PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence
Maria T. Hultman, Department of Environmental Sciences, will defend her PhD thesis "Evaluation of primary rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) hepatocytes suitability as a screening assay for estrogen receptor agonists", on 1 July 2016.
Norwegian title of thesis:
"En vurdering av primære leverceller fra regnbueørret (Oncorhynchus mykiss) sin egnethet som analyseverktøy for østrogenreseptor-agonister"
Prescribed subject of the trial lecture:
"Extrapolation from in vitro data to predict in vivo outcomes in Ecotoxicology – approaches, concepts and problems"
Time and place for the trial lecture and the public defence:
Friday 1 July 2016 at 10:15 at the Soil Building, Auditorium J106, Fougnerbakken 3, Ås
Evaluation committee:
First opponent: Professor Helmut Segner, Centre for Fish and Wildlife, Vetsuisse Faculty, University Bern, Switzerland
Second opponent: Professor Malin Celander, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Committee coordinator: Dr. Dag Anders Brede, Department of Environmental Sciences, NMBU
Supervisors:
Main supervisor: Professor Knut-Erik Tollefsen, Department of Environmental Sciences , NMBU and Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA)
Co-supervisor: Professor Bjørn Olav Rosseland, Department of Environmental Sciences, NMBU
Co-supervisor: Dr. Stefan Scholz, Helmholz, Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig, Germany
Co-supervisor: Professor Peter Aleström, Department of Basic Science and Aquatic Medicine, NMBU
Co-supervisor: Dr. Ian John Allan, Norwegian Institute for Water Research, Norway
The doctoral thesis is available for public review at the NMBU library.
Thesis number 2016:47, ISSN 1894-6402, ISBN 978-82-575-1306-1.