Prof. Monica A Sundset



Dr.philos, Professor in Animal Physiology and Merited Teacher
Dept of Arctic and Marine Biology (AMB), Faculty of Biosciences, Fisheries and Economy (BFE), UiT – The Arctic University of Norway (UiT), 9037 Tromsø, Norway.
 
E-mail: monica.a.sundset@uit.no
Education
  • Cand mag (1990) in Biology; Cand Scient (1992) and Dr philos (2000) in Animal Physiology, UiT, Norway
  • University Seminar in Pedagogics UiT (2003-2004)
  • The Dean School of The Norwegian Association of Higher Education Institutions (UHR Dekanskolen, 2012-2013)
  • Course on peer review of teaching portfolios UiT (2017-2018)
  • BFE Research Supervision Seminar on guidelines, routines, co-authorship with pre-assignments, lectures and group work (Nov 27 2018)
  • BFE Research Supervision Seminar on communication and conflict with pre-assignments, lectures and group work (May 8 2019)
Positions
  • Deputy Leader for Teaching AMB/UiT (Since Aug 2019)
  • Merited Teacher AMB/BFE/UiT (since 2019)
  • Professor in Animal Physiology AMB/BFE/UiT (since 2004)
  • Vice Dean of Education BFE/UiT (Nov 2010 – July 2018)
  • Acting Dean BFE/UiT (4 months: 2015, 2016)
  • Visiting Scientist Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA (2001-2002)
  • Post-doc UiT (appointed by the university board) (2001-2004)
  • Associate professor Institute of Medical Biology (IMB)/UiT (1997-2001)
Leadership in Education 
  • The Strategic Committee on Education at UiT (2013-2018) 
  • Board for BS and MS programs in Biology, AMB (since 2018) 
  • Board for BS/MS programs in Biotechnology and Aqua Medicine, The Norwegian College of Fishery Science, UiT (since 2018)
  • Committee on collaboration on education between society and UiT (2018-2019) 
  • Committee on innovation and entrepreneurship in education at UiT (2016-2017) 
  • Program Committee for the T&L conference ”MNT-Conference 2019” (2017-2019)
  • Committee on Learning Environment (LMU) (2011-2013)
Selected projects
  • SECURE - Novel Marine Resources for Food Security and Food Safety, UiT Tematiske Satsninger, BFE/HelseF/JurFak submitted (WP leader) 23.08.19
  • "C21Enhance - Centre for Enhancement of 21st Century Skills in Higher Education", SFU-Application for DIKU, submitted 29.04.19 (PI)
  • “EduInn.no - Preparing students for innovation and entrepreneurship through creative teaching and learning”, UiT, “Fyrtårnsprosjekt”, submitted 05.04.19 (leader) 
  • “Prestisje” (on gender balance in research leadership at UiT), ongoing NRC project lead by Prof. Kenneth Ruud (collaborator) 
  • “SLUSEN” (innovation in education), ongoing NRC project at Result, UiT (collaborator) 
  • “Our Genomes Underlying Toxin Tolerance (GUTT)”, ongoing NSF Project (collaborator) 
  • “From peer observation to peer review of teaching – a collective approach for quality culture” (2017-2018) (leader) 
  • «Information and communication technology supported teaching of first year students in biology” (2013- 2015) lead by Dr. Mario Acquarone (collaborator) 
  • “Bilateral Arctic Marine Science and student exchange programme (BAMSE)” (2013) SIU-project lead by Prof. Jørgen Berge (collaborator)
  • «Establishing cooperation between St. Petersburg University and UiT to exhange students in Marine Biology» (2012) SIU-project lead by Prof. Paul Wassmann (collaborator)
