Prøveforelesning og disputas MSc in Pharmacy Sailesh Maharjan

MSc in Pharmacy Sailesh Maharjan will Thursday, November 13, 2025, hold his trial lecture and defend his thesis for the PhD degree in Natural Science.

Trial lecture on assigned topic will take place at 10.15: 

«Can we bridge molecules and genes to unlock new horizons in microbial natural product discovery?»

Later, at 12.15 he will defend his thesis entitled: 

«Bioprospecting of driftwood-associated fungi from the Arctic: Mass spectrometry-based untargeted metabolomics approach for identification of bioactive secondary metabolites.”

Head of department at NFH Petter Holm will lead the defense.

Evaluation Committee: 

  • Professor Monica Jordheim, University of Bergen (1. opponent)
  • Associate professor Samuel Bertrand, Nantes University, France (2. opponent)
  • Associate professor John Beck Jensen, AMB (internal member and leader of the committee)

 Supervisors:

  • Professor Espen Holst Hansen, NFH, main supervisor
  • Associate professor Teppo Rämä, NFH, co-supervisor
  • Associate professor Terje Vasskog, IFA, co-supervisor
  • Professor Jeanette Hammer Andersen, NFH, co-supervisor
  • Associate professor Kine Østnes Hansen, NFH, co-supervisor

Streaming

Both defense and trial lecture will be streamed and recorded from store auditorium E-101 at NFH: 

Trial lecture 

Disputation

Thesis: 

Thesis and Popular Science Summary is available in Nasjonalt vitenarkiv

When: 13.11.25 kl 10.15–15.00
Where: Store auditorium E-101 Norges fiskerihøgskole
Location / Campus: Digitalt, Tromsø
Target group: Employees, Students, Guests, Invited, Enhet
Contact: Lisbeth Stina Nordøy
E-mail: Lisbeth.Nordoy@uit.no
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