Field Trip to Sylt
By Alberto Valero-Gracia In my second post of the advent calendar, I would like to share with you some of the pictures I’ve taken during our field trip to Syl... Read more.
Door 13: Christmas Excitement at the Museum
“On the thirteenth day of Christmas my true love gave to me”…an unbridled curiosity of organismal diversity and their relationships, historica... Read more.
Field Trip to Roscoff
By Alberto Valero-Gracia In this blog post I will briefly comment about our first field trip outside Norway, a trip done to sample at the Station Biologique de ... Read more.
Door 5: Modern DNA Sequencing Meets Oslo Natural History Museum Wet Collections: Testing the Impact of Age and Formalin
Pia Merete Eriksen, Rita M. Austin In June 2021, I, Pia M Eriksen, conducted a research project under the guidance of Rita M Austin to sequence herptile type sp... Read more.
Old Specimens, New Scientist: A Student’s Account of Sequencing Historic Herptile Type Specimens
The Covid-19 shutdown and restrictions halted any opportunities to learn about and contribute to on-going research at the University of Oslo (UiO). Because I’... Read more.
An initial foray into scientific research: Meet the new undergraduate research student at FEZ
Joining the FEZ group as part of the University of Oslo’s (UiO) Summer Research Program, Pia M. Eriksen is a Bachelor of Biosciences student taking part in an... Read more.
New Paper Exploring the Surprising Evolutionary History of Our Oral Bacteria*
Living in and on our bodies are trillions of microbial cells belonging to thousands of bacterial species – our microbiome. These microbes play key roles i... Read more.
Sampling Modern Marine Invertebrates for Museum Research – A New Experience
While museum collections contain historic materials that provide insight into various evolutionary and social aspects of the past, museums are dynamic, not only... Read more.
Type Specimen Genetics?
Until relatively recently, museum collections have been amassed and utilized to investigate the morphological variation seen within and across species to unders... Read more.
New Paper Exposing The Challenges and Limitations Inherent to Ancient Dietary Reconstructions Using Dental Calculus Metagenomic Data
New research highlights and tests the limitations of dental calculus (i.e., calcified dental plaque), a microbiome substrate regularly used to reconstruct ancie... Read more.