Disputation and trial lecture - Vebjørn Jacobsen Melum

Master in Biology Vebjørn Jacobsen Melum at Department of Arctic and Marine Biology (AMB) will hold his trial lecture and defend his thesis for the PhD degree in Natural Science.

The trial lecture will take place at 10:15. Title of trial lecture:

“How are species’ seasonal metabolic strategies shaped by environmental cues: a perspective in the context of climate change. Please address the question from a comparative perspective with an integrative to cellular/molecular approach”

The defense will take place at 12:15. Thesis title:

“Rheostasis and timing: A tanycyte-mediated process”

Vice Dean Petter Gullmark will lead the disputation.

Evaluation Committee:

Dr. Sylvain Giroud, Northern Michigan University, USA (1. opponent)
Dr. Fanny Langlet, University of Lausanne, Switzerland (2. opponent)
Professor James McCutcheon, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Health Sciences (internal member and leader of the committee)

Supervisors:

Associate professor Shona Hiedi Wood, AMB, UiT, main supervisor
Dr. Valérie Simonneaux, University of Strasbourg, co-supervisor
Professor David Hazlerigg, AMB, UiT, co-supervisor

Streaming site

Both the defense and the trial lecture will be streamed and recorded from panopto:

Thesis

The thesis is available through Munin