Nanthasane Vannavong, Faculty of Science and Technology (RealTek), NMBU will defend his PhD thesis: “Causal factors and health risks associated with faecal contamination and Aedes aegypti infestation in household water storage in Laos and Thailand”, on 15 December 2017
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Sini Wallen, Faculty of Biosciences (BIOVIT) will defend her PhD thesis “Genetic improvement of feed efficiency in dairy cattle" on 20 December 2017.
Lars Grønvold, Faculty of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science (KBM) will defend his PhD thesis: ”Investigating evolution of gene regulation with cross-species comparative transcriptomics” on 19 December 2017.
Fasil Ejigu Eregno, Faculty of Science and Technology (RealTek), NMBU will defend his PhD thesis: “Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment and Water Quality Modelling - On Drinking Water Sources, Recreational and Recycled Waters” on 14 December 2017
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Øyvind Salvesen, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (VET) will defend his PhD thesis "The cellular prion protein and the inflammatory response" on 19 December 2017.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Fredrik Andersen (HH)will defend his PhD thesis “ Experience and Theory: A Defense of the Kantian A priori and Kepler’s Philosophy of Science in Light of Modern Space-Time Physics” on 8. December 2017
Raymond Achu Samndong, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Faculty for Landscape and Society, will defend his thesis "Governing the jungle: REDD+ and Forest governance in the Democratic Republic of Congo, an analysis of drivers, tenure, gender and participation." on 15 December, 2017.
Stine Indrelid, Faculty of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science (KBM) will defend her PhD thesis: ”The Soil Bacterium Methylococcus capsulatus Bath and its Interactions with Human Immune Cells in vitro” on 15 December 2017.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Malin Rokseth Reiten, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (VET) will defend her PhD thesis "Non-neuronal functions of the prion protein. Insights from a unique animal model" on 15 December 2017.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Coletha Mathew Mtenga, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (VET) will defend her PhD thesis "Infections associated with reproductive disorders in cattle in Tanzania: occurrence, characterization and impact" on 8 December 2017.
Rasmus Steffansen, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Faculty of Landscape and Society will defend his thesis "The Norwegian Second Home Phenomenon. A Critical Perspective" on 18 December 2017
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Kristina Borch-Pedersen, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (VET) will defend her PhD thesis "Functional characterization of the germination receptors in the spore-forming species Bacillus licheniformis” on 7 December 2017.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Hanne Merethe Haatveit, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (VET) will defend her PhD thesis "Molecular studies of Piscine orthoreovirus proteins -Viral factories, kinetics and vaccination" on 6 December 2017.
Trine Øye Isaksen, Faculty of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science (KBM) will defend her PhD thesis: ”Structural and functional characterization of NcLPMO9C, a broad-specificity lytic polysaccharide monooxygenase” on 7 December 2017.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Jemere Bekele Harito, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (VET) will defend his PhD thesis "Waterborne transmission of Toxoplasma gondii:novel approaches to development of analytical techniques" on 1 December 2017.
Camilla Houeland, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Faculty for Landscape and Society, will defend her thesis "Punching above their weight - Nigerian trade unions in the political economy of oil." on 1 December, 2017.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Marta Perez de Nanclares Fernandez, Faculty of Biosciences (BIOVIT) will defend her PhD thesis “Rapeseed co-products in pig diets – Effects on nutrient and energy digestibility and metabolism" on 30 November 2017.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Margrethe Brantsæter, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (VET) will defend her PhD thesis «Effects of the rearing period and the production phase of fear-related responses in adult laying hens» on 24 November, 2017.
Paweł Łycuś, Faculty of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science (KBM) will defend his PhD thesis: "Novel aspects of the ecophysiology of denitrifying bacteria and their roles in N2O emissions" on 24 November 2017.
Linn Solli, Faculty of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science (KBM) will defend her PhD thesis: ”Degradation of proteinaceous material, ammonium accumulation and microbial dynamics in anaerobic digesters” on 17 November 2017.
