Friday Biology Seminars | Líf- og umhverfisvísindastofnun

Here you find the schedule of the Friday Seminars.

These are a series of talks in Biology taking place every Friday at lunchtime - it is a very friendly environment and the discussion after the presentation is normally very chill and quite enriching for both speakers and audience.

The seminars are held from 12:30 to 13:30 in Askja N-132 unless stated otherwise. Click on the title to see the abstract and Zoom link.

Friday Seminars are organised by Kenedy Williams (kaw11@hi.is), Kaylin Nickels (kra53@hi.is) and Andreas Guðmundsson-Gaehwiller (agg61@hi.is). Drop us a line if you're interested in presenting or have questions.

2025 Spring

Seminars Spring 2025

Date	Speaker	Title	Affiliation
Jan 17th

2024 Autumn

Seminars Autumn 2024

Date	Speaker	Title	Affiliation
Aug 29th	Lee Brown	River ecosystem responses to shrinking glaciers Thursday 16:00 N-129 and on Zoom https://eu01web.zoom.us/j/64714225844	University of Leeds
Aug 30th	Sammi Lai	PhD defense! Temporal and spatial differences in the food web of Atlantic salmon Aula 13:00	University of Iceland
Sep 06th	Ilmur Jonsdottir	From Finland (with a Sword): My Doctoral Research on AMR Evolution, Conjugative Plasmids, Phage Therapy, and CRISPR Antimicrobials N-132 12:30h and on Zoom https://eu01web.zoom.us/j/64115772000	University of Jyväskylä
Sep 20th	Steve Campana	A 1000-year perspective on shifting baselines in the Icelandic cod population N-132 12:30h and on Zoom https://eu01web.zoom.us/j/63908244555	University of Iceland
Oct 1st	Judith Trunschke	Pollinator-mediated selection and the evolution of flowering traits N-131 09:00 and on Zoom https://eu01web.zoom.us/j/62978224740	University of Freiburg
Oct 11th	Brendon Lee	Decoding Blue Whiting Population Structure: Insights from Long-Term Trends in Distribution and Abundance in Icelandic Waters N-129 12:30h and on Zoom https://eu01web.zoom.us/j/66464388729	University of Iceland
Oct 18th	Arnar Pálsson	71st anniversary of the discovery of the double helix N-129 12:30h and on Zoom https://eu01web.zoom.us/j/68157937304	University of Iceland
Oct 25th	Karen Carleton	Using opsin genes to see through the eyes of a fish Remote seminar at 12:30h https://eu01web.zoom.us/j/69072000768. Streamed in N-129.	University of Maryland
Nov 1st	Ólafur Patrick Ólafsson	The International Biology Olympiad (IBO):What is it, how does it work, and how does Iceland fit in? N-129 12:30h and on Zoom https://eu01web.zoom.us/j/63546110551	University of Iceland
Nov 8th	Snæbjörn Pálsson	Historic population structure of walruses in the North Atlantic and exploitation of walrus by Icelanders and Greenlanders N-129 12:30h and on Zoom https://eu01web.zoom.us/j/62424841113	University of Iceland
Nov 15th		Graduate retreat!
Nov 28th	Jolle Jolles	From individual differences to collective animal behaviour N-129 16:00h and on Zoom https://eu01web.zoom.us/j/62915252722	CEAB-CSIC, Spain
Nov 29th	Marion Dellinger	PhD defense! Eco-evolutionary processes in personality and spatial cognition of Arctic charr morphs (Salvelinus alpinus) Aula 9:00	University of Iceland
Nov 29th	Jack Armitage	Tölvera: Towards a Medium for Physical Computing in 21st Century Life Sciences N-129 12:30h and on Zoom https://eu01web.zoom.us/j/61298006859	Afverhju Ekki
Dec 6th	Haseeb Randhawa	Natural history collections: important resources for parasite biodiversity research N-132 12:30h and on Zoom https://eu01web.zoom.us/j/65531605659	University of Iceland

2024 Spring

Seminars Spring 2024

Date	Speaker	Title	Affiliation
Jan 12th	Ingvild Ryde	Occupied territory? - Allelopathic effects of Empetrum nigrum and its role in preventing the recovery of Icelandic ecosystems trapped in degraded states	University of Iceland
Jan 19th	Tatiana Marie Joséphine Marchon	Ecological and social drivers of acoustic communication in killer whales (Orcinus orca)	Research centre of Húsavík and Vestmannaeyjar
Jan 26th	Tom Hart	Deconstructing the anthropogenic niche in penguins	Oxford Brookes University
Feb 2nd	Adam Ray Smith	Lessons learned (and taught) – Academia and careers in the United States	University of Iceland
Feb 8th	Odei Garcia Garin	The global impact of plastics and their effects on marine fauna	University of Barcelona
Feb 23rd	David Benhaïm	Fish welfare with an emphasis on behavioural indicators	Hólar University
Mar 8th	Ian Klupar	Herbivore-mediated plant community controls on the carbon balance of Icelandic highland tundra	University of Iceland
Mar 15th	Áki Jarl Láruson	Global trends and biases in biodiversity conservation research	Hafrannsóknastofnun
Mar 22nd	Quentin Horta-Lacueva	Developmental bridges between micro- and macroevolution in the highly diverse Lacertid lizards	Lund University
Apr 11th* 14:00 N-129	Supawan Tantayanon	Advancing Towards a Sustainable Future: The Role of Green Chemistry in Industry and Education in High Schools	Chulalongkorn University
Apr 12th	Grégoire Gaillet	Accounting for overexploitation and seabed impact in fisheries biodiversity impact assessment	Sayari - Sustainability Consulting
Apr 19th	Maonian Xu	From analytical chemistry to biological insights – an introduction into analytical facilities in the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, HÍ	University of Iceland
Apr 26th	Natalia Ramirez Carrera	Lichens as a plant pathogen reservoir: Pseudomonas syringae as a case study	University of Akureyri
May 10th	David Ho Nina Bednarsek Matthew Long	Ocean alkalinity enhancement research for marine carbon dioxide removal	[C]Worthy and the University of Oregon
May 17th	Paul Wensveen	Movements and dive behaviour of northern bottlenose whales in the eastern North Atlantic	Research centre of Vestmannaeyjar
June 20th	Irene Adrian-Kalchhauser	Epigenetics, genetics and adaptation in naturally diverging populations	University of Bern, Institute of Infectious disease and pathology

2023

Friday Seminars Autumn 2023

Date

Title

Speaker

Affiliation

Aug 31st

GDAP1 loss of function inhibits the mitochondrial pyruvate dehydrogenase complex

Axel Methner

Institute of Molecular Medicine, University Medical Center Mainz, Germany

Sept 1st

Acrtic charr in Thingvallavatn: the past, the present and the future

Kalina Kapralova

Institute for Experimental Pathology at Keldur

Sept 15th

Development of Atlantic herring population genetic and assignment tools using SNPChip data

Jake Goodall

Uppsala University

Sept 22th

Fish ‘n’ Ships and Albatrosses

Amanda Kuepfer

Seabird Ecologist for Falklands Conservation

Sept 29th

Coexistence with partial reproductive isolation through varying environmental heterogeneity: How sympatric morphs persist in an Arctic charr metapopulation?

