Scott Lieberman, MD, PhD
Division of Rheumatology, Carver College of Medicine,
University of Iowa, IA, USA

Title: “Sjögren’s syndrome in children and mice”

Peter Gergely, MD, PhD
Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research,
Basel Switzerland

Title:  “Anti-CD40 therapy in immune-mediated diseases”

Time: Thursday, June 6^th, at 14:15 – ca.16:00
Place: Birkhaugsalen, HUS

Som hvert år skal vi markere Immunologiens dag. De som har savnet markeringen 29.4. skal ikke skuffes. Selv om vi er litt forsinket, så blir det et populærvitenskapelig seminar 29. mai kl. 11:15-13:00 med overskriften “Kreft – checkpoint inhibitorer”. Møtet er åpent og tilpasset alle interesserte.

Program her.

We would like to draw your attention to our upcoming Spetses Summer School on Epigenomics, Nuclear Receptors and Disease (FEBS Advanced Lecture Course ALC19-046) at Spetses Island/Greece from August 25 – 30, 2019.

Unlike ordinary larger meetings, the summer school is highly interactive and allows the participants to actually meet and discuss with all lectures for full four days during and beyond the many different program activities.

For information and application see our website.

The deadline for applications is May 6. 

The seminar is a Cell biology seminar.

Also Josefine Jaxby from Corning will be at Seminar if you have questions about Corning products.

Hopefully you can send it forward to people that might be interested in this Seminar at your department.

Speaker: Marina Wiklander, PhD
Date: 08.05.2019
Time: 08:30 – 12.00

Location: Thormøhlensgt 55 (N-terminalen, romnr. 520B1), 5.etg., Bioblokken 

1. Cell Identity and Authentication: What’s in your flask?
   Cell line misidentification is one of the greatest threats to the validity of research in the 21st century. With cell culture key to most life science research it is vitally important that any practitioner of cell culture is aware of the magnitude of the problem and be able to employ resources and strategies to ensure valid results.

2. Trouble Shooting in Cell Culture
   Overview of the global cell culture process, where and why problems could be encountered (poor growth and viability, low adherence, mycoplasma detection, phenotypic drift). A chance for customers to “share their problems”.

3. Moving from 2D to 3D cell culture?: 3D Neural Stem Cell Models of Alzheimer’s Disease
   Introduction of 3D cell culture technologies provided us with improved model for cellular research for drug discovery and other medical applications. Combination of 3D cell technology with stem cell research helped us to establish a relevant disease model in order to understand the pathology of the dementia and also improve the development of drugs.Based on publication by Kim et. al who created a three-dimensional (3D) human neural stem cell model of Alzheimer’s disease, we would like to introduce this model as a valuable tool to study age-related Alzheimer’s dementia as well as other neurodegenerative disorders.

We have now posted the final scientific programs of CCBIO’s two international symposia in May 2019 at the Solstrand SPA hotel, on the event websites. Also note that registration deadline is extended to April 24th, as we can still make room for some more participants. If you have not registered yet: Please do not wait till the last minute as the list is rapidly filling.

-The 7th CCBIO Annual Symposium, May 13th-14th REGISTRATION

-The CCBIO 2nd Satellite Symposium, on Deep Tissue Profiling, May 12th REGISTRATION

7th CCBIO Annual Symposium May 13th-14th

The 2018 symposium was a success with more than 200 participants and we expect the 2019 symposium to be at least as good. We have secured a range of international and national speakers and some of the highlights will be the talks by Bob Löwenberg, William Foulkes,  Jonathan Irish, Marta Bertolaso, and many other distinguished speakers. The last day will end on a high note with a lecture by Omid Farokhzad. This keynote address is part of the distinguished Volterra lectures series organized by our partner Digital Life Norway (DLN).

We will have two extended poster sessions where younger researchers can present their work (poster abstract deadline now April 17th), and ample time for interaction between the participants. The symposium is open for all, so please feel free to circulate this invitation.

The heavily subsidized registration fee is 2500 NOK/260 Euro per person. For the program, registration and the practical information sheet (obligatory reading before asking questions), please consult the links below:

Registration, within April 24th 2019.

Symposium website with final program.