Marit Heller, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Faculty for Landscape and Society, will defend her thesis " Economic incentives in household waste management; just a waste? A relational approach to agents and structures in household waste sorting" on 9 November, 2017.
Aase Kristine Assen Lundberg, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Faculty of Landscape and Society will defend her thesis "Handling legitimacy challenges in conservation management: case studies of collaborative governance in Norway"
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Jorke Harmen Kamstra, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (VET), will defend his PhD thesis “Epigenetic inheritance in zebrafish: environmental stress-induced alterations of DNA methylation” on 3 November 2017.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Conor Goold, Faculty of Biosciences (BIOVIT) will defend his PhD thesis “Assessing personality traits in dogs: conceptual and methodological issues" on 27 October 2017.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Geir Torgersen, Faculty of Science and Technology (REALTEK) will defend his PhD thesis "Sustainable Planning to Reduce Urban Flooding - an Interdisciplinary Approach" on 27 October 2017.
Helene Lie, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Faculty for Landscape and Society, will defend her thesis "Inclusive Value Chain Development: Applying Systems Thinking and Participatory Modeling to Dairy Value Chain Analyses in Nicaragua and Tanzania" on 24 October, 2017.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Anja Karine Ruud, Faculty of Biosciences (BIOVIT) will defend her PhD thesis “Resistance to Septoria nodorum leaf blotch and the importance of sensitivity to necrotrophic effectors in Norwegian spring wheat" on 20 October 2017.
Sebastian Peters, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Faculty of Landscape and Society will defend his thesis "Socio-spatiality - intended by designers, realised by users. The case of shared space", on 20 October 2017
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Morten Lund, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (VET) will defend his PhD thesis “Immunological and physiological effects of Piscine orthoreovirus infection in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)” on 6 October 2017.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Simen Foyn Nørstebø, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (VET) will defend his PhD thesis “Microbe-associated molecular patterns of Aliivibrio salmonicida: roles in the pathogenesis of cold-water vibriosis” on 29 September 2017.
Camilla Elise Jørgensen, Faculty of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science (KBM) will defend her PhD thesis ”Protein fractionation by microfiltration in high-protein yogurt processing” on 29 September 2017.
Marianne Aasen, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Faculty for Landscape and Society, will defend her thesis "Public attitudes toward climate change and climate policies: the role of political values and institutional contexts" on 28 September, 2017.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Nina Zoric, Faculty of Biosciences (BIOVIT) will defend her PhD thesis “Characterization of genes and gene products influencing carotenoid metabolism in Atlantic salmon" on 26 September 2017.
Lina Harvold Ellingsen-Dalskau, Department of Public Health Science, Faculty of Landscape and Society will defend her PhD thesis "Prevocational training on care farms for people outside the work force - the self-determination theory perspective", on 22 September 2017
Victor Strimbu, Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management, will defend his PhD thesis “Biomass stock and change estimation in boreal forests using remotely sensed data – results from empirical studies and simulations”, on September 15, 2017.
Tesfaye Kebede Belay, Faculty of biosciences, will defend his PhD thesis “Multivariate Analyses of Milk Infrared Spectra and Predictions from it in Dairy
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence John James Debenham, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (VET),Department of Companion Animal Clinical Sciences, will defend his PhD thesis “Intestinal Protozoa in Wildlife: parasite transmission at the wildlife-human-domestic animal interface” on September 8, 2017.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Palle Brink, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (VET), Department of Companion Animal Clinical Sciences, will defend his PhD thesis “Clinical, histological and inflammatory changes in osteochondrosis of tarsocrural joints in horses” on September 7, 2017.