Han Xiao

University of Iceland

Oct 6th

Evolutionary history of cyanobacteria

Petr Dvorak

Palacky University Olomouc (Czechia)

Oct 20th

Behavioural change in novel ecosystems

Florian Ruland

Náttúrustofa Vesturlands/Freie Universität Berlin

Oct 27th

Lessons from the Deep: Applying the Toothfish Blueprint to Investigate Population Structure in Blue Whiting

Brendon Lee

University of Iceland

Nov 3rd

Mycorrhizal fungi and friends: Opportunities and challenges in studying soil microbial communities

Erin Haskell

Nov 17th

Investigating the role of Smoothened mutations in downstream hedgehog signaling activity and in the development of osteoarthritis in zebrafish

Abbi Smith

University of Iceland

Nov 24th

Towards production-scale sterility in diploid Atlantic salmon

Eduardo Rodríguez

Benchmark Genetics

Dec 1st

Northern bottlenose whales in the eastern North Atlantic: acoustic behaviour and occurrence patterns

Caroline Haas

University of Iceland

Dec 8th

Field experiments to evaluate the effects of marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR) on the benthic environment

Hildur Magnúsdóttir

Running Tide Iceland

Dec 14th

*N-131 13:00-14:00

One Child Every Child: Transforming Child Health and Wellness Research in Canada

Benedikt Hallgrímsson

University of Calgary

Fyrirlestrar á vormisseri

Dags. /Date	Titill erindis / Title	Fyrirlesari / speaker	Vinnustaður/Affiliation
20. janúar	Carbon and hydrology in birch woodland soils	Sólveig Sánchez	Landbúnaðarháskóli Íslands
3. febrúar	Juvenile gadoid abundance on maerl (rhodolith) beds in Iceland	Michelle Valliant	University Centre in the West Fjords
10. febrúar	What are the fish even doing out there?	Guðbjörg Ásta Ólafsdóttir	Hafrannsóknastofnun
24. febrúar	Student meeting: movie + discussion	Queer Society	University of Iceland
2.mars	Assembling Crop Wild Relatives: Plastomes, Mitogenomes and a Super Pan-Genome	Martina Strömvik	McGill University, Canada
3. mars	Non-breeding distribution of Icelandic Oystercatchers and the potential migratory connectivity between breeding and non-breeding sites	Sölvi Rúnar Vignisson	South Iceland Research Centre & Þekkingarsetur Suðurnesja
6. mars	Fungi: from soil biodiversity to bioremediation of pollutants	Lidia Nicola	University of Pavia, Italy
10. mars	Population genetics of Arctic cod species	Axel Wilhem Einarsson	University of Iceland
17. mars	The genetic basis of adaptive differentiation between closely related morphs of Arctic charr	Marina de la Cámara	University of Iceland
24. mars	Can sexual selection be too strong to benefitial?	Maximilian Tschol	University of Aberdeen (UK)
31. mars	Research on Priridium sociabile: a breach between free living and parasitic organisms	Ásthildur Erlingsdóttir	Tilraunastöð Háskóla Íslands í meinafræði að Keldum
14. apríl	Reseach for ecological restoration	Ása Aradóttir	Landbúnaðarháskóli Íslands
21. apríl	The use of fish parsites as bioindicators	Sara Dallarés	Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
3. maí	From cold to life: preserving fish biodiversity with sperm cryopreservation	Anatolii Sotnikov	University of South Bohemia, Check Republic
5. maí	Effects of aquafeed management on Nile tilapia production – environmental and economic consequencesn	Safina Aluoch Musa	Sang'oro Aquaculture Research Station, Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute
12. maí	The Icelandic Museum of Natural History – Education, research and science outreach	Ragnhildur Guðmundsdóttir	Náttúruminjasafn Íslands / Icelandic Museum of Natural History
19. maí	Tracking Icelandic Arctic terns	Joane Morten	Exeter University
26. maí	How can we assess the impacts of multiple stressors in marine habitats?	Einar Pétur Jónsson	Hafrannsóknastofnun (HAFRO) & Háskóli Ísland

2022

Fyrirlestrar á vormisseri

Dags. /Date	Titill erindis / Title	Fyrirlesari / speaker	Vinnustaður/Affiliation
7. janúar	Towards a complete reference genome of Hordeum erectifolium using long-read genomic and transcriptomic sequencing	Einar Haraldsson	University of Bonn
14. janúar	Occurrence of pilot whales and killer whales in Icelandic coastal waters and their interspecific interactions	Anna Selbmann	University of Iceland
28. janúar	Should we be adding nutrients to streams to boost salmon productivity?	Neil Metcalfe	University of Glasgow
11. febrúar	Fishing for Sympatry in Salmonid Gene Pools: An Investigation of the Underpinnings of Sympatric Morph Differentiation within Salmonidae	Sarah Salisbury	Dalhousie University
18 febrúar	Understanding and managing hungry herbivores and their interactions with clever plants	Jennifer Forbey	Boise University
25. febrúar	A chromosome-resolved genome of Darwin’s giant daisy trees shows the genomic basis of the plant island syndrome	José Cerca	Nowegian University of Science and Technology
18. mars	Advances in shrub dendrochronology (or the hidden secrets of shrub growth rings)	Stéphane Boudreau	Université Laval
25. mars	Using botanical characters and genome-wide DArTseq genotyping to assess genetic diversity of willows (Salix species) from the mountains of Central Europe.	Radim J. Vašut	Palacký University in Olomouc
1. apríl	Eeek! – an eight-legged science journey	Ingi Agnarsson	University of Iceland
8. apríl	The importanceof South Iceland for cetaceans	Filipa Samarra	University of Iceland
6. maí	Ecosystem tipping points as a possible cure for environmental collapse: the case for tropical coral reefs	Mark Hay	Georgia Institute of Technology
13. maí	Temporal patterning of the developing spinal chord by a Notch signalling timetable	Craig Jacobs	University of Calgary

Fyrirlestrar á haustmisseri

Dags. /Date	Titill erindis / Title	Fyrirlesari / speaker	Vinnustaður/Affiliation
16. september	Genetics and developmental plasticity affect craniofacial variation in sympatric morphs	Arnar Pálsson	University of Iceland
23. september	Midterm evaluation: Investigating the Measures and Impacts of Sustaining and Growing Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) Populations in Rivers of Northeast Iceland	Sum Yi Lai	University of Iceland
30. september	The establishment of the European flounder (Platichthys flesus) in Icelandic waters – the story of a new species	Theresa Henke	Research Center in the Westjords
14. október	Understanding the bases of phenotipic variation	Marta Vidal Garcia	University of Calgary
21. október	Genetic Disease and the Structure of Craniofacial Variation	Benedikt Hallgrimsson	University of Calgary
28. október	Sea change: looking to the past, present, and future	Áki Jarl Láruson	University of Iceland
4. nóvember	Effects of land conversion in sub-arctic landscapes on densities of ground-nestin birds	Aldís Erna Pálssdóttir	South Iceland Research Center
11. nóvember	Semiar discussion: Ecological Economis. On-line starting at 13:00h	Jon D. Erickson	University of Vermont
18. nóvember	Patterns and processes of birch establishment in space and time – Implications for large-scale restoration	Anna Mariager Behrend	Agricultural University of Iceland - LBHÍ
25. nóvember	Do micronutrient profiles of parasites match those of their hosts?: a case study of elasmobranchs and their tapeworms	Haseeb Randhawa	University of Iceland
2. desember	Uncovering natural histories of mutator alleles in budding yeast.	Pengyao Jiang	University of Washington
9. desember	Phenotipic drift in individual preference as a strategy for unpredictable worlds	Ryan Maloney	Department of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
16. desember	Bird research at the University of Iceland's Research Centre at Snæfellsnes	Jamie Carroll	Research Center in Snæfellsnes

2021

Fyrirlestrar á vormisseri

Dagur / Day	Titill erindis / Title of talk	Fyrirlesari / Speaker	Stofnun / Affiliation
22 janúar	The interplay among socio-positive behaviors, relatedness and food availability in female vervet monkeys	Alessandra Schnider	Hólar University
12 febrúar	Palaeogenetics & Proboscideans: The use of ancient DNA to analyze the evolutionary history of extinct elephant species	Sina Belaka	University of Iceland
19 febrúar	Development of Buccinum undatum (Neogastropoda: Buccinoidea) as a novel model of phenotypic variation	Jake Dylan Goodall	University of Iceland
5 mars	Drivers of maturity in a northern partial migrant	Sölvi Vignisson	University of Iceland
12 mars	The mechanisms of density dependent population regulation in waders	Maite Cerezo Araujo	University of Iceland
19 mars	From whale to sea turtles: AI & conservation	Jake Levenson	US Department of the Interior
26 mars	Fish cognition: what did we learn from fish/our mistake?	Marion Dellinger / David Benhaim	Hólar University
9 apríl	Cancelled
16 apríl	Meeting of the Icelandic Ecological Society
23 apríl	The Reykjavík ant project	Marco Mancini	University of Iceland
30. apríl	Starling and horses	Hrefna Sigurjónsdóttir	University of Iceland
1. maí	Recovery of Ascophyllum nodosum after harvesting in Breiðafjörður	Lilja Gunnarsdóttir	University of Iceland