Practical information

Satellite Symposium on Deep Tissue Profiling May 12th

The Satellite Symposium on Deep Tissue Profiling is initiated with lunch at 12.00 before the scientific program starts at 13.00.

The satellite symposium will consist of talks focusing on the opportunities inherent to new technology, in particular the Hyperion Imaging System, both in terms of technology and in use of this technology for research purposes. Speakers include e.g. Jonathan Irish, Kurt Schalper, Teijo Pellinen and other distinguished experts.

The subsidized registration fee is 500 for the meeting incl. lunch and 1500 if you want to attend dinner and stay overnight at Solstrand. We have a total of 70 rooms available.

Registration, within April 24th 2019.

Satellite Symposium website with final program.

Practical information: See the info sheet for the CCBIO Symposium

NSD inviterer til RDA-seminar om datahåndtering og personvern i forskning. Målgruppen er forskere og ph.d.-studenter. Seminaret er gratis.

Få en innføring i hvordan du kan strukturere forskningsprosjektet ditt best mulig – slik at du får gjort det du planlegger, samtidig som dataene blir bevart for senere bruk.

*   Dato: tirsdag 2. april 2019
*   Tid: 11.00–15.30
*   Sted: NSD sine lokaler i Bergen (Harald Hårfagres gate 29)
*   Påmelding: Her kan du melde deg på kurset

Seminaret gir deg innføring i:

*   hvordan du kan organisere prosjektet ditt best mulig
*   sikker innsamling og deling av data underveis i prosjektet
*   personvernlovgiving (GDPR) og konsekvenser for forskning
*   datahåndteringsplaner og NSDs verktøy for datahåndtering
*   arkivering av datamaterialet for senere gjenbruk av deg selv eller andre

Mer informasjon finner du her.

We are delighted to invite you to the upcoming CCBIO Junior Scientist Symposium April 4, at the Conference room 109F, BB-building (opposite the auditoria). Professor Charalampos (Haris) Tzoulis will give an inspirational keynote lecture where he will share some milestones on his way to establish his own research group. Furthermore, he will present ongoing research in the Neuromics Lab. In addition, CCBIO PhD students and postdocs will present their work on topics including biomarkers in colon cancer (Hestetun, Aasebø), transcriptomic characterization of kidney cancer (Nakken), targeting sphingolipid pathway in breast cancer (Panahandeh) and regeneration of beta-cells in diabetes (Vethe).

Please sign up for the symposium including free lunch.

The symposium is open for all and free of charge – including lunch – just remember to register!

WHEN: April 4th at 10.00-13.30
WHERE: Conference room 109F, BB-building (opposite the auditoria)
REGISTRATION: please use this link within April 2nd
PROGRAM: you can find the program on this web site
WHO: This is an arena where PhD candidates and postdocs gain experience with oral presentations and academic discussions, and in addition we are happy to welcome other interested students, researchers, staff and visitors.

We have now posted the final scientific programs of CCBIO’s two international symposia in May 2019 at the Solstrand SPA hotel, on the event websites. Also note that registration deadline is extended to April 24th, as we can still make room for some more participants. If you have not registered yet: Please do not wait till the last minute as the list is rapidly filling.

-The 7th CCBIO Annual Symposium, May 13th-14th REGISTRATION

-The CCBIO 2nd Satellite Symposium, on Deep Tissue Profiling, May 12th REGISTRATION

7th CCBIO Annual Symposium May 13th-14th

The 2018 symposium was a success with more than 200 participants and we expect the 2019 symposium to be at least as good. We have secured a range of international and national speakers and some of the highlights will be the talks by Bob Löwenberg, William Foulkes,  Jonathan Irish, Marta Bertolaso, and many other distinguished speakers. The last day will end on a high note with a lecture by Omid Farokhzad. This keynote address is part of the distinguished Volterra lectures series organized by our partner Digital Life Norway (DLN).

We will have two extended poster sessions where younger researchers can present their work (poster abstract deadline now April 17th), and ample time for interaction between the participants. The symposium is open for all, so please feel free to circulate this invitation.

The heavily subsidized registration fee is 2500 NOK/260 Euro per person. For the program, registration and the practical information sheet (obligatory reading before asking questions), please consult the links below:

Registration, within April 24th 2019.

