PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence
Beatrice Clarence Misaka Langwa, Faculty of Biosciences (BIOVIT) will defend her PhD thesis ”Sweet Potato Production in South Sudan: Current status, virus infections and whitefly vector diversity” on 14 November 2019.
Norwegian title of thesis:
"Søtpotet i Sør Sudan – kunnskap i befolkningen, virusinfeksjoner og diversitet hos vektoren kvitfly "
Prescribed subject of the trial lecture:
“Plant virus detection and diagnosis – from biological assays to advanced molecular tools”
Time and place for the trial lecture and the public defence:
Thursday 14 November 2019 at 12:15 the SKP Auditorium, Ås
Evaluation committee:
Prof. Jari Valkonen, University of Helsinki
Dr. Anna Karin Germundsson Hauge, Norwegian Institute of Public Health
Dr. Dag-Ragnar Blystad, Faculty of Biosciences, NMBU/NIBIO
Supervisors:
Main supervisor: Prof. Trine Hvoslef-Eide, NMBU
Co-supervisor: Philip Wani Marchelo, Juba University, South Sudan
Co-supervisor: James Legg, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture
The doctoral thesis is available for public review at the NMBU library.
Thesis number 2019:98, ISSN 1894-6402, ISBN 978-82-575-1662-8