at BIOVIT. The changes will be implemented from August 2024.
If you have any questions, contact the study advisors at BIOVIT:
studieveileder-biovit@nmbu.noNew courses from the academic year 2024/25:
AQX252 | General Aquaculture (NO)
ECTS: 5
Period: Spring parallell
BOT345 | Plant Photobiology (EN/NO)
ECTS: 10
Period: Autumn parallell
BINT305 | Internship Biology (EN/NO)
ECTS: 5/10/15
Period: All
BINT306 | Internship Agroecology (EN/NO)
ECTS: 5/10/15
Period: All
BIO302 | Introduction course for Master students at BIOVIT (EN/NO)
ECTS: 5
Period: August block
PJH341 | Postharvest - Storage of fruit and vegetables (EN)
ECTS: 10
Period: Autumn parallell
SDG320 | The Complexity of Food Systems (EN)
ECTS: 30
Period: August block and autumn parallell
Courses that will be terminated
BIN303 | Estimation of variance components - animal and plants (5 ECTS, spring parallell)
BIO350 | RNA in situ RNA Hybridization Techniques (5 ECTS, January block)
BIO351 | Genetically Modified Plants - Case Study (5 ECTS, autumn parallell)
HET212 | Thermoregulation in Farm Animals and Ventilation in Animal Housing (5 ECTS, spring parallell)
HFX204 | Reindeer Husbandry (5 ECTS, spring parallell)
HFX205 | Grazing Ecology and Management (5 ECTS, June block) - NB, course contents will be incorporated into HFX256, see below
SDG302 | Sustainable Plant Production (5 ECTS, August block)
Courses with changes in number of ECTS, period, or name:
HFX255 | Dairy and Beef Production (NO): Number of ECTS increases to 15, and the course will start in January block and end in the spring parallell.
HFX256 | Small Ruminants: Breeding, Nutrition and Ethology (NO): Number of credits increases to 10, and the course will start in the August block and end in the autumn parallell. Will incorporate the contents from HFX205, which will be terminated.
PJH360 | Term Paper in Plant Production (EN/NO): Hand-in and evaluation will from now on only be possible in either the autumn parallell or the spring parallell.
PJH250 | Plant Production in Controlled Environment (EN/NO): The course will be offered every other year, in odd years (next time: spring parallell 2025).
For å unngå smitte til SHF sin besetning og eventuelt andre norske besetninger, er det et krav om MRSA-test etter hjemkomst fra utveksling for IHA studenter som har jobbet med dyr i utlandet.
Norske husdyr har god helse. Det er få alvorlige smittsomme dyresjukdommer i Norge. Det er også lite av smittestoffer som smitter fra dyr og kan gi sjukdom hos mennesker. Denne gode helsen ønsker vi å ta vare på. Og du kan bidra!
Contagion security - requirement for an MRSA test for IHA students after returning from aroad
In order to avoid infection to SHF's herd and possibly other Norwegian herds, there is a requirement for an MRSA test after returning to IHA for students who have worked with animals abroad.