  • "New knowledge on methane emissions from reindeer and increased competence locally in the North - A Project within IPY EALÁT Reindeer herding" Reindriftens Utviklingsfond (2011-2013) (leader)
  • "Diversity analysis of the cecum microflora in the ptarmigan" NANSENFONDET (2014) (leader)
  • "Does the reindeer rumen microflora tolerate increased intake of usnic acid?" Reindriftens Utviklingsfond (2007) (leader)
  • "Small scale production of emergency feed for reindeer and manipulation of the rumen microflora - New posibilities for adding value in reindeer herding" Reindriftens Utviklingsfond (2003-2005) (leander)
  • "The utilization of plants by reindeer in Finmark" Reindriftens Utviklingsfond (1998-2002) (leader)
Publications and reports within teaching and learning 
  1. Sundset MA, Sandvoll R, Allern M (2019) Enhancing a collective approach to teaching in the spirit of SoTL. Page 507-512 in the Conference Proceedings from EuroSoTL 2019 in Bilbao, Spain.
  2. Sundset MA, Allern M, Sandvoll R (2019) Utvikling av undervisningskvalitet gjennom styrket fagfellesskap. Side 99-103 i Artikkelsamlingen til MNT-konferansen 2019 / Proceedings for the MNT Conference 2019.
  3. Allern M, Sundset MA, Sandvoll R (2017) Peer Observation of Teaching as motivation for educational Development - From teaching as private enterprise to a collective approach. EuroSoTL 2017.
  4. Storelvmo M et al (2017) Report from the committee on innovation and entrepreneurship in education at UiT – The Arctic University of Norway. 
  5. Jakobsen W et al (2017) Gjennomgang av studieporteføljen – del 2. Erfaringsbaserte- og toårige masterprogram (In Norwegian). Strategisk Utdanningsutvalg 24.04.17. 
  6. Jakobsen W et al (2016) Gjennomgang av studieporteføljen – del 1. Bachelorprogram og femårige masterprogram (In Norwegian). Strategisk Utdanningsutvalg 20.10.16. 
  7. Sundset MA et al (2010) Application for accreditation of a PhD program in Ecology (in Norwegian). Høgskolen i Telemark. Report from the Expert Committee. NOKUT reports. ISSN [1501-9640]. 33 pages.
Textbooks & book chapters 
  1. Hazlerigg D et al. (2015) Highlights in comparative physiology – Animal adaptations to the environment. UiT – The Arctic University of Norway. 163 pages.
  2. Sundset MA, Glad T, Nielsen KM (2013) Terrestrial Vertebrate Animal Metagenomics, Non-domesticated Ursidae, Bears. In: Nelson K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Metagenomics. Springer, New York, NY DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6418-1_107-3
  3. Sundset MA, Salgado-Flores A, Wright ADG, Pope PB (2013) The Reindeer Rumen Microbiome. In: Nelson K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Metagenomics. Springer, New York, NY https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6418-1_664-1
  4. Magga OH et al. (2011) EALAT Reindeer Herders Vulnerability Network Study: Reindeer Pastoralism in a changing climate, pp. 138-149 in the book “The Norwegian Contribution 2007-2008 The Polar Year” (NRC)
  5. Mathiesen SD et al. (2005) Chapter 4: Microbial ecology of the gastrointestinal tract in reindeer – changes through season, pp. 73-100 in: Microbial Ecology of the Growing Animal; Biology of the Growing Animals Volume III; Eds. Holzapfel W, Naughton P, Elsevier Press, Oxford, UK.




