Several of GenØk’s research projects are being carried out in close cooperation with colleagues at the Institute for Pharmacy, the Institute for Medical Biology and the Norwegian College of Fishery Science at the University of Tromsø. We are also collaborating with colleagues at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Erlangen, Germany, the Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences and at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. All projects have basic components, but also contain elements related to a number of potential GE/GMO risk issues. The projects are implemented through food-web model and animal feeding studies, experimental genomics, molecular biology, ecology, social science and bio-ethics based approaches. All, except one of, the projects are supported by competition-based grants from the Research Council of Norway.

Genetic engineering in aquaculture: Perspectives on Management and Sustainability

Structural and functional analysis of the cryIAb (Bt) insecticidal protein produced in different biological hosts and environments

Bioethics and risk governance

Feeding experiments involving some potential risk factors for GM (genetically modified) food

GMOs in aquatic ecosystems: pioneering ecological food-web model experiments

Poxviruses in Norway: Biodiversity, characteristics and recombinations between naturally occurring and genetically engineered

Interaction between foreign DNA and SECs (scavenger endothelial cells) in vitro and in vivo

Immunologic reactions in Filipino villagers exposed to Bt-transgenic maize pollen?