Please contact your teacher for further information
Thesis proposals
Fisk og akvakultur
- Se Tema Fisk og Akvakultur under masteroppgaver. Flere oppgaver kan gjøres om til bacheloroppgaver
- Bacheloroppgaver fra Fiskaaling på Færøyene - Hovedveileder: Turid Mørkøre
Husdyr
- Fôropptak og mjølkeproduksjon estimert i TINE OptiFôr- effekt av slåttefrekvens, engtype, fortørking og gjæringskvalitet
- Horse nutrition
- Optimizing micro- and macrostructure of diets for broilers
- The potential for maximized use of barley and oats for broilers. Effect of soluble and insoluble fibre
- Temaer innen bærekraftige matsystemer
- Tail chasing/spinning and associations with lateralization and fear in dogs
- Forslag til tema - ernæring på hund
Planter
- Agronomisk verdi av artsblandinger av fôrvekster i bærekraftig landbruk
- Agronomisk verdi av sortsblandinger og selekterte populasjoner av hvete i bærekraftig landbruk
- Genetisk analyse av fenotypiske egenskaper i fôrveksten luserne
- Effekt av lyskvalitet på vekst, avling og kvalitet hos agurk produsert i veksthus
- Identifisere muligheter for økt planteproduksjon i Norge – nye produkter og/eller nye produksjonsmetoder
- Forslag til bacheloroppgaver innen ugras og pesticidkjemi
- Utvikling av avling/halm/stubb/rot-forholdet til korn det siste hundreåret og mulig betydning for jordas innhold av organisk materiale
- Plant traits in varieties of faba beans and-or peas important for cultivation in Norway
- Food quality in varieties of faba beans and-or peas important for cultivation in Norway
- Analyses of resistance to pre-harvest sprouting in Norwegian-grown varieties of cereals
- Quality in winter wheat for milling and baking
- Protein content and seed size distribution in varieties of faba bean
Here you will find some thesis proposals in Aquaculture.
Breeding and Genetics
- Sensitivity analysis of genetic parameters for ISA resistance in salmon (Nofima)
- Simulation studies in optimal aquaculture breeding designs
- Success of family production and early grow-out in breeding program for Atlantic cod
- Early sexual maturity in rainbow trout
- A global census of the Atlantic Salmon microbiome
- Fine mapping to unravel genes for resistance to OsHV-1 virus in pacific oyster
- Genetic variation in early survival traits in Atlantic salmon
- Genetic variation of carcass quality traits in rainbow trout
- Grading of eyed-eggs
- Effect of time of stripping on survival of eggs and alevins of rainbow trout
- Use of elite males when producing eyed-eggs for sale
- Derivation of economic values for commercial traits in different production systems in Nile tilapia
- Gene expression profile of Atlantic salmon eggs exposed to hydrogen sulphide
- Functional characterisation of hydrogen sulphide responsive genes in Atlantic salmon
- Molecular and cellular responses to sub-lethal level of hydrogen sulphide of Atlantic salmon post-smolts reared in RAS
- Genetic and breeding thesis in Nile tilapia and Artic charr
- Imputation to whole genome sequencing (WGS) for fine mapping and genomic selection in A. salmon
- Genetic variation of carcass quality traits in rainbow trout
- Estimating microbiability and heritability in Atlantic salmon for feed efficiency
Ethology, Welfare, Water quality and fish health
- Physiological mechanisms underlying personality in the Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus) (Iceland)
- Spontaneous behavior, anticipatory behavior and foraging behavior, and its connection to skin pigmentation and stress in farmed juvenile Atlantic Salmon
- Qualitative Behavioral Assessment (QBA) as a welfare indicator for farmed Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) fry in response to a barren or enriched rearing environment
- Why are salmon jumping?
- Early sexual maturity in rainbow trout
- Fish welfare/ How is sound pollution affecting farmed salmon
- Water quality and fish health
- Fish welfare/ How is it being fished
- Optimization of rearing conditions for small model fish husbandry
- Veterinarian´s information needs for better decision making about fish health and management
- Impact of different light regimes on fish welfare
- Effect of environmental enrichment on the behavior of salmon fry
- Alternative feed raw materials and their effects on production efficiency, fish welfare and product quality
Feed, Feed Technology and product quality
- Micronutrient requirement in Atlantic salmon (Nofima/Cargill)
- Lipid Nutrition in Atlantic salmon (Nofima)
- Novel feeding ingredients, what is happening with the technical quality of the feed pellet
- Alternative feed raw materials and their effects on production efficiency, fish welfare and product quality
- Factors affecting the salmon's skin quality; macroscopic and microscopic approach
- Estimating microbiability and heritability in Atlantic salmon for feed efficiency
- Topics within sustainable food systems
- Kvalitet på fisk levert av bløggebåter (Slakteriet i Florø)
- Investigating possibilities to reduce Nutrient Discharge of Atl. salmon in open Sea Pens by different diet formulations
Production technology
- Offshore cage farming
- Closed sea cages (Closed contaminent systems) - contact: odd-ivar.lekang@nmbu.no
- Post smolt production (odd-ivar.lekang@nmbu.no)
- Land based fish farms (odd-ivar.lekang@nmbu.no)
- Fouling on sea cages
- Fish handling
- Optimizing of slaughtering quality
- RAS optimizing
- Testing of solar powered aeration technology for tropical aquaculture
Here you will find some thesis proposals in Genetics and Genome Science.