Symposium website with final program.

Practical information

Satellite Symposium on Deep Tissue Profiling May 12th

The Satellite Symposium on Deep Tissue Profiling is initiated with lunch at 12.00 before the scientific program starts at 13.00.

The satellite symposium will consist of talks focusing on the opportunities inherent to new technology, in particular the Hyperion Imaging System, both in terms of technology and in use of this technology for research purposes. Speakers include e.g. Jonathan Irish, Kurt Schalper, Teijo Pellinen and other distinguished experts.

The subsidized registration fee is 500 for the meeting incl. lunch and 1500 if you want to attend dinner and stay overnight at Solstrand. We have a total of 70 rooms available.

Registration, within April 24th 2019.

Satellite Symposium website with final program.

Practical information: See the info sheet for the CCBIO Symposium

Felles undervisningsdag for K1 og K2 arrangeres den 7. mai i Bikuben.

Påmelding her.

Program kommer senere.

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

Tid: Onsdag 20. mars kl. 13.30-15.30

Sted: Auditorium 4, BB-bygget, Jonas Lies vei

Dietary assessment: Challenges and future directions & Biomarkers for dietary intake
Speakers: Dr. Sharon Kirkpatrick and professor Jutta Dierkes

Dietary assessment: Challenges and future directions
In nutritional research, we depend on self-reported dietary data to be able to study associations between diet and health. These data have many limitations, and it is challenging to gather precise dietary data. Several investigators even clams that self-reported data is so unreliable that it cannot be used in research. But is it really the case?

Dr. Sharon Kirkpatrick leads a public health nutrition research program based at the School of Public Health and Health Systems at the University of Waterloo in Canada. Her research primarily focuses on understanding dietary patterns in populations and influences on these patterns, using a systems thinking lens to consider the array of factors at play. Dr. Kirkpatrick also has longstanding interests in food access among marginalized populations. She was named a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics in 2017 and 2018, and has received merit awards from the National Institutes of Health and the University of Waterloo.

Biomarkers for dietary intake
Biomarkers for dietary intake could be a tool for limiting misclassification in nutrition research where self-reported dietary intake data are used, thus biomarkers are extensively used in research today. But are they reliable?

Jutta Dierkes is professor in Clinical Nutrition at the Department of Clinical Medicine at the University of Bergen. She is the chairman of the board of the Mohn Nutrition Research Lab, and also the chariman of the program committee for nutrition at the Faculty of Medicine.

Moderator: Hanne Rosendahl-Riise

Det blir lett servering.

Velkommen!

Date and time: 15th of March 2019 09:30-14:00.

The seminar is open for everyone; no registration or registration fee.

Venue: Auditorium BUS1 (room 1106), Barne- og ungdomsjukehuset, Haukeland University Hospital, Haukelandsbakken 15, 5009 Bergen

Chair: Randi J Bertelsen, UiB

Programme
09:30 ANCOM and other biostatistical methods for analyzing microbiome data (35+5) Professor Shyamal Peddada (University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA, USA)
10:10 From operational taxonomic units to amplicon sequence variants: experiences with new methods for clustering 16S rRNA amplicon sequences (35+5) Assistant professor Ian Marshall (Aarhus University, Aarhus, DK)
10:50 Reduced metagenome sequencing for strain resolution analyses of the human gut microbiota (20+5) Professor Knut Rudi (Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Oslo, NO)
11:15 Functional analysis and Ig-sequencing to identify disease-associated bacteria (35+5) Professor Susanne Brix (Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, DK)
12:00 – 12:45 Break 12:45 Challenges with analyzing low-biomass airway microbiota samples (20+5) Associate professor Rune Nielsen (UiB/HUS, Bergen, NO)
13:10 Infants under double attack; interaction between toxicants and the gut microbiome (20+5) Senior researcher (PhD, MD) Merete Eggesbø (Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, NO)
13:35 And Last but not Least – the Yeast (20+5) PhD-fellow (MD) Kasper Schei (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, NO)

This seminar is part of a project (Acronym: BRuSH) that has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’sHorizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 804199 BRuSH, awarded Randi J Bertelsen (Department of clinical science, University of Bergen, Norway).