Fyrirlestrar á haustmisseri

Dagur / Day	Titill erindis / Title of talk	Fyrirlesari / Speaker	Stofnun / Affiliation
24. september	Interactions between oak trees and cervids during forest regeneration	Julien Barrère	INRAE
1. október	PhD Defense	Ingeborg Klarenberg	University of Iceland / University of Akureyri
15. október	IceBio
22. október	Interannual variability in recruitment of Patagonian toothfish on the Patagonian Shelf: driven by ecology and oceanography.	Haseeb Randhawa	University of Iceland
29. október	The bumpy shrimp & why should we care	Fracesco Golin	University of Pandova
5. nóvember	Environmental stress as an evolutinary force: insight from frogs and isopods	Katja Räsänen	University of Jyväskylä
12. nóvember	Life history and migration of lumpfish around Iceland	James Kennedy	MFRI Iceland
19. nóvember	Primates and linear infrastructure in South Africa: mortality and mitigation	Birthe Linden	University of Venda
26. nóvember	Trends and threats in the terrestrial biodiversity of the French subantarctic islands	Mathilde Defourneaux	Agricultural University of Iceland
3. desember	The long road to Iceland - parasitology as a driving force	Bjoern C. Schaeffner	Keldur
10. desember	From DNA to liquid-like properties: chromatin, this noodle soup	Sebastien Matlos	University of Iceland
17. desember	PhD defense	Charles Hansen	University of Iceland

2020

Fyrirlestrar á vormisseri

Dagur / Day	Titill erindis / Title of talk	Fyrirlesari / Speaker	Stofnun / Affiliation
24. janúar	Meistaradagur náttúruvísinda / MS student graduation lectures		University of Iceland
31. janúar	Tags, drones and whale fat: emerging technologies for studying body condition in whales	Alec Burslem	University of St Andrews
7. febrúar	Can you save a mutant? Transcriptional profiling of compensatory evolution in Drosophila melanogaster	Baldur Kristjánsson	University of Iceland
21.febrúar	Evolution of human commensalism in Passer sparrows - effects on skull morphology and brain size	Marina de la Cámara	University of Iceland
28. febrúar	Gísli Már Gíslason Symposium
3.-5. mars	Nordic Society OIKOS conference - Harpa
6. mars	Hvatinn - íslenskur vefur um vísindafréttir	Edda Olgudóttir og Anna Verónika Bjarkadóttir	Hvatinn
18.-19. mars	Biology graduate student retreat - Laugarvatn- cancelled
20. mars	The interplay among socio-positive behaviours, relatedness and food availability in female vervet monkeys CANCELLED	Alessandra Schnider	Háskólinn á Hólum
24. april	Environmental DNA - exact title TBA	Christophe Pampoulie	Marine and Freshwater Research Institute

Fyrirlestrar á haustmisseri

Dagur / Day	Titill erindis / Title of talk	Fyrirlesari / Speaker	Stofnun / Affiliation
18. september	Socio-ecology of berry producing species: insights from traditional knowledge and long-term ecological monitoring in the Canadian Arctic. POSTPONED	Noémie Boulanger-Lapointe	University of Iceland
25. september	Exploration of subsurface microbial communities within the neo-volcanic island Surtsey in Iceland - POSTPONED	Pauline Bergsten	Matís / University of Iceland
2. október	TBD	Sina Isabelle Baleka	University of Iceland
9. október	PhD defence: Microbes and the groundwater amphipod Crangonyx islandicus in spring sources in Iceland	Ragnhildur Guðmundsdóttir	University of Iceland
16. október	PhD defence: Phenotypic and genotypic variation in the subtidal gastropod Buccinum undatum	Hildur Magnúsdóttir	University of Iceland and Holar University College
19. október	PhD defence: IInvertebrate diversity in Icelandic freshwater springs	Agnes-Katharina Kreiling	University of Iceland and Holar University College
30. október	Population genomics of the white-tailed eagle in Iceland	Charles Hansen	University of Iceland
6. nóvember	POSTPONED	Ingeborg Klarenberg	University of Iceland / University of Akureyri
13. nóvember	Exploration of subsurface microbial communities within the neo-volcanic island Surtsey in Iceland	Pauline Bergsten	Matís / University of Iceland
20. nóvember	Graduate student retreat
26. nóvember	Moss bacterial communities and nitrogen fixation during primary succession in the glacier forefield	Ingeborg Klarenberg	University of Iceland /University of Akureyri
30. nóvember	Socio-ecology of berry producing species: insights from traditional knowledge and long-term ecological monitoring in the Canadian Arctic.	Noémie Boulanger-Lapointe	University of Iceland
18. desember	Molecular and cell biological causes of neurological symptoms in CTD	Katrín Allison	University of Iceland

2019

Fyrirlestar á vormisseri

Dagur / Day	Titill erindis / Title of talk	Fyrirlesari / Speaker	Stofnun / Affiliation
4. janúar	Evolving seas: climate change, community, and evolution	Áki Jarl Láruson	Northeastern University
18. janúar	Aldursákvarðanir með geislakoli og meðhöndlun þeirra og umhverfisbreytingar á Íslandi á árabilinu frá 15.000 til 9000 árum fyrir nútíma (1950 AD).	Hreggviður Norðdal	Háskóli Íslands
25. janúar	Meistaradagur náttúruvísinda / The Masters day of Natural Sciences
29. janúar	The generation of variation and the genetics of complex morphologies	Benedikt Hallgrímsson	University of Calgary
30. janúar	PhD defense: The influence of egg size for the diversification of Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus) morphs^	Samantha Beck	Háskólinn á Hólum
31 janúar	Raising whales: How the recovery of cetaceans can help restore the oceans	Joe Roman	University of Vermont
1. febrúar	The northern bottlenose whales of Jan Mayen	Patrick Miller	University of St Andrews
8. febrúar	EGFL7 mediates blood vessel formation of endothelial cells derived from human embryonic stem cells	Guðrún Valdimarsdóttir	Háskóli Íslands
14. febrúar	Combatting dogma in biostatistics	Michael Morrissey	University of St. Andrews
15. febrúar	Kóralar - frá fundi að friðun	Steinunn Hilma Ólafsdóttir	Hafrannsóknarstofnun
22. febrúar	Foraging preferences and behavioural ecology of killer whales in Iceland	Filipa Samarra	Hafrannsóknarstofun / Icelandic Orca Project
1. mars	Population genetics of Kudzu: The Vine that Ate the (US) South	Matthew S. Haynsen	Háskóli Íslands
8. mars	Biology graduates student session / Blót framhaldsnema í líffræði
14. mars	The history of cod in Greenland: A major fishery collapse explained by archived DNA	Einar Eg. Nielsen	DTU
15. mars	Harboring Diversity: Genetic Variation and the Establishment and Spread of the Green Crab (Carcinus maenas) in North America	Joe Roman	University of Iceland / University of Vermont
22. mars	Numbers and distribution of the great cormorant in Iceland: limitation at the regional and metapopulation level	Arnþór Garðarsson / Jón Einar Jónsson	Háskóli Íslands / Rannsóknasetur á Snæfellsnesi
12. apríl	Conspectus of the Triticeae: In memory of Áskell Löve (1916-1994)	Kesara M. Jónsson	Háskóli Íslands
26. april	Parallel and non-parallel evolution in the adaptive divergences of freshwater fishes	Kathryn Elmer	University of Glasgow
26. apríl	Ph.D. defense: Gene expression during early development and genetic variation among recently evolved sympatric Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus) morphs in Lake Þingvallavatn, Iceland	Jóhannes Guðbrandsson	Háskóli Íslands
17. maí	Borgarlíffræði - hvað er það? / Urban biology – an introduction	Snorri Sigurðsson	Reykjavíkurborg
31. maí	What can the Red Sea teach us about adaptations to extreme environments?	Michael Berumen	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
4 júní	What is essential about rivers for fish, and humans? Lessons on connectivity and connections from four decades	Kurt Fausch	Colorado State University
5 júní	Climate Change in Alaska: Ecological and resource impacts of the rapidly changing cryopshere	Jeremy S. Littell	Alaska Climate Adaptation Science Center
7 júní	Do cod like it hot? - A century of temperature exposure in Icelandic and Norwegian cod (Gadus morhua)	Gotje von Leesen	University of Iceland