Genome Biology
Fish
- Simulation studies in optimal aquaculture breeding designs
- Success of family production and early grow-out in breeding program for Atlantic cod
- Early sexual maturity in rainbow trout
- A global census of the Atlantic Salmon microbiome
- Fine mapping to unravel genes for resistance to OsHV-1 virus in pacific oyster
- Genetic variation in early survival traits in Atlantic salmon
- Genetic variation of carcass quality traits in rainbow trout
- Grading of eyed-eggs
- Effect of time of stripping on survival of eggs and alevins of rainbow trout
- Use of elite males when producing eyed-eggs for sale
- Derivation of economic values for commercial traits in different production systems in Nile tilapia
- Gene expression profile of Atlantic salmon eggs exposed to hydrogen sulphide
- Functional characterisation of hydrogen sulphide responsive genes in Atlantic salmon
- Molecular and cellular responses to sub-lethal level of hydrogen sulphide of Atlantic salmon post-smolts reared in RAS
- Imputation to whole genome sequencing (WGS) for fine mapping and genomic selection in A. salmon
- Genetic and breeding thesis in Nile tilapia and Artic charr
Plants
- Develop CRISPR-Cas9 constructs and generate CRISPR-edited perennial ryegrass mutants for Nitrogen uptake efficiency
- Tissue specific gene expression for seed dormancy in wheat using RT-PCR
- The effect of temperature on falling number and α-amylase activity in wheat
- Evaluation of drought tolerance in selected wheat cultivars under controlled polytunnel conditions
- Fine-mapping and functional characterization of an important Fusarium head blight resistance gene in spring wheat
- Genetic background of spring wheat canopy multispectral reflectance captured by drone imagery
- The genetics of rust resistances in spring wheat
- Historical kernel and spike trait changes in Norwegian spring wheat
- Assessments of N-uptake, grain yield and grain protein content in barley
- Studies of new genetic diversity in oats
- Study of freezing tolerance and vernalization in faba bean
- Population genomics in Norwegian Deathwatch beetle (Xestobium rufovillosum) populations
- Convergent molecular evolution of frost tolerance in southern hemisphere grasses (Danthonioideae)
- No sex, but still adapting? – Epigenomic population structure of asexual matgrass (Nardus stricta)
- Analyses of antinutritional compounds in pea world collection
- Investigating phenotypic stability in gene edited potato
- Genetic analysis of phenotypic traits in the forage legume lucerne
- Hormonal control of stem elongation in red clover
- Develop CRISPR-Cas9 constructs and generate CRISPR-edited perennial ryegrass mutants for freezing and mild drought tolerance
- Using CRISPR technology to develop pathogen resistant lettuce
- Mapping QTLs for Seed Yield Traits in Red Clover
- Effect of gamma radiation on expression of genes related to DNA repair, cell division control and epigenetics
- Detecting haplotype-resolved single-nucleotide variants and structural variation in the targeted genes
- Detecting genes and gene networks associated with ice-encasement survival in forage grass timothy
- Thesis proposals on Powdery mildew and gray mold
- Functional validation of candidate genes involved in stem elongation in red clover (Trifolium pratensis L.)
