Lorentz is a masterstudent on Environmental Molecular Biology at UiT. In his master he is collaborating with the algae cultivation company Polaralge AS and will explore whether hyperspectral imaging can be used to detect mineral composition and quantities of sugar kelp. He wants to explore the potential of this technology as a tool to assess quantities and quality of kelp in order to optimize cultivation and production methods, timing of harvesting and post harvest managing of sugar kelp.
University / institution: UiT
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Lorentz Bloch Haugland
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Gunilla Kristina Eriksen
Gunilla is the manager of the Algae Project, a collaboration between UiT and Finnfjord AS. She is responsibile for the daily operation of the laboratory and the algae cultivation area located on Finnfjord.
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Aloïs Revéret
Aloïs is a PhD student at UiT with The Arctic University Museum of Norway. He works on ancient DNA from sediment cores to elucidate the timing and patterns of recolonisation of the Scandinavian peninsula by plants and animals since the deglaciation 18,000 years ago.
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Andreas Langdal
Andreas is a PhD candidate in seafood science at UiT. With his experiences as a chef with high focus on customer satisfaction and an education guiding him to uphold seafood quality and safety,he now use this knowledge as a Ph.D candidate to ensure food- and environmental sustainability throughout the production chain of marine food.
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Terje Vasskog
Terje is an associate professor at Department of Pharmacy at UiT and research group leader of the Natural Products- and Medicinal Chemistry Research Group.
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Jemma Louise Wadham
Jemma is a Professor at De partment of Geosciences at UiT.
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Vasili Balios
Vasilis background is genetic engineering and biotechnology from his postgraduate studies in South Africa. His previous projects also allowed him to work closely with industry partners to achieve common goals. Vasili is currently a PhD candidate at UiT, and his focus is on the stable transformation of Cuscuta, as well as studying the interaction between Cuscuta and host through hyperspectral imaging and investigating protein interactions.
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Colin Sinclair
Colin is a PhD student at the Department of Geosciences at UiT the Arctic University of Norway. His background is mainly in geology and hydrology. His PhD project examines the suitability of different types of fine-grained glacial sediments (glacial flour) as soil amendments for aiding the growth of cold-climate crops. The ability of glacial flour to provide plants with useful quantities of essential nutrients and beneficial micronutrients as well as concentrations of trace metals potentially harmful to human health will be studied.
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Marit Huizer
Marit is from The Netherlands and currently pursuing her PhD at UiT- the Arctic University of Norway, as a part of the research group Natural Products and Medicinal Chemistry. Her research work is specifically focused on lipid and pigment analysis of marine microalgae and bioactivity studies. All of this is being done under the AlgScaleUP project.
Prior to this,she completed her MSc in chemistry from the University of Amsterdam, where she concentrated on method development in chromatography and mass spectrometry. During her master’s thesis, she worked on the analysis of microplastics at the Norwegian Air Institute in Tromsø, and did an internship at the University of Copenhagen, where she was involved in the trace analysis of synthetic cannabinoids.
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Michael Stefan Dills
Michael is a PhD candidate at the Norwegian college of Fishery Science at UiT. He studies microbial community interactions based around photosynthesis and methane oxidation to understand how multi-species systems function in the environment and industrial settings.
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Ingeborg Hulda Giæver
Ingeborg has a masters degree in Marine Biotechnology from UiT. During her masters, she focused on the protein- and amino acid content of the diatom cultivated in an industrial scale up of mass cultivation project located at Finnfjord AS. After her masters, she worked as an engineer for 2.5 years in the project. She is currently a PhD-student at UiT. Her research focus is aimed at bioprospecting microalgae suitable for mass cultivation in large vertical air-lift column photobioreacters.
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Andreas Jørgensen
Andreas is a PhD student at UiT- the Arctic University of Norway at the department of Arctic and Marine Biology. He has a background in ecology with special focus on vegetation ecology in the Arctic and has also worked with climate warming-related plant physiology. His PhD focusses on autumn leaf senescence in Arctic tundra plants, the timing of which has important implications for both food-web dynamics and climate feedbacks. Through his work, he hopes to increase the currently limited understanding of environmental and physiological drivers of plant senescence in tundra plants. PhenoCam and UAV-based photogrammetry is integrated with traditional field methods in field experiments and surveys in natural gradients at his field site in Adventdalen, Svalbard.
