At scientifyRESEARCH, we are on a mission to empower researchers with funding information and enable the best research funding decisions. In celebration of International Women’s Day, we are hosting this webinar to discuss empowering women in research. We will talk about what we know best – research funding. Judy Mielke, Founder of scientifyRESEARCH, will share information about research funding dedicated to women.

This year, we are honored to have two guest speakers who have dedicated their time and attention to empowering women in research via Higher Education Resource Services-East Africa (HERS-EA), an educational non-profit organization incorporated in 2014 in Uganda and hosted at Makerere University Gender Mainstreaming Directorate. An affiliate of HERS Denver, Colorado, USA, HERS-EA advances women in East Africa (Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda) using similar strategies to those of HERS. The goal of the HERS-EA is to raise the proportion of women in leadership and management positions especially in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in East Africa to at least 50%. During this webinar, you will learn about the research driven interventions they implement

Antibiotic resistance is an acute threat of global dimensions. In 2019, 1.3 million people are estimated to have died as a result of infections caused by resistant bacteria. Yet, no new class of antibiotics has reached healthcare in nearly four decades. Today, we have reached the point where new drugs alone are no longer sufficient and the problem is so complex that collaboration is absolutely necessary.

NorDoc Summer School 2023 will focus on how we can handle one of the greatest challenges of our time. We will meet in Uppsala and Stockholm, the intersection of Swedish life science, to learn from and about the many interdisciplinary initiatives that have their hub here, several with branches across the world. Register now.

https://www.medfarm.uu.se/admissions/research-schools/nordoc-en/

Senter for ernæring har gleden av å invitere til et nytt seminar i vår seminarrekke. Serien tar opp sentrale utfordringer innen ernæring og helse.

Tittel: Advanced methods to delineate complex microbial communities towards clinical application

Foreleser: Dr Alfonso Benítez-Páez, biolog og biokjemiker, the Principe Felipe Research Center in Valencia, Spaina
Moderatorer: Gülen Arslan Lied og Birgitte Berentsen
Tid: Torsdag 9. mars 2023 kl. 14.30-15.30
Sted: Aud. 4, BB-bygget

The cost-effective massive and parallel sequencing methods based on bacterial 16S rRNA gene amplicons have been crucial in uncovering the enormous diversity of microorganisms inhabiting the human body. They have been applied for years in hundreds of human cohorts to seek associations between microbiota and health states. Despite the broad application, these methods reached their full flourish years ago. Nowadays, they cannot describe the species present in complex microbial communities associated with human samples in a detailed manner. Consequently, it is necessary to implement a new generation of molecular methods and data analysis to fill the gap in establishing specific associations between species and disease conditions, reducing the ambiguity and uncertainty of such predicted links. We present a novel, cost-effective molecular method to discriminate species and strain level variation in human-associated microbial communities. The rigorous control of significant covariates recognized to impact the human microbiota is imperative to ascertain the biomarkers pursuit for clinical application accurately.

Dr Alfonso Benítez-Páez is a biologist and biochemist with a PhD in Molecular Biology from the University Autonomous of Madrid. He is the Principal Investigator of the Host-Microbe Interactions in Metabolic Health laboratory at the Principe Felipe Research Center in Valencia, Spain. Appointed Tenure Scientist for the Spanish National Research Council. His investigation is based on establishing interactions among diet, human microbiota and health and disease states. He has multidisciplinary expertise in microbiology, molecular biology, computational biology, and data analysis. Currently, he is part of the Editorial Boards of Frontiers in Nutrition, Frontiers in microbiology, and Microbiome journal.

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Velkommen!

Seminar/Webinar: Senter for forskning på hjertesykdom hos kvinner mandag 20.02.23 kl. 12:00-13:00. Rom 8.1 og 8.2 Laboratoriebygget.

Impact of gender on cardiovascular risk factors and blood pressure related heart disease 

Foredragsholder: Hjertespesialist PhD Ester Kringeland

Ester Kringeland er spesialist i indremedisin og hjertesykdommer og arbeider ved Hjerteavdelingen, Haukeland Universitetssykehus.

Ester Kringeland har medisinsk embetseksamen fra Universitetet i Bergen i 2008 og forsvarte sin PhD i 2022 om ‘Sex differences in blood pressure in midlife: associations with risk factors and acute coronary syndromes in the Hordaland Health Studies’.

Ester Kringeland har publisert 9 artikler om hypertensjon og hypertensiv hjertesykdom. Hennes forskning har fått stor mediaoppmerksomhet og priser, og hun ble i 2022 invitert som foredragsholder til ESC Preventive Cardiology kongressen. Hun er tilknyttet Senteret som hovedveileder for en masterstudent og biveileder for en PhD kandidat. Ester holdt en gnistrende prøveforelesning om kjønnsforskjeller i kardiovaskulære risikofaktorer og hypertensiv hjertesykdom i desember 2022, og vi er så heldige at hun har sagt seg villig til å presentere denne som et Senter-seminar.

Dersom du ønsker å delta digitalt på seminaret, så send e-mail til: hilde.jacobsen@uib.no for å få tilsendt Zoom lenken.

At studenter hjelper hverandre å lære er ikke nytt. Det som har skjedd de siste årene, er at rollen som undervisnings- eller læringsassistent har blitt mer verdsatt, også ved UiB. Engasjerte fagfolk fra det medisinske og det juridiske fakultet deler sine erfaringer.

23.02.2023 – 08.30–10.00

UiB læringslab, MCB, Lars Hilles gate 30

https://www.uib.no/l%C3%A6ringslab/160009/medstudenter-som-undervisere

Fokus for årets konferanse vil vera korleis pasientrapporterte data kan bidra til ei betre helseteneste. Programmet vil innehalda tema som korleis pasientrapporterte data kan nyttast i klinisk praksis, korleis dei kan endra klinisk praksis og korleis dei kan nyttast i helseøkonomiske analysar.

