Team

Current lab members

Lise Grønnerød Huseby, PhD student

Lise is interested in the genetic basis of plant speciation and aims to test the snowball theory for the rate of evolution of hybrid incompatibilities in Arabidopsis lyrata.
E-mail: l.g.huseby@nhm.uio.no

Marie Kristine Brandrud, Guest Researcher

Marie is interested in genomics and speciation. The Brochmann-group at the Natural History Museum has previously showed an accumulation of redproductive incompatibilities in arctic selfing species, and Marie is currently working to genetically pinpoint those incompatibilities with QTL analysis in Cochlearia groenlandica. She also aims to investigate chromosome evolution in Cochlearia and will compare the Cochlearia groenlandica genome to its sister, Cochlearia excelsa, in a collaborative project with the Yant Lab at Nottingham University.
E-mail: m.k.brandrud@nhm.uio.no

You?

We welcome inquiries from motivated individuals who share our passion for plants and evolution! Whether you’re a postdoctoral researcher seeking new challenges, a recent MSc looking to pursue a Ph.D., or a bachelor student seeking a potential master project, drop me an email at siri.birkeland@nhm.uio.no!

Note that we will soon be announcing a PhD position within Arctic plant genomics! We are also happy to support individual postdoc and researcher applications like the MSCA postdoctoral fellowship, or the Human Frontier Science Program Postdoctoral Fellowship. In addition, we have our own postdoctoral fellowship within the STADIS research hub at the Natural History Museum, which is announced at a yearly basis.

Co-supervised with other labs

• Ellen Dimmen Chapple: Master student in the Hvidsten lab, Norwegian University of Life Sciences
• Samuel Fredriksson: Master student in the Hvidsten lab, Norwegian University of Life Sciences
  
  
  

  The EDGE group
  

  Our lab is a part of the EDGE group at the Natural History Museum in Oslo. EDGE is an interdisciplinary research group consisting of people working on areas ranging from plant speciation and phylogenomics, the development of metabarcoding as a next-generation biodiversity assessment tool for society, and people’s influence on wild plants through use and trade throughout history.
  
  
  

  Collaborators and friends
  

  Abel Gizaw - NBIO, Norway
  Anne Krag Brysting - CEES, University of Oslo, Norway
  Christian Brochmann, Natural History Museum, Norway
  Filip Kolar - Charles University, Czech Republic
  Johanna Leppälä - Natural Resources Institute, Finland
  Johannes Daniel Schwarwies - Stanford University, USA
  José Dinneny - Stanford University, USA
  Levi Yant - University of Nottingham, UK
  Loren Rieseberg - University of British Columbia, Canada
  Lovisa Gustafsson - Stavanger Botanical Garden, Norway
  Lucas Marie-Orleach, CNRS, Université de Tours, France
  Marian Schubert - Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway
  Margret Veltman - Institut de Recherche Pour le Développement, France
  Marie Kristine Brandrud - Natural History Museum, Norway
  Nathaniel Street - Umeå University, Sweden
  Peter Hoitinga - University of Groningen & Inholland University of Applied Science, Netherlands
  Simen Sandve - Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway
  Siri Fjellheim - Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway
  Sylvain Glemin - CNRS, Université Rennes, France
  Tanja Slotte - Stockholm University, Sweden
  Torgeir Hvidsten - Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway
  
  
  
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