- Comparative analyses of fungal genomes to understand fungal ability to produce lipids and pigments
- Functional validation of candidate genes involved in temperature response in Brachypodium distachyon
Animals
- Individual phenotyping of feed efficiency in NRF using stable isotopes
- Genetic and breeding thesis in cow, sheep and poultry
- Genetic correlation between the recruitment ewe lamb’s autumn weight and her reproduction at 12 months of age
- Genotype by environment interaction (GxE) effect on lamb autumn weights: a reaction norm approach using sire models
- Enteric methane from small ruminants: breed differences in digestive anatomy- and physiology
- Inheritance of horn and spurs in Norwegian Cattle
- Coat colour genetics/patteren recognition in Norwegian red cattle
- Breeding more feed efficient and climate friendly Norwegian Red cattle
Here you will find some thesis proposals in Animal Sciences.
Animal Breeding and Genetics
- Use of birth weight and 3-week weights in pig breeding to increase vitality and survival in piglets (NORSVIN)
- Male fertility in pigs/Hanndyrfruktbarhet hos gris (NORSVIN)
- Genetic relationship between serotonin level in blood, tail biting and production traits in boars (NORSVIN)
- Fine mapping of chromosome regions underlying exterior traits in pigs (NORSVIN)
- Heritability of dairy cows responsiveness towards humans
- Individual phenotyping of feed efficiency in NRF using stable isotopes
- Genetic and breeding thesis in cow, sheep and poultry
- Genetic correlation between the recruitment ewe lamb’s autumn weight and her reproduction at 12 months of age
- Genotype by environment interaction (GxE) effect on lamb autumn weights: a reaction norm approach using sire models
- Enteric methane from small ruminants: breed differences in digestive anatomy- and physiology
- Mulighetene for å lage indekser til bruk i avlsarbeidet på Boergeit i Norge
- Udder health indicators from automatic milking systems
- Coat colour genetics/patteren recognition in Norwegian red cattle
- Inheritance of horn and spurs in Norwegian Cattle
- Breeding more feed efficient and climate friendly Norwegian Red cattle
- Arvegrader for bruksegenskaper på de nasjonale hesterasene
Animal Nutrition and PhysiologyRuminant Nutrition and Physiology
- Extent and effect of supplementary winter feeding of domestic reindeer in Fennoscandia
- Temporal variation and synchrony in performance of sympatric lambs and reindeer calves
- Salt blocks - effects on pasture and area use in sheep
- Assessment of particle size distribution in feces by use of wet-sieving technique as proxy for nutrient digestibility and digestive capacity in NRF cows
- Silage quality and effect on in vitro methane production, compared to in vivo data
- Methane yield and intensity from three contrasting high-yielding dairy cattle feeding regimes: Grazing, cut-and-carry, and grass silage mixed ration
- Host specificity of the ruminal microbial community in low and high methane emitting dairy cows following complete exchange of ruminal contents
- Efficacy of additives to reduce methane yield and intensity from suckling beef cattle grazing in early and late pasture season
- Additive effects of feed additive combinations (lipids+tannins) on methane emissions and digestibility in dairy cows
- Efficacy of additives to reduce methane yield and intensity from high-yielding Norwegian Red dairy cows grazing early and late in pasture season
- Horse nutrition
- Dosering av mineraltilskudd i rundballekuttere (Vilomix)
- Gradsoppgaver fra TINE Rådgivning
- Thesis proposal Feed technology for ruminants
- Topp kjøttkvalitet fra slakt til ferdig modnet biff (Nortura)
Nutrition and Physiology in Monogastric Animals
- Thesis proposal - dog nutrition and feeding
- Measuring colostrum quality in sows (NORSVIN
- Heat treatment vs acid treatment in layer and breeder nutritional degradation of corn during storage (Trouw)
- The potential for maximized use of barley and oats for broilers. Effect of soluble and insoluble fibre
- Optimizing micro- and macrostructure of diets for broilers
- Masteroppgaver på fjørfe (Nortura)
- Råneslakt – fornuftig sortering på slaktelinja etter rånelukt og smak (Nortura)
- Gode produkter av rånekjøtt til forbruker (Nortura)
- Ideell slaktevekt for å treffe dagens kundebehov på biff og filet til restaurant, storkjøkken og dagligvare (Nortura)
Animal Ethology, Welfare and Health
- Topic master thesis Ethology/Animal Welfare
- Tail chasing/spinning and associations with lateralization and fear in dogs
- What's a healthy cow? Determinants of livestock health
Sustainable Food Systems
Here you will find some thesis proposals in Plant Sciences.