Jennifer West, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Faculty for Landscape and Society, will defend her thesis "Agricultural investments for development in Tanzania: reconciling actors, strategies and logics?" on June 27, 2017.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defense Clara Maria Osnes Jalland, Department of Basic Sciences and Aquatic Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (VET) will defend her PhD thesis “Influence of base-excision-repair pathway enzymes on prion pathogenesis” on June 30, 2017
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Claudia Colabella, Faculty of Science and Technology (REAKLTEK) will defend her PhD thesis "NGS-based rDNA barcoding in fungal species identification and delimitation: limits, opportunities and relation to phenotypic HT FT-IR spectroscopy" on 16 June 2017.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Natalie Lim Yen Nee, Faculty of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science (KBM) will defend her PhD thesis "Microbial denitrification control in acid and neutral soils with implications for greenhouse gas emissions and atmospheric chemistry" on 20 June 2017.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Navreet Kaur, Faculty of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science (KBM) will defend her PhD thesis "Parameters and Pedigrees in Forensic Genetics and Statistics" on 16 June 2017.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Anuradha Ravi, Faculty of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science (KBM) will defend her PhD thesis "Characterization of the infant gut microbiota mobilome" on 15 June 2017.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defense Käthe Elise Kittelsen, Faculty of Veterinary Science (VET), Department of Production Animal Clinical Sciences, will defend her PhD thesis “Welfare challenges in broiler chickens at the end of the production period; With emphasis on walking ability, mortality on farm, catching related injuries and transportation mortality in Norwegian broiler production.” on June 14., 2017
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Kaja Borchgrevink, Department of International Environment and Development Studies Noragric, Faculty of Landscape and Society, will defend her PhD thesis "With Faith in Development: Islamic Charity as Development in Practice?" on 9 June 2017.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Abdolrahman Khezri, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (VET), Department of Basic Sciences and Aquatic Medicine, will defend his PhD thesis “Cocktails of persistent organic pollutants lead to behavioral and reproductive toxicity.” on 19 May, 2017.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Guro Sveberg, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (VET), Department of Production Animal Clinical Sciences , will defend her PhD thesis “Behaviour of Norwegian red and Holstein-Friesian cattle through complete estrous cycles”
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Simen Gjelseth Antonsen, Faculty of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science (KBM) will defend his PhD thesis "Total synthesis as a tool for structural elucidation of some marine lipid natural products" on 12 May 2017.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Leif Tore Trædal, Faculty of Landscape and Society (LANDSAM), Noragric Department of International Environment and Development Studies, will defend his PhD thesis "How not to cut down a tree: A comparative study of forest policies, livelihoods and land use in Vietnam" on 10 May 2017.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Sverre Nagell Bjordal, Faculty of Landscape and Society (LANDSAM) will defend his PhD thesis "Real Estate Development as Strategic Project Management" on 8 May 2017.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Melissa Murphy, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Faculty of Landscape and Society (LANDSAM) will defend her PhD thesis "Marking space: Negotiating room for user efficacy in residential urban spaces" on 3 May 2017.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Marta Bou Mira, Faculty of Biosciences (BIOVIT) will defend his PhD thesis "Metabolism of omega-3 very long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L): Effects of different dietary levels of EPA and DHA on fish performance and health" on 4 May 2017.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Kasper Knoblauch Christensen, Faculty of Science and Technology (RealTek) will defend his PhD thesis "Detecting Ideas in online communities. Utilizing machine learning and text mining for finding ideas in online communities" on 26 April 2017.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Christina Steppeler, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (VET), Department of Food Safety and Infection Biology, will defend her PhD thesis "Effects of meat and meat components on intestinal carcinogenesis in the A/J Min/+ mouse model" on 27 April, 2017.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Gro Horgen Vikesdal, Faculty of Science and Technology (RealTek), NMBU & Department of Optometry and Vision Science, University College of Southeast Norway (USN) will defend her PhD thesis "Vision, eye movements and dyslexia - Saccade latency, fixation stability and the relationship with optometric measures" on 19 April 2017.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Mette Helen Bjørge Müller, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (VET), Department of Food Safety and Infection Biology, will defend her PhD thesis "Perinatal exposure to environmental contaminants and associations to health risks in Northern Tanzania" on 7 April, 2017.