Johanna H. Wagnerberger, former master student at CIGENE, recently received the award for the best master thesis at NMBU in 2020.  She has used CRISPR based gene editing to characterise the function of the  abcg2b […]

Three research groups at NMBU last week submitted a unified proposal to the Research Council of Norway (RCN) to establish the world’s leading Centre for Salmon Genome Biology – SalmoGENE. The Centre seeks to generate […]

In June this year, the Research Council Norway assigned funding for several projects at NMBU. Dr. Marie Saitou from CIGENE, received very positive feedback on her young research talent application, with the project Unveiling the […]

This semester, three master students at CIGENE have completed their thesis with excellent results. We congratulate Dominiki Manousi, Hanna Magdalena Sahlström and Jostein Arntsen with their great accomplishments and wish you all the best in […]

Marie Saitou and Guro Sandvik (CIGENE, NMBU) are arranging the Japan-Norway Symposium on Fish Endocrinology and Genomics. The aim of this symposium is to promote collaboration between Norwegian and Japanese research groups within the topics of […]

In November last year, Marie Saitou joined our team at CIGENE. In a recent portrait in The Japan Society for the Promotion (JSPS), Marie explains her scientific interests and reflects on what it’s like to […]

Simen Sandve from CIGENE has, together with other colleagues from NMBU, published an article in Aftenposten Viten. 

COVID-19 stopped the CIGENE seminar series in 2020. We are therefore very pleased that we finally can kick-off a new semester with exciting talks! Due to the pandemic, this will be a fully digital event. […]

“Research Talents for Sustainability” is a two-year scheme for 20 scientific employees at NMBU. The program aims to provide academic staff with increased opportunities to develop as researchers, supervisors and innovators. The program has a […]

Today, January 6th, Johanna Henny Wagnerberger defended her master  thesis. Johanna has been a Master student at CIGENE, under the supervision of Simen Rød Sandve. Her thesis investigated the functional role of the gene abcg2b […]

Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna have discovered one of gene technology’s sharpest tools: the CRISPR/Cas9 genetic scissors. Using these, researchers can change the DNA of animals, plants and microorganisms with extremely high precision. This […]

Structural variants (SVs) represent an important class of genetic variants that have the potential to significantly impact the function and regulation of genes, influence phenotypic variation and cause a range of diseases. Unfortunately, SVs remain […]

Kai Fjær recently defended her thesis entitled “Whole genome sequencing with Oxford Nanopore and de novo genome assemblies of lipid-producing fungi in phylum Mucoromycota”. The focus of this work has been cultivation of 11 different […]

This Autumn, a new master study program in genome science is offered at NMBU.  The students will be part of an international research team that studies genomes in micro-organisms, plants, fish and animals. The program […]