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Latest news:

- The popular science article "Hvor gammel er isbjørnen som art?" was accepted for publication in the journal Naturen

- The manuscript entitled "Reconstructing mitochondrial genomes directly from genomic next generation sequencing reads - a baiting and iterative mapping approach" by Hahn et al. was published by Nucleic Acids Research

- The popular science article "Towards Paleo-Population-Genomics of Spitsbergen Bowhead Whales" was published in Meta, the magazine published by the Notur II project, the Norwegian metacenter for computational science

 

What's new?

Bachmann, Aars, Wiig
Hvor gammel er isbjørnen som art?
Naturen (accepted)

Bachmann, Grond, Hahn, Wiig
Towards Paleo-Population-Genomics of Spitsbergen Bowhead Whales
Meta 01/2013

Hahn, Bachmann, Chevreux
Reconstructing mitochondrial genomes directly from genomic next generation sequencing reads - a baiting and iterative mapping approach
Nucleic Acids Research - Methods
doi:10.1093/nar/gkt371

Cabrera, van der Zee, Olsen, Kovacs, Lydersen, Aars, Bachmann, Wiig, Berube, Palsbøll
Historical population dynamics of ringed seals, Pusa hispida, of the Svalbard archipelago: predicting the response to climate change.
27th Conf. European Cetacean Soc., Setubal, Portugal 2013

Osswald, Bachmann, Gusarov
Molecular phylogeny of the beetle tribe Oxypodini (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae)
Systematic Entomology (Early View).

Iversen, Aars, Haug, Alsos, Lydersen, Bachmann, Kovacs
The diet of polar bears (Ursus maritimus) from Svalbard, Norway, inferred from scat analysis
Polar Biology 36: 561–571 (2013)..

Silje Larsen Rekdal
deliver her Masters thesis entitled Population Structure of Bowhead Whales (Balaena mysticetus) in Disko Bay, West Greenland.

Zeyl, Marcotegui, Harris, Bakke, Bachmann
Nye parasitter fra gamle fisk.
Naturen 136: 274-280 (2012).

Bachmann, Grond, Hahn,Lindqvist, Wiig
Mitogenomics of the historic Spitsbergen Stock of Bowhead Whales (Balaena
mysticetus
).
Poster, DZG 2012, Konstanz, Germany

Miller, Schuster, Welch, Ratan, Bedoya-Reina, Zhao, Kim, Burhans, Drautz, Wittekindt, Tomsho, Ibarra-Laclette, Herrera-Estrella, Peacock, Farley, Sage, Rode, Obbard, Montiel, Bachmann, Ingólfsson, Aars, Mailund, Wiig, Talbot, Lindqvist
Polar and brown bear genomes reveal ancient admixture and demographic footprints of past climate change
PNAS 109: E2382–E2390 (2012).

Joost Grond
finished his internship for the Bachelor of Applied Science, Hanze University, Groningen, The Netherlands.

Elven, Bachmann, Gusarov
Molecular phylogeny of the Athetini–Lomechusini–Ecitocharini clade of aleocharine rove beetles (Insecta). Zoologica Scripta 41: 617–636 (2012).

Hahn, Harris, Fromm, Bakke, Bachmann
Genomic insights into the evolution of the economically important monogenean flatworm Gyrodactylus salaris.
Poster, SMBE 2012, Dublin, Ireland

Fromm, Otto, Hahn, Harris, Bachmann
MiRCandRef a local assembly algorithm for description of microRNAs in non-genome organisms.
Poster, SMBE 2012, Dublin, Ireland

Ida Marie Bardalen Fløystad
delivered her Masters thesis entitled An analysis of the population structure of white whales (Delphinapterus leucas) in Svalbard.

Leclerc, Lydersen, Haug, Bachmann, Fisk, Kovacs
A missing piece in the Arctic food web puzzle? Stomach contents of Greenland sharks sampled in Svalbard, Norway.
Polar Biology 35: 1197-1208 (2012).

Lydersen, Freitas, Wiig, Bachmann, Heide-Jørgensen, Swift, Kovacs
Lost highway not forgotten: Satellite tracking of a bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) from the critically endangered Spitsbergen Stock.
Arctic 65: 76-86 (2012).

 

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Dr. Lutz Bachmann

-----------Professor for Molecular Systematics
-----------University of Oslo
-----------Natural History Museum
-----------Department for Research and Collections
-----------PO Box 1172 Blindern
-----------0318 Oslo
-----------Norway

-----------Tel: +47 22851764
-----------Fax: +47 22851837
-----------email: bachmann@nhm.uio.no

-----------visiting address:
-----------Sars gate 1
-----------0562 Oslo
-----------Norway

 

 

Research interest:

Fish ectoparasites of the genus Gyrodactylus


- Mining natural history collections: Diversity mapping of Norwegian gyrodactylid flatworms
- The microRNAs of Gyrodactylus salaris

- Mitochondrial DNA variation of Gyrodactylus thymalli in the Danube drainage system

 


Bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus)

- Survey for Bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) in the Fram Strait (North Atlantic)


Analyses of historical (ancient) DNA

- The mitochondrial genome of a 130 000 year old polar bear from Svalbard

- Genetic variation in Holocene bowhead whales from Svalbard
- Species identification of historical whale remains from South Georgia

- PCR diagnostics of Mycobacterium in historic human bone remains

- The taxonomic status of the Laptev walrus (Odobenus rosmarus laptevi)
- The European pond turtle (Emys orbicularis) in Sweden and climatic impact on its Holocene range

 

 

Collection based research

 

- Mining natural history collections: Diversity mapping of Norwegian gyrodactylid flatworms

- Towards a molecular species identification of polynoid scaleworms (Polynoidae, Polychaeta) in the Norwegian deep-sea
- Barcoding the type material of the mammal collection of NHM Oslo

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