Gjesteforelesninger - Side 2

Why study rare and new minerals.

Dr. Björn Kröger (Humboltuniversitetet i Berlin, Museum für Naturkunde) will give the lecture "Cephalopod origin and evolution: A congruent picture emerging from fossils, development and molecules".

Dr. Francois Durand ved Dep. of Zoology, University of Johannesburg vil holde gjesteforelesningen:

The importance of the Karoo fossils of South Africa and our understanding of Gondwanaland and the origin of mammals. 

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

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

Biologi master (Evolusjon og biodiversitet).

Dr Steve J. Coulson of the University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS) will present a lecture on the following topic: "High Arctic invertebrate biogeography, dispersal, establishment and survival: the case of Svalbard".

Ph.D./M.Sc.-course, Nordic Mineralogical Network, Univ. of Oslo, GEO 9800

Den ledende forskeren og anerkjente formidleren professor Richard A. Fortey ved Natural History Museum, London, gjester NHM med forelesningen "The fossil record since Darwin".

Museum collections of fungi - social aspects and value for research, public outreach and nature resource assessment.

Professor Avraham Levy vil forelese over følgende emne: Genetic and epigenetic mechanisms of gene expression rewiring in hybrids and polyploids