PhD degree – Public Defence Martina Galler, Faculty of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science (KBM) will defend her PhD thesis “New methodologies in sensory and consumer research with preadolescents to guide product development of healthy, child-centered food”, on Friday December 17, 2021.
PhD degree – Public Defence Ine Storaker Myrbråten, Faculty of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science (KBM) will defend her PhD thesis “Functional insights into novel factors affecting cell division in Gram-positive bacteria”, on Friday December 17, 2021.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Xinxiu Yu, Faculty of Biosciences (BIOVIT) will defend her PhD thesis ”Reproductive and Genetic Studies in Large Yellow Croaker" on 15 December
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defense Stanislav Iakhno, Department of Paraclinical Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine will defend his PhD thesis “Porcine gut microbiota, short‑chain fatty acids, and gut health in response to a high yeast inclusion diet” on 14 December 2021.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Maria Clementina Alvarez Flores, Faculty of Biosciences (BIOVIT) will defend her PhD thesis ” A new approach for predicting milk production responses and feed utilization in dairy cows" on 10 December 2021.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Ranjana Pathak, Faculty of Biosciences (BIOVIT) will defend her PhD thesis ”Identification of photoreceptors with functional characterization of photolyase in Pseudoidium neolycopersici" on 10 December 2021.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Alexandra Leeper, Faculty of Biosciences (BIOVIT) will defend her PhD thesis ”A multi-disciplinary approach using growth performance, gut microbiome, and behaviour to characterise and optimise the impact of dietary protein supply for Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) aquaculture" on 10 December 2021.
Knut Bjørn Stokke (LANDSAM), will defend his Dr.Philos. thesis "Samarbeid og nettverk i planlegging - et redskap for integrert areal- og ressursforvaltning?" digitally on 10 December 2021.
The trial lecture on self-chosen subject will be held digitally on 09 December.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defense Sofie Navelsaker Thommessen, Department of Paraclinical Sciences (ParaFag), Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, will defend her PhD thesis “Selective VDJ rearrangements of antibody genes in Rainbow trout mobilize efficient and protective responses after immunization with VHSV and IPNV antigens- the public response, an ancient defence strategy to direct the adaptive immune responses towards common pathogens and a useful model to measure vaccination success” on 9 December 2021.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Pabodha Weththasinghe, Faculty of Biosciences (BIOVIT) will defend her PhD thesis ”Nutritional, health, and technical properties of black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens) in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) feeds" on 8 December 2021.
PhD degree - Trial Lecture and Public Defense Christina Maria Veit, Department of Paraclinical Sciences (ParaFag), Faculty of Veterinary Medicine will defend her PhD thesis "Effects of a controlled immune activation on social behaviour, neurophysiology and the acute phase response in pigs" on 25 November 2021.
PhD degree – Public Defence Tatiana Drotikova, Faculty of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science (KBM) will defend her PhD thesis “Polycyclic aromatic compound (PACs) in ambient air of Svalbard. Concentrations, seasonal trends, sources, and transformation processes”, on Wednesday November 24, 2021.
PhD degree - Trial Lecture and Public Defense Trond Holand, Department of Production Animal Clinical Sciences (ProdMed), Faculty of Veterinary Medicine will defend his PhD thesis "Development of Response Surface Pathway Methodology" on 11 November 2021.
PhD degree - Trial Lecture and Public Defense Ajay Yadav, Department of Production Animal Clinical Sciences (ProdMed), Faculty of Veterinary Medicine will defend his PhD thesis "Neurodevelopmental toxicity of a human relevant mixture of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS)" on 5 November 2021.
PhD degree - Trial Lecture and Public Defense Hannah Harjen, Department of Companion Animal Clinical Sciences (SportFaMed), Faculty of Veterinary Medicine will defend her PhD thesis "Clinical and clinicopathological characteristics in canine Vipera berus envenomation" on 1 November 2021.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Ingunn Øvsthus, Faculty of Biosciences (BIOVIT) will defend her PhD thesis “Yield and quality of vegetables fertilized with materials recycled from organic resources" on 29 October 2021.
