Hengyi Zhu (Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management (MINA)) will defend her PhD thesis " Mechanistic investigation of chronic ionizing radiation-induced reprotoxic effects in model organism Caenorhabditis elegans." Friday 27 March, 2026.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence
English title of thesis:
“Mechanistic investigation of chronic ionizing radiation-induced reprotoxic effects in model organism Caenorhabditis elegans.”
Norwegian title of thesis
"Mekanistisk studie av toksiske effekter på reproduksjon av kronisk eksponering til ioniserende stråling i modellorganismen Caenorhabditis elegans."
Prescribed subject of the trial lecture
"Human DNA repair mechanisms and associated disorders"
Time and place for the trial lecture and the public defence
Friday 27 March 2026, at 12.15 in Festsalen, Clock building
Evaluation committee
First opponent: Dr. Christelle Adam-Guillermin (French Authority for Nuclear Safety and Radiation (ASNR), France)
Second opponent: Professor Rafal Ciosk (University of Oslo, Norway)
Committee coordinator: Associate Professor Juuso Sammaljärvi (MINA, NMBU)
Supervisors
Main supervisor: Professor Dag Anders Brede (MINA, NMBU).
Co-supervisors: Professor Ole Christian Lind (MINA, NMBU), Dr. Erica Maremonti (MINA, NMBU), Professor Hilde Loge Nilsen (University of Oslo, Norway) and Dr. Dag Markus Eide (Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Norway)
The doctoral thesis is available for public review. For those of you who want access to the thesis in pdf-form, please send an email to Brage Monsen – brage.monsen@nmbu.no.