    List of publications
    Sundset MA (married name since 2002), Olsen MA (maiden name)
    1. Acquarone M, Salgado-Flores A, Sundset MA (in prep) The bacterial community in the small intestine of hooded seals (Cystophora cristata).
    2. Salgado-Flores A, Tveit AT, Wright AD, Pope PB, Sundset MA (2019) Characterization of the cecum microbiome from wild and captive rock ptarmigans indigenous to Arctic Norway. PLOS ONE 
    3. Wegrzyn M, Wietrzyk P, Cykowska-Marzencka B, Galanty A, Sundset MA (2019) Incomplete degradation of lichen usnic acid and atranorin in Svalbard reindeer (Rangifer tarandus platyrhynchus). Polar Research 38: 3375
    4. Hansen KK, Sundset MA, Folkow LP, Nilsen M, Mathiesen SD (2018) Methane emissions are lower from reindeer fed lichens compared to a concentrate feed. Polar Research 37
    5. Andersen-Randbert EU, Barnes CJ, Rasmussen L, Salgado-Flores A, Grøndahl C, Mosbacher JB, Hansen AJ, Sundset MA, Schmidt NM, Sonne C (2018) A comparative study on the faecal bacterial community and potential zoonotic bacteria of muskoxen (Ovibos moschatus) in Northeast Greenland, Northwest Greenland and Norway. Microorganisms 6 (76)
    6. Salgado-Flores A, Hagen LH, Ishaq SL, Zamanzadeh M, Wright ADG, Pope PB, Sundset MA (2016) Rumen and cecum microbiomes in reindeer (Rangifer tarandus tarandus) are changed in response to a lichen diet and may affect enteric methane emissions. PLOS ONE
    7. Salgado-Flores A, Bockwoldt M, Hagen LH, Pope PB, Sundset MA (2016) First insight into the faecal microbiota of the high Arctic muskoxen (Ovibos moschatus). Microbial Genomics
    8. Ishaq SL, Sundset MA, Crouse J, Wright ADG (2015) High-throughput DNA sequencing of the moose rumen from different geographical locations reveals a core ruminal mehtanogenic archeal diversity and a differential ciliate protozoal diversity. Microbial Genomics
    9. Glad T, Barboza P, Mackie RI, Wright A-D G, Brusetti L, Mathiesen SD, Sundset MA (2014) Dietary supplementation of usnic acid, an antimicrobial compound in lichens, does not affect rumen bacterial diversity or density in reindeer. Current Microbiology 68:724-728.
    10. Josefsen TD, Sundset MA (2014) Fôring og fôringsbetingede sjukdommer hos rein. Norsk Veterinærstidsskrift 2:162-171.
    11. Præsteng KE, Pope PB, Cann IKO, Mackie RI, Mathiesen SD, Folkow LP, Eijsink VGH, Sundset MA (2013) Probiotic dosing of Ruminococcus flavefaciens affects rumen microbiome structure and function in reindeer. Microbial Ecology 66:840-849.  
    12. Pope PB, Mackenzie AK, Gregor I, Smith W, Sundset MA, McHardy AC, Morris M, Eijsink VGH (2012) Metagenomics of the Svalbard Reindeer Rumen Microbiome reveals Abundance of Polysaccharide Utilization Loci. PLOS ONE 7(6):1-10 e38571.
    13. Pæsteng KE, Mackie RI, Cann IKO, Mathiesen SD, Sundset MA (2011) Variation in the 16S-23S rRNA gene internal transcribed spacer of fibrolytic Butyrivibrio isolates from the reindeer rumen. Canandian Journal of Microbiology 57:617-621.
    14. Præsteng KE, Mackie RI, Cann IKO, Mathiesen SD, Sundset MA (2011) Development of 16S-23S rRNA internal transcribed spacer signature probes targeting a Ruminococcus flavefaciens from the reindeer rumen. Beneficial Microbes 2: 47-55.
    15. Glad T, Kristiansen VF, Nielsen KM, Brusetti L, Wright ADG, Sundset MA (2010) Ecological characterization of the colonic microbiota in Arctic and sub-Arctic seals. Microbial Ecology
    16. Glad T, Bernhardsen P, Nielsen KM, Brusetti L, Andsersen M, Aars J, Sundset MA (2010) Bacterial diversity in faeces from polar bears (Ursus maritimus) in Arctic Svalbard. BMC Microbiology
    17. Sundset MA, Barboza P, Green TK, Folkow LP, Blix AS, Mathiesen SD (2010) Microbial degradation of usnic acid in the reindeer rumen. Die Naturwissenschaften 97:273-278.
    18. Barboza PS, Bennett AF, Lignot JH, Mackie RI, McWhorter T, Secor S, Skovgaard N, Sundset MA (2010) Digestive challenges for vertebrate animals: microbial diversity, cardio-respiratory coupling, and dietary specialization. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 83(5):764-774.
    19. Sundset MA, Edwards JE, Cheng YF, Sensosiain RS, Fraile MN, Northwood KS, Præsteng KE, Glad T, Mathiesen SD, Wright ADG (2009) Rumen microbial diversity in Svalbard reindeer, with particular emphasis on methanogenic archaea. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 70:553-562.
    20. Sundset MA, Edwards JE, Cheng YF, Sensosiain RS, Fraile MN, Northwood KS, Præsteng KE, Glad T, Mathiesen SD, Wright ADG (2009) Molecular diversity of the rumen microbiome of Norwegian reindeer on natural pasture. Microbial Ecology 57:335-348.
