FORTECASE PROJECT
Prof. Eystein Skjerve
Eystein Skjerve is a veterinarian and holds the esteemed position of a professor specializing in Veterinary Public Health at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. He completed his veterinary education at the Norwegian School of Veterinary Science in 1983 and went on to earn his Ph.D. from the same institution in 1987. His primary research focus centers around the field of epidemiology, specifically studying infectious diseases that can be transmitted between humans and animals, commonly known as zoonoses.
As a Professor of Veterinary Public Health, Eystein Skjerve imparts knowledge in various subjects including food safety, veterinary public health, epidemiology, and research methodology. He possesses exceptional expertise in the analysis of data derived from epidemiological studies with diverse origins. Furthermore, he has accumulated vast research experience, particularly in topics of interest concerning Africa. Throughout his career, he has co-authored approximately 250 international papers and has provided guidance and supervision to over 60 doctoral students at his university. Additionally, he has played a significant role in supervising a substantial number of Ph.D. candidates at various African universities.
It is worth noting that Eystein Skjerve has been actively collaborating with UNZA (University of Zambia) for a period of 30 years, further highlighting his extensive engagement in research and academia.
Prof. Ann-Katrin Llarena
Ann-Katrin Llarena’s research field and interests lie with zoonotic disease, and her expertise is the epidemiology of zoonotic food- and environmentally borne bacteria in general, and Campylobacter jejuni in particular. Her post-doctoral fellowship has focused on tasks within the project entitled “INNUENDO: a novel cross-sectoral platform for the integration of genomics in the surveillance of food-borne pathogens” funded by the European Food Safety Agency. Currently, she is involved in several projects in the intersection between animals, the environment, and human health, all within the One Health paradigm.
Prof. Marina Elisabeth Aspholm
Prof. Marina Elisabeth Aspholm
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
Department of Paraclinical Sciences (PARAFAG)
+4767232218
+4793288266
Prof. Yngvild Wasteson
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
Department of Paraclinical Sciences (PARAFAG)
+4767232215
EDUPROMO PROJECT
Prof. Stephen Mutoloki
Prof. Stephen Mutoloki is a Professor in the research group "Host-pathogen interactions in infection and immunity" at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. He is a veterinarian by training, with both Bachelor's and Master of Veterinary Medicine degrees from the University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia, and a Ph.D. from the Norwegian School of Veterinary Science (NSVS), Oslo in 2007.
He has been involved in research on fish for more than 19 years, starting with injection-site side-effects following the vaccination of salmonids with oil-based vaccines. After his Ph.D., he focussed more on host-pathogen interactions, particularly in salmon, including infectious pancreasis necrosis and pancreas disease viruses. His areas of interest are mechanisms of pathogenesis and host responses including induction of protective immunity.
During the last 7 years, he has been leading a research project on capacity building in East and Southern Africa (Zambia, Tanzania, Kenya, and Uganda) supported through NORAD's Norhed programme. The project was focused on training young research scientists in areas of research including tilapia lake virus, infectious pancreatic necrosis, and infectious hematopoietic necrosis viruses as well as streptococcus-like bacterial pathogens of tilapia. The group has secured more funding from NORAD to continue with these activities for six more years and to expand collaborations with some institutions in West Africa. Recently, Stephen started working with bacteriophages with a view of understanding their interactions with hosts. His primary focus is phages of bacteria causing skin ulcers in salmon.
Prof. Mette Helen Bjørge Müller
Prof. Mette Helen Bjørge Müller
Associate Professor
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
Department of Production Animal Clinical Sciences (PRODMED)
+4741367415
Prof. Øystein Evensen
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
Department of Paraclinical Sciences (PARAFAG)
+4767232063
+4747400119