The Research Group
Siri Fjellheim
Professor & Principal Investigator
Botanist Geneticist Mentor Motivator Facilitator
Marian Schubert
Researcher
As an evolutionary biologist I am generally interested in the molecular evolution of adaptive traits. Currently I am studying how Pooideae grasses adapted to the conditions in temperate environments.
Camilla Lorange Lindberg
PhD Candidate
I study the evolution of cold acclimation and its role in the successful adaptation of the grass subfamily Pooideae. Did the grasses evolve the possibility to accumulate fructan as a response to cold?
Martin Paliocha
PhD Candidate
How, why, and when do complex physiological traits evolve in plants? I try to find answers to these questions by studying the evolution of photoperiod-mediated flowering in temperate grasses.
Tesfakiros Semere Gebrelibanos
PhD Candidate
Together with Ola T. Westengen, I study the genetic structure and ethnobotany of Sorghum landraces in the State of Tigray, Ethiopia.
Ane Charlotte Hjertaas
MSc Student
Martine Molland
MSc Student
Eirin Landsem
MSc Student
Magnus Flåten Nickelsen
BSc Student
Sondre Gretland Harstad
BSc Student
Felix Hernández Nohr
BSc Student
Alumni
Ursula Brandes
PhD Candidate
w/ Line Rosef
2013 – 2019
Erica Helen Leder
Researcher
2016 – 2018
Thomas Marcussen
Postdoc
2015 – 2017
Lars Grønvold
PhD Candidate
w/ Torgeir Rhodén Hvidsten
2013 – 2017
Murat Bağcıoğlu
PhD Candidate
w/ Achim Kohler
2012 – 2016