PhD degree - Public Defence: Wanxin Lai, Faculty of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science (KBM) will defend her PhD thesis «Curves and Connections: From Network Inference to Host-Microbiome Integration» Thursday April 30, 2026.
English title of thesis:
Curves and Connections: From Network Inference to Host-Microbiome Integration
Norwegian title of the thesis:
Kurver og forbindelser: Fra nettverksinferens til integrasjon av vert og mikrobiom
Prescribed subject of the trial lecture (Approved):
Challenges in generating realistic synthetic microbiome datasets for benchmarking computational methods
The trial lecture was held on April 7th, 2026.
Evaluation committee - trial lecture:
Associate Professor Åsmund Røhr Kjendseth, KBM, NMBU
Professor Knut Rudi, KBM, NMBU
Associate Professor Hilde Vinje, KBM, NMBU (Administrator)
Time and place for the public defence:
Thursday April 30th 2026, at 12.15.
The defence will be held at NMBU in Gullvepsen, Bikuben, NMBU.
Evaluation committee:
First opponent: Professor Leo Lahti, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
Second opponent: Professor Eivind Almaas, NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
Committee coordinator: Associate Professor Hilde Vinje, Faculty of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway
Supervisors:
Main supervisor:
Professor Torgeir Rhoden Hvidsten, Faculty of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science, Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Co-supervisor:
Professor Phil Pope, Faculty of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway
The doctoral thesis is available for public review.
For those of you who wants access to this please send an email to:
phd-kbm@nmbu.no
Thesis number 2026:25; ISSN 1894-6402; ISBN 978-82-575-2342-8