Dissertations from students in the Biology PhD School - 2023
Theresa Lumpi
It's complicated:: The role of timing in microbial community coalescence
Department of Ecology and Genetics
Opponent: Clara Ruiz-González, Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC), Spain.
Defense: 14 June 2023
Philipp Pottmeier
Genetic Sex Differences in Early Human Neuronal Development: An Investigation in Embryo Tissue and Embryonic Stem Cells
Department of Organismal Biology
Main supervisor: Elena Jazin
Oponent: Armin Raznahan M.D. Ph.D., Chief Section on Developmental Neurogenomics, NIMH, USA
Defense on: 1st June 2023
Ana Isabel Ayala Zamora
Modelling impact climate-related change on the thermal responses of lakes
Department of Ecology and Genetics
Main supervisor: Peter Eklöv
Oponent: Professor Andreas Lorke , Institute for Environmental Sciences, University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (https://nuw.rptu.de/en/wgs/environmental-physics/team/prof-dr-andreas-lorke)
Defended on 2nd May 2023
Madeline Chase
Speciation genomics in Ficedula flycatchers
Department of Organismal Biology
Main supervisor: Carina Mugal
Oponent: Chris Jiggins (University of Cambridge)
Defended on March 24th, 2023
Erik Gudmunds
From environmental cue to phenotypic variation - A functional investigation of wing polyphenism in an emerging model species
Main supervisor: Arild Husby
Opponent: Laura Lavine, Washington State University
Defended on17th of March 2023
Biology dissertations from students in the PhD School - 2022
Caesar Al Jewari
Resolving deep nodes in eukaryote phylogeny
Department of Ecology and Genetics
Main supervisor: Sandra L. Baldauf
Oponent: Prof. Antonis Rokas (Vanddebilt University, USA)
Defence on November 2, 2022
Paula Vasconcelos
Adaptive evolution in multidimensional trait spaces
Department of Ecology and Genetics, Animal Ecology
Main supervisor:
Oponent: Maria Servedio (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Defended on September 23, 2022
Biology dissertations from students in the PhD School - 2021
Emmanouil Tsakoumis
The role of leptin in zebrafish (Danio rerio): novel insights into appetite regulation and reproduction
Department of Organismal Biology, Environmental Toxicology
Main supervisor: Monika Schmitz
Defended on October 1, 2021
Valentina Peona
The exploration and evolution of the avian genomic dark matter
Department of Organismal Biology, Systematic Biology
Main supervisor: Alexander Suh
Defended on September 30, 2021
Mahwash Jamy
Environmental sequencing to infer patterns of eukaryotic evolution: Combining long-read and short-read metabarcoding
Department of Organismal Biology, Systematic Biology
Main supervisor: Fabien Burki
Defended on September 10, 2021
Avhandlingar inom biologi från oktober 2020
Adriane Guillaumin
The subthalamic nucleus in motor and affective functions – An optogenetic in vivo-investigation Institutionen för Organismbiologi, Jämförande fysiologi.