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We are currently recruiting motivated students, postdocs and visiting researchers.
Principal Investigator (tenure-track, 2020- )
(Equivalent to Assistant Professor in the US system)
My research area is evolutionary genomics. I have started my tenure-track position in bioinformatics and statistical genomics at CIGENE. After completing my Ph.D. at the University of Tokyo, Japan, in human evolutionary genetics, I pursued postdoctoral training in bioinformatics, statistical, and functional genomics at the University at Buffalo and the University of Chicago in the US. I am broadly interested in revealing the biological bases of uniquely evolved various species by combining multi-scale data sets such as from genomics, molecular, and cellular level observations.
contact: marie.saitou[at]nmbu.no
Postdoctoral Scholar
Please apply for the MSCA postdoc fellowship!!
(yearly call, March)
The Research support office team, NMBU, and I will assist you in preparing your application, but I can only accept about one person per year, as I will spend about the same amount of effort as co-authoring a paper. Similarly, I expect you to work very hard on it.
Domniki is investigating genetic factors for infectious disease resistance in Atlantic salmon. She is co-supervised by Drs. Simen Sandve, Sigbjørn Lien.
Celian, from the University of Montpellier, will lead a project to understand the evolution of structural variants after whole-genome duplication in Atlantic salmon. He is co-supervised by Drs. Nicola Barson and Simen Sandve.
Erik is a master's student in evolutionary biology and bioinformatics. He will lead a project to understand the biological basis of the phenotypic diversity of European lobsters under the co-supervision of Drs. Louise Chavarie and Arturo Vera Ponce De Leon.
Alumni
Jun Soung Kwak (2022-2024, Postdoctoral scholar)
Project to develop functional genetics method in Atlantic salmon with Dr. Guro Sandvik.
Akira Harding (2023, Master's intern, Erasmus+ from France)
Project "Establishing a meta-transcriptomics method to investigate of aquaculture outbreaks from microbiology"
Pauline Buso (2022-2023, Master's intern, Tulip from France)
Project "Identification of selection sweeps following recent domestication: parallel evolution in farmed Atlantic salmon strains from two geographical origins"