Hi,
Two BIO employees received exciting news this week: New NFR RESEARCH projects under the theme “Food and Bioresources.”
Associate Professor Aina-Cathrine Øvergård: Nanotechnology to improve mucosal nucleic acid-based vaccine responses against salmon louse (NanoLice).
Associate Professor Anita Rønneseth: Renibacterium salmoninarum: detecting and preventing vertical transmission in salmon (RenSal).
Congratulations to both for an excellent job with the applications that went all the way to the top. This is important for both of them in their career paths, a confirmation of a highly competitive scientific level, and important for BIO to maintain our high research activity!
The area-planning process continues at full strength, and good progress is being made in many areas. The architects are now well underway with drafting solution proposals that look very exciting and that also take into account important functions brought up in meetings between the working group and the different academic environments. The sketches are still at an early stage, so we need to wait a little longer before final drafts can be presented. The working group is doing a great job and has regular meetings with all the academic groups.
In this connection, it is important that we now use the opportunity to do some cleaning and throw away items that are broken and/or outdated. Of course, it makes no sense to move things that will later be discarded anyway. From September 22 to February 26, containers will be available for the following three categories of waste: residual waste, electronic waste (EL-waste), and computers/IT equipment. For more details, check this week’s Bionytt.
Later this fall, on Wednesday, October 22, BIO will organize a joint volunteer day at the Espegrend Marine Biological Station. The initiative is supported by funding from the UiB Climate Fund, and the plan includes long-awaited demolition and cleanup of the area. We hope that many will take the opportunity to contribute together to preserving our unique Marine Biological Station.
Registration deadline is October 14 – see more detailed information in a separate Bionytt article.
Have a great week 😊
Ståle