Projects at NCB without external funding

Other projects at the NCB

BearHealth - Health effects of persistent organic pollutants in polar bears

Project leader: Øystein Wiig

Cryptic speciation in arctic plants

PhD project: Lovisa Gustafsson

Evolutionary history and phylogeny of the genus Scadoxus (Amaryllidaceae) and its adaption to changing environment

Project Leader: Charlotte Sletten Bjorå / Inger Nordal

Four species in Cyperaceae with disjunct distribution South Norway to South Africa – a comparative analysis. A pilot project

Project Leader: Charlotte Sletten Bjorå

Geographic variation in cranial morphology of narwhals from Greenland and the Eastern Canadian Arctic

Project leader: Professor Øystein Wiig

Individual and comparative phylogeographies of disjunctly distributed arctic-alpine plant species

PhD Student: Kristine B. Westergaard

Molecular identification of fungi

Project leader: Karl Henrik Larsson

Molecular phylogeny of the staphylinid beetle tribe Athetini (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae)

PhD Student: Hallvard Elven

Molecular phylogeny of the staphylinid beetle tribe Oxypodini (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae)

PhD Student: Judith Osswald

Molecular systematics of three genera of lamioid mints (Stachys s.l., Lamium and Galeopsis), including a historical biogeographic survey of subfamily Lamioideae (Lamiaceae) and studies of polyploid evolution in Galeopsis

Project Leader: Liv Borgen

Phylogeny, biogeography and generic delimitaion of the genera Anthericum and Chlorophytum

Project Leader: Charlotte Sletten Bjorå

Phylogeny and systematics of higher basidiomycetes (Agaricomycetes)

Project leader: Karl-Henrik Larsson

Searching for the roots of the arctic flora: biogeographic connections to the Himalayas

PhD student: Yan Hou

Sexual selection, genetic differentiation and reproductive isolation in birds

PhD student: Silje Hogner

Speciation in aquatic insects

Phd student: Louis Boumans

Status, genetic diversity and stock identity of Spitsbergen bowhead whales

Project leaders:  Lutz Bachmann and Øystein Wiig

The Laptev Sea walrus: an enigma revisited

Project leaders: Lutz Bachmann and Øystein Wiig

Understanding genetic diversity in birds using MHC genes and a hypermutable microsatellite as model systems

        PhD project: Jarl A. Anmarkrud