Fyrirlestrar á haustmisseri

Dagur / Day	Titill erindis / Title of talk	Fyrirlesari / Speaker	Stofnun / Affiliation
15. júlí	Care for Rare Canada: Rare Disease Genomics and Deep Morphometric Phenotyping	Francois Bernier og Benedikt Hallgrimsson	University of Calgary
6. september	Wild populations of Brassica oleracea and their root-associated microbial communities	Elizabeth Mittell	University of St Andrews
13. september	Alternative promoters confer transcriptional robustness	Hjörleifur Einarsson	University of Copenhagen
20. september	Temperature effects on trout production and movements across a natural thermal gradient in an arctic geothermal environment	Ólafur Patrick Ólafsson	Háskóli Íslands
27. september	Icelandic ZooArch	Albína Hulda Pálsdóttir	Agricultural University of Iceland
4. október	Identifying loci under positive selection in complex population histories	Einar Árnason and Katrín Halldórsdóttir	Háskóli Íslands
11. október	Hvatinn - íslenskur vefur um vísindafréttir - CANCELLED	Edda Olgudóttir og Anna Verónika Bjarkadóttir	Hvatinn
17-19. október	Líffræðiráðstefnan 2019 / Icelandic biology conference
15. nóvember	Quality of science - when scientists become advocates	Bjarni K. Kristjánsson	Háskólinn á Hólum
22. nóvember	Life in Madagascar	Kalina Kapralova	Háskóli Íslands
6. desember	Will millennials follow parental advice?	Verónica Méndez	Háskóli Íslands
10. desember	The interplay among socio-positive behaviours, relatedness and food availability in female vervet monkeys	Alessandra Schnider	Háskólinn á Hólum
13. desember	From tropical seagrass to Arctic coralline algae - how can marine plants mitigate and monitor climate change?	Lina Rasmusson	University of Gothenburg

2018

Fyrirlestar á vormisseri

Dagur / Day	Titill erindis / Title of talk	Fyrirlesari / Speaker	Stofnun / Affiliation
17. janúar	How does environmental variability affect foraging behaviour in Southern Ocean seabirds?	Nina Dehnhard	University of Antwerp
19. janúar	The blue mussel as a bioindicator of pollution in Icelandic waters	Hallór Pálmar Halldórsson	Rannsóknarsetur HÍ á Suðurnesjum
26. janúar	Functional diversity and community assembly of river invertebrates show globally consistent responses to decreasing glacier cover	Gísli Már Gíslason	University of Iceland
2. febrúar	Cyanobacteria in symbiosis with boreal forest feathermosses - from genome evolution and gene regulation to impact on the ecosystem	Denis Warshan	University of Iceland
9. febrúar	Population genomics of highly fecund codfish	Einar Árnason	University of Iceland
16. febrúar	Opening a can of worms	Christina Anaya	Oklahoma State University/Hólar University College
23. febrúar	Discerning genetic differences between anadromous Arctic charr populations across Iceland using ddRAD sequencing	Benjamín Sigurgeirsson	University of Iceland
2. mars	Beyond a legalistic notion of scientific misconduct - how far can we go?	Henry Alexander Henryson	University of Iceland
9. mars	TBA	Gunnar Þór Hallgrímsson	University of Iceland
14. mars	Intragenotypic variability and the origins of individuality	Ben de Bivort	Harvard University
16. mars	VistÍs	Vistfræðifélagið
23. mars	Landscape ecology and distribution modelling of butterflies and bees in Norway	Eveliina Kallioniemi	Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research
6. apríl	GróLind: Assessing and monitoring vegetation and soil resources in Iceland	Bryndís Marteinsdóttir	Landgræðslan
13. apríl	Phenological responses to climate warming across the tundra biome	Ingibjörg Svala Jónsdóttir	University of Iceland
20. apríl	Booms and busts in the midges of Mývatn	Anthony R. Ives	University of Wisconsin-Madison
27. apríl	TBA	Kera Kreiling	University of Iceland/ Hólar University College

Fyrirlestrar á haustmisseri

Dagur / Day	Titill erindis / Title of talk	Fyrirlesari / Speaker	Stofnun / Affiliation
12. júlí	Sex differences in size and shape, do they reflect the same biological processes? Insights with Drosophila wings and beetle horns	Ian M. Dworkin	McMaster University
13. júlí	What do genetic background effects and cryptic genetic variation tell us about the genotype-phenotype map?	Ian M. Dworkin	McMaster University
31. ágúst	Vorflugur á Færeyjum / Caddisflies in the Faroes	Leivur Janus Hansen	Faroe Islands National Museum
7. september	Dinosaur hunting in Greenland	Steve Campana	University of Iceland
17. september	Cost-effective genotyping to drive genetic gain in animal breeding programs	Alex Caulton	AGresearch - New Zealand
21. september	The role of miR-190b in breast cancer.	Elísabet A. Frick	University of Iceland
28. september	The ecology of peace: preparing Colombia for new political and planetary climates	Alejandro Salazar	University of Iceland
5. október	The Mendelian disorders of the epigenetic machinery: from diagnosis to possible treatment	Hans Tómas Björnsson	University of Iceland / John Hopkins Univeristy
12. október	Bifrost - Highly parallel construction and indexing of colored and compacted de Bruijn graphs	Guillaume Holley	University of Iceland
19. október	Restoring the living skin of the Earth: progress and pitfalls in biocrust rehabilitation	Matthew A. Bowker	Northern Arizona University
26. október	Single Cell RNA-Sequence analysis with kallisto	Páll Melsted	University of Iceland
2. nóvember	Rannsóknir á fiskstofnum Veiðivatna og Framvatna að Fjallabaki	Benóný Jónsson	Hafrannsóknarstofunu, rannsóknar og ráðgjafastofunun hafs og vatna.
9. nóvember	Ontogeny in a nutshell and tales from the field: A how-to (or not-how-to) guide for fieldwork in the tropics	Sarah Steele	Univeristy of Toronto /University of Iceland
12. nóvember	Connecting Arctic regions through Blue Carbon science, communication, and policy	Heidi Pearson	University of Alaska Southeast
30. nóvember	A love story – when European Leymus arenarius meets its American relative L. mollis in Greenland.	Kesara A. Jónsson	University of Iceland
6. desember	Macromolecular characterization of the lichen Peltigera membranacea using nucleic acid sequencing & Identification of a new lichen species Peltigera islandica (Ph.D. defense)	Sheeba Santhini Basil	University of Iceland
6. desember	Gregarine apicomplexans: parasites, commensals or even mutualists?	Sonja Rueckert	Edinburgh Napier University
7. desember	The nature and pathogenicity of apicomplexan parasites associated with mass mortality events in scallop (Bivalvia; Pectinidae) populations in the North Atlantic Ocean (Ph.D. defense)	Árni Kristmundsson	University of Iceland / Keldur
7. desember	Adaptations to the environment in the lichen symbiosis	Imke Schmitt	Frankfurt / Senkenberg Institut
14. desember	Ecology of krill in Icelandic waters (Ph.D. defense)	Teresa Sofia Giesta da Silva	University of Iceland / Hafrannsóknarstofun

2017

Fyrirlestrar á vormisseri

Dagur / Day	Titill erindis / Title of talk	Fyrirlesari / Speaker	Stofnun / Affiliation
8. febrúar	Mat á stökkbreytingartíðni örtungla í mönnum	Heiða Rún Bjarnadóttir	Háskóli Íslands
17. febrúar	Ostracods and why we should care	Jovana Alkalaj	Háskóli Íslands, Jarðvísindadeild
24. febrúar	All females are triploids	Eduardo Rodríguez	Stofnfiskur
3. mars	The complex role of autophagy and cancer	Margrét Helga Ögmundsdóttir	Háskóli Íslands
10. mars	Jafnvægi hvala	Hannes Petersen	Háskóli Íslands
17. mars	Forngarðarnir miklu. Byggðamynstur í nýju landi	Árni Einarsson	Náttúrurannsóknastöðin við Mývatn
24. mars	Adaptation to chemical exposure in aquatic wildlife: The need to integrate environmental toxicology and evolutionary genetics	Rikke Poulsen	University of Copenhagen
31. mars	Samræmd sýn á vistfræði, þróun og þroska lífvera	Skúli Skúlason	Háskólinn á Hólum
7. apríl	Detecting changes in the marine environment through top predators: story of winners and losers	Freydís Vigfúsdóttir	Háskóli Íslands
28. apríl	Ráðstefna Vistfræðifélags Íslands - VistÍs 2017	Vistfræðifélag Íslands
2. maí	Fundur um lífsiðfræði
5. maí	Assessment of diet and feeding preference of mackerel (Scromber scrombrus) and their interaction with herring (Clupea harengus) in Icelandic waters	Cecilia Kvaavik	Hafrannsóknastofnun/Matís
12. maí	Profiling miRNAs in breast epithelial progenitor cells during branching morphogenesis and EMT in 3D culture	Eiríkur Briem	Háskóli Íslands
19. maí	Ph.D. defense: The singing behaviour of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) in subarctic waters	Edda Elísabet Magnúsdóttir	Háskóli Íslands
8. júní	Ph.D. defense: Parasites and population change of rock ptarmigan in Iceland	Ute Stenkewitz	Háskóli Íslands og Náttúrufræðistofnun Íslands
26. júlí	Colonization and succession of invertebrates on glacier forelands in the Alps	Rüdiger Kaufmann	Institute of Ecology, University of Innsbruck