Genetics and biotechnology
- Hunting poorly known marine green algal species associated with shells
- Master Project on poorly known small marine green algae of the Oslofjord, are you in search of your new species?
- Develop CRISPR-Cas9 constructs and generate CRISPR-edited perennial ryegrass mutants for Nitrogen uptake efficiency
- Tissue specific gene expression for seed dormancy in wheat using RT-PCR
- The effect of temperature on falling number and α-amylase activity in wheat
- Evaluation of drought tolerance in selected wheat cultivars under controlled polytunnel conditions
- Fine-mapping and functional characterization of an important Fusarium head blight resistance gene in spring wheat
- The genetics of rust resistances in spring wheat
- Historical kernel and spike trait changes in Norwegian spring wheat
- Assessments of N-uptake, grain yield and grain protein content in barley
- Studies of new genetic diversity in oats
- Study of freezing tolerance and vernalization in faba bean
- Population genomics in Norwegian Deathwatch beetle (Xestobium rufovillosum) populations
- Convergent molecular evolution of frost tolerance in southern hemisphere grasses (Danthonioideae)
- No sex, but still adapting? – Epigenomic population structure of asexual matgrass (Nardus stricta)
- Analyses of antinutritional compounds in pea world collection
- Investigating phenotypic stability in gene edited potato
- Why do different plant species exhibit differential sensitivity towards oxidative stress?
- Genetic analysis of phenotypic traits in the forage legume lucerne
- Hormonal control of stem elongation in red clover
- Can spruce be vaccinated against fungal infection and insect attack?
- Mapping QTLs for Seed Yield Traits in Red Clover
- Detecting haplotype-resolved single-nucleotide variants and structural variation in the targeted genes
- Detecting genes and gene networks associated with ice-encasement survival in forage grass timothy
- Develop CRISPR-Cas9 constructs and generate CRISPR-edited perennial ryegrass mutants for freezing and mild drought tolerance
- Using CRISPR technology to develop pathogen resistant lettuce
- Thesis proposals on Powdery mildew and gray mold
- Functional validation of candidate genes involved in stem elongation in red clover (Trifolium pratensis L.)
- Comparative analyses of fungal genomes to understand fungal ability to produce lipids and pigments
- Dissecting viral replication mechanisms
- Will radioactive radiation under the seed development affect the radiosensitivity of the progeny through impact on the antioxidant apparatus?
Technology- Genetic background of spring wheat canopy multispectral reflectance captured by drone imagery
- Correlation between chemical analysis and hyperspectral imaging?
- Effect of Light quality on growth, yield and quality of cucumbers produced in controlled environment
- Identify opportunities to increase plant production in Norway – new products and/or new production methods
Entomology and nematodes
- Integrated pest management in fruit –room for beneficials
- Alternative control of plum tortricid
- Biodiversity of pollinators and natural enemies on flowering Norwegian species
- Landscape and orchard effects on apple pests and their natural enemies
- The value of flowering crops to insect predators
- Out of season management and biology of a selected fruit pest
- Rubus stunt stunt phytoplasma – more knowledge on insect vectors in Norway
- Detection and management of pesticide resistance in a selected insect/mite species
- Biology, natural enemies and management of the alien invasive horse-chestnut leafminer
Plantpathology
- Potato late blight (Phytophthora infestans) and Early blight (Alternaria spp) in potato
- Epidemiology of the fungal disease European canker of apple
- Fungicide resistance screening of the apple scab pathogen, Venturia inaequalis, in Norway
- Diagnosis and control of viruses in recycled nutrient solution in greenhouse cucumber cultivation
- Function of RxLR effector proteins from Phytophthora cactorum during infection
- Onion health diagnostics using microbiome analysis
- The genetics of rust resistances in spring wheat
- Can spruce be vaccinated against fungal infection and insect attack?
