Group Leader
Professor, Department of Biologial Sciences
Dahle received his PhD in Microbiology in 2005 from the University of Bergen (Norway). His thesis work focused on the enrichemnt and isolation of thermophilic bacteria from a North-Sea oil reservoir. From 2006-2018 Dahle was a PostDoc, and later a researcher at the Centre for Geobiology (Centre of Excellence, SFF) and the Jebsen Centre for Deep Sea Research. In 2008/2009 Dahle spent one year of his PostDoc at the University of Washington (USA) in John Barross’ research group. Dahle has been working at the Computational Biology Unit since 2019.
PhD candidates
Emily Olesin Denny is a PhD candidate at the Department of Biology (University of Bergen). She is deciphering connections between geochemical setting, chemical energy fluxes, and distributions of microbial species and their genes in hydrothermal systems.
Marie Aline Montjourides is a PhD candidate at the Department of Biology (University of Bergen). She is characterizing and modelling chemical and biological dynamics in Resirculationg Aquaculture Systems (RAS).
MSc students
Nora Hesjedal is a MSc candidate at the Department of Biological Sciences (Since 2025). Hesjedal She is working with metagenomic analysis of organotrophs in biofilters from recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS).
Jarle Drange Hylland is a MSc candidate at the Department of Informatics (Since 2024). Hylland is developing software for estimation of microbial community structure from metagenomic data.
Previous members
Martin Rønhovde
MSc student at the Department of Biological Sciences, 2021-2023
Rønhovde characterised gene expression patterns of Saccharina latissima populations in a common garden experiment.
Achim Mall was a postdoc in the Dahle group working on analyzing the diversity of autotrophic microorganisms and their carbon fixation pathways at hydrothermal systems, and how environmental factors shape their distribution.
Stian Torseth was a MSc student who was comparing modelled chemical energy landscapes in hydrothermal systems with microbial community analysis using shotgun metagenomics. He was also expressing and analyzing substrate spectra of selected alcohol dehydrogenases obtained from the metagenomic data.