Fyrirlestrar á haustmisseri

Dagur / Day	Titill erindis / Title of talk	Fyrirlesari / Speaker	Stofnun / Affiliation
25. ágúst	Testicular steroidogenic cells in health and disease	Malgorzata Kotula-Balak	Jagellonian University, Poland
5. september	DNA barcoding in fish species identification and protection	Remigiusz Panics	West Pomeranian University
5. september	Problem of invasive crayfish species in Poland and active protection of the native noble crayfish Astacus astacus	Przemysław Śmietana	University of Szczecin, Poland
8. september	Síðasta þorskastríðið - sýn hagfræðings á aflareglur	Daði Már Kristófersson	Félagsvísindasvið, Háskóli Íslands
15. september	When is a fish stock collapsed?	Will Butler	University of Iceland
22. september	Válistamálþing kl. 15 - 18		Fuglavernd
29. september	The arctic charr and climate change in the Alps: how does a cold-water species respond to a warming environment?	Lisandrina Mari	French National Institute for Agricultural Research
6. október	Evolution of reproductive barriers in sympatric Arctic charr morphs	Kalina Kapralova	University of Iceland
13.október	Development of a thermostable CRISPR-Cas9 system for genome editing	Björn Aðalsteinsson	Matís
17. október	Calanus finmarchicus - A key species in the North Atlantic Ecosystem	Sigrún Jónasdóttir	DTU Aqua
20. október	"Puffin love": Performing and creating Arctic landscapes in Iceland through souvenirs	Katrín Anna Lund	Háskóli Íslands
26. - 28. október	Líffræðiráðstefnan 2017		Líffræðifélagið
3. nóvember	The role of microbial dormancy in soil-carbon cycling	Alejandro Salazar	Unversity of Iceland
10. nóvember	Stream-dwellling salmonids: Behaviour in time and space	Stefán Óli Steingrímsson	Hólar University College
14. nóvember	Wood decay fungi and relationship with plants	Carolina Girometta	University of Pavia, Italy
24. nóvember	Shrimp Tails From Australia: Investigating Reproductive Performance in the Giant Tiger Shrimp Penaeus monodon	Jake Goodall	University of Iceland
15. desember	Agriculture, soils and productivity: what is the future for the soil microbiome?	Thorunn Helgason	University of York
20. desember	Changing land-atmosphere interaction of thawing boreal forest landscapes in northwestern Canada	Oliver Sonnentag	University of Montreal

2016

Fyrirlestrar á vormisseri

Dagur / Day	Titill erindis / Title of talk	Fyrirlesari / Speaker	Stofnun / Affiliation
8. janúar	Kallisto and Sleuth	Páll Melsted	Faculty of Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science - University of Iceland
15. janúar	Reconstructions of Quaternary environments using sediments and microfossils	Steffen Mischke	Faculty of Earth Science, University of Iceland
22. janúar	Mesenchymal stem cell isolation and characterization from ligamenta flava, interspinous ligaments and facet joints	Baldur Kristjánsson	Chulalongkorn University
29. janúar	QTL for growth and fillet traits in Arctic charr from Hólar breeding program	Eva Kuettner	Matis
5. febrúar	Skaðvaldar á trjám í fortíð, nútíð og framtíð - áhrif hlýnunar	Edda Sigurdís Oddsdóttir	Skógrækt ríkisins
12. febrúar	Unexpected effects of the BRCA2 protein on survival of breast cancer patients and prostate cancer patients	Laufey Tryggvadóttir	Krabbameinsfélagi Íslands
19. febrúar	Four-eyed fish: From population genetics to biodiversity	Han Xiao	University of Bremen / University of Iceland
25. febrúar	Studies of craniofacial gene expression during embryonic development in divergent Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus) morphs Phd. defence	Ehsan P. Ahi	Líffræðistofa Háskóla Íslands
26.febrúar	Evolution of the Animal Face: from Principles to Mechanisms	Arkhat Abzhanov	Imperial College London
4. mars	Modulation of innate immunity in lung epithelium Phd. defence	Nikhil N. Kulkarn	Líffræðistofa Háskóla Íslands
11. mars	Fiskstofnar Veiðivatna á Landmannaafrétti	Magnús Jóhannsson	Veiðimálastofnun
18. mars	The role of oxidative stress in environmental responses of Fennoscandian animals	Mirella Kanerva	University of Turku
1. apríl	The development and maintaining of the extended phenotype	Bjarni K. Kristjánsson	Háskólinn á Hólum
5. apríl	Craniofacial development in zebrafish and mice: cellular mechanisms and mTOR signaling pathway	Andrei Chagin	Karolinska Institutet
8. apríl	The BMP signalling cascade in human vascular development	Gudrun Valdimarsdottir	Faculty of medicine, University of Iceland
8. apríl	Distinctive characters of Nostoc genomes in cyanolichens Phd defence	Andrey N. Gagunashvili	Háskóli Íslands
15. apríl	Do memories govern the winter distribution of Atlantic herring?	Jed MacDonald	Háskóli Íslands
28. apríl	Evolutionary genomics - new frontiers	Matthew Hahn and Michael Matschiner	University of Indiana - Bloomington and University of Oslo
29. apríl	Natural selection and speciation in Atlantic cod and related cod-fish	Katrín Halldórsdóttir (Phd. defence)	Háskóli Íslands
13. maí	Síðdegisheimsókn í grasagarðinn / Afternoon visit to the botanical garden	Hjörtur Þorbjörnsson	Grasagarður Reykjavíkur
27. maí	Defining basal ice as an ecosystem: implications in weathering, soil formation and climate	Dr. Mario Toubes-Rodrigo og Dr. Robin Sen	Manchester Metropolitan University

Fyrirlestrar á haustmisseri

Dagur / Day	Titill erindis / Title of talk	Fyrirlesari / Speaker	Stofnun / Affiliation
26. ágúst	Examining the Role of Ontogeny and Body Size Evolution in the Diversification of fishes	Sarah Steele	University of Toronto
2. september	Ph.D. defence - Breeding ecology of the Common Eider (Somateria mollissima) in Breiðafjörður, West Iceland	Þórður Örn Kristjánsson	Háskóli Íslands
5. september	Mín fyrstu skref í kennslu: Að mennta nemendur í líffræði	Líney Hermansdóttir	Háskóli Íslands
8. september	Analyses of stress in trees	Filippo Bussotti	University of Florence
8. september	Ph.D. defense - Origin and population structure of major prawn and shrimps in Bangladesh	M.M. Mahbub	University of Iceland
9. september	Ph.D. defense - The impacts of geothermal power plant emissions on terrestrial ecosystems in contrasting bio-climatic zones	Thecla Mutia	University of Iceland
12. september	Grazing in a changing Nordic region - conference
23.september	M.Sc. fyrirlestur: Mosabruninn á Miðdalsheiði 2007: Áhrif hans á smádýr	Matthías Svavar Alfreðsson	Háskóli Íslands/ Náttúrufræðistofnun
23.september	M.Sc. fyrirlestur: Umhverfisbreytingar og þróun næringarefna í mýrarjarðvegi í Austur-Húnavatnssýslu	Susanne C. Möckel	Háskóli Íslands
23.september	M.Sc. fyrirlestur: Restoring Eroded Lands in Southern Iceland: Efficacy of Domestic, Organic Fertilizers in Sandy Gravel Soils	Julia Brenner	Háskóli Íslands
30. september	Responses of cetaceans to naval sound sources	Paul Wensveen	University of St. Andrews
7. október	Transcriptional decay and cooption, and the principles of regulatory evolution	Arnar Pálsson	Háskóli Íslands
14. október	Molecular mechanisms related to saline stress responses in symbiotic green alga Trebouxia	ernesto Hinojosa Vidal	University of Valencia
27. október	The transcription start site and enhancer landscape of the descending colon in inflammatory bowel disease	Albin Sandelin	Copenhagen University
11. nóvember	Náttúruminjasafn Íslands - saga, staða og horfur	Hilmar J. Malmquist	Náttúruminjasafn Íslands
18. nóvember	Climate change and human impact in a sensitive ecosystem: the Holocene environment of the Northwest higland margin	Sigrún Dögg Eddudóttir	University of Iceland
21. nóvember	Ph.D. defence - Ecological correlates of diel activity in stream-dwelling Arctic charr Salvelinus alpinus	Nicolas Larranaga	Hólar University College
22.nóvember	Talks on salmonid biology: Variation in metabolic rates and effect of parasites on foraging.	Johan Höjesjö	University of Gothenburg

