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BIOMOL-Molekylær biovitenskap og bioteknologi

A study of homing endonucleases: Molecular evolution and gene discovery

Homing endonuclease genes (HEGs) encode highly specific DNases responsable for the mobility and spread of group 1 introns. They are divided into four families (His-Cys box, LAGLIDADG, GIY-YIG and HNH) based on conserved protein motifs. LAGLIDADG HEGs are most numerous and widespread, while the Hi...

Tildelt: kr 0,72 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2004-2005

Sted: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRIBIO-Biologi og biomedisin

Development and application of RNA interference technology for understanding the regulation of key somatic maintenance functions in honeybee

Due to its social attributes, ints learning capaabilities, and several facultative physiological and behavioural traits under social control, the honeybee provides opportunities for cutting-edge research not possessed by the Drosophila, Caenorhabditis elegans, zebrafish and the mice syste...

Tildelt: kr 2,6 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2004-2008

Sted: Akershus

FRIBIO-Biologi og biomedisin

Magnetoreception and magnetic compass orientation in the long distance migration of the European eel

The European eel, Anguilla anguilla, a common part of the fish community in European coastal and inland waters, spawns in the Sargasso Sea. The larvae drift or migrate with currents to the coasts of Europe and North Africa. Once there, large numbers of yo ung eels grow up in widely different habi...

Tildelt: kr 4,0 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2004-2008

Sted: Oslo

FRIBIO-Biologi og biomedisin

Hybridization in birds as studied by cross-fostering in the wild

Hybridization between species generally reduces fitness. However, hybridization, and subsequent back-crossing, may lead to the transfer of genes between species and represent an important factor as a source of new variability in the subsequent evolution o f the species. The importance of hybridiz...

Tildelt: kr 1,8 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2004-2008

Sted: Oslo

FRIBIO-Biologi og biomedisin

Stochastic dynamics of bird communities

The aim of the present project is to develop stochastic community models and statistical tools to estimate the model parameters. Such models will be of great practical use for detecting changes in community composition e.g. due anthropogenic influences or when trying to calculate areas necessary ...

Tildelt: kr 1,7 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2004-2008

Sted: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

BIOMOL-Molekylær biovitenskap og bioteknologi

Evolution of chloroplast replacements

The most abundant dinoflagellate chloroplast type is characterised by using peridinin as the main accessory light harvesting pigment. Two small dinoflagellate groups, however, have replaced this peridinin-containing organelle with chloroplasts acquired fr om haptophytes and prasinophytes - these ...

Tildelt: kr 4,1 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2004-2008

Sted: Oslo

BIOEVO-Evolusjonsbiologi og økologi

The role of seasonal life history variation in the population dynamics of small rodents

Building on a study of field voles (Microtus agrestis) in Britain, the proposed project focus on the role of life history variation and demographic mechanisms among the overwintering cohorts in shaping the population dynamics of bank voles (Clethrionomys glareolus) in northern Finland. This study...

Tildelt: kr 1,5 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2004-2006

Sted: Oslo

BIOEVO-Evolusjonsbiologi og økologi

Lichen defensive compounds - an experimental approach

Secondary compounds in plants have been attributed many different roles, one being chemical defence against herbivory. Unfortunately, experimental approaches to test the defensive compound hypothesis often suffer from confounded factors: specimens in defe nsive compounds may also differ in other ...

Tildelt: kr 2,1 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2004-2007

Sted: Akershus

BIOEVO-Evolusjonsbiologi og økologi

Genetic variation and population dynamics in Sphagnum over time and space

In this project I intend to study the changes in genetic diversity over time in sub-fossilized populations of Sphagnum fuscum taken from peat cores from ombrotrophic bogs. Several of the patterns in genetic variation we see today have historical causes an d to understand the current pattern of ge...

Tildelt: kr 1,5 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2004-2005

Sted: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

BIOBIOT-Biologi, bioteknologi, Mat. Nat.

Effects of traditional heathland management and its discontinuation on vegetation, Western Norway

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Tildelt: kr 60 000

Prosjektperiode: 2004-2005

Sted: Vestland

BIOBIOT-Biologi, bioteknologi, Mat. Nat.

