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 […]
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 […]
Foto: Camilla Wiik Gjerdrum/NMBU Last week, the Norwegian popular science website Forskning.no published an article about the PETRI-fish project, which is led by Matthew Kent at CIGENE and aims to develop lab-based (in vitro) methods […]
The Peder Sather grant program is awarded annually, and supports projects carried out by researchers at UC Berkeley, USA, in collaboration with researchers from eight Norwegian universities. Gareth Gillard and Thomas Harvey from CIGENE were […]
A total of 16 Master project proposals have been submitted by researchers at the Genome biology group/CIGENE. Any students wishing to undertake one of these projects is encouraged to contact the supervisor directly. More information, […]
Can probiotics and prebiotics make salmon farming more sustainable? To answer this important question, we first need to learn more about the bacteria living in the salmon gut — who they are and what they […]
NMBU is now hiring for two PhD positions linked to CIGENE. PhD scholarship within comparative evolutionary genomics. Torgeir Hvidsten (Faculty of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science) and CIGENE’s Simen Sandve are seeking a PhD student […]
Farmed Atlantic salmon is one of the world’s most popular marine based foods, with a global production of 2.86 million tonnes in 2022. This is a rapidly growing sector of the aquaculture industry, and market […]
image: Hologen consortium Duration: 2024-2027 Leader: Torgeir Hvidsten (KBM Faculty, NMBU) Funding source: European Union Project number: 101169005 summary: Microorganisms that live on and in our bodies influence almost all biological processes. Many areas of research […]
The 7th International Symposium on Genomics in Aquaculture (GIA) too place in Thessaloniki, Greece on 22-24 May 2024. The GIA covers a broad range of research fields applying cutting-edge omics tools and aims to bring […]
Last month, the 5th International conference on Integrative Salmonid Biology took place in Seattle, USA (11-14 March 2024). The conference was attended by CIGENE members Sigbjørn Lien, Kristina Stenløkk and Domniki Manousi, all of whom […]
image: Jack Perks Duration: 2024-2027 Leader: Professor David Hazlerigg, University of Tromsø Funding source: The Research Council of Norway Project number: 343129 Awarded: 12,000,000 NOK Summary: The project investigates how optimising freshwater rearing conditions can […]
The EU Horizon 2020 project AQUA-FAANG, which ran from 2019 and was coordinated by NMBU/CIGENE, has now concluded after a very active final phase. AQUA-FAANG was a European project involving 24 different partner institutions from […]
Duration: January 2023 – December 2025 Responsible: Sigbjørn Lien Funding source: Horizon Europe (European Union) Grant agreement number: 101094781 Summary: The overarching aim of the EuroFAANG (European Functional Annotation of Animal Genomes) infrastructure is to […]