2015

Fyrirlestrar á vormisseri

Dagur / Day	Titill erindis / Title of talk	Fyrirlesari / Speaker	Starfsvettvangur / Affiliation
5. janúar	Complex cell shape: Molecular mechanisms of tracheal terminal cell development in Drosophila melanogaster - PhD. defence.	Sara Sigurbjornsdottir	EMBL / University of Iceland
16. janúar	Towards Understanding the Bioenergetics of Cold Adaptation	Daniel H. Shain	Rutgers University Camden
20. janúar	Mæði-visnuveirur í íslensku sauðfé og tengslin við alnæmi	Halldór Þormar	Háskóli Íslands / University of Iceland
30. janúar	Þriðja alþjóðlega ráðstefnan um skipulagningu og áherslur í norðurslóðarannsóknum (ICARP III) - um hvað snýst hún? / The third International Conference on Arctic Research Planning (ICARP III) and what it is all about.	Ingibjörg Svala Jónsdóttir	Háskóli Íslands / University of Iceland
5. febrúar	Rebooting Conservation for a Digital Age	Bill Adams	Dept. Geology, University of Cambridge
20. febrúar .	Molecular mechanisms influencing diversity and evolution of Arctic charr	Sigurdur S. Snorrason	Háskóli Íslands / University of Iceland
27. febrúar	Sjóferð sjö laxa. Fæðugöngur og dýpisatferli íslenskra laxa (Salmo salar L.) metið með mælimerkjum. (in Icelandic) / Seven little salmon swimming in the sea. Marine feeding areas and vertical movements of Icelandic stock of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) as inferred from recoveries of Data Storage Tags.	Jóhannes Guðbrandsson	Háskóli Íslands / University of Iceland / Veiðimálastofnun / Institute of Freshwater Fisheries
6. mars	Filling the gaps: Using novel techniques to interpolate satellite data and explore the envioronmental and climatic controls of chlorophyll-a variability	Niall McGinty	Háskóli Íslands / University of Iceland
20. mars	Dietary fish oil reduces the acute inflammatory response but enhances resolution and the adaptive immune response in antigen-induced peritonitis in mice	Jóna Freysdóttir	Ónæmisfræði LSH / Dept. Immunology University Hospital
27. mars	What you see is what you are: Rhodopsin polymorphism in The redfish Sebastes mentella and Atlantic cod Gadus morhua	Christophe Pampoulie	Marine Institute
10. apríl	Marine eco-system modelling	Kai Logemann	Háskóli Íslands / University of Iceland, Marsýn.
17. apríl	Vulnerability of Lakes to Aquatic Invasive Plants	Mariana Lucia Tamayo	Háskóli Íslands / University of Iceland
24. apríl	An introduction to using capture mark-recapture techniques for monitoring cetacean species	Chiara Bertulli	Háskóli Íslands / University of Iceland
30. april	Community energy flux as a measure of multitrophic ecosystem functioning	Malte Jochum	University of Goettingen
15. maí	Sníkjudýr Karfa við Íslandsstrendur (Sebastes spp.)	Ásthildur Erlingsdóttir	Háskóli Íslands / University of Iceland / Keldur
18. maí	Sharks, sharks everywhere - so why are we so worried?	Steve Campana:	Háskóli Íslands / University of Iceland
22. maí	Genome and karyotype evolution in Brassicaceae	Martin Lysak	University of Brno

Fyrirlestrar á haustmisseri

Dagur / Day	Titill erindis / Title of talk	Fyrirlesari / Speaker	Starfsvettvangur / Affiliation
3. júlí	Genetic and neural circuit control of behavioral individuality	Ben de Bivort	Harvard University
3. september	Identifying cod ecotypes in Icelandic waters - Phd. defense	Hlynur Bárðarson	Háskóli Íslands / University of Iceland
4. september	Studies on immunostimulants and innate immune gene expression in Salmo	Miriam Guadalupe Contreras Mostazo	Háskóli Íslands / University of Iceland / Stofnfiskur
25. september	Mechanisms that structure stream and riparian area communities	John S. Richardson	University of British Columbia
2. október	Population genetic structure in gadoid fish with focus on Atlantic cod - Phd. defence	Guðni M. Eiríksson	Háskóli Íslands / University of Iceland
23. október	Evaluation of three subspecies of birds in Iceland - Phd. defence	Julien Amouret	Háskóli Íslands / University of Iceland
5.-7. nóvember	Líffræðiráðstefnan 2015 / IceBio 2015
5. nóvember	Why don’t we get more cancer? The crucial role of Extracellular Matrix and Microenvironment in metastasis and dormancy	Mina Bissell	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
7. nóvember	Decanalization and the Evolution of Disease Risk	Greg Gibson	Georgia Tech.
27. nóvember	Macroecology and phylogeography for disentangling factors and processes shaping large scale groundwater biodiversity patterns in Europe.	David Eme	Háskóli Íslands / University of Iceland
21. desember	Effects of local and regional drivers on plant diversity within Nordic tundra landscapes - Phd. defense	Martin A. Mörsdorf	Háskóli Íslands / University of Iceland

2014

Fyrirlestrar á vormisseri

Dagur / Day	Titill erindis / Title of talk	Fyrirlesari / Speaker
21. janúar	Vibrio cholerae við strendur Íslands	Herdís Eva Hermundardóttir
21. janúar	Pontin an Reptin subcellular localization and interactions in Drosophila	Theresa Maria Quinkler
14. febrúar	Pigs through time and space: geometric morphometric adventures in the world of suids	Una Strand Vidarsdottir / Durham University
7. mars	Málstofa um sameindalíffræði	Þórður Óskarsson / STEM Heidelberg ofl.
24. mars	From esoteric fringe to Climategate – the changing role of Quaternary science over recent decades and into the future	CJ Caseldine, University of Exeter
25. mars	Hybridisation of Icelandic birch in the Holocene reflected in pollen.	Lilja Karlsdóttir
11. apríl	Anthropogenic and environmental impacts on the abundance and distribution of commercial fish stocks of Lake Victoria, East Africa	Anthony Taabu-Munyaho
14. apríl	Assembly and analyses of the Arctic charr transcriptome	Jóhannes Guðbrandsson
22. apríl	Equid genome sequencing reveals multiple gene-flow events and sympatric speciation despite extensive chromosomal rearrangements	Hákon Jónsson / University of Copenhagen
23.apríl	Molecular genetics of tracheal development in fruitflies	Sara Sigurbjörnsdóttir / EMBL Heidelberg
23. maí	Ocean Acidification around Iceland as seen by deep sea benthos	Hronn Egilsdottir / Hafro (Marine Institute)

