Maria Elisa Pierfederici (Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management (MINA)) will defend her PhD “Population dynamics and seed endophyte community composition of Silene acaulis across alpine and Arctic environments of Europe” Thursday the 13th of March, 2025.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence
English title of thesis:
“Population dynamics and seed endophyte community composition of Silene acaulis across alpine and Arctic environments of Europe”
Norwegian title of thesis:
"Populasjonsdynamikk og sammensetning av frøendofytsamfunn hos Silene acaulis i alpine og arktiske miljøer i Europa"
Prescribed subject of the trial lecture:
“Consequences of holobiont shifts across taxa in the context of global change”.
Time and place for the trial lecture and the public defence:
Thursday 13 March 2025, at 12.15 at Gullvepsen, Bikuben.
Zoom: https://nmbu.zoom.us/j/61349528271
All are welcome to attend, either physically or digitally, but please read the guidelines below before you open the link. This is to make sure that the disputation can be held without interruptions and noise.
Evaluation committee:
First opponent: Dr. Anne Bjorkman (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
Second opponent: Dr. Marie Davey (Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), Norway)
Committee coordinator: Professor Jon-Arvid Grytnes (MINA\NMBU)
Supervisors:
Main supervisor: Associate Professor Erik Trond Aschehoug (MINA/NMBU)
Co-supervisors: Professor Kari Klanderud (MINA/NMBU)
Guidelines for digital attendance:
- Do not use the camera.
- Mute your microphone.
- In Zoom you will first be placed in the waiting room. Please introduce yourself with your name, rather than with your IP address or computer name.
- If anyone has a question and wants to oppose ‘ex auditorio’, please write in the chat window of Zoom (1) “XY (your name) has a question" and (2) the question in brief. The chair of the defense will evaluate whether your question is opportune, and you will be given the word after the two opponents have concluded.
- When you are being given the word, you switch on your microphone and camera. Ensure briefly whether you are being heard.
- We advise you to test your own equipment before attending.
- The chat is not to be used for general discussions.
The doctoral thesis is available for public review. For those of you who want access to the thesis in pdf-form, please send an email to Brage Monsen – brage.monsen@nmbu.no.