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 […]
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 […]