Årets hovedforelesar er Dr. Kate Absolom frå School of Medicine, University of Leeds, UK.

Konferansen er samordna med Digital helse-dager som vert arrangert av Alrek helseklynge, Helse Bergen og Høgskulen på Vestlandet 24.-25. mai 2023.

Vi gler oss til å sjå dykk i Bergen. Påmeldingsfrist 08. mai 2023. Lenke til påmelding. Konferansen er gratis.

https://www.kvalitetsregistre.no/artikkel/velkomen-til-prom-konferansen-23-mai-2023

Leger Uten Grenser is pleased to invite you to our Information Meeting event, that will take place on:

13 March 2023 in Vaskerelven 8, 5014 Bergen (Kulturhuset)

Leger Uten Grenser/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)is looking for both medical and non-medical professionals who can provide life-saving relief where the needs are the highest. The organization is doing an information meeting about fieldwork in Bergen, this March 13.

Please register through the online form below for the event. The event will be in person.

Registration here: https://forms.office.com/e/2N48V9Ypxw

For questions, please contact our office directly by email at the following address: rekruttering@oslo.msf.org

Info meeting in Bergen, 13^th March

You will meet our project finance manager and field worker, Kaja Sviland, who has been in assignments with MSF, sharing her experience and giving you insights on how it is to work in the field for MSF.

Date: 13.03.2023

• Time: 18.00 – 20.00
• Place: Vaskerelven 8, 5014 Bergen (Kulturhuset)
• Register: https://forms.office.com/e/2N48V9Ypxw – free entrance . Please invite any of your friends/colleagues that may be interested to join Leger Uten Grenser

About Leger Uten Grenser:

Leger Uten Grenser is a neutral and independent medical aid organization that saves lives and relieves needs. MSF provides health care in war and conflict zones, deploys rapidly on the ground after natural disasters, and provides healthcare to people on the run. We help those who need it the most – no matter who, no matter what, no matter why.

Useful Links:

https://www.facebook.com/pg/leger.uten.grenser/events/

Five years in, the GDPR has raised the bar for data protection significantly.  What role will new regulation, such as the EU’s DSA and DMA, play. Tobias Judin, who is head of the international department at the Norwegian Data Protection Authority, will hold a guest lecture.

GDPR enforcement in practice and the road ahead – guest lecture | Research Group for European Law | UiB
Zoom 13.02.2023 – 12.30–14.00

I 2023 er det 150 år siden oppdagelsen av Leprabasillen, det skal markeres med flere arrangementer i løpet av året og 28. februar inviterer vi til jubileumsmarkering i Universitetsaulaen.

Gerhard Henrik Armauer Hansens er «uten sammenlikning den mest berømte norske lege gjennom tidene» (Norsk biografisk leksikon). Den største bragden var oppdagelsen av leprabasillen, M.leprae, først observert 28. februar 1873.

Oppdagelsen representerte et medisinsk paradigmeskifte da den for første gang viste at en bakterie er årsak til kronisk sykdom. Den representerte også et epidemiologisk gjennombrudd med konsekvenser for forebyggende medisin og helselovgivning i Norge, og globalt.

28.02.2023 – 11.00–13.00
Universitetsaulaen i Bergen

Tax seminar
Sign up and join us for an online information meeting regarding paying tax in Norway.
This is useful if you are moving to Norway, shifting between Norway and other working countries, or working from abroad. We will have this seminar 2 Fridays per month, from 11.00 to 11.30. The next seminar will be on February 10th. In the registration form you can choose which date you want to sign up to. Read more here.

Mobility seminar
Are you planning a research stay outside of Norway? Join our mobility seminar 16th February to learn about practicalities and necessary steps of planning a research stay abroad. You can register here.

Visit to The Norwegian archive for Queer History
The “Skeivt arkiv” is the Norwegian national archive for queer and LGBTQ+ history. Their key mission is to collect, document and communicate Norwegian and Scandinavian queer history. We will have a guided visit on February 22nd from 14.00 to 15.00. You can register here.

Introduction course
This course is step 2 of our introductory seminars for new international employees. The course will take place on March 29th from 12.30 to 15.30, in Zoom. You can register here.
Please complete step 1 (short e-learning course) before attending.

Tax return seminar
Every year we host a tax seminar for international employees to assist with understanding and filling the tax report in Norway. The seminar is held in English by tax lawyers. It will take place around march/April, we will confirm the date later. You can sign up here.

For new employees
• When you receive your Norwegian ID number, remember to send it to post@lonnskontoret.uib.no.
This also applies when you receive your Norwegian bank account number.
• If you need to book an appointment with us, you can do it through our calendar.

Check your tax card
You can now check your tax card for 2023. If you do not make any changes, your tax deduction percentage will remain unchanged. You can contact the tax administration if you have questions regarding your tax card.
If you were on the PAYE scheme in 2022 and became a tax resident of Norway (you lived in Norway for 183 days), you will be transferred to the ordinary tax scheme this year.

If you have a temporary ID number (D-number) remember to apply for a new tax card this year. If you don’t apply for a tax card, you will get 50% taxes. Make sure you collect your annual statements for 2022 from UiB, bank, financial institutions, NAV or other applicable sources to check that your tax statement for 2022 is correct. You should receive these statements during the month of January or early February.

Event calendars
There are many interesting events, courses, and seminars at UiB throughout the semester. We suggest subscribing to the UiB main calendar and the International Centre calendar.