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Hilary Edema
Hilary is a PhD student at the Department of Arctic and Marine Biology, UiT the Arctic University of Norway. He has a background in molecular biology and biotechnology and is particularly interested in production of novel enzymes for industrial biocatalysis. He has worked in various projects including characterization of sweet potato viruses, mycotoxins, overexpression of camel chymosin in yeast for cheese production as well as reconstruction of lignin degradation pathways in streptomyces bacteria. Hilary’s PhD project seeks to explore the potential of cellulases of plant origin for plant biomass degradation in the context of bioenergy.
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Anton Liaimer
Anton is an Associate professor at Department of Arctic and Marine Biology at UiT.
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Elisabeth Cooper
Elisabeth is a Professor at Department of Arctic and Marine Biology at UiT.
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Richard Andre Ingebrigtsen
Richard is a Senior Researcher at Microalgae and Microbiome Engineering at The Norwegian College of Fishery Science at UiT.
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Hans Christopher Bernstein
Hans is a Professor in Microalgae and Microbiome Engineering at The Norwegian College of Fishery Science at UiT. His research is at the intersection of biotechnology and microbial ecology as applied to the fields of marine microbiomes, synthetic biology, and algal biotechnology for capture and utilization.
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Karsten Bruno Fischer
Karsten is a Professor in Plant Molecular Biology at Department of Arctic and Marine Biology at UiT.
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Ulrike Naumann
Ulrike is a Production Advisor at Tromspotet and a Business Advisor at UiT.
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Espen Holst Hansen
Espen is a Professor in marine biotechnology and a researcher at Marbio at The Norwegian College of Fishery Science at UiT.
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Katja Karppinen
Katja is an Associate Professor in Plant Biotechnology and Bioenergy, under ARC-Arctic Centre for Sustainable Energy. Co-leader of ABSORB-project.
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Galina Gusarova
Galina is a Researcher at The Arctic University Museum of Norway at UiT.
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Daniela Morales-Sanchez
Daniela is an Associate Professor in Microalgae and microbes at The Norwegian College of Fishery Science at UiT.
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Laura Jaakola
Laura is a Professor in plant biology at Department of Arctic and Marine Biology at UiT. Her research interests are: Wild berries, plant secondary metabolites, flavonoids, regulation of biosynthesis, environmental effects.
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Corine Faehn
Corine is a PhD student at the Department of arctic and marine biology at UiT the Arctic university of Norway. She has worked in various plant biology fields since 2015, from the effects of invasive herbivores in tropical ponds, working in a commercial greenhouse, to the molecular circadian rhythms in sub-Arctic strawberries. Her focus in her PhD prosject is on sub-Arctic root-soil interactions and what functional traits may provide better carbon capture solutions for bioremediation and bio-design efforts.
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Kirsten Krause
Kirsten is the leader of Photosyntech. She is a professor in molecular plant biology at Department of arctic and marine biology at UiT the Arctic university of Norway. She studied Biology in Hamburg, Germany, interspersed by study periods abroad in South Africa and in the USA, and followed by PhD studies at the Universities of Cologne and Kiel, Germany. She came to Tromsø, Norway, in 2006 where she continued to work primarily on two main research questions: 1. how chloroplasts (the power plants of plant cells) are integrated into the plants’ regulatory networks; and 2. what tricks of molecular camouflage parasitic plants have invented to steal the nutrients from their host plants without getting caught. We use microscopy, biochemistry and molecular genetics in our research and are starting to implement cutting edge phenotyping technologies. Our insight into basic molecular principles offer applied angles for biotechnology and agriculture.
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Sunniva Katharina Thode
Sunniva has a 50% position as coordinator of Photosyntech. The other 50% she works in the faculty administration with outreach, publication control and open access at Faculty of biosciences, fisheries and economics at UiT. She is from Tromsø and has a PhD degree in science and a civil engineer in molecular biotechnology degree, both from UiT.