Blogs of the CEG research group

As mentioned in the first calendar door of our advents calendar this year, genomics of small animals is challenging. Yesterday, Nhu Dinh successfully finished her Master thesis but she also experienced some of the challenges related to the small animals and genomics. The problem is that some of […]

It is always a pleasure if international scientific cooperations deliver exciting results. This was the case with my cooperation with colleagues at the University Hasselt, Belgium. The study was a key component of the PhD thesis of Armando J. Cruz‑Laufer who also coordinated the drafting of the scientific […]

Denne uken var den siste hele uken før juleferien, hvor alle går på sin velfortjente ferie. Men til tross for at det har vært en rolig uke på museet, var det en stor dag for Nhu Dinh i dag. Hun forsvarte nemlig masteroppgaven sin i dag. Gratulerer Nhu […]

This week was the last full week before the Christmas break where everybody goes on their well deserved holidays. However, despite all the slowing down at the museum this week, today was a big day for Nhu Dinh. She successfully defended her Master thesis today. Congratulations Nhu Dinh. […]

Cover picture by Sue Flood Last time, I wrote about how glacial-isolation caused the divergence of a small population of ringed seals in the Ilulissat Icefjord, West Greenland. The text ended with a final consideration on the importance of developing research plan to retrieve molecular data for Arctic […]

Earlier this year in September Ivanković and colleagues published the results of a study coordinated by the research group of Jochen Rink at the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen, Germany and presented highly improved genomes of the four planarian flatworm species from the genus Schmidtea. These […]

For the next door of our Advent calendar, I’d like to take you on a journey to the Strait of Hormuz, one of the most politically significant waterways. It is located between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman in the northern Indian Ocean, and acts as […]

Hi! My name is Finn, and I’m a teen Calanus finmarchicus (proudly in my fifth copepodite stage of development!). I am honoured to open the Door 17! To be honest, I should be napping right now, like all my trillions of friends, but I’m just too excited because soon, I’ll […]

For today’s advent calendar, I want to talk about my favourite organisms, the protists. In one of my last years advent calendar posts, I talked about their diversity and importance for ecosystem functioning and, therefore, felt like introducing this recent paper by Perrin & Dorrel (2024) fits the […]

CEG research group members Torsten Struck and myself are coordinating the task of Community Sampling, within WP5 of the the EU-funded BioGenomics Europe project. We have now completed our task, well before the deadline of February 2025 set by BGE. Our task began with annoucing two public calls, […]