    21. Sundset MA, Kohn A, Mathiesen SD, Præsteng KE (2008) Usneabacteria rangiferina, a novel usnic-acid resistant bacterium isolated from the reindeer rumen. Die Naturwissenschaften 95:741-749.
    22. Zoetendal EG, Smith AH, Sundset MA, Akan DH, Mackie RI (2008) The Two-Component Regulatory System BaeSR Mediates Resistance to Condensed Tannins in Escherichia coli. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 74:535-539.
    23. Sundset MA, Cann IKO, Mathiesen SD, Præsteng KE, Mackie RI (2007) Novel rumen bacterial diversity in two geographically separated sub-species of reindeer. Microbial Ecology 54: 424-438.
    24. Tyler NJC, Turi JM, Sundset MA, Strøm Bull K, Sara MN, Reinert E, Oskal N, Nellemann C, McCarthy JJ, Mathiesen SD, Martelo ML, Magga OH, Hovelsrud GK, Hanssen-Bauer I, Eira NI, Eira IMG, Corell RW (2007) Saami reindeer pastoralism under climate change: applying a generalized framework for vulnerability studies to a sub-Arctic social-ecological system. Global Environmental Change 17: 191-206.
    25. Mackie RI, Aminov RI, Hu W, Klieve AV, Ouwerkerk D, Sundset MA, Kamagata Y (2003) Ecology of uncultivated Oscillospira species in the rumen of cattle, sheep and reindeer as assessed by microscopy and molecular approaches. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 69: 6808-6815.
    26. Storeheier PV, Sehested J, Diernæs L, Sundset MA, Mathiesen SD (2003) Effects of seasonal changes of food quality and food intake on the transport of sodium and butyrate across ruminal epithelium of reindeer. Journal of Comparative Physiology 173:391-399.
    27. Storeheier PV, Mathiesen SD, Sundset MA (2003) Estimating faecal output in reindeer during winter. Livestock Production Science 84: 23-30.
    28. Storeheier PV, van Oort B, Sundset MA, Mathiesen SD (2003) Food intake of reindeer in winter. Journal of Agricultural Science, Cambridge 141:93-101.
    29. Olsen MA, Myklebust R, Keino T, Elbrønd VS, Mathiesen SD (2002) The gastrointestinal tract of Adélie penguins – morphology and function. Polar Biology 25: 641-649.
    30. Storeheier PV, Mathiesen SD, Tyler NJC, Olsen MA (2002) Nutritive value of terricolous lichens for reindeer in winter. Lichenologist 34: 247-257.
    31. Storeheier PV, Mathiesen SD, Tyler NJC, Schjelderup I, Olsen MA (2002) Utilization of nitrogen and mineral-rich vascular forage plants by reindeer in winter. Journal of Agriculture Science, Cambridge 139:151-160.
    32. Olsen MA, Blix AS, Aagnes TH, Sørmo W, Mathiesen SD (2000) Chitinolytic bacteria in the minke whale forestomach. Canadian Journal of Microbiology 46: 85-94.
    33. Wasteson Y, Arnemo JM, Johansen BK, Vold L, Mathiesen SD, Olsen MA, Wiig Ø, Derocher A (1999) Analysis of Fecal Samples from Wild Animals for Shigatoxinogenic Escherichia coli and E. coli O157. The Veterinary Record 144: 646-647.
    34. Olsen MA, Mathiesen SD (1998) The bacterial population adherent to plant particles in the rumen of reindeer (Rangifer tarandus tarandus) fed lichen, timothy hay or silage. Rangifer 18 (2): 55-64.
    35. Moen R, Olsen MA, Haga ØE, Sørmo W, Mathiesen SD (1998) Digestion of timothy hay and silage in reindeer (Rangifer tarandus tarandus). Rangifer 18 (1): 35-45.
    36. Olsen MA, Aagnes TH, Mathiesen SD (1997) The effect of timothy silage on the bacterial population in rumen fluid of reindeer (Rangifer tarandus tarandus) from natural summer and winter pasture. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 24: 79-86.
    37. Olsen MA, Nilsen KT, Mathiesen SD (1996) Gross anatomy of the gastrointestinal system of harp seals (Phoca groenlandica). Journal of Zoology, London 238: 581-589.
    38. Olsen MA, Mathiesen SD (1996) Production rates of volatile fatty acids in the forestomach of minke whales. British Journal of Nutrition 75: 21-31
    39. Olsen MA, Aagnes TH, Mathiesen SD (1995) Failure of cellulolysis in the rumen of reindeer fed timothy silage. Rangifer 15(2): 79-86.
    40. Olsen MA, Nordøy ES, Blix AS, Mathiesen SD (1994) Functional anatomy of the gastrointestinal system of north-eastern Atlantic minke whales (Balaenoptera acutorostrata). Journal of Zoology, London 234: 55-74.
    41. Olsen MA, Aagnes TH, Mathiesen SD (1994) Digestion of herring by indigenous bacteria in the minke whale forestomach. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 60 (12): 4445-4455.
    42. Sørmo W, Aagnes TH, Olsen MA, Mathiesen SD (1994) The bacteriology of the small intestinal mucosa of free-living reindeer. Rangifer 14: 65-78.


