In November last year, Marie Saitou joined our team at CIGENE. In a recent portrait in The Japan Society for the Promotion (JSPS), Marie explains her scientific interests and reflects on what it’s like to […]

Simen Sandve from CIGENE has, together with other colleagues from NMBU, published an article in Aftenposten Viten. 

COVID-19 stopped the CIGENE seminar series in 2020. We are therefore very pleased that we finally can kick-off a new semester with exciting talks! Due to the pandemic, this will be a fully digital event. […]

“Research Talents for Sustainability” is a two-year scheme for 20 scientific employees at NMBU. The program aims to provide academic staff with increased opportunities to develop as researchers, supervisors and innovators. The program has a […]

Today, January 6th, Johanna Henny Wagnerberger defended her master  thesis. Johanna has been a Master student at CIGENE, under the supervision of Simen Rød Sandve. Her thesis investigated the functional role of the gene abcg2b […]

Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna have discovered one of gene technology’s sharpest tools: the CRISPR/Cas9 genetic scissors. Using these, researchers can change the DNA of animals, plants and microorganisms with extremely high precision. This […]

Structural variants (SVs) represent an important class of genetic variants that have the potential to significantly impact the function and regulation of genes, influence phenotypic variation and cause a range of diseases. Unfortunately, SVs remain […]

Kai Fjær recently defended her thesis entitled “Whole genome sequencing with Oxford Nanopore and de novo genome assemblies of lipid-producing fungi in phylum Mucoromycota”. The focus of this work has been cultivation of 11 different […]

This Autumn, a new master study program in genome science is offered at NMBU.  The students will be part of an international research team that studies genomes in micro-organisms, plants, fish and animals. The program […]

Two CIGENE colleagues, Kristina Stenløkk and Marius Strand, started their scientific career as students at KBM, NMBU. They have provided in-depth interviews on motivation and challenges on their road towards becoming researchers in bioinformatics. Check […]

CIGENE recently received funding for two new projects; LiceRESIST and ImprovAFish

The project Synchrosmolt started January 2020. The main objective is to provide new knowledge about how exposure to variation in daylength during smolt production can affect smolt development. The kick-off meeting was arranged in December […]