Faglige arrangementer - Side 31

Guest lecture by Executive Director of iBOL (International Barcode of Life), Dr. Peter Freeman.

MSc Jarl Andreas Anmarkrud ved Naturhistorisk museum vil forsvare sin avhandling "Evolution of genetic diversity at two hypervariable markers: a microsatellite and the MHC" for ph.d.-graden.

M.Sc Terje Laskemoen ved Naturhistorisk museum vil forsvare sin avhandling "Sperm morphology and function in passerine birds: insights from intra-and interspecific studies" for phd.graden.

Cand.scient Anette Edvardsen ved Naturhistorisk museum vil forsvare sin avhandling "Vascular plants in modern agricultural landscapes of SE Norway: Spatial distribution and temporal dynamics" for ph.d.-graden.

MSc Eve Z eyl ved Naturhistorisk museum vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d. (philosophiae doctor) "Population genetics of polar bears (Ursus maritimus) in the Svalbard area."

Lutz Bachmann and Øystein Wiig are pleased to announce on behalf of the National Center of Biosystematics (NCB) guest lectures from Prof. Stephan C. Schuster, Penn State University, USA on "Genomics of extinct and endangered species", and from Dr. Charlotte Lindqvist, University of Buffalo, USA on "Complete mitochondrial genome of a Pleistocene jawbone unveils the origin of polar bear".

By invitation of the Natural History Museum, Professor Nigel Hughes from Department of Earth Sciences University of California Riverside will give the lecture "Twenty Years on the Margins: paleontological and stratigraphic constraints on Himalayan structure and uplift."

By invitation of the Natural History Museum, National Centre of Biosystematics, Kevin Omland, Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA will give the lecture: Species Trees and the Evolution of Plumage and Song in the New World Orioles (Icterus)

By invitation from the Natural History Museum, National Center for Biosystematics (NCB), David F. Westneat, Professor of behavioural ecology at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA will present a lecture on the following topic: Signaling in social groups: Function and development of the sparrow’s bib