Fyrirlestrar á haustmisseri

Dagsetning / Date	Titill erindis	Fyrirlesari / Speaker	Starfsvettvangur / Affiliation
10. október	Investigations into plant genome evolution using massively parallel sequencing	Sæmundur Sveinsson	University of British Columbia, Vancouver / Agricultural University of Iceland
16-17. október	Whole-genome sequencing and the implications for health care – Do we have a right not to know?	Ýmsir / Various
21. október	BRCA genin og krabbamein á Ísland	Jórunn E. Eyfjörð	Lífvísindasetur og læknadeild HÍ / Biomedical center - University of Iceland
24. október	Prevalence, intensity, and aggregation of parasites in Icelandic rock ptarmigan and their potential impact on population dynamics	Ute Stenkewitz	Náttúrufræðistofnun Íslands
25. október	Nýjasta tækni og vísindi: vísinda- og tæknidagur VON
29. október	Herbivory in changing environments – perspectives from the tundra	Isabel C Barrio	University of Alberta.
30. október	Nóbelsverðlaun í eðlisfræði og efnafræði / Ljóstækni til hagsbóta	Kesara A. Jónsson og Kristján Leósson	Líffræðistofa HÍ / Nýsköpunarmiðstöð Íslands
31. október	GPMLS retreat
7. nóvember	Náttúra í jafnvægi? Veiðiskapur í Mývatni í 150 ár.	Árni Einarsson	Náttúrurannsóknastöðin við Mývatn / Myvatn Research Station
14. nóvember	Exploring the DNA methylation landscape in cancer	Ólafur Andri Stefánsson	Lífvísindasetur og læknadeild HÍ / Biomedical center - University of Iceland–
18. nóvember	Verðmæti vísinda – Frá grunnrannsóknum til lækningavara á markaði	Ágústa Guðmundsdóttir	Lífvísindasetur HÍ
19. nóvember	Kynning á líffræðibókum 19. nóvember	Ýmsir
21. nóvember	Arfgeng heilablæðing	Birkir Þór Bragason	Department of Virology and Molecular Biology, Keldur Institute for Experimental pathology, Univ. of Iceland
28. nóvember	Factors controlling local plant community assembly from the regional species pool	Bryndís Marteinsdóttir	Líf- og umhverfisvísindastofnun HÍ og Stockholm University
5. desember	The Fluidigm BioMark: extending research possibilities in Iceland.	Sarah Helyar	Matís

2013

Fyrirlestrar á vormisseri

Dagur / Day	Titill erindis / Title of talk	Fyrirlesari / Speaker	Starfsvettvangur / Affiliation
25. janúar	Testing for co-evolution between eve and hunchback in Drosophila melanogaster (Masters defense in English).	Dagmar Ýr Arnardóttir	Háskóli Íslands Líf og umhverfisvísindadeild / Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences University of Iceland
1. febrúar	Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) sound production during winter in subarctic waters (In English)	Edda Elísabet Magnúsdóttir	University of Iceland / Research center Husavik
8. febrúar	Alþjóðlegur Landgræðsluskóli: fortíð, nútíð, framtíð UNU-Land Restoration Training Programme: past, present, future (in English)	Hafdís H. Ægisdóttir	Landgræðsluskóla Háskóla Sameinuðu þjóðanna The United Nations University - Land Restoration Training programme
15. febrúar	Úr nóttu í dag - ný vitneskja í flokkunarfræði fugla: Náttfarar og skyldir hópar Recent developments in avian systematics: The Nightjars and their allies	Snorri Sigurðsson	American Museum of Natural History
22. febrúar	Stock identification of herring in the NE-Atlantic (in English) Aðgreining síldarstofna í NA-Atlantshafi	Lisa Anne Libungan	Háskóli Íslands og Hafrannsóknarstofnun University of Iceland / Marine research institute
1. mars	Arctic charr ecology and genomics	Kalina H. Kapralova	University of Iceland -
15. mars	Ecological and geographical mapping in submersed fissures in Iceland through diving (In English) Vistfræðileg og landfræðileg kortlagning á grunnvatnsfylltum gjám á Íslandi með köfun	Jónína Herdís Ólafsdóttir	Háskóli Íslands / Háskólinn á Hólum
22. mars	Kolgrafarfjörður	Guðmundur Óskarsson	Hafrannsóknarstofunun
5. apríl	Primary succession on Skeidarársandur	Oliver Bechberger	University of Iceland
12. apríl	Fish and SNPs: genomics, evolution and conservation (talk in English)	Sarah Heylar	Matís
23. apríl	A tripartite transcription factor network for PGC specification. (Talk in English) NOTE NEW DATE	Erna Magnusdottir	BMC University of Iceland / University of Cambridge
26. apríl	Dílaskarfastofninn	Arnþór Garðarsson og Jón Einar Jónsson	Háskóli Íslands og Rannsóknaseturs Háskóla Íslands á Snæfellsnesi
3. mai	Cellular and molecular mechanisms of branching morphogenesis in the human breast gland. (Talk in English) Frumu og sameindalíffræðilegir ferlar í greinóttri formgerð brjóstkirtilsins	Þórarinn Guðjónsson	Biomedical center University of Iceland / Stem cell unit
10. mai	Rannsóknir á steinbít á Látragrunni	Ásgeir Gunnarsson	Hafrannsóknarstofunun
17. mai	Erfðaráðgjöf - ítarlegri titill birtist síðar Genetic counceling - TBA	Vigdís Sigurðardóttir	Erfðafræði og sameindalæknisfræði - Landspítali

Fyrirlestrar á haustmisseri

Dagur / Day	Titill erindis / Title of talk	Fyrirlesari / Speaker	Starfsvettvangur / Affiliation
30. ágúst	Nitrogen fixation in terrestrial high-latitude ecosystems - An overview	Matthias Zielke	Bioforsk, Tromsö
4. október	Ólínuleg tölfræðilíkön og óvissumat: delta-aðferð, skóþvengsaðferð og MCMC / Nonlinear statistical models and uncertainty methods: the delta method, bootstrap, and MCMC (in English)	Árni Magnússon	Hafrannsóknastofnun / Marine Research Institute
11. október	On evolution by transcriptional cooption and decay (In English) / Þróun tenginga í genastjórnunarnetjum	Arnar Pálsson	Háskóli Íslands / University of Iceland
15. október	PhD. defence - American mink Neovison vison in Iceland: Diet by sex, habitat, season and years in the light of changing environment and population size (in English)	Rannveig Magnúsdótir	Háskóli Íslands / Landvernd
25.október	Málþing um Opinn aðgang aðgang í HR / symposium on open access	Ýmsir	http://opinnadgangur.is/
8. nóvember	Líffræðiráðstefnan / Conference on Biological research in Iceland	Ýmsir / Various
13. nóvember	Just about to leave: Intraspecific diversity in freshwater fishes from post-glacial lakes	Colin Adams	University of Glasgow
13. nóvember	Spatio-temporal variation of threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) in the dynamic Lake Mývatn, Iceland /Breytileiki hornsílis (Gasterosteus aculeatus) í tíma og rúmi í Mývatni (In English)	Antoine Millet	Háskólanum á Hólum / Holar University College
15. nóvember	Bleikja í hlýnandi heimi. Hvað gerist?	Sigurður Guðjónsson	Veiðimálastofnun
29. nóvember	Kynning á Lífvísindasetri	Sigríður Klara Böðvarsdóttir	Lífvísindasetur

