It was with great sorrow that we at BIO received the news that Ingunn Wergeland passed away last week. Ingunn was the administrative leader at the Sea Lice centre for excellence in innovation and truly left a lasting impression as…
Month: March 2024
The HSE handbook in new format
The HSE handbook has been updated and is now available in a new format on BIO’s website. HSE-handbook for Department of Biological Sciences | Department of Biological Sciences (BIO) | UiB
BIO216 Toxicology-students visited Equinor
On Tuesday this week, the students in BIO216 went on a company visit to Equinor at Sandsli. The students learned more about Equinor’s extensive use and handling of chemicals, risk assessments, toxicity testing, environmental impact and HSE. A shift to…
Preannouncement of EuroMarine 2024 Calls for Funding
The 2024 EuroMarine Calls for Funding will be published soon. The terms of EuroMarine’s 2024 calls were outlined by the General Assembly and the Steering Committee (SC) during their 2024 meeting in February. These terms are summarised below in advance…
ExcelAQUA Summer School 2024 – Fish Physiology and Sustainable Aquaculture
The summer school is a great opportunity for you to travel and experience Japan while at the same time learning about fish physiology and aquaculture. Six students from UiB together with course instructors from BIO will spend a couple days…
2024 NBS Symposium in Bergen April 10th
Dear colleagues, The local board of the Norwegian Bioscience Society (NBS) will arrange a symposium at the BBB (‘vrimleareal’, 3rd floor) on Wednesday, April 10th from 09.00 to 13.00. The event is meant to be informal and fun. There will…
Norwegian Biodiversity and Genomics Conference 2024
Welcome to the annual Earth Biogenome Project-Norway conference. During this conference, you can participate in workshops and learn how to use bioinformatics tools to efficiently analyze and interpret genome sequencing data, in addition to hearing from renowned researchers who will…
Help out with student survey on research and commercialisation
The interns Ingrid and Sandra from Michael Sars Centre are participating in the 2nd Mission Arena in Riga this April. They are gathering data on the researcher’s perspective about opportunities and resources available in order to take research findings into industry. To…
Greetings from the Department – 15.01.2024
Hello, Birds are singing and the crocuses are appearing now – a great sign of spring! I hope everyone who is teaching this semester has had a good start and that everything works according to plan.
In memory of Ingunn Wergeland
Kjære kolleger, det er med stor tristhet at jeg videreformidler informasjon om at Ingunn Wergeland har gått bort. Ingunn jobbet på BIO tidligere, som administrativ koordinator på Lakselussenteret.