Collaborators
Our research partners across institutions and countries
Soil2Milk Project page
Graminor AS
Norway's forage and cereal breeding company. Partner in the Soil2Milk project, providing perennial ryegrass and red clover varieties and breeding expertise for the grass and legume trials.
NMBU Faculty of Biosciences: BIOVIT (IHA)
Collaborating in the Soil2Milk project on forage quality evaluation and dairy cow nutrition.
NMBU Faculty of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science (KBM)
Collaborating in the Soil2Milk project on soil microbial ecology, nitrogen cycling, and N₂O emission dynamics.
Collaborating in the Soil2Milk project on environmental impact assessment and GHG modelling across the soil-to-milk value chain.
TINE SA
Norway's largest dairy cooperative, owned by approximately 15,000 member farmers. Partner in the Soil2Milk project on dairy production and forage quality.
YARA International
Global crop nutrition company and world leader in mineral fertilizers. Partner in the Soil2Milk project on precision nitrogen management and sustainable fertilization.
Agdir
Norwegian agritech company developing digital farm management platforms with satellite data and sensor integration. Partner in the Soil2Milk project.
Norsk Regnesentral (NR)
Independent research foundation specialising in statistical modelling, machine learning, and AI. Partner in the Soil2Milk project on data-driven agricultural analytics.
Norsk Landbruksrådgiving (NLR)
Farmer-owned advisory organisation with ~350 advisors across Norway, bridging research and on-farm practice. Partner in the Soil2Milk project.
DLT-Farming Project page
Graminor AS
Norway's forage and cereal breeding company. Partner in the DLT-Farming project, hosting field trials of 40 perennial ryegrass cultivars at Hamar and applying the results in its breeding programme.
Accenture
Global professional services and technology company. Partner in the DLT-Farming project on data analytics, AI platforms, and digital transformation for agriculture.
GE-Sustain Project page
Graminor AS
Norway's forage, cereal and potato breeding company and coordinator of the GE-Sustain project, providing potato plant material and genomic DNA for the precision breeding work.
NIBIO
Partner in the GE-Sustain project on potato disease resistance and sustainable potato production.
Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences (INN)
Partner in the GE-Sustain project on sustainable potato production through precision breeding.
Other academic and industry partners
Graminor AS
Norway's leading forage, cereal and potato breeding company and our closest industry partner: the group leader also works 20% at Graminor. Long-term collaboration on genomic selection and phenotyping for grass breeding, and partner in Soil2Milk, DLT-Farming and GE-Sustain (see above).
NIBIO
Joint research on forage crop improvement, field trials, and genotyping of Norwegian grass collections; partner in GE-Sustain (see above).
Collaboration on drone technology, remote sensing, and image analysis for plant phenotyping.
Centre for Plant Research in Controlled Climate (SKP)
Research infrastructure for controlled-environment plant experiments, supporting phenotyping and functional genomics studies.
Plant Cell Laboratory (PCL)
Core facility for plant tissue culture, genetic transformation, and CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing in crops and forage grasses.
Norwegian Plant Phenotyping Infrastructure (PheNo)
National phenotyping infrastructure providing automated imaging, sensor-based platforms, and drone phenotyping for high-throughput plant trait analysis.
Fjellheim Research Group
Collaboration with Prof. Siri Fjellheim's group on grass genetics, adaptation, and evolutionary genomics.
Aarhus University
Collaborative research on grass genomics and quantitative genetics for Nordic adapted forage species.
Joint research on Nordic forage grass adaptation, winter hardiness genetics, and breeding strategies.
ETH Zürich
Collaboration on plant science, crop improvement, and quantitative genetics for sustainable agriculture.
TalTech
Collaboration on bioinformatics, computational biology, and genomics of forage grasses.
LAMMC
Joint research on grass breeding, genetic resources, and adaptation of forage species to Baltic and Nordic conditions.
Alumni
Former lab members who have moved on to exciting new roles
PhD alumni (6)
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Akhil Reddy Pashapu now postdoc in the group
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Crystal Turnbull
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Alye Tefera Haile co-supervised
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Niveditha Katyayini co-supervised
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Ioannis Theodorou co-supervised
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Luz Gabriela Muñoz Sanhueza co-supervised
MSc alumni (10)
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Sara Thu
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Maarten De Keuster co-supervised
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Amila Prasanna Haputhanthri
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Madiha Saleem
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Rabya Ashfaq co-supervised
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Mari Talgø Syvertsen
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Simon Oscar Andersen Haughom co-supervised
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Kristin Håland Gylstrøm co-supervised
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Kamrul Islam co-supervised
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Anil Kunapareddy co-supervised
This section will be updated as lab members complete their studies and move to new positions.