2012

Fyrirlestrar á vormisseri

Dagur / Day	Titill erindis / Title of talk	Fyrirlesari / Speaker	Starfsvettvangur / Affiliation
13. janúar	Pan-thermus, aðskilnaður tegunda í ættkvísl hitakærra Thermus baktería / Pan-thermus, classification and evolutionary analysis of the thermophilic microbial genus of Thermus	Sigmar Stefánsson	Matís og Háskóli Íslands
20. janúar	Frumraðgreining á mRNA röðum / De novotranscriptome assembly	Páll Melsted	Iðnaðarverkfræði-, vélaverkfræði- og tölvunarfræðideild HÍ
27. janúar	Kynhlutföll hjá fuglum / Sex ratio in birds	Snæbjörn Pálsson	Líf og umhverfisvísindadeild HÍ
3. febrúar	Útbreiðsla og áhrif PKD - nýrnasýki á villta laxfiskastofna á Ísland / Distribution and impact of PKD kidney disease on Icelandic salmonid stocks.	Árni Kristmundsson	Tilraunastöð Háskóla Íslands í meinafræði að Keldum
10 febrúar	Gengur skrímslið laust? Líftækni í ljósi bókmennta / "It's Alive! Biotechnology and (/as) fiction	Úlfhildur Dagsdóttir
24 febrúar	ORF Líftækni: frá vísindum í vöru / ORF Genetics: from science to product	Björn Örvar	ORF líftækni / ORF genetics
2. mars	Flutningur framandi lífvera og landnám grjótkrabba (Cancer irroratus) við Ísland / Transport of non-indigenous species and colonization of the Atlantic rock crab (Cancer irroratus) in Icelandic waters	Óskar Sindri Gíslason	Líf og umhverfisvísindastofnun HÍ
9. mars	Kortlagning á arfbreytileikum sem tengjast krabbameinsáhættu / Identification of genetic variants that associate with risk of cancer	Þórunn Rafnar	Íslensk erfðagreining
23. mars	Flórgoðinn á Mývatni	Árni Einarsson	Náttúrurannsóknastöðin við Mývatn / Líf og umhverfisvísindadeild HÍ.
30. mars	Litningakústar - eitt stórkostlegasta form náttúrunnar / Lampbrush chromosomes - one of Nature's most dramatic supramolecular metamorphoses	Herbert Macgregor	Prófessor emertius University of Leicester, gestaprófessor University of Exeter
11. apríl	A mixed-model approach for genome-wide association studies of correlated traits in structured populations	Bjarni J. Vilhjalmsson	Gregor Mendel Institute - Vienna
23. apríl	Genetic resistance to the Infections Pancreatic Necrosis Virus (IPNV) in Icelandic Atlantic salmon stocks	Eduardo Enrique Rodriques	Stofnfiskur
4. maí	Vibrio cholerae í alþjóðlegu og íslensku samhengi / Vibrio cholerae in international and Icelandic perspective	Eva Benediktsdóttir	Líf og umhverfisvísindadeild HÍ
11. maí	Ongoing projects: Aquaporin, Cystatin C and Mitf target genes in the CNS	Pétur Henry Petersen	Læknadeild HÍ, Lífvísindasetur læknagarðs
25. maí	Búsvæðaval humralirfa í Bay of Fundy, Kanada / Habitat selection of lobster larvae in Bay of Fundy, Canada Líffræðilegur fjölbreytileika á grýttum botni í Bay of Fundy, Kanada / Biological diversity on rocky substratum in Bay of Fundy, Canada	Guðjón Már Sigurðsson Brent Wilson	Department of Biology - University of New Brunswick
30. maí	Foundational follies of creationism	PZ Myers	University of Minnesota Morris
15. júní	Greining á ristilkrabbameinum með skimun fyrir miRNA / Development of plasma based miRNA qPCR test for early detection of colorectal cancer	Þórarinn Blöndal	Exiqon (www.exiqon.com)

Fyrirlestrar á haustmisseri

Dagur / Day	Titill erindis / Title of talk	Fyrirlesari / Speaker	Starfsvettvangur / Affiliation
31. ágúst	Peeking behind the snowdrift: revealing penguin ecology away from scientific bases (in English) - Rýnt í gegnum drífuna: rannsóknir á vistfræði mörgæsa fjarri miðstöðvum vísindanna	Tom Hart	Dýrafræðistofnunin í London / Institute of Zoology London
7. september	From dirt to DNA - A chance fossil find on Svalbard sheds light on the natural history of the Polar Bear (in English)	Ólafur Ingólfsson	Jarðvísindastofnin / Instutute of geology
14. september	Líkan af efnaskiptum blágrænþörungsins Synechocystis PCC6803 / A metabolic reconstruction of the cyanobacteria Synechocystis PCC6803	Steinn Guðmundsson	Kerfislíffræðisetur / Systems biology center
21. september	Mixed-Model Association Mapping of Quantitative Traits in Samples with Related Individuals and Missing Data (in English)	Jóhanna Jakobsdóttir	Hjartavernd / Icelandic Heart Association
28. september	Sleep-wake characteristics and modulation of genetic expression in zebrafish (in English)	Karl Ægir Karlsson	Háskóli Reykjavíkur / Reykjavik University
5. október	Systematics of blue mussles in the southern hemisphere (in English)	Kristen Westfall	Vör og Háskóli Íslands / Vor Marine Research Center and University of Iceland
12. október	Tenging vistkerfa og hagkerfis með tilvísun í samgöngur / The connection between ecosystems and economics with reference to trasnport in Iceland	María Hildur Maack	Umhverfis og auðlindafræði við HÍ / University of Iceland
19. október	Doktorsvörn í líffræði "Tjáning á örverudrepandi varnarefnum í fiskum" / Expression of antimicrobial peptides in fish - Ph.D. defence.	Daniela Carmen Broekman
26. október	Örmálþing um opið aðgengi í tilefni af alþjóðlegu OA vikunni	Sjá einnig http://opinnadgangur.is. (Open Access Week Symposium)
2. nóvember	Breytileiki í stofnstærðum laxfiska / Variable stock size among salmonids	Þórólfur Antonsson	Veiðimálastofnun
8. nóvember	Liberation Ecology: how to get through to the rest of the world (in English)	Brian Moss	University of Liverpool
9. nóvember	Lakes and the Anthropocene (in English)	Rick Battarbee	University College London
9. nóvember	Doktorsvörn í líffræði: Frumframleiðendur í norðlægum lækjum og áhrif aukins hita og næringar á framvindu þeirra / Primary producers in sub–arctic streams and the effects of temperature and nutrient enrichment on succession	Rakel Guðmundsdóttir	Líf og umhverfisvísindadeild HÍ / Faculty of Life and environmental science
16. nóvember	Ecosystem changes and concomitant fisheries evolution in Lake Victoria, East Africa (in English)	Anthony Munyaho	University of Iceland - Marice
23. nóvember	Generation of cell line specific metabolic models based on transcriptomic, exo- and endo-metabolomic data (in English)	Maike Kathrin Aurich	Kerfislíffræðisetur / Systems biology center
30. nóvember	Rafdráttur til gæðagreininga á kjarnsýrum / NEW DATE: Electrophoresis to assess quality of nucleic acid samples	Hans Guttormur Þormar	Læknadeild HÍ og Lífeind /
7. desember	Plöntur og grös í verkum Eggerts Péturssonar / Plants and grasses in Eggert Petursson´s paintings	Þóra Ellen Þórhallsdóttir	Líf og umhverfisvísindastofnun HÍ

2011

Dags. /Date	Titill erindis / Title	Fyrirlesari / speaker	Vinnustaður/Affiliation
2. febrúar	Svæðisnotkun hagamúsa á Kjalarnesi / Population biology of Apodemus sylvaticu	Ester Rut Unnsteinsdóttur	Melrakkasetrið Súðavík/Líf og umhverfisvísindadeild HÍ
11. febrúar	Erfðamengi melgresis / The genome of Leymus arenarius	Kesara Anamthawat-Jónsson	Líf og umhverfisvísindadeild HÍ
18. febrúar	Mæði-visnuveira og HIV: Margt er líkt með skyldum / Maedi- visna virus and HIV: Pathogenic parallels	Valgerður Andrésdóttir	Tilraunastöð Háskóla Íslands í meinafræði að Keldum
25. febrúar	Stundaglas þroskunar og þróun dýra / The developmental hourglass and animal evolution	Arnar Pálsson	Líf og umhverfisvísindadeild HÍ
3. mars	The Pantophysin I (Pan I) Locus in Icelandic Cod (Gadus morhua): An Exploration of Evolutionary and Spatial Relations.	Ubaldo Hernandez Benitez	Líf og umhverfisvísindadeild HÍ
11. mars	Fæða minks / Diet of mink	Rannveig Magnúsdóttir	Líf og umhverfisvísindadeild HÍ
18. mars	Súrnun sjávar / Acidification of the oceans	Hrönn Egilsdóttir	Hafrannsóknarstofnun
25. mars	Stofnvistfræði minks/ Population ecology of minks	Róbert A. Stefánsson	Náttúrustofa Vesturlands
1. apríl	Skyndimynd af stofnvistfræði sjófugla / Snapshot of population ecology of marine birds	Arnþór Garðarsson	Líf og umhverfisvísindadeild HÍ
8. apríl	Stofnfrumur og þroskun lungna / Stems cells and lung development	Sigríður Rut Franzdóttir	Læknadeild HÍ
13. apríl	Náttúrulegt ónæmi virkjað gegn sýklum	Guðmundur Hrafn Guðmundsson	Líf og umhverfisvísindadeild HÍ
29. apríl	Féll niður/cancelled RNA polymerasi II og DNA viðgerð/RNA polymerase II and DNA repair	Stefán Þ. Sigurðsson	Læknadeild HÍ
6. maí	Selarannsóknir við Selasetur Íslands / Seal research at the Iceandic Seal Center	Sandra Granquist	Selasetrið Hvammstanga/ Veiðimálastofnun
13. maí	Galapagoseyjar: lífríki og hættur ? / Galapagos islands: biota and dangers?	Hafdís H. Ægisdóttir	Landgræðsluskóla Háskóla Sameinuðu þjóðanna/Landbúnaðar Háskóli Íslands