{"id":1562,"date":"2026-03-31T11:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T11:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/apalsson\/?p=1562"},"modified":"2026-03-31T11:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T11:36:11","slug":"participation-in-nowpas-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/apalsson\/2026\/03\/31\/participation-in-nowpas-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Participation in NoWPaS 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"site-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nowpas.wordpress.com\/\" rel=\"home\">NoWPaS<\/a> International Workshop of PhDs and Post-doctoral Fellows on Anadromous Salmonids was held in Holar University, Iceland early in March.<\/p>\n<p>This is organized by students and postdocs, for them selves. Few seniors get to join, and share their work and discuss the projects with the young scientists.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1563\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/apalsson\/files\/2026\/03\/bd6691f0fbc808af-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1563\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1563\" src=\"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/apalsson\/files\/2026\/03\/bd6691f0fbc808af-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/apalsson\/files\/2026\/03\/bd6691f0fbc808af-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/apalsson\/files\/2026\/03\/bd6691f0fbc808af-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/apalsson\/files\/2026\/03\/bd6691f0fbc808af-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/apalsson\/files\/2026\/03\/bd6691f0fbc808af-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/apalsson\/files\/2026\/03\/bd6691f0fbc808af-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1563\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Group in front of Holar church.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We participated, with four contributions.<\/p>\n<p>Kenedy Annejulee Williams - talked about a summer project on the \"Nursery grounds of Anadromous Arctic charr in Icelandic rivers: where to go when rivers warm?\" - and won best talk in session price.<\/p>\n<p>Arnar P\u00e1lsson - gave an overview of the work for past decade or so \"The interplay of environment, genetics and history: the case of ecological divergence in Arctic charr.\"<\/p>\n<p>Ruhila Goswami - talked about part of her MS thesis \"Evolution of the Sex-Determining Gene <em>sdY<\/em> in Anadromous and Landlocked Arctic Charr and Brown Trout Populations from Iceland\"<\/p>\n<p>and Gu\u00f0bj\u00f6rg \u00d3sk J\u00f3nd\u00f3ttir - talked about her manuscript in preparation \"Divergence of functional phenotypes in feeding elements of Arctic charr (<em>Salvelinus alpinus<\/em>) along the benthic \u2013 pelagic axis.\"<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NoWPaS International Workshop of PhDs and Post-doctoral Fellows on Anadromous Salmonids was held in Holar University, Iceland early in March. This is organized by students and postdocs, for them selves. Few seniors get to join, and share their work and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/apalsson\/2026\/03\/31\/participation-in-nowpas-2026\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13969],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/apalsson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/apalsson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/apalsson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/apalsson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/132"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/apalsson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/apalsson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1564,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/apalsson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562\/revisions\/1564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/apalsson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/apalsson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/apalsson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}