Det vil bli holdt utreiseseminar for ansatte som skal på forskningsopphold i utland.

Seminaret holdes av internasjonalt senter.

Se lenke for program og påmelding.

We are happy to invite to no less than two CCBIO Seminars Thursday February 21st, organized as part of the CCBIO/Harvard INTPART partnership. This gives us a unique opportunity to learn from the experiences of our Harvard colleagues. The seminars are open for all, including waffles and coffeebefore the first seminar, and informal pizza get togetherfollowing the afternoon seminar.

This time we are visited by Magali Saint-Geniezfrom Harvard Medical School and Schepens Eye Research Institute of Massachusetts, and Diane Bielenbergfrom the Vascular Biology Program, Boston Children’s Hospital, Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School.

11.00-12.00  Magali Saint-Geniez: “Shining Light on the Metabolic Control of Retinal Diseases”. See abstract and bio in this link.

14.30-15.30  Diane Bielenberg: “Targeting Neuropilin Pathways to Inhibit Metastasis”. See abstract and bio in this link.

Where: Both will be in auditorium 4, BB-building, Jonas Lies vei 91, Bergen

No registration is required.

Sit in on other lectures:
Professors Saint-Geniez and Bielenberg are here in connection with the course in Cancer-Related Vascular Biology February 18-22, and for those who are interested, it is possible to sit in on other of their lectures the 18^thand 19^thwithout being enrolled to the course. You can see their lectures in this link. If you wish to sit in, please contact coordinator Elisabeth.wik@uib.no(limited seats).

Of general interest, we can particularly recommend the lecture at 14.00-15.00 Tuesday Feb. 19th, titled: “The “Science” of Branding; the value of a core message“. This aims to provide valuable and readily implementable tools to increase individual (students, researchers, PIs) marketability through personal branding, and highlight unique and special features that would particularly appeal to a potential recruiter or collaborator. Regarding the other lectures, professor Saint-Geniez’ lectures will be of particular interest to our ophthalmology environment, and Professor Bielenberg’s lectures will be of interest to all cancer researchers.

Dear all,

We are delighted to invite you to the upcoming CCBIO Jr Scientist Symposium, February 14^th. Professor Inge Jonassen will give an inspirational lecture where he will present his educational path from a young aspiring student to professor and the senior position he now holds. Further, we will hear about professor Jonassen’s ongoing research and the new center for data science CEDAS at the University of Bergen. As increasingly more research involves bioinformatics and handling of big data, this lecture should be relevant for most PhD students and postdoctoral fellows.

In addition, local PhD students and Post-docs will present their research on topics including ethics in medicine (Tranvåg), mechanisms of AXL signaling (D’mello Peters, Hellesøy) and the importance of stromal cells in cancer (Dongre, Kjølle).

Time: Thursday February 14th 2019 at 10.00-14.00.

Where: Conference room 109F, BB-building (opposite the auditoria)

Registration link: https://skjemaker.app.uib.no/view.php?id=6108062 within Feb. 12th

Here for more information and program.

Kind regards,
Kenneth Finne and Liv Cecilie Thomsen

The Husebye group invites you all to a small mini symposium in Immunology.

When?  7. February at 14-16
Where? Meeting-room 9.1/9.2 in the Lab building, Haukeland

We present:

• Michail Lionakis, M.D., Sc.D. , Chief, Fungal Pathogenesis Section, NIH, USA:
  Of Mice and Humans: Fundamental Mechanisms of Tissue-specific Antifungal Immunity
• Professor Trine Mogensen, M.D., PhD, Dep. of Clinical Medicine/Dep. of Infectious Diseases, Aarhus University, Denmark
  Primary immunodeficiencies in innate immunity in viral CNS infections

CCBIO and the Bergen Flow Cytometry Core Facility are happy to introduce the newly installed and operative Hyperion Imaging System to our research community in an opening symposium February 6th which will focus on:

• The research possibilities offered by the Hyperion Imaging System
• Groundbreaking research in a high level keynote lecture
• The practical procedures regarding access to the facility and use of the machinery
• Delicious tapas

This is next generation immunohistochemistry: explore tissue biology with 30 antibodies simultaneously! 

