Anubha studies the effect of rising temperatures on grasses and tries to decipher the underlying molecular mechanisms involved in their adaptation at NMBU. She utilizes CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing Technique to validate the function of genes associated with adaptation.
University / institution: NMBU
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Anubha Gupta
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Rune Haugland Navarsete
Rune works with genome sequencing, diagnostics and modelling of the plant pathogens called Soft Rot Pectobacteriaceae. He is trying to model the metabolic pathways of these bacteria to see in what ways they interact with each other and how they cause disease in potato tubers.
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Maximilian Koch
Max is a Phd candidate at the faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management (MINA) at NMBU and works as a research scientist at the Norwegian centre for organic agriculture (NORSØK). Max has a background in environmental science and has specialised in agricultural science and soil science in his first PhD. He is particularly interested in how cover crops can affect the biomass and diversity of the soil microbiome, and thus directly influence crop-pathogen interactions. His work aims to improve crop quality and storability in order to sustainably increase crop yields under Norwegian climatic conditions.
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Runa Gidske
Runa is a PhD candidate at NMBU. She works with conservation biological control in fruit production. She aims to provide a better understanding of the role of predators in control of tortricid moths in fruit production, and how predators are affected by surrounding semi-natural habitat. This is investigated through insect sampling, botanical mapping and molecular analysis of predator gut content, to reveal predator dietary preferences and potential for biological control. This is part of the larger collaborative project, IPM strategies for future fruit production (IPM fruit), that aims to develop alternative control methods against important pests in Norwegian fruit production.
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Marte Ranvik
Marte is a PhD student at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU). She has previously worked with field, greenhouse and strawberry tunnel experiments, in addition to experience with image phenotyping techniques and molecular lab analysis. In her PhD project she studies an alternative growth medium for horticulture to replace peat. Here she will investigate plant growth, microbial community and plant health.
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Kai Ilves
Kai is a PhD student at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. She works with oats and aims to broaden the genetic base for oat breeding by phenotypic and genetic characterization of novel genetic diversity in agronomically improved historic recurrent selection oat populations. Prior to her PhD studies, she worked as a senior lab technician in the biotechnology department at the Estonian Centre for Rural Research and Knowledge. Her focus there was on marker-assisted selection in crop plants, but in addition, she could try her hands in many other areas such as gene editing with CRISPR-Cas. Her MSc and BSc were completed at the University of Tartu, where she worked on plant-fungal interactions.
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Brian Ogenrwoth
Brian is a PhD student at the Faculty of Environmental Science and Natural Resource Management (MINA), at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU). He has a background of MSc. Agricultural and Applied Economics, a Bachelors of Agribusiness management, and a Diploma in Agroforestry. He has worked on several research projects including impact and performance evaluations, food security, nutrition, agribusiness, climate change, technology transfer and adoption, gender analyses, behavioral and experimental economics. Brian`s PhD project is aligned to Agricultural and Resource Economics specialization. It particularly focuses on the adoption and welfare impacts of Biochar and Climate Smart Agriculture among smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa, a case of Uganda.
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Signe Bråtelund
Signe was a PhD candidate in plant science at NMBU. She explored the genetics of sugar kelp (Saccharina latissima). Her projects involved a population genetic study of a wild population and quantitative genetic studies based on a selection experiment spanning 3 generations.
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Jorunn Elisabeth Olsen
Jorunn is a professor at NMBU in plant protection and food crops.
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Mari Talgø Syvertsen
Mari is a PhD student at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. Her project is focused on working with epigenetics and bioinformatics in Norway spruce, looking at how different temperatures during somatic embryogenesis can induce an epigenetic memory which influences climatic adaptation traits such as the timing of bud burst, and bud set in the plant. A major focus is to identify stable differences in the DNA methylation status of genes related to epigenetic mechanisms, phenology, and related pathways during the annual cycle in plants of two epitypes (cool and warm) which have had different exposure to temperatures during embryogenesis. RNA-seq data will be used together DNA methylation data to correlate the expression of the differentially methylated target genes with their corresponding gene expression at different time points throughout the growth-dormancy cycle. The results will shed light on how the stable epigenetic memory is maintained in the plant throughout the annual cycle and controls the timing of phenological events (i.e. bud burst and de-hardening).
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Mikel Moriana Armendariz
Mikel is a PhD candidate at NMBU. His research field is in Alpine ecology, an interest he has developed through his Masters in Arctic ecology at UiT. Mikel aims to find out what Arctic plant community types are more vulnerable to incoming species, as well as studying what species are more likely to spread into alpine areas.
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Theodorus Meuwissen
Theodorus is a professor at Faculty of Biosciences at NMBU. He is involved in the projects The FeedMileage project and WheatSustain – Knowledge-driven genomic predictions for sustainable disease resistance in wheat.
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Åshild Gunilla Ergon
Åshild is an associate Professor at Faculty of Biosciences at NMBU working on traits, genetics and breeding of legumes and genetics and breeding of sugar kelp.
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Harkingto Harkingto
Harkingto is a PhD candidate at NMBU Plant Science Department. He is working in DIVERSILIENCE project that aims to improve the productivity and resilience of organic crop production by better utilization of crop diversity, through research collaboration across Europe. His focus in this project is to develop genomics tools and high-throughput phenotyping system for Lucerne breeding pipeline and to study the crop adaptation mechanisms in Nordic climate. Prior to his PhD candidate position at NMBU, he completed his master in France and was involved in a molecular breeding project for tropical crops in Indonesia and France.
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Liv H. Gilpin
Liv was a PhD student at the Section for Genetics and Plant Breeding, Faculty of Biosciences at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU). She has worked in various plant biology fields since 2009, from soil borne diseases in horticultural crops to organic Production systems. She completed her MCs at NMBU in 2009, writing her thesis within the Field of Chemical Ecology, specifically on fruit crop and beneficial insect communication. Her focus in her PhD project named Qapple, was developing genomic based breeding technology for high quality apples in a nordic climate.
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Odd Arne Rognli
Odd Arne is Head of Department at Faculty of Biosciences at NMBU.
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Morten Lillemo
Morten is a Professor at Faculty of Biosciences at NMBU. His research activities are in the interphase between plant genetics and plant breeding. With special interest in QTL mapping, resistance breeding and the molecular genetics of hostpathogen interactions.
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Sahameh Shafiee
Sahameh is a Researcher at Faculty of Biosciences at NMBU. Her research interest are research on UAV imagery, machine learning, plant breeding and precision agriculture.
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Matthew Patrick James Lynch
Matthew is an Associate Professor at School of Economics and Business at NMBU.
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Siri Lie Olsen
Siri is an associate professor in botanical ecology at NMBU and scientific advisor at NINA. She is a plant ecologist with a broad background in applied research, mainly focusing on anthropogenic impacts such as climate change, land-use change and invasive species on biodiversity. She is especially interested in how climate change impacts individual plants, plant populations and communities and interactions within and between trophic levels.
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Sissel Torre
Sissel is a Professor in biosciences at NMBU. Her research fields are crop physiology, greenhouse horticulture, photobiology and climate adaptation.
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Vinay Kumar Reddy Nannuru
Vinay was the student ambassador at NMBU in 2022. He completed his PhD under a project named WheatSustain aimed at developing genomic prediction models for disease resistance in Wheat at Faculty of Biosciences, NMBU. Prior to this, he did his master’s in Germany.