An online seminar series to receive support and guidance for presenting your research.
Greetings from the Department – 8.12.2023
In general, I feel very fortunate as a university employee! I can delve into and geek about things I’m more than average passionate about.
The BIO reception Christmas 2023
The BIO reception, the last day open before Christmas is Friday 22 December.The BIO reception is closed between 23rd December – 1st January 2024. Open as usual from 2nd January. Each research group must arrange so that freeze /refrigerated packages…
Introduction seminars for new employees- Monday 11th December
Invitation to Introduction seminar We are excited to have you on board and want to ensure you have the best start possible in Norway and at UiB! Our 3-hour intro course sets you up for success at UiB and in…
Youth visions of nature workshop: How can higher education contribute to a better future for nature? | Centre for Sustainable Area Management (CeSAM) | UiB
On December 5th, CeSAM and the UNESCO chair group organized a workshop for students and early career researchers – tying in with IPBES (Naturpanelet) holding a meeting in Bergen this week.
ERC 2024 & UIB’s new ERC Development Program – Request for feeback by 13 Dec
Dear all, The tentative deadlines for upcoming ERC grants are: ERC Starting Grant call 2025 – Oct 2024 ERC Consolidator Grant call 2025 – Dec 2024 ERC Advanced Grant call 2025 – 29 Aug 2024 To support/encourage a greater number…
Ny utlysning av NORPART-programmet
Below is some information about externally funded schemes in education. BOA for education (UiB’s resource group for externally funded education projects) is happy to assist, and if there are applications you are involved in these schemes or in Erasmus+, please…
Høring – Genteknologiutvalgets utredning NOU 2023: 18 Genteknologi i en bærekraftig fremtid
[Norwegian language] Klima- og miljødepartementet har sendt NOU 2023:18 på høring med høringsfrist 22. februar 2024. Fakultetene orienteres med dette om høringen og bes vurdere å gjøre relevante fagmiljøer oppmerksom på muligheten til å gi høringsinnspill via departementets nettsider.
Pre-announcement Nordforsk Call on Sustainable Development of the Arctic
NordForsk will open a call for proposals for research projects on Sustainable Development of the Arctic. The call has no thematic priorities, but three keywords can inspire the applicants when developing their research ideas into proposals: Security, Natural Resources and/or…
2024 Call for Proposals from the Peder Sather Center for Advanced Study at UC Berkeley. Application deadline April 1, 2024
The Peder Sather Center for Advanced Study supports projects carried out by researchers at UC Berkeley in collaboration with researchers from eight Norwegian universities. The Center offers grants between $10K and $25K. Funds are made available for two academic years.
Mon 11 Dec. Master’s presentation by Bjørnar F. van Ditshuizen
Development of Na+, K+ ATPase enzyme activity, and the effects of different transfer times and short-term starvation on gill, kidney, and intestine during smoltification and SW acclimation of Atlantic salmon When: 10.15-10.45 Where: Zoom – contact ingvil.sahr@uib.no for link
Wed 13 Dec. Master’s presentation by Sebastian Braathen
Vgll3 knockout as a means to delay male maturity during large smolt production of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) When: 10.15-10.45 Where: Seminar room K1/K2, Biologen, blokk A
Thu 14 Dec. PhD trial lecture, Lotta Landor
Single-cell methods in microbiology – Current state and remaining challenges When: 11.15-12.00 Where: Lille auditorium, Høyteknologisenteret
Fri 15 Dec. PhD defense, Ronja Göhde
Secretory vesicle protein homologues in choanoflagellates When: 10.15 – 13.00 Where: Lille auditorium, Høyteknologisenteret
Fri 15 Dec. PhD defense, Lotta Landor
At what cost? Attempting to quantify cost of resistance in bacterium-phage interactions When: 17.00-19.00 Where: Lille auditorium, Høyteknologisenteret
Welcome to the NOKUT-conference 2024: Kvalitet i klemme?
[Norwegian language] Hei, NOKUT inviterer til konferanse 8. februar 2024, og nå er påmeldingen i gang.
Winter School in “Quantitative Seascape Ecology of Marine Plankton” – Paris, 4-8 March 2024
Greetings from the Department – 1.12.2023
Dear all, At the time of writing, many of us are at a teachers’ meeting at Voss. The main themes are guidance and the way forward with the development of teaching quality after bioCEED is no longer an SFU. Both…
News article from bioCEED: Student Poster Symposium at BIO, Autumn 2023
5 courses at BIO held a joint poster symposium for their students on Tuesday 28 November. 150 students presented a total of 50 posters. Read more in bioCEED’s news story about the symposium. There you will also find a link…
HSE-meeting and Christmas gathering
Dear all Welcome to HSE-meeting and Christmas gathering. Here is the tentative agenda for the meeting. It will start at 12:00 with mingling and coffee at VilVite big auditorium. The Christmas gathering will take place at the cantina at HIB…
Nominate candiates for UiB’s working environment award
[Text and illustration are cut from På Høyden and translated by us] In its revised strategic plan “Knowledge that shapes society”, the University of Bergen has clear objectives for the development of the working environment. As part of this work,…
URGENT: Please help us spread information about SEAS Call 4 in relevant networks (application deadline: January 15th)
Dear SEAS fellows and others This will be the final SEAS call. If we don’t fill the three positions, we will not reach the goal of 37 SEAS fellows. We really need help to spread the information. Any relevant networks,…
Report from input meeting for Stortingsmelding on climate and natural diversity in Bergen 27.11.2023 – led by Andreas Bjelland Eriksen, Ministry of Climate and Environment
[Norwegian language] Regjeringen skal i løpet av 2024 legge fram en stortingsmelding om naturmangfold for å følge opp den nye internasjonale naturavtalen, og en stortingsmelding om klima for perioden fram mot 2035 på veien mot lavutslippssamfunnet i 2050. Inger Måren…
News from the Plastic Network: Taking the temperature on the research front within plastics and microplastics
[Our translation] With a total of 115 registered participants physically and digitally, the Plastics Network at UiB, in collaboration with the Norwegian Society for Toxicology and Pharmacology, the Norwegian Institute for Water Research and the Institute of Marine Research, invited…
PHOTOSYNTECH is looking for new members!
BIO is part of a research school started in the autumn of 2022. It is called PHOTOSYNTECH – Photosynthetic Eukaryotes: From Fundamentals to Applications in Biology, Bioproduction and Biotechnology. It is lead by Kirsten Krause at University of Tromsø, and…