Group Members
Jump to staff, master and bachelor students, alumni, lab visitors.
Staff
Ananya Khatei
topic: Computational exploitation of brown algal genomes
PhD Student
email: ananya.khatei@nord.no
Griffin Hill
topic: Aquaculture in a changing climate -identifying future mariculture opportunities through coupled species distribution modeling and genetic diversity analyses
PhD student
email: griffin.hill@nord.no
Anne M.L. Nilsen
topic: The epigenetic basis of priming as a kelp engineering technology to enhance yield and secure production under environmental challenges
PhD student
email: anne.m.nilsen@nord.no
Master and Bachelor Students
Pia Dittmer
Master thesis
email: pidit5070@student.nord.no
topic: Towards increased climate change resilience. Future-proofing conservation and restoration approaches for arctic kelp, with a case study on temperature priming of Alaria esculenta
Visitors and interns
Berat Tolga Koc
Internship 1.5 months June/July 2025, from Bilkent University (Turkey)
email: berat.koc@ug.bilkent.edu.tr
topic: Fouling resistence of cultivated macroalgae (Related to Mabit project 2024-199)
Alumni
Clement Gauci
2021-2025
Role: PhD student
topic: Kelp priming as a bio-engineering strategy to enhance performances under environmental challenges
Former visitors, BSc/ MSc students
Visitors
Master students
Leo Minini, 2024–2025, Potential and Challenges of Intra-Regional Breeding for Higher Growth and Heat Tolerance in Sugar Kelp (Saccharina latissima)
Johana Jaramillo Guzman, 2022-2023, Effects of Kelp Farming in Norway - Guidelines and advances towards eDNA as a tool to monitor biodiversity in kelp farms
Yende Adele Eugene, 2022-2023, DNA methylation within Saccharina latissima - Testing the ability of thermal priming to confer an epigenetic memory response within the chloroplast methylome of Saccharina latissima
Grete Thuv Tjønndal, 2021-2022, Upscaling macroalgae aquaculture production - Sustainable innovation principles applied by Norwegian stakeholders
Anne Margrete Leiros Nilsen, 2021-2022, The chloroplast methylome of the kelp Saccharina latissima Is population specific, and altered by laboratory cultivation
Bachelor Students
Matthew Vijayavarathan, 2025, A critical overview of seaweed farming on the Faroe Islands and the challenges it faces to being environmentally sustainable
John Michael Alcantara, 2024-2025, Fluorescein diacetate and propidium iodide viability assays illuminate thermal tolerance of Saccharina latissima gametophytes
Oskar Holte, 2021, Kelp cultivation effects, mitigation, and use
Lena Götz, Epigenetic variation in the a seagrass clones
Milena Milojic, 2024, Bachelor internship on kelp genomics and priming