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Melanie Burford, Silvereye Pictures
In the Molecular biology group, it has been an exciting semester and exam time is approaching. Our new course MOL220 (Techniques, model systems and current research topics in molecular biology) has gone well with 22 committed students, and they have been introduced to, among other things, Drosophila, Nematostella, salmon, yeast, cell lines and lipids, and a variety of molecular biological methods.
Many of these will be introduced to available master’s projects next week, and we are looking forward to that. This autumn we have had several “visits” to the MOLBIO seminars from other subject groups here at the department and it has been exciting to get an insight into what others are doing. We hope it can help form the basis for more research collaboration across the groups. Research groups and collaboration across disciplines were also a topic at a joint GrA meeting today. It is good that we are now getting even more focus on research.
With that, I wish everyone the very best for the final leg of the semester and the upcoming Christmas holidays, which are just around the corner. At least according to the shops that have long since started selling Christmas decorations and julebrus.
Hilsen Gyri
Head of the Molecular biology group (Faggruppe molekylærbiologi)