CGB PhD Students

CGBs current PhD students (last updated 08.05.2014):

• Hasan Arsin (GEO)
  

• Sven Le Moine Bauer (BIO)
  An ecological analysis of different microbial and viral communities from deep-sea hydrothermal vents
  
  
• Inês Cruz (GEO, co-supervised at UiB and University of Lisbon)
  Hydrothermal prospection in slow and ultra-slow sedimented ridges in the Arctic and North Atlantic
  
  
• Alden Denny (GEO)
  Bringing the Seafloor to light: The application of advanced deep-sea remote sensing to marine geology

• Kristin Flesland (GEO)
  Hydrothermal and volcanic history at ultra-slow spreading ridges recorded in sediment cores

• Heidi Hansen(GEO)
  Source heterogeneities and differentiation processes at slow and ultraslow spreading ridges

• Jon Hestetun (BIO)
  
  
• William Hocking (BIO)
  Gene regulation in Archaeoglobus fulgidus VC16, a hyperthermopilic sulfate reducing facutltative autotroph
  
  
• Karen Cecilie Johannessen (GEO)
  The Emergence of Life on Earth 3+ Billion years ago

• Karin Landschulze (GEO)
  Investigation of possible CO2 migration pathways and mechanisms with respect to storage safety and monitoring
  
  
• Bernt Rydland Olsen (BIO)
  Zooplankton food web of North-Atlantic hydrothermal plumes
  
  
• Leif-Erik Pedersen (GEO)
  
  
• Jan Van der Roost (BIO)
  Iron oxidizing bacteria at the Jan Mayen hydrothermal vent field

• Oles Savchuk (GEO)
  
  
• Anne Stensland (GEO)
  Input and fate of hydrothermal gases and trace elements in deep-sea plumes in the Norwegian-Greenland Sea

• Anders Schouw (BIO)
  Biogenic conversion of higher hydrocarbons to methane - New isolates, functional insights and models

• Juliane Wissuwa (BIO)
  Mining of a Norwegian biogoldmine through metagenomics
  
  
• Rui Zhao (BIO)
  The Microbial Nitrogen Cycle in the Deep Biosphere
  

CGBs past PhD students:

Completed 2014:

• Anita-Elin Fedøy (BIO)
  Structure-function analysis of isocitrate dehydrogenase subfamily II: Adaptation to hot and cold

Completed 2013:

• Steffen Jørgensen (BIO)
  Microbial Diversity and Functionality in Deep-Sea Sediments: Influence of Volcanism and Hydrothermal Activity

• Anders Lanzén (BIO)
  Analysis of sequencing data in environmental genomics
  
  
• Yuangao Qu (GEO)
  Isotopic and structural characteristics of organic matter in the Paleoproterozoic Zaonega Formation, Karelia, Russia
  
  
• Ingeborg Økland (GEO)
  Alteration processes in the ocean crust and upper mantle

Completed 2012:

• Kirsten Möller (GEO)
  Transition metal isotope fractionation in hydrothermal iron-sulphide deposits of the Mohns and Knipovich Ridges, North Atlantic Ocean
  
  
• Irene Roalkvam (BIO)
  Metagenomics and metaproteomics of deep arctic hydrothermal systems
  
  
• Bjørn Olav Steinsbu (BIO)
  Characterization of microorganisms from marine hydrothermal systems

Completed 2011:

• Mia Bengtsson (BIO)
  Bacterial biofilms on kelp: Biodiversity and roles in kelp forest carbon cycling

Completed 2010:

• Paco Cárdenas (BIO)
  Phylogeny, Taxonomy and Evolution of the Astrophorida (Porifera, Demospongiae)
  
  
• Eugene Grosch (GEO)
  visiting PhD student from Africa Earth Observatory Network (AEON), at the University of Cape Town

Completed 2009:

• Tajul Islam (BIO)
  Discovery of novel methanotrophs from extreme environments