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Monthly Archives: October 2017
HSE corner: On the safe side
The University of Bergen has implemented “sikresiden” (På den sikre siden, On the safe side) from 2nd of October. The mobile friendly website proves training in security matters and information on how to act in situations of emergency and crisis. More information can be found here.
Johnny Ludvigsson Childhood Diabetes Fund Prize to Pål Njølstad
The Swedish Childhood Diabetes Foundation (Barndiabetesfonden) annually distributes Johnny Ludvigsson Prizes – one for prominent childhood diabetes research in the Nordic region, and the other for younger childhood diabetes researchers in Sweden.
The Johnny Ludvigsson Childhood Diabetes Fund Prize for Prominent Childhood Diabetes Research in the Nordic Region is awarded the Norwegian researcher Pål Njølstad, Professor at the University of Bergen and Haukeland University Hospital. K2 congratulates!
In the grounds of this award, the Childhood Diabetes Foundation’s prize committee mention Professor Njølstad’s breakthrough in clinical practice for children with a mutation in KCNJ11, and his major international influence on the development of personalized treatment of unusual forms of diabetes.
Read more here. (Link in Swedish.)
K2 arranges a film show
K2 organizes an open event showing the movie Moldovan Miracle, which was also part of the program during the Bergen International Film Festival.
Time: Thursday 26 October at. 15:00.
Venue: Auditorium 1 in the BB building.
The movie show is free.
The Postgraduate School of Medical Research’s Network Luncheon
Dear all,
The Postgradute School of Clinical Medicine is preparing a new Network Luncheon for all PhD fellows and researchers at K1 and K2 departments.
The upcoming Network Luncheon will take place Tuesday 24 October, in the Konferanserom of BBB (in front of auditoriums 2 and 4), from 11:30 to 13:00.
Take a break from your daily lab-routine and enjoy a free lunch, socialize and hear talks from fellow PhD students, and on top of all that, earn one ECTS point!
Feel free to contact me with any questions you may have!
Looking forward,
Flow Cytometry | Seminar 2 November | Imaging Mass Cytometry
The Flow Cytometry core facility invites to a seminar about Imaging Mass Cytoemtry. Fluidigm and AH Diagnostics are coming to visit and will tell us about their new imaging module.
Imaging Mass Cytoemtry enables analysis of more than 40 parameters in tissue sections, freeze sections, formalin fix parafine embedded sections and cell smears, using metal labeled antibodies and routine immunohistochemical methods.
Time: Thursday 2 November, at. 13–14.
Venue: Auditorium B301, Sentralblokken, Haukeland University Hospital.
Deadline for registration: 26 October.
Read more here.
H. M. King Olav Vs Cancer Research Award 2018
The Norwegian Cancer Society invites to the nomination of candidates for the H. M. King Olav Vs Cancer Research Award 2018.
H. M. King Olav Vs Cancer Research Award of NOK 1 000 000 is awarded annually to a cancer researcher or research group that has helped to promote the quality and scope of Norwegian cancer research. H.M. King Harald awards the prize in a celebratory selection in the Old Hall of Fame, University of Oslo.
The prize has a high prestige in the Norwegian cancer research community and goes to the very best in the whole range of Norwegian cancer research. The prize will go to research groups or researchers who are still active and contribute in cancer research today.
To honor the researchers’ efforts, the Cancer Society wishes to invite Norwegian institutions to promote proposals for candidates for the H. M. King Olav Vs Cancer Research Award 2018. As more and more groundbreaking research is carried out by research communities, special attention is given to nomination of research groups.
Nominations should be sent by email to Lars Klæboe.
Deadline for nomination: 15 November 2017.
Deadlines
Here, you find this week’s deadlines.
New publications
Here are recent publications with contributions from K2 based on last week’s search on PubMed (and optionally articles that have not been included in previous lists). This time the list includes in total 15 recent publications. The entries appear in the order they were received from NCBI. If you have publications that are not included in this or previous lists, please send the references to Johnny Laupsa-Borge.
PhD Comics
”The Invisible”
To follow-up the literary references: the title is from a play by Ludvig Holberg. This was also the title winning the Holberg high-school competition some years ago, a project dealing with fraud.
At the last meeting in the committee of extended research management, research fraud was pointed at as one focus area. We should strive to be attentive to this ethical aspect when planning, conducting and presenting our research.
Forging results we all acknowledge as fraud, but there are several more subtle areas where our ethical consciousness might be stretched to benefit ourselves. What about the tendency of selective citation of references; those supporting our own hypothesis are preferred to those disagreeing. Selective publishing is another; it is somehow more convenient to publish positive (meaning: statistical significant) results than those without differences. And what if the interesting (and significant) results from the former study of the newest promising biomarker could not be validated in the following study? We do however have a moral responsibility to publicly present our conducted research, both for the sake of those providing research funding and participating patients contributing with biologic samples/clinical data, as well as to not introduce new treatment algorithms prematurely. “The Invisible” (meaning unpublished) studies may in effect be one form of fraud.
And do we follow the Vancouver treaty? Holding the title as research group leader or head of clinical department, is that equivalent to actually plan, conduct, analyse and write every paper from the group/department? Or should some of these stated as authors in reality be the Invisible?
I would like to remind you all of the OSCE exam 8th of November; those not already having stated who will contribute: please do so to Ketil Grong (he is in need of more qualified helpers).
The Day of the Institute (K2) will be hosted the 29th of November. We do hope our new Head of Institute will be formally appointed at that time, and will actively contribute by presenting the upcoming visions for our Department of Clinical Science.
Jone
HSE corner: Fire protection training in the autumn of 2017
All staff at UiB shall have completed fire protection training, both theory and practice, which is enacted in the Fire Act and the HSE Regulations.
A course runs over two hours – divided into one hour theory and one hour practical fire extinguishing.
There is a total enrolment from the department, and interested should contact Marius Alvheim in the expedition.
Read more about the fire protection training here. (Link in Norwegian.)
Best regards,
Julie
Registering final holidays
The deadline for registering final holidays was 1 October. However, there are still many who have not done this.
Anyone with remaining holidays must register in requested holidays as soon as possible and no later than 20 October!
If you do not register application for holidays, the employer can decide when the holidays should be taken, pursuant to section 6 of the Holidays Act.
If you have any questions regarding holidays and registration, please see the pagablog.
Or contact HR consultant Kristine Kleppan Blikra.