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Mark van der Giezen

@mitorem.bsky.social

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Interested in and working on parasites of humans, livestock and fisheries. Research related to health, food security, biochemical adaptations to low oxygen and mitochondrial evolution. Work also on microbiomes and guts. Faculty member, but personal account

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Mark van der Giezen @mitorem.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Great example of the effectiveness of vaccination. In 1992, Norway introduced vaccination against Haemophilus influenzae and the next year under seven disease burden dropped massively. Yesterday at the Norwegian public health institute annual microbial genomics meeting. Talk by Dagfinn Skaare.

Norwegian public health institute's name on one of it's outer walls.

Graph showing effect of introduction of vaccination against Haemophilus influenzae in Norway in 1992 on childhood disease (going down).

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Mark van der Giezen @mitorem.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

First frost of the season and didn't really fancy doing my usual run. The views were worth it though.

View over a lake through the trees with a rising sun in the distance. It's autumn but we had the first frost of the season so it looks chilly. Golden brown colours.

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Mark van der Giezen @mitorem.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Stormy sea water spray over a breaker at the coast in Norway. Houses and trees at the distance.

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Mark van der Giezen @mitorem.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

No, it's not a midlife crisis, I've had that already.

Photo of a 1968 Volvo Felt, also called Välp or Laplander, with a ferry at the background.

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Mark van der Giezen @mitorem.bsky.social · 25/11/2023

Unexpected but always impressive, northern lights in southern Norway.

Green northern lights above houses across a bay

Red and green northern lights above the sea with some lights of houses at the horizon.

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Mark van der Giezen @mitorem.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

View over the sea after a half marathon that didn't go too well. Nice and relaxing to see the sea like this.

View over a calm sea from a slightly high position with a small harbour on the left and nearly clear blue sky above.

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Mark van der Giezen @mitorem.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

My continued frustration with this DuoLingo language app. Trying to learn Norwegian but criticising my English. It is possible of course that my English is poor but is 'You first have to dial six' or 'You have to dial six first ' incorrect? The suggested 'You have to first dial six' seems ugly?

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Mark van der Giezen @mitorem.bsky.social · 28/10/2023

A windy but sunny day at the coast near Eigerøy lighthouse in Norway.

Person in yellow raincoat overlooking the sea

Norwegian coast with lighthouse at horizon

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Mark van der Giezen @mitorem.bsky.social · 28/10/2023

Visited my collaborators at the Statens Serum Institut in beautiful Copenhagen. Obviously I need to check out Nyhavn. The colours in the morning sun have a kind of Turner-esque feel.

Morning sun over Nyhavn in Copenhagen with boats moored and the pastel coloured houses on the right.

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Mark van der Giezen @mitorem.bsky.social · 28/10/2023

Evening sunset over the sea in Norway.

Fiery orange cloudy sunset over the sea with some houses on the left and a pier in the front.

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Mark van der Giezen @mitorem.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

Thanks for sharing, here is a tree tunnel I saw last month on a work trip in the gardens of Schloss Schönbrunn in Vienna, Austria.

Tree tunnel from old hedgerow in the formal gardens of Schloss Schönbrunn in Vienna, Austria.

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Mark van der Giezen @mitorem.bsky.social · 24/09/2023

Keywords from the abstracts of all my papers, seems to sum it up but the more recent microbiome work is still hidden Used this site to generate it: shiny.rcg.sfu.ca/u/r... by @morinryan.bsky.social 🧬🖥️🦠

Summary of keywords used in my scientific abstracts. Main ones are mitochondria and eukaryotes.

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Mark van der Giezen @mitorem.bsky.social · 24/09/2023

View over the beach somewhere in Norway.

View from a beach in Norway over the sea with part of a boathouse visible on the right. Some blue sky but mainly thin white clouds.

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Mark van der Giezen @mitorem.bsky.social · 23/09/2023

Just back in time from my morning run, more rain on the way.

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Mark van der Giezen @mitorem.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

The weather's changing, autumn's in the air. #Norway

Picture of a lake with the horizon reflected in perfect mirror image on the water. Trees are beginning to show autumn shades.

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Mark van der Giezen @mitorem.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

Last week we organised the Norwegian Society for Microbiology annual meeting at the University of Stavanger. Honoured to have been elected #president of the society. I will do my best to further the field of #microbiology in #Norway and beyond.

Image from above showing the venue lobby with attendees discussing scientific posters. Bright orange wall and green plants.

Best PhD student talk golden pipette prize to Marit Hetland from Stavanger University Hospital and best PhD student poster golden pipette prize to Ana Lucia Campaña from the University of Oslo. Outgoing Norwegian Society for Microbiology president Professor Dirk Linke (University of Oslo) handed out the prizes.

Picture of the two golden pipette prizes for best PhD student talk and poster.

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