Faculty of Biosciences (Cigene) and the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine are organizing a meeting on long-read DNA sequencing using Oxford Nanopore Technologies. During the meeting, we will hear what researchers at NMBU and other institutes […]

Marie-Odile Baudement gave a great presentation on Cigene’s current work in the European AQUA-FAANG project (https://www.aqua-faang.eu/) at the WCGALP conference. Chromatin states annotations for salmon tissues, obtained through ChIP and ATAC-seq experiments, with support of […]

On Thursday June 30th 2022, Matilde Mengkrog Holen successfully defended her PhD, entitled “Characterisation of genes and proteins related to chitin metabolism in Atlantic salmon”. Matildes project has focused on chitin, an abundant and easily […]

This June, the genome science section has successfully fostered a new clutch of genome expert graduate students. We are so proud of our hard-working students and all they have managed to achieve within the last […]

Genome assembly, structural variants, and genetic differentiation between lake whitefish young species pairs (Coregonus sp.) with long and short reads   Understanding the processes underlying the evolution of species and how genomes diverge during speciation […]

Marie Saitou from CIGENE recently received the “Maria Sklodowska Curie Award”. The award was established by the Japan Science and Technology Agency and the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Japan, commending young female […]

Induced pluripotency is the conversion of a differentiated cell to an undifferentiated state, such as a pluripotent stem cell, which can give rise to every other cell type in the body. Although the most sought-after […]

We are pleased to announce that in the coming months we will be investing in a platform for generating single-cell sequencing libraries. Traditional bulk-RNA sequencing of heterogeneous tissues does not allow researchers to differentiate gene […]

PhD Candidate, Øystein Monsen, recently published  a debate post in Klassekampen, regarding sex determination in biology. Below you can find the full text of this post (Norwegian only).   I den no pågåande transdebatten vert […]

Johanna H. Wagnerberger, former master student at CIGENE, recently received the award for the best master thesis at NMBU in 2020.  She has used CRISPR based gene editing to characterise the function of the  abcg2b […]

Three research groups at NMBU last week submitted a unified proposal to the Research Council of Norway (RCN) to establish the world’s leading Centre for Salmon Genome Biology – SalmoGENE. The Centre seeks to generate […]

In June this year, the Research Council Norway assigned funding for several projects at NMBU. Dr. Marie Saitou from CIGENE, received very positive feedback on her young research talent application, with the project Unveiling the […]

This semester, three master students at CIGENE have completed their thesis with excellent results. We congratulate Dominiki Manousi, Hanna Magdalena Sahlström and Jostein Arntsen with their great accomplishments and wish you all the best in […]

Marie Saitou and Guro Sandvik (CIGENE, NMBU) are arranging the Japan-Norway Symposium on Fish Endocrinology and Genomics. The aim of this symposium is to promote collaboration between Norwegian and Japanese research groups within the topics of […]