Saria is a PhD student at Nord University studying the diet and fitness of high alpine birds (ptarmigans) under climate change. By using DNA metabarcoding, she analyze fecal pellets to understand how their food composition and selection varies with the timing of spring and also between ptarmigan species. Her broad interests are in avian ecology, climate change and human impacts.
University / institution: Nord
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Saria Sato-Bajracharya
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Ananya Khatei
Ananya is a PhD student in the macro-algae group at NORD University. Her research focuses on identifying DNMTs (enzymes required for DNA methylation), CpGs and its distribution through out the genome. The phylogenetic analysis of CpGs and methylation status can also reflect about epigenetic regulations.
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Anne Margrete Leiros Nilsen
Anne works on examining the epigenetics of temperature priming in kelps for enhanced aquaculture production and resilience in a warming climate.
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Prabhat Khanal
Prabhat Khanal is an associate professor at Faculty of Biosciences and Aquaculture at Nord.
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Mark Costello
Mark is a Professor at Faculty of Biosciences and Aquaculture at Nord.
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Clément Gauci
Clément is a PhD student at Nord University in Bodø. He performed his master thesis at the Alfred-Wegener Institute in Germany on the transgenerational plasticity of microscopic life stages of kelps. His PhD aims to develop bio-engineering tool to secure biomass production for seaweed farmers in future climates. To do so, he spends a lot of time cultivating algae in the lab and investigating the ecophysiological response as well as the formation of an epigenetic memory. Besides cultivating, you can find him biking along the Norwegian coastline.
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Sachin Dhakal
Sachin is a PhD candidate at Nord University in the Faculty of Biosciences and Aquaculture (FBA). He completed his master’s degree from the Norwegian University of Live Sciences (NMBU), focused on poultry feed and nutrition. His PhD project revolves around exploring the mechanism behind the bioactive and anti-methanogenic properties of brown seaweeds using genomic and metabolomics techniques. Through this project, he will utilize the different seaweed species that are available in the coastal regions of Norway as a novel alternative feeding resource for sustainable animal nutrition and production.
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Alexandre Détain
Alexandre is a PhD candidate at Nord University in the Algal and Microbial Biotechnology division. He has studied biochemistry and molecular biology applied to cell signalling in plant/microbe/environment interactions at the University of Burgundy (France). Now, his PhD project aims to decipher the physiology, metabolic and molecular events in arctic snow-algae under various polar conditions.
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Griffin Goldstein Hill
Griffin is a PhD student at Nord University in Bodø. Coming from a background in genetics, his PhD research seeks to elucidate the driving factors of genetic differentiation in Norwegian macroalgae populations. Specifically, the project focuses on the genetic population structure of Saccharina latissima, a seaweed of growing aquaculture interest in Europe, along climate gradients and between farmed and wild populations. He is also interested in exploring how we can facilitate the integration of information from modeling, genetics, and other approaches to catalyze sustainable aquaculture development in Norway and beyond. When not tangled in kelp or staring at R, Griffin enjoys skiing and science fiction novels.
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Kiron Viswanath
Kiron is Head of research division at Faculty of Biosciences and Aquaculture at Nord.
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Dolores Modic
Dolores works at the Division of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Her research interests are focused on technology transfer and IPR (including IPR management). During recent years she has been foremost conducting research in the field of IPR-based university-industry collaboration and technology transfer. Her other recent interest includes patent informatics (currently PI of an European Patent Office grant) and circular economy.
Dolores has experience from the private and public sector.
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Christopher Jonathan Hulatt
Christopher is an Associate Professor at Faculty of Biosciences and Aquaculture at Nord University.
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Jorunn Grande
Jorunn is an Associate Professor at Nord University business school.
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Katariina Raassina
Katariina received her Master’s in Bioengineering from the University of Tampere, Finland. The focus of her studies was in bacterial and environmental bioengineering. Currently she is a PhD student at Nord University. Her research focus is on developing imaging flow cytometry based phenotyping methods for diatoms, a group of microalgae. Diatoms are interesting due to their silica and lipid production. In addition to phenotyping diatoms, she is looking into evolving a more robust diatom strain for industrial purposes using adaptive laboratory evolution.
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Alexander Jüeterbock
Alexander is a scientist at Nord. His research focuses on macroalgae and seagrass. His long-term research goal is to understand functional-trait variation at the molecular level and to apply this knowledge towards sustainable growth of economically important algae, and towards the management of kelp forests and seagrass meadows under the impact of climate change. Epigenetic research allows to understand trait variation and biodiversity from an entirely new perspective. He aims to apply this knowledge towards societally relevant questions related to coastal ecosystem management and protection in light of increasing human impact and to sustainable cultivation of kelp along Arctic shores.