Domniki Manousi from CIGENE successfully defended her PhD thesis on Thursday 11th September 2025. Domniki’s PhD was titled “Genomic Basis of Pathogen Response and Immune Gene Evolution in Atlantic Salmon” and was supervised by CIGENE’s […]

On Tuesday 21st October 2025, CIGENE will host a joint seminar with Oxford Nanopore Technologies. CIGENE hosts Nanopore’s most powerful instrument, the PromethION 24 (P24), and has pioneered agricultural genomic insights for years. Now, they […]

The 76th Annual Meeting of the European Federation of Animal Science (EAAP) took place at the end of August 2025 (25th-29th). Many NMBU employees attended the conference in Innsbruk, Austria, including Dag Inge Våge, Thea […]

Image Caption: Visual representation of the parallel selection on MHC immune genes in aquaculture-raised Atlantic salmon from Norway (right) and North America (left). Despite genome-wide divergence, both populations show selection signals in the same region […]

On Tuesday 22nd April 2025, Dat Nguyen successfully defended his PhD thesis, entitled “Improved computational methods for regulatory genomic inference”. The overarching aim of the PhD project was to create more accurate, efficient and scalable […]

A new project at CIGENE was recently funded by The Norwegian Seafood Research Fund (FHF). The project, called PERTI-FISH, will address the widespread use of live fish testing and builds upon the existing experience at CIGENE […]

A new opinion piece was recently published on the website of the Norwegian newspaper Dagens Næringsliv, co-authored by CIGENE’s Simen Rød Sandve (alongside NMBU colleague Ida Beitnes Johansen). The article is published in Norwegian, and […]

A new project that investigates the genetics behind gill physiology in Atlantic salmon, and features CIGENE’s Simen Sandve, has received funding from the Norwegian Research Council. The project runs from 2024-27 and is led by […]