Lisa Tietze joined the Photosynlab group in April 2017 and started her PhD some months later in August the same year. She introduced her PhD topic in a presentation at the weekly lunch seminar at the Department of Biotechnology and Food Science. The presentation was well received and let to a brief discussion afterwards.
Anne Vogel on Svalbard
Some people try to stay as comfy and warm as possible – some people don’t. Anne Vogel apparently belongs to the latter category. Right now she exchanges her “warm” home in Trondheim for the snow and ice on Svalbard, the island group all the way up in northern Norway close to the Arctic. Anne goes on an expedition to learn…
PhD talk of Alex at the lunch seminar
On Wednesdays, the weekly lunch seminar of the Biotechnology department is being held. Alex held his PhD topic introduction talk on Wednesday the 25th of April. Many people had come to listen to his talk and had a discussion afterwards about different parts of his work.
Lab member elected as board member for DION
Thursday the 19th of April 2018, Lisa Tietze was voted into the board of DION, the interest organization for PhDs, post-docs and temporary scientific staff at NTNU. Lisa is in the first year of her PhD and hopes that she can contribute to a good working environment at NTNU and that she can help connecting people from different departments and…
SUPERAPP poster at Digital Life Norway conference
Lisa presented the work done on the 5` UTR promoter platform for recombinant protein expression. The poster drew people into discussions on the topic with a potential for future collaborations. To learn more about the project, please follow the link: http://unitedscientists.org/photosynlab/research/
Video featured on NTNU Facebook page
Anne’s latest video about how useful and interesting microorganisms are, has recently been featured on the NTNU Facebook page. You can watch the video here. This video was produced as a part of the course “Communicating Scientific Research” in which Anne participated successfully.
MetaFluidics poster in Digital Life Norway 2018 conference
Alex and Swapnil presented the most updated work about the microfluidics platform for functional metagenomic screening. The poster was well-received by the scientific community which increased the chances of further collaborations. To learn more about the microfluidics device, please follow the link: http://unitedscientists.org/photosynlab/research/
Talk at TEKNA event “What will the future bring?”
Anne was invited to talk about her PhD project during the TEKNA event “What will the future bring?” on Thursday, 8th of March. Many participants were interested in the project and a lively Q &A session concluded her presentation.
Group meeting, 01.03.2018
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Visit to Oslo for SEM and TEM imaging techniques
Anne just returned from a very productive visit to the University of Oslo. Together with her Co-supervisor Hanne Winther-Larsen, she took SEM and TEM images from the different Synechococcus sp. PCC7002 strains to investigate the state of the pilins in wildtype and mutant strains. The images turned out to be very interesting and will be published soon.