    Teaching and mentoring
    Bio-1006 Dyre- og Plantefysiologi (10 stp) 
    Bio-2310 Arctic Biology (10 stp)
    Bio-3008 Animal Physiology (20 stp)

     

    PhD students

    • PhD Alejandro Salgado-Flores (2017) Gut metagenomics in relation to diet and methanogenesis in Arctic herbivores, ISBN 978-82-8266-140-9. UiT.
    • PhD Kirsti E Præsteng (2012) Genetic identification and ruminal dosing of cellulolytic bacteria to reindeer in search of a future probiotic, ISBN 978-82-8266-040-2. UiT.
    • PhD Trine Glad (2010) Antimicrobial resistance and bacterial diversity in Arctic Environments, ISBN 978-82-7589-313-8. UiT.
    • PhD Pål Vegar Storeheier (2003) Food intake and forage utilization in reindeer during winter, ISBN 82-7589-139-6. UiT.
    MSs Thesis Advisor
    • MSc Pernille Meyer (2019) Validation of DNA metabarcoding as a tool for diet analysis in reindeer (Rangifer tarandus tarandus L.) Supervisors: Galina Gusarova, Stefaniya Kamenova, Anne K. Brysting, Monica A. Sundset, Lars Folkow). Pernille was a MSc student at the Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis, Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo - doing parts of her project with us in Tromsø.
    • MSc Marte Nilsen (2013) Ernæringsbasert metanproduksjon hos sau (Methane emissions from sheep).
    • MSc Kia Krarup Hansen (2012) Methane emissions from reindeer. Do reindeer fed lichens emit less methane than reindeer on a pelleted feed diet?
    • MSc Anders J Hamnes (2007) Evaluering av lokalprodusert gresspellet som fôr til rein og effekt av melassetilsetning.
    • MSc Vibeke F Kristiansen (2007) Ampicillin resistance and bacterial diversity in colon content from grey seals (Halichoerus grypus) and harbour seals (Phoca vitulina) at the coast of northern Norway.
    • MSc Pål Bernhardsen (2007) Bacterial diversity and ampicillin resistance in faecal content from polar bears (Ursus maritimus).


    German Diploma Thesis Advisor
    • Alexandra Kohn (2008) Antibiotic usnic acid in lichens. Review and screening for usnic acid-resistant rumen bacterial strains from reindeer. Visiting Scholar. 
    Veterinary Medicine Thesis Advisor
    • Larsen AK & Marhaug T (2004) Digestion in polar bear - An anatomical study of the digestive system in Polar bear related to its ability to adapt to future climatic changes in the Arctic.
    BSc Thesis Advisor
    • André Moan (2014) The SF6 tracer gas technique: Can it be used to determine methane emissions from reindeer? (Bio-2201 Bachelor thesis in Biology, 10 stp).
    • Renathe Lohne (2011) Sammenhengen mellom fôropptak og melkekvalitet hos geiter (Bio-2201, 10 stp)
    • Mads Kile & Jørgen Benjaminsen (2011) devising an anaerobic culture medium for enriching and selecting usnic acid resistant rumen bacteria (Bio-2203 Bachelor thesis in Biology, 20 stp)
    • Kia Krarup Hansen (2010) Rumen methanogens and putative methods for quantification of methane emissions from reindeer.
    • Anne Birgitte Gaup Aamot (2007) Feeding of moose in captivity.
    • Máret Risten A. Sara (2007) Gabba ja muzet misiid heiveheapmi dálkadatrievdamiidda boahtteáiggis - Erohus gabba ja muzet misiin ceavzima dáfus (The adaptation of black and white reindeer to future climate changes).
    • Roberto S Senosiain (2007) Phylogenetic analysis of rumen methanogens in reindeer.
    • Alexandra Kohn (2007) Bacterial detoxification of usnic acid from lichens in the reindeer rumen.
    • Maria N Fraile (2006) Molecular screening for methanogens in the rumen of reindeer.
    • Anders J Hamnes (2004) Local Production of hay and pelleting feed for reindeer by use of the Press PP300.
    • Jørgen Eira Solbakke (2003) Scientific and traditional knowledge on feeding of reindeer in the Saami reindeer herding.
    • Anders J Hamnes (2003) Small scale production of pelleted feed for reindeer. 

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