News archive for Department of Biological Sciences (BIO)

Two men with bags of juvenile salmon to be released to a river

BBC Earth features research from EvoFish (23.09.2014)

BBC Earth is featuring an article on how growing environment shapes the cognitive abilities in fish. Research by Anne Gro Vea Salvanes from EvoFish is also highlighted, with cool videos!

Fabian, Mikko and Bea posing in front of the conference poster

EvoFish at the ICES conference (22.09.2014)

With fisheries-induced evolution in the spotlight, Bea, Fabian and Mikko from EvoFish attended the ICES Annual Science Conference

Peter studying fish bones with a microscope

Peter starts his PhD in Evolutionary Fish Parasitology (08.09.2014)

Nestory Peter Gabagambi has started his PhD study in evolutionary fish parasitology. In his study Peter will focus on the interaction between a tapeworm and its fish host in Lake Nyasa/Malawi.

Unveiling secrets of anoxia tolerance in bearded goby (04.09.2014)

In a joint master project between the Environmental toxicology and Evolutionary Ecology research groups, Moritz Pohl is unveiling the secrets of the remarkable anoxia tolerance of bearded goby from Namibia.

New article on escaped farmed salmon highlighted in Nature (02.09.2014)

Analyses of recaptures of escaped farmed salmon reveal that much more salmon escape than is reported. This result was also noted in the Research Highlights of Nature!