Biodiversity research in the Genomics era
Sequencing technology has changed in research in biology tremendously and probably much more than any other technology before. The development from radioactivity-based... Read more.
Group of the month
Starting January 2022, we will post here every month a blog about an animal group we are working, are interested in or find generally interesting. We found like... 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’m... 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.
Bad apples and a marine worm – sometimes they go together
During his PhD Jose was interested in the evolution of the cryptic species complexes in the annelid genus Stygocapitella, which occurs at sandy beaches around the... Read more.
What causes species not to change despite ongoing evolution?
Cryptic species have for long time been considered as purely a taxonomical challenge. However, in the last decade it has been shown that their recognition has also... Read more.
New Paper Exposing The Challenges and Limitations Inherent to Ancient Dietary Reconstructions Using Dental Calculus Metagenomic Data
Author: Rita Austin (former group member) New research highlights and tests the limitations of dental calculus (i.e., calcified dental plaque), a microbiome substrate... Read more.
Other projects and teaching
Besides our different larger project we also have smaller projects or papers going on, which we will discuss in this category.... Read more.
Museomics
Here we blog about our research on working with DNA from museum samples done by different members of the group and all around collections.... Read more.
From the forest to the deep sea
This week a member of our group, Torsten Struck, published a review paper on the two annelid families Parergodrilidae and Orbiniidae together with Miguel Meca from... Read more.