PhD degree - Trial Lecture and Public Defense Yanxian Li, Department of Paraclinical Sciences (ParaFag), Faculty of Veterinary Medicine will defend his PhD thesis "Insect larvae meal as a feed ingredient for Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar): Effects on intestinal function, health, and microbiota." on 29 October 2021.
PhD degree - Trial Lecture and Public Defense Mariella Evelyn Güere Calderón, Department of Preclinical Sciences and Pathology (PrePat), Faculty of Veterinary Medicine will defend her PhD thesis "Genetic variation in Norwegian cervids – relevance to the occurrence of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD)" on 22 October 2021.
PhD degree - Trial Lecture and Public Defense Isaac Rumpel Mulei, Department of Paraclinical Sciences (ParaFag), Faculty of Veterinary Medicine will defend his PhD thesis "Occurrence of infectious pancreatic necrosis virus, infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus and Flavobacterium psychrophilum in rainbow trout and role of management practices in farmed rainbow trout and tilapia diseases in Nyeri County, Kenya" on 21 October 2021.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Anupam Gogoi, Faculty of Biosciences (BIOVIT) will defend his PhD thesis ”Virulence mechanisms of Phytophthora cactorum and defence responses by its strawberry host" on 12 October 2021.
PhD degree - Trial Lecture and Public Defense Anne Flore Bakke, Department of Preclinical Sciences and Pathology (PrePat), Faculty of Veterinary Medicine will defend her PhD thesis "Immune responses in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) following vaccination and Salmonid alphavirus challenge" on 8 October 2021.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Marianne Bakken, Faculty of Science and Technology (REALTEK) will defend her PhD thesis "Explainable and Data-efficient Learning for Visual Guidance of Autonomous Agri-robots"
PhD degree - Trial Lecture and Public Defense Andreas Lervik, Department of Companion Animal Clinical Sciences (SportFaMed), Faculty of Veterinary Medicine will defend his PhD thesis "Development of a total intravenous anaesthesia regime for use in pigs during live tissue training and biomedical research" on 1 October 2021.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Sheona Noemi Innes , Faculty of Biosciences (BIOVIT) will defend her PhD thesis “Growth, hydraulic and transcriptomic responses to high air humidity and the involvement of abscisic acid (ABA)" on 15 Oct 2021.
PhD degree - Trial Lecture and Public Defense Marte Fergestad, Department of Paraclinical Sciences (ParaFag), Faculty of Veterinary Medicine will defend her PhD thesis "Bovine Staphylococci and their Spectrum of Antimicrobial Resistance and Virulence Characteristics" on 24 September 2021.
PhD degree - Trial Lecture and Public Defense Lisa-Victoria Bernhardt, Department of Paraclinical Sciences (ParaFag), Faculty of Veterinary Medicine will defend her PhD thesis "Development, optimization and field testing of a filtration method for detection of salmonid alphavirus in seawater" on 17 September 2021.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Henriette Berg Olsen, Faculty of Biosciences (BIOVIT) will defend her PhD thesis “Genetic analyses of semen characteristics in Norwegian Red" on 17 Sept 2021.
PhD degree - Trial Lecture and Public Defense Zoe Fretheim-Kelly, Department of Companion Animal Clinical Sciences (SportFaMed), Faculty of Veterinary Medicine will defend her PhD thesis "From horses to humans: A comparative study developing the first protocol for measuring upper airway pressures in exercising humans." on 16 September 2021.
PhD degree - Trial Lecture and Public Defense Muhammad Salman Malik, Department of Paraclinical Sciences (ParaFag), Faculty of Veterinary Medicine will defend his PhD thesis "Persistent infection of Piscine orthoreovirus-1 (PRV-1) in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)" on 14 September 2021.
PhD degree - Trial Lecture and Public Defense Letemichael Negash, Department of Production Animal Clinical Sciences (ProdMed), Faculty of Veterinary Medicine will defend her PhD thesis "Molecular epidemiology of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis among pulmonary tuberculosis patients in Tigray Region, Ethiopia" on 9 September 2021.
PhD degree – Public Defence Lukas Rieder, Faculty of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science (KBM) will defend his PhD thesis “Kinetic investigations of the oxidative cleavage of oligomeric carbohydrates provide novel insights into the catalytic action of fungal lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases.”, on Monday July 05, 2021.