- Several master thesis projects in plant pathology
- Thesis proposals on Powdery mildew and gray mold
- The genetics of race specific and race non-specific yellow rust resistance in spring wheat
Weed Science, Ecotoxicology
- Development of an LC-MS/MS method for the determination of matrine and oxymatrine in licorice and honey
- Elymus repens, Cirsium arvense and Sonchus arvensis – biology and management
- Occurrence of plant toxins in the arable landscape and in food on the Norwegian market
- Pesticides in the environment – transport in soil, water and air
- Pesticides in water from streams in orchards in Hardanger and the effect on aquatic life
- Ecotoxicology: Pesticide use and impacts on water quality – analysis of monitoring data from the JOVA-program
- Rodenticides and their fate and behaviour in the environment under Norwegian conditions
- Desiccation in potatoes
Fruit and berries
- Apple fruit quality and physiological disorders
- Soil health and sustainable fruit production: Effect of compost on fruit quality of apples and cherries
- Prediction of harvest time in sweet cherries
- Correlation between chemical analysis and hyperspectral imaging?
- Viruses of raspberry – loss, epidemiology and control
- Bruk av ikke-destruktive målemetoder i jordbær
- Prognoser for høstetid av morell
Forage and Seed Crops
- Tissue specific gene expression for seed dormancy in wheat using RT-PCR
- The effect of temperature on falling number and α-amylase activity in wheat
- Evaluation of drought tolerance in selected wheat cultivars under controlled polytunnel conditions
- Fine-mapping and functional characterization of an important Fusarium head blight resistance gene in spring wheat
- Genetic background of spring wheat canopy multispectral reflectance captured by drone imagery
- The genetics of rust resistances in spring wheat
- Historical kernel and spike trait changes in Norwegian spring wheat
- Assessments of N-uptake, grain yield and grain protein content in barley
- Studies of new genetic diversity in oats
- Study of freezing tolerance and vernalization in faba bean
- Agronomic performance of forage species mixtures in sustainable agriculture
- Agronomic performance of variety mixtures and selected populations of wheat in sustainable agriculture
- Genetic analysis of phenotypic traits in the forage legume lucerne
- Hormonal control of stem elongation in red clover
- Mapping QTLs for Seed Yield Traits in Red Clover
- Chocolate spot in faba bean
- Plant traits in varieties of faba beans and-or peas important for cultivation in Norway
- Food quality in varieties of faba beans and-or peas important for cultivation in Norway
- Analyses of resistance to pre-harvest sprouting in Norwegian-grown varieties of cereals
- Quality in winter wheat for milling and baking
- Protein content and seed size distribution in varieties of faba bean
- Development of the grain/straw/stubble/root-ratio in cereals over the last century and possible implications for the soil organic matter content (NIBIO)
- Topics within sustainable food systems
Vegetables and Potato
- Onion health diagnostics using microbiome analysis
- Desiccation in potatoes
- Analyses of antinutritional compounds in pea world collection
- Investigating phenotypic stability in gene edited potato
- The potato tissue culture bank and genetic resources
- Master thesis proposals in potato (Fagforum potet)
Plant production in controlled environment
- Effect of Light quality on growth, yield and quality of cucumbers produced in controlled environment: pdf
- Tobamoviruses in greenhouse crops
- New production methods: Pre-cultivation with/without rhizobium inoculation of broad bean/field bean for field outplanting
- Post harvest-analysis of tissue distribution and lignin content in different rutabaga cultivars
- Cultivation potential in Norway of seed crops for food to increase local production of plant protein
Urban agriculture