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Aleksandra Martinovic, Faculty of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science (KBM) will defend her PhD thesis "Diversity and functional aspects of cheese ripening bacteria" on 6 April 2017.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Helle Jodaa Holm, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (VET), Department of Basic Sciences and Aquatic Medicine, will defend her PhD thesis "Immunological response profiles to salmon lice infections in Atlantic salmon - Modulation by nutrition and selective breeding" on 4 April, 2017.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Siv Kirsten Hanche-Olsen, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (VET), Department of Companion Animal Clinical Sciences, will defend his PhD thesis "Acquired Equine Polyneuropathy -clinical, pathological and epidemiological aspects" on 31 Mar, 2017.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Piotr Chylenski, Faculty of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science (KBM), will defend his PhD thesis "Development of strategies for enzymatic degradation of lignocellulosic biomass" on the 31st of March 2017.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Gerdt Müller, Faculty of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science (KBM), will defend his PhD thesis "Activation of LPMOs in cellulase cocktails for efficient biochemical processing of lignocellulosic biomass" on the 30th of March 2017.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Vegard Ophaug, Faculty of Science and Technology(RealTek) will defend his PhD thesis "Geodetic observations and modeling of gravity field, sea level, and ocean dynamics in the Norwegian coastal zone" on 28 March 2017.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Johannes Christoph Peter Rahlf, Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management (MINA) will defend his PhD thesis "Forest resource mapping using 3D remote sensing: Combining national forest inventory data and digital aerial photogrammetry" on 24 March 2017.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Gisken Trøan, Faculty of Biosciences (BIOVIT) will defend her PhD thesis "Effects of feeding rapeseed product differing in glucosinolate concentration on iodine concentration in cow milk" on 17 March 2017.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Sindre Thørn Nelson, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (VET), Department of Production Animal Clinical Sciences, will defend his PhD thesis "Factors affecting calf production in Norwegian suckler herds" on 15 Mar, 2017.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Jostein Mulder Pettersen, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (VET), Department of Food Safety and Infection Biology, will defend his PhD thesis "Controlling pancreas disease in salmon aquaculture in Norway -Epidemiological and economic perspectives" on 3 Mar, 2017.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Ako Eugene Ako, Faculty of Biosciences (BIOVIT), Department of Plant Sciences will defend his PhD thesis "Functional dissection of the Physcomitrella patens DEK1 Loop and Linker segments" on 8 March 2017.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Adrian Ertsås Naas, Faculty of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Sciences (KBM), will defend his PhD thesis "Investigating the cellulolytic potential of the cow rumen metagenome" on 3 March 2017.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Ingunn Risnes Hellings, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (VET), Department of Companion Animal Clinical Sciences, will defend her PhD thesis "Differences between cartilage canals with relevance for osteochondrosis in horses" on 28 February, 2017.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Tatiana Konevskikh, Faculty of Science and Technology (RealTek), will defend her PhD thesis "Modeling scattering and absorption in the infrared spectroscopy of cells and thin films" on 17 February 2017.
Trial Lecture and Public Defence Alf Seljenes Dalum, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Basic Sciences and Aquatic Medicine, will defend his PhD thesis "Studies on the interbranchial lymphoid tissue in the gills of Atlantic salmon and common carp" on 10 February, 2017.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Sophanit Mekasha, Faculty of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science (KBM), will defend her PhD thesis "Characterization and application of enzymes for saccharification of chitin" on 17 February 2017.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Øyvind N. Handberg, NMBU School of Economics and Business (HH), will defend his PhD thesis "Local forest use and conservation: framed field experiments in Tanzania" on 10 February 2017.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Marko Ocepek, Faculty of Biosciences (BIOVIT), Department of Animal and Aquacultural Sciences, will defend his PhD thesis "Can we produce a super sow? Maternal investment, maternal traits and its consequences for piglet survival", on 13 January 2017.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Katarzyna Kuczkowska, Faculty of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science (KBM) will defend her PhD thesis "Development of Lactobacillus plantarum as a potential vehicle for delivery of antigens to mucosal sites" on 13 January 2017.
