PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Clémentine Isembart, Faculty of Science and Technology (REALTEK), will defend her PhD thesis "Exploring Microbial Degradation of Feathers: Insights into Novel Keratinolytic Bacteria and Fungi" on 23 October 2026.
Norwegian title of thesis: "Undersøkelser av mikrobiell nedbrytning av fjær: Innsikt i nye keratinolytiske bakterier og sopp"
Prescribed subject of the trial lecture: "Enzymes for the Circular Bioeconomy: From Enzyme Kinetics to Structure Prediction"
Time and place for the trial lecture and the public defence:
23 October 2026
10:15 Trial lecture
12:15 Public defence
Place: Festsalen (U215), Urbygningen, NMBU
Streaming link: https://nmbu.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=89222e27-f5de-47c0-b77e-b4dc00aefcaf
Evaluation committee:
First opponent: Professor Stanislav Obruča, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
Second opponent: PhD Francesca Di Bartolomeo, SINTEF, Norway
Committee coordinator: Associate Professor Zakhar Maletskyi, REALTEK, NMBU
Main supervisor: Professor Volha Shapaval, REALTEK, NMBU
Co-supervisors: Professor Achim Kohler, REALTEK, NMBU
Researcher Boris Zimmermann, REALTEK, NMBU
Professor Svein Jarle Horn, KBM, NMBU
Professor Vincent Eijsink, KBM, NMBU
PhD Piotr Chylenski, Norilia AS
The doctoral thesis is available for public review. If you would like access to it, please send an email to phd-realtek@nmbu.no