Time: Wednesday February 6th at 13:00
Place: Auditorium 2, BB-building
Who: Everybody; researchers and technicians, PhD fellows and postdocs, guests, students and administrative staff.
Registration (free): https://skjemaker.app.uib.no/view.php?id=6031041
Chairperson: Sonia Gavasso

Program:
13.00 Introduction
13.15 The Core Facility Concept & Procedures for Access
13.30 The Hyperion Imaging System: Leigh-Anne McDuffus, Fluidigm Corporation
14.15 Keynote lecture: Dr. Dario Bressan, University of Cambridge
15.15 Mingling session with tapas

More information on the opening symposium is available here.

More information on the Helios Imaging System.

To make sure we order enough tapas, we prefer if you register as soon as possible and within January 31st.

Vi har gleden av å invitere til K2-konferansen 2019 på Solstrand.

Det blir lunsj-til-lunsj seminar fra torsdag 28. mars til fredag 29. mars, med middag på kvelden og overnatting.

Påmelding er like rundt hjørnet, og den går ut til alle ansatte ved K2.

Det kan søkes om posisjoneringsmidler til følgende 3 kategorier:

1. Posisjoneringsmidler til forskere som posisjonerer seg mot en fremtidig H2020 søknad.
2. Fagstrategiske tiltak på fakultetsnivå:

• Deltakelse i europeiske fagstrategiske nettverk og fora
• Tverrfaglige arrangement i Bergen, med deltakelse fra Kommisjonen eller andre relevante EU-organisasjoner
• Studiereiser og delegasjonsreiser til Brussel

3. Kompetansehevende tiltak for forskere og det administrative støtteapparatet ved fakultetene.

Søknadene rangeres og sendes til fakultetet i ePhorte innen mandag 11.februar.

Irene Hjelmaas kan bistå med å registerer saken i ePhorte.

Publishing & Patenting – from research to impact

When:   Monday January 28^th2019, 12:30 -18:30
Where:  Bikuben, Haukeland University Hospital

Moderators:
Session 1 – Marion Solheim (UoB)
Session 2 – Yves Aubert (UoB)
Please feel free to raise questions and comments upon registration or during the seminar (www.sli.do, event code will be provided at the seminar).

Free participation, food and beverages will be served.

Seminar program here.

Due to serving and limited seats, please register early here, and confirm your e-mail address as requested.

This seminar is initiated by the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Bergen (UoB), and supported by UoB, Haukeland University Hospital (HUH), Bergen Teknologioverføring AS (BTO), Biomedical Network and Digital life Norway.

Nordic Neuroscience started as a bi-annual joint meeting of neuroscientists from Nordic countries with the first meeting held in Trondheim, Norway in 2015 and the second meeting in Stockholm, Sweden in 2017.

The 3rd Nordic Neuroscience Meeting (NN2019) gives you the opportunity to attend excellent plenary lectures and symposia, have prolific discussion, meet and talk with experts from the same field of research. We welcome both scientists and organisations to present their work and products in poster sessions and the exhibition.

Registration to the meeting is now open here.

The NN2019 program includes five plenary lectures:

• Trevor Robbins, University of Cambridge, UK
• Andreas Lüthi, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
• Gonçalo Castelo-Branco, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
• Carmen Sandi, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
• Laura L. Colgin, University of Texas, Austin, USA

The NN2019 program includes eight symposia:

• Cluster headache and migraine genetics and new insights
• Synapse/network mechanisms behind developmentally originating neuropsychiatric disorders
• From neural populations to behavior
• Human iPSC modeling of neurogenerative and neuropsychiatric diseases
• New roles of glia during CNS development and disease
• TrkB receptor interactors in brain plasticity and disease
• Neuronal network and plasticity in the midbrain
• Imaging of working memory and attention in rodents, nonhuman primates and humans

The Nordic meeting is organised jointly by:

• Brain Research Society of Finland
• Nordic Neuroscience Special Interest Group of the Scandinavian Physiological Society
• University of Helsinki

On behalf of the Organising Committee,

Dan Lindholm, Professor, University of Helsinki, Brain Research Society of Finland
Tomi Taira, Professor, University of Helsinki, Scandinavian Physiological Society

More information and program here.