One of the challenges we are currently facing is that our financial framework has seen a decline year by year, as factors such as inflation, price increases, and wage growth are not fully compensated through our annual allocation. It is…
Category: BIO News
New faces: Maria Aadlans Sætre is our new controller
My name is Maria Aadland Sætre and I just started as a controller at the Faculty of Science and Technology. I have previosly worked as a consultant in Bergen kommune. I have been assigned to the Department of Biological Sciences…
Katja Enberg receives the Olav Thon foundation’s award for excellent teaching
The winners of the Olav Thon founation’s award for excellent teaching 2025 were announced yesterday. We are very proud and pleased that Katja Enberg was one of the 9 awardees. In their assessment of Katja’s work the foundation states that…
Reminder: Department council [instituttrådet] election 2025 – invitation to nominate candidates by March 19th
In the spring of 2025, elections will be held for the department council. All members, with the exception of the head of department who is a permanent member, are up for election, and until 19 March you can nominate candidates…
Friday 14. March PhD trial lecture. Mats Bøgwald (NB NEW TIME)
Impact of notifiable diseases in shellfish aquaculture in Norway. Surveillance and management 10.15-11.00 Lille auditorium, Høyteknologisenteret
BIO publications weeks 9 and 10 2025
Borchel, A. and Nilsen, F. (2025) ‘Transcriptomic insights into the low-salinity tolerance of the sea louse Caligus elongatus’, JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY B-BIOCHEMICAL SYSTEMS AND ENVIRONMENTAL PHYSIOLOGY [Preprint]. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00360-025-01606-3.
Editorial – 28.02.2025
A short report from the study section this week, I have a little winter holiday in Trondheim for a few days. In recent weeks, we have had program board meetings in all four program boards we have at the institute,…
200 years of knowledge: Elida – The Poisoned Whale
During One Ocean Week, you can learn about Elida’s story at the exhibit “Elida – The Poisoned Whale.” The exhibit is a collaboration between the Marma-Detox Project at the University of Bergen, the University Museum of Bergen, and the Norwegian Orca Survey. Here,…
Editorial – 21.2.2025
Since last time I wrote, we have conducted a bioLUNCH, and this week, the first bioTEACH took place.
BIO Project: ECoMAP
Website: ECoMAP – Between the Fjords Outputs: CRISTIN Running time: 2021-2025 Funding: NFR Principal Investigators: Liv Guri Velle (NIBIO), Joachim Töpper (NINA), and Vigdis Vandvik (UiB).