Marie Saitou Lab.

7. 2025 Preprint! Dom's investigation of fish immune gene dynamics is now on Biorxiv

6. 2025 Erik won the NMBU best master's thesis award!

4. 2025 Harvest season!! Pauline's paper is now accepted at Genome Biology and Evolution.

4. 2025 Preprint! Akira's intern meta-transcriptome project is on bioRxiv

3. 2025 Preprint! Domniki's first first-author paper, "Dissecting the genetic basis of response to salmonid alphavirus in Atlantic salmon"

7. 2024 Preprint! We explore parallel selection in Atlantic salmon under breeding programs in Norway and N. America. Discover how whole genome duplication impacts domestication. Led by an outstanding MSc intern, Pauline from the Tulip program!

6. 2024 Erik presented his MSc thesis "Evaluating Genetic Tools for Conservation of Threatened European Lobster"  (and he got a huge lobster doll from colleagues)

2. 2024 Erik gave a talk at "Coast to Coral" about his master's thesis project "How do you tell the age of a lobster with genetics tools?" 

10. 2023 Cigene seminar series is starting.
5. 2023 Domniki and Celian will give poster presentations at SMBE2023 on July.

5. 2023 Celian's literature review is now on EvoEcorxiv.
"Resolving  large-scale  genome  evolution  in  the  high-throughput  sequencing  era:  structural variants, genome rearrangement, and karyotype dynamics in animals" 

4. 2023 Akira is joining the team to investigate aquaculture outbreak mechanism using meta-transcriptomics tools.

3. 2023 Our first manuscript, "Functional and regulatory diversification of circadian rhythm period genes during the evolution of vertebrates," is submitted!!!  

12. 2022 Erik is joining the team to investigate the genetic/molecular basis of morphological variation of European lobsters. 

12. 2022 We received Arima Genomics kit grant to investigate genomic structural variation from the 3D organization of the genome.

10. 2022 One preprint submitted!

9. 2022 We had an institute-wide seminar trip in Sweden. Domniki gave a presentation.

8. 2022 Celian and Pauline are going to join the team as a Ph.D. candidate and a Master's intern, respectively, from France (Interesting :-))

6.2022 We started reading "Evolutionary Biology of the Atlantic Salmon" by Tomislav Vladi, Erik Petersson, and Francisco Ucan-Marin together!

6. 2022 Jayme will be visiting us from the Arctic University of Norway to work with us on eQTL (association between genetic variation and gene expression variation) analysis. 

6. 2022 Kristina's paper about supergene evolution in Atlantic salmon has been published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.

5. 2022 Jun joined the group as a new PostDoc. He will lead the establishment of gene-editing of structural variants. 

5. 2022 Marie received the First Marie Sklodowska Curie Award, Japan.

5. 2022 Kristina's paper about whitefish genomic variation has been published in Molecular Ecology.

3. 2022 Domniki presented her work at the NoWPaS meeting, France.

1.2022 Kristina's paper in collaboration with Louis Bernatchez's group in Canada has been submitted. Kristina contributed to the genomic structural variants analysis in Lake Whitefish species.

1.2022 Domniki has started her career as a Ph.D. candidate!

11.2021 One PostDoc position in gene editing is available (closed)

11. 2021 Master projects at CIGENE are now open. The tuition fee at NMBU is free.