Marine Biopolymers: funding of invited lecturers

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Tildelt: kr 10 557

Prosjektperiode: 2004-2004

Sted: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

BIOEVO-Evolusjonsbiologi og økologi

Circumboreal phylogeography of closely related deer species - exemplifying a speciation process

The glacial-interglacial cycles of the upper Pleistocene have had major influence on the evolutionary history of species distributed in the northern hemisphere. Although studies assessing the effects of the Pleistocene environmental fluctuations have accu mulated over the past decade, the relatio...

Tildelt: kr 1,8 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2004-2006

Sted: Oslo

BIOBIOT-Biologi, bioteknologi, Mat. Nat.

Female promiscuity unconstrained by male paternity guards: an experiment on bluethroats

It is a well-established fact that many socially monogamous bird species are genetically polygamous due to the frequent occurrence of extra-pair copulations (EPCs). Recent studies have shown that females benefit from performing EPCs, by producing offsprin g of higher reproductive value. In blueth...

Tildelt: kr 0,70 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2004-2004

Sted: Oslo

BIOFYS-Fysiologiske og anatomiske fag

Intraspecific variation in the basal metabolism of birds

For a certain biological trait to evolve (or change) through natural selection, three fundamental prerequisites must be fulfilled. Firstly, variation in the trait must necessarily be capable of influencing the inclusive fitness of individuals. Secondly, t he between-individual variation should be...

Tildelt: kr 1,8 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2004-2008

Sted: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

BIOMOL-Molekylær biovitenskap og bioteknologi

Measuring the dynamics of molecular motors inside mitotic spindles

Cell division is a very dynamic process during which the internal architecture of higher cells is completely reorganized. A highly dynamic supra-molecular machine, the mitotic spindle, self-organizes around chromosomes and transports them to the two daugh ter cells. Several molecular motors play ...

Tildelt: kr 0,72 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2004-2008

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

BIOFYS-Fysiologiske og anatomiske fag

Alarm reactions in crucian carp

The alarm reaction in cyprinids discovered by Karl von Frisch has been a challenge to neurophysiologists. In particular, the alarm substance has evaded proper identification, and the pathways mediating the reaction have been unknown. Due to previous resea rch programs supported by the Research Co...

Tildelt: kr 4,8 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2004-2008

Sted: Oslo

BIOFYS-Fysiologiske og anatomiske fag

Olfactory mediated reproductive behaviour in fish

The processing of olfactory information from the olfactory epithelium to the olfactory tract in relation to two different behaviours: food search and alarm behaviours has been established recently. However, olfactory processing of the reproductive behavio ur as to how sex odours are coded in the ...

Tildelt: kr 1,4 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2004-2005

Sted: Oslo

BIOEVO-Evolusjonsbiologi og økologi

Modelling dynamics of a microbe-vector-host triad: plague in Kazakhstan as an example

Plague is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis and is transmitted from rodent to rodent by a flea (vector). The abundance of the main host (being the habitat of the fleas and the plague bacteria) fluctuates in both space and time, posing some particula rly interesting constraints on the plague...

Tildelt: kr 1,4 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2003-2007

Sted: Oslo

BIOMOL-Molekylær biovitenskap og bioteknologi

Development and application of RNA interference technology for understanding the regulation of key somatic maintenance functions in honeybee

Due to its social attributes, its learning capabilities, and several facultative physiological and behavioural traits under social control, the honeybee provides opportunities for cutting-edge research not possessed by the Drosophila, Caenorhabditis elega ns, zebrafish and the mice systems. The h...

Tildelt: kr 1,7 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2003-2005

Sted: Akershus

BIOFYS-Fysiologiske og anatomiske fag

Taste receptor neurones inducing extension of the proboscis in heliothne moths

We are studying how olfactory and taste information is encoded in receptor and interneurones in the brain of insects and how learning of odours is realised via synapses of neurones connecting different brain compartments. As model organisms are used moths of the subfamily Heliothinae. In the pres...

Tildelt: kr 1,7 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2003-2007

Sted: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

BIOBIOT-Biologi, bioteknologi, Mat. Nat.

Functional and Structural Studies of Different Ribonucleotide Reductases and Phenylalanine Hydroxylase.

