Hope everyone had a great Easter! Finally spring is truly underway, and there’s a lot of exciting and important things happening before summer arrives. This year’s student application numbers for the April 15 deadline are in, and once again, they…
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BIO publications weeks 16-17 2025
Ciuchcinski, K., Kaczorowska, A.-K., Biernacka, D., Dorawa, S., Kaczorowski, T., Park, Y., Piekarski, K., Stanowski, M., Ishikawa, T., Stokke, R., Steen, I.H., Dziewit, L., 2025. Computational pipeline for sustainable enzyme discovery through (re)use of metagenomic data. J Environ Manage 382,…
NRK article about the SEDNA-project and the Tara Polar Station (TPS)
The SEDNA-project, lead by Associate Professor Maxime Geoffroy (UiT) and with Oliver Müller as part of the project team, recently received 12 million NOK from the NRC. The project will take part in the first phase of the groundbreaking Tara…
2nd Access Call for EMBRC-Italy services
Dear colleagues, Hope you had a good Easter break! Please see below the announcement for an opportunity to collaborate with colleagues in Italy through their 2nd access call, funded by EMBRC-IT. Anyone can apply, not just those of us involved…
Editorial – 14.04.2025
It has been a busy period leading up to Easter. This past week, the One Ocean Conference was held, and I hope many of you had the opportunity to attend the excellent and highly relevant program.
Summary from this week’s general information meeting at BIO
This Wednesday we gathered at VilVite to hear the latest news at BIO. Karoline from HR is process leader of the Joint working environment survey (FAMU / ARK) at our faculty. She went through the survey results for BIO in…
BIO-publications week 15
Barbolini, Natasha, Niels Meijer, Carina Hoorn, Guillaume Dupont-Nivet, Fang Han, Ashley Krüger, Qin Yuan, Alexander Rohrmann, Kristina Bolinder, og Catarina Rydin. «Past Aridity and Dust Drove Biodiversity Crises and Altered Pollination in the Ancient Gymnosperm Ephedra (Gnetales)». Biological Reviews of…
Nature comments on Norwegian research policy: Norway set to scrap mandatory language training for foreign postdocs and PhD students
Researchers jubilant over swift ministerial response to rule they say would hamper international recruitment. This quote is taken from a recent article in Nature commenting the Norwegian governement’s proposal to remove the existing requirement for non-Norwegian PhD’s and Post Doc’s…
Editorial – 4.4.2025
Hei, alle sammen! On behalf of the Department, I would like to congratulate Margareth Hagen along with Sigrunn Eliassen and the reast of her team, for her re-election as UiB Rector for another 4 years.
New member of staff – Tianyuan Wang
Hello, I am Tianyuan and am quite happy to be in Bergen and join in such a big community. While ever been to Finland for a short exchange program during my undergraduate, I have never been to Norway before, and…