PhD students
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Frøydis Garshol
Sustainable PWRI (Produced-water-reinjection) through application of the PWRI bio-toolbox ( Aquateam Norwegian Water Technology Centre AS)
Advisors: Nils-Kåre Birkeland and Eilen Arctander Vik (Aquateam)
Helge Erikstad
Biological methane oxidation by methanotrophic Verrucomicrobia under hot and acidic conditions
Advisor: Nils-Kåre Birkeland
Affiliated PhD students
As part of collaborative programmes with developing countries Nils-Kåre Birkeland is co-advisor for a number of PhD students enrolled in their home country in a sandwich model with UiB:
Department of Microbiology, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh:
Nafisa Azmuda
Fatima Moni Chowdhury
Selina Akter
University of Khartoum, Sudan:
Manal Elsayed Rahman
Previous PhD students (graduation year):
Anita-Elin Fedøy (2014)
Molecular adaptations to extreme temperatures.
Kari Skjånes (2011):
Bio-hydrogen production from marine and freshwater microalgae
Siv Kristin Prestegard (2010):
Marine Bioprospecting; Identification, physiology and proteomics of bentic diatoms with cytotoxic properties from the intertidal zone of Norwegian coastal waters
Tajul Islam (2009):
Discovery of novel methanotrophs from extreme environments
Gyri Teien Haugland (2008):
Regulation of DNA replication in Archaea. Functional analysis of DNA replication initiation proteins in Thermoplasma acidophilum
Håkon Dahle (2007):
Microbiological analyses of produced water from a high-temperature oil formation in the North-Sea
Runar Stokke (2006):
Isocitrate dehydrogenase from extremophiles; Molecular adaptations to high temperatures
Ingeborg Knævelsrud (2006):
DNA base excision repair of the hyperthermophilic archaeon Archaeoglobus fulgidus
Øivind Larsen (2001):
Genes for dissimilatory sulfite reductases: Sequence comparison, phylogeny, and molecular probe for sulfate reducers
Ida Helene Steen (1998):
Isocitrate dehydrogenase from the sulfate reducers Archaeoglobus fulgidus and Desulfobacter vibrioformis: Properties, primary structure, and phylogeny