Last Friday Ingeborg defended her PhD thesis at the University of Iceland. The title of her dissertation is: Bacterial communities of lichens and mosses and nitrogen fixation in a warming climate. Congratulations Dr Klarenberg! The opponents were Dr. James Bradley, Queen Mary University of London, and Dr. Pauline Vannier, Research scientist at Matís. They did a great job too and contributed to an excellent defence! Ingeborg's PhD committee was formed by Oddur Vilhelmsson (UnAk), Ólafur S. Andrésson (HÍ), Starri Heiðmarsson (NÍ), Margrét Auður Sigurbjörnsdóttir (UnAk) and Ingibjörg Svala Jónsdóttir.
While it comes to Skemman, the Icelandic PhD repository, here are some of Ingeborg's thesis chapters, already published or in pre-print: Klarenberg, I.J., Keuschnig, C., Warshan, D., Jónsdóttir, I.S. and Vilhelmsson, O., 2020. The total and active bacterial community of the chlorolichen Cetraria islandica and its response to long-term warming in sub-Arctic tundra. Frontiers in microbiology, 11, p.3299. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.540404 Klarenberg, I.J., Keuschnig, C., Colmenares, A.J.R., Warshan, D., Jungblut, A.D., Jónsdóttir, I.S. and Vilhelmsson, O., 2021. Long-term warming effects on the microbiome and nitrogen fixation of a common moss species in sub-Arctic tundra. bioRxiv, p.838581. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/838581v3.abstract