New employees
Siri Vatsø Haugum: hired 12th of September 2016 as a PhD candidate in plant community ecology.
Karina Dale: hired 17th of October 2016 as a PhD candidate in environmental toxicology.
Lindsey Moore and Camilla Osberg were hired in permanent positions from 1st of October 2016 as senior engineers connected to the research groups in fish health and the teaching of fish health students.
Renate Hvidsten Skoge: hired 16th of August 2016 as a researcher in reverse genetics.
New assembly point in case of fire
The assembly point is next to the Propella between Data-block and VilVite sentre.
New doctorate
Perpetra Akite was awarded her doctorate under a cotutelle agreement between UiB and the University of Makerere, Uganda. She was a PhD student on the Matrix project and her thesis was on the spatial and matrix influences on the biogeography of insect taxa in forest fragments in central Uganda, supervised by Richard Telford (EECRG) and Anne Akol and Hugh Rowell (Makerere University). Her defence presentation on the 20 October 2016 was rated as excellent.
Congratulations to Dr Perpetra Akite.
Here is a photo of her at her defence, demonstrating using a sling! Photo by Amy Eycott.