Sandve-lab

Section for Genome Biology

Faculty of Biosciences

Norwegian University of Life Sciences

Lab updates

January 2021

• Our tallented PhD student Marius has gotten his first paper accepted (based on his master project). A very nice start on the new collaboration with Phil Pope and Torgeir Hvidsten on host-microbiome interactions. 
• What a great start to the new year! Johanna defended her master thesis on CRISPR based knock out characterization of abcg2 gene involved in salmon flesh coloration. Read her work here if you are interested.

December 2020

• Ragnhild Wilberg defended her master thesis today (10th December) ! She did a fantastic job. Congrats! If you are interested in transfection of primary liver cells in Atlantic salmon click here.

November 2020

• Finally out! An interesting collaboration between animal breeders, microbiologist and a genome guy (me). We found no/little/weak effects of salmon genetics on gut microbiota composition but we did find significant associations between salmon metabolism phenotypes and the gut microbiome. Now out in Microbiome!

• A fun collaboration between quantitative geneticists and omics people (i.e. us) reveal genetic architecture of salmon metabolism! Published in GSE.

October 2020

• Happy to have been part of this exciting new paper in PLOS Genetics, led by Shona Wood and Alex West at UiT. What happends to the circadian clock genes after a genome duplication?

August 2020

• I gave a talk at the online EcoEvo Seminar series on regulatory evolution following WGD. If you are interested, you can watch it here:

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50p7G6YAqsg

• Welome Hanna and Domniki as new master students in the lab!

• After years in the making we are sharing our new manuscript (link here) about selection on gene expression after whole genome duplication. Great collaboration with the Hvidsten lab! 

April 2020

• New publication out in PLOS One, led by David Hazlerigg at UiT.We identify novel genes responsive to photoeriod changes in Atlantic salmon. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0227496

• New publication out in MEC led by Yang Jin. We study how domestication have shaped the liver transcriptome and lipid-metabolism regulation. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/mec.15446

January 2020

• New preprint out: We find associations between the gut microbiome and host metabolism in Atlantic salmon. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.10.941245v1

• Yes! We got the ImproveAFish project funded by NFR-havbruk. Together with Phil Pope, Torgeir Hvidsten (and others) we will interrogate host-microbiome interactions in Atlantic salmon.