A new study from CIGENE’s Marie Saitou, published in Genome Biology and Evolution this month, suggests that the genes active within human breast tissue, and thereby the genes controlling mammary gland function, are not unique […]
On Monday 15th June 2026, CIGENE’s Øyvind Sætren Gulbrandsen successfully defended his PhD thesis titled “Function, diversity and evolution of meiotic recombination localization factor PRDM9 in Atlantic salmon”. Øyvind’s PhD project investigated the diversity and […]
On Monday 16th March 2026, Célian Diblasi successfully defended his PhD thesis, entitled “Structural variants and whole genome duplication in Atlantic salmon evolution”. The overarching aim of the PhD project was to provide new insight […]
Photo: Matthew Kent presents a career history as part of the BIOVIT seminar ‘Two New Professors’ Congratulations to Matthew Kent from CIGENE, who was recently promoted to Professor at NMBU. Matthew joined NMBU over 20 […]
Duration: January 2025 – December 2028 Project Leader: Jacob Seilø Torgersen, Aquagen Funding source: Norwegian Research Council Project number: 355649 Awarded: 10MNOK Project overview: Sea lice infestation negatively affects animal welfare and is the major […]
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 […]
A new popular science article, written by CIGENE’s Simen Sandve and Helle Baalsrud, was published on the Norwegian science communication website Forskning.no last week. The article, titled “Some genes can ‘jump’ but what does this […]
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 […]
Last week Tina Berglund defended her Master thesis, and obtained a grade A. Tina’s project was titled ‘In vivo CRISPR-Cas12a knockout of troponin T type 2a in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)’ and was supervised by CIGENE’s […]
On Tuesday 22nd April 2025, Mohammad Ali Noman Reza successfully defended his PhD thesis, titled “Understanding viral resistance in Atlantic salmon cells through transcriptomics and genome editing”. The defense took place digitally via Zoom. Reza […]
The University Board recently awarded the annual prize for best thesis 2024 to Erik Sandertun Røed for his thesis titled “Evaluating genetic tools to inform conservation efforts for the nationally red-listed European lobster (Homarus gammarus).” […]
Last week, CIGENE hosted a seminar by Eivind Undheim from the University of Oslo. Eivind gave a great talk covering his research using animal venoms as a means to improve our understanding of evolution (title […]
The 15th edition of the International Symposium on Genetics in Aquaculture (ISGA XV) took place in Cadiz, Spain from 11-17 May 2025, and CIGENE was represented by PhD students Prabin Sharma-Humagain and Valeria Aguilar Quiñones. […]
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 […]