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 […]
A new project at CIGENE was recently funded by The Norwegian Seafood Research Fund (FHF). The project, called PERTI-FISH, will address the widespread use of live fish testing and builds upon the existing experience at CIGENE […]
SALMOCODE – the Salmon Map of Organs and Cells for the Optimal Development of Embryos – is a new three-year research project at CIGENE. The project was recently funded by the Norwegian Seafood Research Fund […]
Image: Simen Røyseland Duration: January 2025 – December 2028 Responsible: Simen Rød Sandve Funding source: NFR (FRIPRO) Project number: 352116 Awarded: 12,000,000 NOK Summary: Changes in the genetic makeup of species over time – i.e. […]
A new opinion piece was recently published on the website of the Norwegian newspaper Dagens Næringsliv, co-authored by CIGENE’s Simen Rød Sandve (alongside NMBU colleague Ida Beitnes Johansen). The article is published in Norwegian, and […]