PhD degree – Public Defence Kjell Rune Jonassen, Faculty of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science (KBM) will defend his PhD thesis “Biogas digestate as substrate and vector for the introduction of N2O-respiring bacteria to agricultural soil.”, on Friday July 02, 2021.
PhD degree – Public Defence Anna Skåne, Faculty of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science (KBM) will defend her PhD thesis “Studies of molecular determinants of virulence in Aliivibrio salmonicida and Vibrio anguillarum”, on Friday June 25, 2021.
Øystein Klakegg, Department of Paraclinical Sciences (ParaFag), Faculty of Veterinary Medicine will defend his PhD thesis "Bacterial impact on growth, health and disease of farmed Atlantic salmon and lumpfish" on 24 June 2021.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Dag Pasquale Pasca, Faculty of Science and Technology (REALTEK) will defend his PhD thesis "Ambient vibration testing of civil engineering structures: development of a Python module and applications to case studies" on 28 June 2021.
Camilla Hedlund Corneliussen Hagman, Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management (MINA), will defend her PhD thesis “Exploring the link between phytoplankton and environmental stressors using lake sediments as archives: A study of Gonyostomum semen’s expansion in Norwegian lakes” on the 18th of June, 2021.
Silje Granstad, Department of Preclinical Sciences and Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, will defend her PhD thesis "Impact of feed composition on rearing of broiler chickens without in-feed antimicrobials" on 17 June 2021.
Anders Dugstad, School of Economics and Business (HH), will defend his PhD thesis "Applying Stated Preference Methods to Value Ecosystem Services - Methodological Challenges and Validity Tests" on 17 June.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence René Alvestad, Faculty of Science and Technology (REALTEK) will defend his PhD thesis "Drivers behind variation in welfare, quality, and production performance in Atlantic salmon farming production data" on 15 June 2021.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Kristin Jenssen Sola, Faculty of Science and Technology (REALTEK) will defend her PhD thesis "Fremmedvann i avløpsnettet. Analyser av påvirkningsfaktorer, konsekvenser og mulige tiltak" 10 juni 2021
Patricia Bwalya, Department of Paraclinical Sciences (ParaFag), Faculty of Veterinary Medicine will defend her PhD thesis "Streptococcus-like infections in farmed tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) of Lake Kariba: Characterization of pathogenic species and host responses" on 1 June 2021.
Dag Yngve Dahle, School of Economics and Business (HH), will defend his PhD thesis "Approaches to branding and behaviour: Studies of HRM and employee voice through organizational branding" on 28 May.
Ghulam Qasim Khan, Faculty of Biosciences (BIOVIT) will defend his PhD thesis ”Improved starch and protein utilization by extruded feed pellets targeted to benefit dynamics of rumen digestion in dairy cows" on 28 May 2021.
Menasbo Gebru Tesfay, School of Economics and Business (HH), will defend his PhD thesis "Land rental markets, technology adoption, and smallholders’ commercialization in a semi-arid economy" on 27. May.
PhD degree - Trial Lecture and Public Defense Kristin Opdal Seljetun, Department of Companion Animal Clinical Sciences (SportFaMed), Faculty of Veterinary Medicine will defend her PhD thesis "Prevalence of anticoagulant rodenticides in dogs and red foxes" on 7 May 2021.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Haile Welearegay Gebreslase, Faculty of Biosciences (BIOVIT) will defend his PhD thesis ”Breeding for Milk Production in Sheep in Ethiopia" on 7 May 2021.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Ólafur Hjörtur Kristjánsson, Faculty of Biosciences (BIOVIT) will defend his PhD thesis ”Quantitative genetics of growth rate and carcass quality traits in Atlantic salmon" on 6 May 2021.
Aida Tabarroky Ardebili, School of Economics and Business (HH), will defend her PhD thesis "Personality traits, food values and consumer behavior" on 30 April 2021.
PhD degree - Trial Lecture and Public Defense Augustino Alfred Chengula, Department of Paraclinical Sciences (ParaFag), Faculty of Veterinary Medicine will defend his PhD thesis "Tilapia Lake Virus (TiLV) – development of PCR-based diagnostic assays and insights into infection mechanisms" on 27 April 2021.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Simona Dzurendova, Faculty of Science and Technology (REALTEK) will defend her PhD thesis "Sustainable Fungal Biorefineries: Optimizing production of valuable metabolites in oleaginous Mucoromycota" on 23 April 2021.
