News archive for Department of Biological Sciences (BIO)

Faustina Asare has completed her Master's degree in Microbiology (20.12.2015)

Faustina Asare completed har Master's degree in Microbiology on December 18 with a study on the genetic basis for serotypic (O-antigenic) variation in enteric bacterial isolates.

EEA project on extremophilic Archaea (20.12.2015)

A joint EEA project on diversity and biotechnology of extremophilic Archaea from geothermal environments in Bulgaria has been awarded to the General Microbiology research group and the Institute of Microbiology, The Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

Protein secretion in a deep biosphere extremophile (17.12.2015)

Yong Yan Lao completed her Master degree in Microbiology on December 16 on a study of the protein secretome in an ancient extremophilic bacterium that inhabits deep and hot petroleum reservoirs. Congratulations!

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Marion wants to solve the herring life-history enigmas (14.12.2015)

Marion Claireaux has started her PhD studies on herring life-history changes. The study is part of the ConEvolHer project lead by the Institute of Marine Research.

Master's degree on industrial enzymes from extremophiles (11.12.2015)

Kjetil Dale has completed his Master degree in microbiology on a study of thermostable transketolase enzymes from an extremophilic bacterium from the deep hot biosphere. Congratulations!

Invisible Helpers on NRK (09.12.2015)

The Marine Microbiology Group and other scientists conducted a large experiment on marine microbial ecology in Svalbard during the summer of 2015. The experiment was recently featured in 'Schrödinger's Katt' on NRK.

Master degree on enzymes from the deep and hot subsurface (01.12.2015)

Sudeep Karki has completed his Master degree in microbiology on a study of thermostable sugar aminotransferse enzymes from the deep subsurface. Congratulations!