Research topic

Genetics

Kjetil Hindar

Thirty-five years experience as a researcher on salmonid ecology and genetics; 8 years as a research director; >100 scientific publications; project leader on several Research Council of Norway projects, including a Knowledge platform on interactions between escaped farmed and wild salmon; experience from EU projects (leading one), BiodivERsA and Swedish research council projects; comprehensive international network 

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Frode Fossøy


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Jørgen Rosvold

Leader in NINA with special responsibilities for coordinating:
- NINAs international work
- Alien species
- Threatened species
- Entomology
- Carbon and soil science
- Large botanical and entomological monitoring projects like: ANO and National insect monitoring




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Ingerid Julie Hagen

Population genetics, genomics, epigenetics and domestication selection, development of high density SNP-arrays. 

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Markus Antti Mikael Majaneva

Biodiversity assessments
Bioinformatics
DNA-based species identification methods
Phylogenetic analyses
Statistical analyses



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Sebastian Wacker

  • population genetic analysis
  • parentage analysis
  • genetic estimates of population size (close-kin mark-recapture, effective population size)
  • experimental design

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Line Birkeland Eriksen


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Merethe Hagen Spets


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Narve Nikolai Opsahl

Arts og individgjenkjennesle ved genetiske markører:
genotyping med SNP og STR/mikrosatelitter, real time PCR (qPCR) og sekvensering.

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Kristin Forfang

  • Genetic identidication of species and individuals
  • Real-time PCR (qPCR)
  • SNP genotyping
  • STR genotyping (microsatellites)
  • Sequencing/barcoding


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Ida Pernille Øystese Molander


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Hege Brandsegg


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Alexander Kopatz

Wildlife conservation genetics. Conservation and population genetics with the focus on the research and management of large carnivores in northern Europe.


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Thomas Kvalnes

  • Ornitology, birds
  • Species determination birds
  • Ecology
  • Evolutionary biology
  • Conservation biology
  • Life history theory
  • Demography
  • Eco-evolutionary dynamics
  • Population dynamics
  • Population ecology
  • Population genetics
  • Quantitative genetics
  • Statistical modeling
  • Geographic Information Systems (GIS)


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Øystein Flagstad


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Oddmund Kleven


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Sten Ola Karlsson


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Kristine Bakke Westergaard

Arctic-alpine and boreal botany, biosystematics, plant geography, conservation genetics and genomics, vegetation ecology, floristics. Alien species: monitoring occurrences and pathways, identification of door knockers, and risk assessments.


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Geir H. Bolstad


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Genetics

Kjetil Hindar

Thirty-five years experience as a researcher on salmonid ecology and genetics; 8 years as a research director; >100 scientific publications; project leader on several Research Council of Norway projects, including a Knowledge platform on interactions between escaped farmed and wild salmon; experience from EU projects (leading one), BiodivERsA and Swedish research council projects; comprehensive international network 

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Frode Fossøy


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Jørgen Rosvold

Leader in NINA with special responsibilities for coordinating:
- NINAs international work
- Alien species
- Threatened species
- Entomology
- Carbon and soil science
- Large botanical and entomological monitoring projects like: ANO and National insect monitoring




Show full profile of Jørgen Rosvold

Ingerid Julie Hagen

Population genetics, genomics, epigenetics and domestication selection, development of high density SNP-arrays. 

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Markus Antti Mikael Majaneva

Biodiversity assessments
Bioinformatics
DNA-based species identification methods
Phylogenetic analyses
Statistical analyses



Show full profile of Markus Antti Mikael Majaneva

Sebastian Wacker

  • population genetic analysis
  • parentage analysis
  • genetic estimates of population size (close-kin mark-recapture, effective population size)
  • experimental design

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Line Birkeland Eriksen


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Merethe Hagen Spets


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Narve Nikolai Opsahl

Arts og individgjenkjennesle ved genetiske markører:
genotyping med SNP og STR/mikrosatelitter, real time PCR (qPCR) og sekvensering.

Show full profile of Narve Nikolai Opsahl

Kristin Forfang

  • Genetic identidication of species and individuals
  • Real-time PCR (qPCR)
  • SNP genotyping
  • STR genotyping (microsatellites)
  • Sequencing/barcoding


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Ida Pernille Øystese Molander


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Hege Brandsegg


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Alexander Kopatz

Wildlife conservation genetics. Conservation and population genetics with the focus on the research and management of large carnivores in northern Europe.


Show full profile of Alexander Kopatz

Thomas Kvalnes

  • Ornitology, birds
  • Species determination birds
  • Ecology
  • Evolutionary biology
  • Conservation biology
  • Life history theory
  • Demography
  • Eco-evolutionary dynamics
  • Population dynamics
  • Population ecology
  • Population genetics
  • Quantitative genetics
  • Statistical modeling
  • Geographic Information Systems (GIS)


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Øystein Flagstad


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Oddmund Kleven


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Sten Ola Karlsson


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Kristine Bakke Westergaard

Arctic-alpine and boreal botany, biosystematics, plant geography, conservation genetics and genomics, vegetation ecology, floristics. Alien species: monitoring occurrences and pathways, identification of door knockers, and risk assessments.


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Geir H. Bolstad


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