PhD degree - Trial Lecture and Public Defense Tamirat Tefera Temesgen, Department of Paraclinical Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine will defend his PhD thesis "Detection and viability assessment of foodborne parasites of public health importance on berries" on 20 April 2021.
PhD degree - Trial Lecture and Public Defense Hanne Friis Berntsen, Department of Production Animal Clinical Sciences (ProdMed), Faculty of Veterinary Medicine will defend her PhD thesis "Mixtures of persistent organic pollutants and single perfluorinated compounds: Do they adversely affect nerve and immune cell function in vitro?" on 29 April 2021.
PhD degree - Trial Lecture and Public Defense Anne Selvén Kallerud, Department of Companion Animal Clinical Sciences (SportFaMed), Faculty of Veterinary Medicine will defend her PhD thesis "Something in the way you move: Studies of movement asymmetry in young Standardbred trotters" on 16 April 2021.
PhD degree - Trial Lecture and Public Defense Jie Wang, Department of Paraclinical Sciences (ParaFag), Faculty of Veterinary Medicine will defend his PhD thesis "Gut health and microbiota during the life cycle of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) produced under commercial Arctic conditions: Modulation by functional feed ingredients investigated in vivo and in vitro" on 12 April 2021.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Selamawit Araya Kidane, Faculty of Biosciences (BIOVIT) will defend her PhD thesis ”Plant-parasitic nematodes of the Ethiopian food security crop enset (Ensete ventricosum) - occurrence, distribution, characterisation and management" on 24 March 2021.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Elise Caspersen, School of Economics and Business (HH), will defend her PhD thesis "Freight trip generation and consumer preferences for reducing externalities from last mile deliveries" on 22 March 2021.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Gebresilassie Asnake Ewunie, Faculty of Science and Technology (REALTEK) will defend his PhD thesis "Biofuel production potential of Jatropha curcas L: oil characterization for biodiesel production, and enhancing the biogas production potential of various residues using different pretreatment methods" on 15 March 2021.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Habitamu Taddese Berie, Faculty of Science and Technology (REALTEK) will defend his PhD thesis "Methods for estimation of major forest attributes based on remotely sensed data for the support of REDD+ measurement, reporting and verification (MRV)" on 10 March 2021.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Jikun Chen, Faculty of Biosciences (BIOVIT) will defend his PhD thesis ”Supplying dairy cows with Propionibacterium to reduce enteric methane emission" on 23 February 2021.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Kim Erik Grashei, Faculty of Biosciences (BIOVIT) will defend his PhD thesis ”Genomic methods in breeding programs: Parental assignment, triploid genomics and case-parental control modelling" on 12 February 2021.
PhD degree – Public Defence Lena Oksdøl Foseid, Faculty of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science (KBM) will defend her PhD thesis “Lipids in Norwegian seaweed – An investigation of the fatty acids and glyceroglycolipids in selected seaweed”, on Friday February 5, 2021.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Vignesh Raja Ponnambalam, Faculty of Science and Technology (REALTEK) will defend his PhD thesis "Row Following Based Navigation Systems for Agricultural Robots" on 26 January 2021.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Kristine von Krogh, Department of Preclinical Sciences and Pathology, Faculty for Veterinary Medicine, will defend her PhD thesis, “An Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua L.) pituitary model system for reproductive and reprotoxic testing in vitro” on 22 January 2021.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Sarah Ephrida Tione, School of Economics and Business (HH), will defend her PhD thesis "Land markets and agricultural household decisions nexus in Malawi" on 20 January 2021.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Kristin Sæbø Pettersen, Department of Paraclinical Sciences, Faculty for Veterinary Medicine, will defend her PhD thesis, “The effect of food chain stressors on Listeria monocytogenes” on 18 January 2021.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Siv Meling, Department of Production Animal Clinical Sciences, Faculty for Veterinary Medicine, will defend her PhD thesis, “The presence of an acute phase response in experimental classical scrapie in lambs indicates a shift towards a pro-inflammatory status in the clinical terminal stages” on 15 January 2021.
