Rafael Fonseca Benevenuto, Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management (MINA) will defend his PhD thesis "Herbivory and climate effects on plant defenses: an ecological and molecular approach" on Friday 10 May 2019.
Norwegian title of thesis:
Effekter av beiting og klima på planteforsvar: en studie med økologiske og molekylære metoder
Prescribed subject of the trial lecture:
Transcriptional profiling as a tool in plant ecological studies: factors to be considered in study design, sampling, and interpretation of results
Time and place for the trial lecture and the public defence:
Friday 10 May 2019, kl. 13.15 NB!!!! Auditorium SKP (Senter for klimaregulert planteforskning), Kirkeveien 16, Ås
Evaluation committee:
First opponent: Project Leader, Dr. Sergio Rasmann, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Second opponent: Professor Laura Jaakola, The Arctic University of Norway (UiT), Norway
Committee coordinator: Professor Line Nybakken, MINA, NMBU
Main Supervisor:
Associate Professor Stein Joar Hegland, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences
Co-supervisors: Professor Stein Ragnar Moe, MINA, NMBU
Head of Department, Dr. Tarald Seldal, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences
Extension Specialist, Dr. Cesar Rodriguez-Saona, The State University of New Jersey, USA
The doctoral thesis is available for public review at the NMBU library.
Thesis number 2019:28 ISSN 1894-6402 ISBN 978-82-575-1588-1.