Doctoral Defence in Natural Resource Sciences
Monday, 10th June, Natalia Ramírez Carrera will defend her doctoral thesis in Natural Resource Sciences at the University of Akureyri.
The doctoral thesis is entitled: Can Lichens Serve as Hosts for Pseudomonas syringae in Icelandic Habitats? Isolation, Plant-pathogenic Traits, and Metabolomic Insights into the Role of P. syringae in Icelandic Peltigera Lichens
The thesis was prepared under the supervision of Dr. Oddur Vilhelmsson, Professor at the University of Akureyri. In addition, the doctoral committee included Dr. Margrét Auður Sigurbjörnsdóttir, Associate Professor at UNAK, Dr. Robert W. Jackson, Head of School of Biosciences at the University of Birmingham, Dr. Cindy E. Morris, Research Director, and Odile Berge, Research Scientist, both at France’s National Research Institute for Agriculture (INRAE), and Dr. Starri Heiðmarsson, Director of Northwest Iceland Nature Research Centre.
The defence will be held in English in the University’s Ceremonial Hall (Hátíðarsalur) in Akureyri at 13:00 and is open to the public.
The opponents are Professor Gabriele Berg, Institute of Environmental Biotechnology, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria and Dr. Jonathan M. Jacobs, Associate Professor, Department of Plant Pathology, Ohio State University.
Dr. Guðrún Rósa Þórsteinsdóttir, Director of the Centre for Doctoral Studies, and Dr. Brynjar Karlsson, Dean of the School of Health, Business and Natural Sciences will chair the ceremony.
