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…
Hribovšek, P., Olesin Denny, E., Mall, A., Dahle, H., Steen, I.H., Stokke, R., 2025. Adaptation strategies of iron-oxidizing bacteria Gallionella and Zetaproteobacteria crossing the marine–freshwater barrier. mBio 0, e02572-24. https://doi.org/10.1128/mbio.02572-24 Jones, N.A.R., Frommen, J.G., Fuss, T., Newport, C., DePasquale, C.,…
By: Jarrod Cusens A new report has been released led by BIO researcher Alicia Donnellan Barraclough supported by a large international consortium including several other researchers at BIO including Inger Måren, Janne Thomsen and Jarrod Cusens. The report titled Accelerating…
The Mountains in Motion Lab at the Department of Biological Sciences is seeking two master’s-level students (20% part-time, 6 months) to join the project ECO-SPACE: Earth Observation and Geospatial Tools for Ecosystem and Environmental Management. The research technicians will work…
I’m back as Head of Education at BIO after a year on sabbatical! It was a great year, so thank you, Øyvind, for holding the wheel the past year! My calendar filled up very fast after the return showing that…
She has contributed to two of the Nature Panel’s reports. Now Vigdis Vandvik will be the coordinating lead author of the UN climate report, the seventh in a row. Read more in this news article from the Bjernknes Centre for…
The work on area reduction at BIO has started again after the summer, and working meetings have been held with the area group at BIO. The Architect and the Estate and Facilities Management division at UiB (EIA) have been on…
Budaev, S., Cusimano, G.M., Ronnestad, I., 2025. FishMet: A Digital Twin Framework for Appetite, Feeding Decisions and Growth in Salmonid Fish. Aquac. Fish Fish. 5, e70064. https://doi.org/10.1002/aff2.70064 Gawornu, B.D., Yeboah, J., Mueller, O., Jonasdottir, S.H., Abrokwah, S., Nielsen, T.G., Setala,…
[Our translation/Google translate] I recently attended the 22nd International Conference on Diseases of Fish and Shellfish (EAFP XXII) in Heraklion, Crete. Here I presented my poster “Polyvalent DNA vaccines targeting salmon louse labial gland proteins”, which was awarded the poster…
On Thursday, 18 September, we conducted a fire drill in the buildings at Thormøhlensgate 53A and B. All employees evacuated the buildings within 4 minutes and 27 seconds – very close to the record from 10 April 2024, which was…