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Tildelt: kr 33 687

Prosjektperiode: 2003-2004

Sted: Oslo

BIOFYS-Fysiologiske og anatomiske fag

Toxicity of metals to soil organisms: Development of methods and models for assessing the bioavailability and toxicity of copper and cadmium

This project aims to increase the understanding of how soil characteristics such as pH, organic matter content, and soil solution characteristics influences on the bioavailability and toxicity of two metals - copper and cadmium - to selected soil organism s. The link between chemical speciation a...

Tildelt: kr 1,5 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2003-2005

Sted: Oslo

BIOFYS-Fysiologiske og anatomiske fag

Characterization of electrical membrane properties during phagocytosis in eukaryotic cells

The objective for this project is to study the process of phagocytosis, using the macrostome form of the polymorphic ciliate Tetrahymena vorax as a model organism. The process of phagocytosis in ciliates and mammalian cells has many features in common imp lying that this system arose early in evo...

Tildelt: kr 1,4 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2003-2009

Sted: Oslo

BIOEVO-Evolusjonsbiologi og økologi

Towards an increased understanding of broad-scale patterns and processes in ecology - worldwide comparison of macroecological patterns along

nderstanding the mechanisms and dynamics of natural ecosystems is a major goal for ecologists and biogeographers. In this project we will focus on the description, characterisation, and analysis of macroecological patterns and the mechanisms that create t hese patterns. The macroecological patter...

Tildelt: kr 1,4 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2003-2005

Sted: Vestland

BIOEVO-Evolusjonsbiologi og økologi

Cooperation during brood rearing; an assessment of the effect of kinship

Explaining the evolution and maintenance of reproductive helping and cooperation in wild animals have challenged both theoreticians and empiricist biologists. The theory of kin-selection have successfully explained the highly cooperative societies of euso cial insects, but has also provided insig...

Tildelt: kr 1,6 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2003-2005

Sted: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

BIOEVO-Evolusjonsbiologi og økologi

Migration and schooling dynamics of herring and capelin during the spawning season - Impact on stock assessment

The assessment of Norwegian spring spawning herring and Barents Sea capelin is largely based on acoustic abundance estimates from the feeding season (both species) and wintering season (herring). There is a potential for improved assessment by estimating these stocks also during the spawning sea...

Tildelt: kr 2,0 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2003-2006

Sted: Vestland

FRIBIO-Biologi og biomedisin

Feeding interactions and growth of salmon parr and sculpins in a sub-Arctic river

The coexistence of sculpins and salmon parr in a wide range of river habitats gives rise to examine the realised ecological niche of sympatric species along different scales of resource diversity as benthos and habitat, and may display new mechanisms in s pecies coexistence. In this project growt...

Tildelt: kr 1,3 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2003-2008

Sted: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRIBIO-Biologi og biomedisin

Causes and consequences of spatio-temporal life history variation in semi-domesticated reindeer

Density-dependent regulation of mortality in winter, and inf1uences of climatic and habitat quality on fecundity are central processes in the population dynamics of ungulates in northern environments. However, the population level consequences of such ext ernal environmental influences are moulde...

Tildelt: kr 1,8 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2003-2008

Sted: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

BIOMOL-Molekylær biovitenskap og bioteknologi

Vesicular Phospholipidgels for studying passive diffusion of drugs through epithelia

Aim of the project is to evaluate a novel in-vitro model for screening of passive diffusion of drugs through epithelia, on first instance the intestinal epithelium. To establisli and test a vesicular phospholipid gel (liposome)-based drug permeability mod el. To measure the permeation rate of dru...

Tildelt: kr 1,9 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2003-2007

Sted: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

BIOMOL-Molekylær biovitenskap og bioteknologi

Cloning, overexpression and spectroscopic characterisation of neuronal Nitric Oxide Synthase (nNOS) mutants

The aim of the project is to investigate the reaction mechanism of the important enzyme neuronal Nitric Oxide Synthase(nNOS). nNOS catalyses the oxidation of 1-arginine by molecular oxygen to citrulline and the important signalling molecule NO. The reacti on cycle is proposed to include many inte...

Tildelt: kr 1,9 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2003-2006

Sted: Oslo

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