Blogs of the CEG research group

New year – new name; FEZ is now CEG

As written in our last blog of the advent calendar, we had many changes already last year with a new group leader and a new group webpage, which we is still develop further this year....

Door 22: De-extinction

When in 1990 the fascinating […]

December 22, 2023

Raising the treasure of the collections for barcoding

The Biodiversity Genomic Europe (BGE) […]

December 19, 2023

Group of the Month: Diphyllobothrium

Author: Rita Austin (former group […]

February 1, 2023

Door 22: Tapping into Personal Genetics from Keepsakes – Breakthroughs and Concerns

Direct to consumer genetic testing […]

December 22, 2022

Door 13: Expanding Sources of DNA in Museums

Author: Rita Austin (former group […]

December 13, 2022

Door 5: Immunity Genes Related to the Black Death

Published in October, startling results […]

December 5, 2022

Specimen fixation – how, and what for(malin)?

When an organism dies, it […]

August 17, 2022

Group of the month: Phylum Chordata, subphylum Tunicata (Previously Urochordata)

Written by Line Willersrud and […]

July 2, 2022

Insights into bear evolution from a Pleistocene polar bear genome

A 130,000 to 115,000 years old polar bear jawbone fossil from Svalbard. Photo: Karsten Sund, Natural History Museum Oslo.

June 7, 2022

Group of the month: Family Caprellidae

Spooky scary skeleton shrimp, send […]

June 2, 2022

Animal of the month: Cystophora cristata

By Pia Merete Eriksen and […]

February 1, 2022

Catching up! Door 22 – Progresses and challenges during 2021

Everyone has missed a day […]

December 23, 2021

Door 21 – Persistent considerations for molecular analyses of museum specimens

Many factors come into play […]

December 21, 2021

Door 13: Christmas Excitement at the Museum

“On the thirteenth day of […]

December 13, 2021

Door 5: Modern DNA Sequencing Meets Oslo Natural History Museum Wet Collections: Testing the Impact of Age and Formalin

Pia Merete Eriksen, Rita M. […]

December 5, 2021

Biodiversity research in the Genomics era

Sequencing technology has changed in […]

December 2, 2021

Old Specimens, New Scientist: A Student’s Account of Sequencing Historic Herptile Type Specimens

The Covid-19 shutdown and restrictions […]

August 9, 2021

An initial foray into scientific research: Meet the new undergraduate research student at FEZ

Joining the FEZ group as […]

July 21, 2021

New Paper Exploring the Surprising Evolutionary History of Our Oral Bacteria*

Living in and on our […]

May 28, 2021