Today, CIGENE colleague Tina Graceline Kirubakaran defended her PhD thesis entitled “Genomics exploring population structure and sex determination in Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua)”. The defence started with the trial lecture: “Evolutionary significance of chromosomal inversions: […]
Why does some fish migrate into the ocean while others stay in freshwater? A study providing new insight into this phenomenon, was published this week in Nature Ecology and Evolution. The study was led by […]
Last week, the 4th International Conference on Integrative Salmonid Biology (ICISB 2019) was arranged in Edinburgh, Scotland (UK). As part of the conference, several poster viewing sessions were held and approximately 30 posters presented. The […]
The Earth Biogenome Project (EBP) aims to map the DNA for all animals, plants, birds, fish, fungi, algae and eukaryotes on Earth. Norway has recently established a national board, EBP-Nor, and Simen Rød Sandve, Associate […]
Full title: Unravelling genetic mechanisms underlying sea lice resistance in salmonid fishes
Duration: August 2020 – July 2023
Responsible: Sigbjørn Lien
Full title:Improving aquaculture sustainability by modulating the feed-microbiome host axis in Fish
Duration: July 2020 – December 2024
Responsible: Simen Rød Sandve and Phillip Pope
Full title: Smolt production protocols and breeding strategies for synchronized smoltification
Duration: January 2020 – December 2022
Responsible: Simen Rød Sandve
Cigene seeks enthusiastic and motivated candidates for two new positions, with application date 17th October 2019: PhD research fellowship within computational analyses of genome regulation Postdoctor within CRISPR and molecular functional genomics We look forward […]
As much as 10-15 % of all farmed salmon smolt does not survive the transition from freshwater to salt water, and this is a great challenge for the Norwegian salmon farming. In the Synchrosmolt project we aim to improve smolt production protocols and innovate breeding strategies to produce salmon that have better health and growth in the sea
Full title: Advancing European Aquaculture by Genome Functional Annotation
Duration: May 2019 – April 2023
Responsible: Sigbjørn Lien
Friday 7th June 2019, Thomas Nelson Harvey defended his PhD, entitled “Towards a genome wide understanding of salmon lipid metabolism gene regulation across tissues and life stages.” Atlantic salmon is an important source of omega-3 […]
Simon Stenberg from CIGENE, defended his thesis entitled “Epigenetic and genetic adaptation in experimental yeast populations” Friday 12th April. The thesis of Stenberg is focused on rapid clonal adaptation. Using experimental evolution on yeast populations, […]
Yang Jin, researcher at CIGENE, recently defended his PhD at NTNU. His thesis was entitled “Development of lipid metabolism in early life stages of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)”. Why is this interesting? Lipids are the […]
Tina Graceline Kirubakaran has recently published her second paper of her PhD. For the vast majority of the 26,000 species of bony fishes (teleosts), the mechanism of sex determination is still a complete mystery. In […]
Simen Rød Sandve from CIGENE is co-author of an article about genome mapping of Norwegian species. The article is published in forskning.no.