International Happy Seasons
We hope you enjoyed the wrap up of the year 2020 for the FEZ group as a traditional advent calendar. While setting up the various doors we noticed that we easily... Read more.
A tale of stone and ice
Our calendar is coming to its close and at the second-to-last day it features two Master projects, which started this year working with annelids, which are both... Read more.
Probing the mud
In June, Astrid Eggemoen Bang delivered her Masters thesis entitled ‘ The biodiversity of mud dragons (Kinorhyncha) in the fjords of Møre og Romsdal, Norway’... Read more.
Beetles, sheep and the Faroes
Between different lockdowns and corona restrictions, we were lucky enough to go to the Faroe Islands. The field work at the Faroe Islands was an important link for... Read more.
Huge and endangered
Øystein and Lutz have worked for many years together with international partners on the genetic differentiation of bowhead whale stocks with particular emphasis... Read more.
Combining group fun with genomic research
The aim of our InvertOmics project is to obtain high-quality genomes for different spiralian/lophotrochozoan phyla at the level required by the Earth BioGenome Project.... Read more.
Coming from Japan all the way to Norway
A new Postdoctoral Research Fellow has arrived in our lab this month. Over the next three years, James will be hard at work understanding the relationships between... Read more.
Teaching in Covid times
FEZ members are also involved in academic teaching. This year, as for many others in the world it was special experience due to Covid. We will provide her an example... Read more.
The intertidal beetle genus Aegialites
Last year, Marianne started her PhD-project in the FEZ-group. Marianne kick-started her project with a fieldtrip to the east-coast of USA to collect beetles. The... Read more.
Taxonomy
Here we blog about our research on taxonomy with a special emphasis on cryptic species, which is at present done by PhD and Master theses.... Read more.