Researcher Grand Prix is the Norwegian championship in research dissemination. As a participant, you get a fabulous opportunity to learn more about how to reach your message to a large audience. In addition, if you take your doctorate at UiB, you will receive dissemination points to participate.

We provide you with individual coaching where you will learn more about storytelling, presentation techniques, voice usage, chronicle writing, media management and creative thinking. You also get access to a large network in other professional environments.

Do not miss this great opportunity to improve your dissemination skills.

Read more about the UiB participants’ experience here

More information and application form can be found here

Ph.d.-supervisors are invited to supervisor-lunch at the Faculty of Medicine. The seminar will be held April 24th, 2018 at 11.30-1pm in the Steering Room in Armauer Hansen’s House (Haukelandsveien 28).

Agenda:
1. Alternative career paths after graduation by Steiner Kvinnsland
2. Vancouver rules for co-authorship by Roland Jonsson
3. Predatory journals – still new names on the list by Roland Jonsson

The seminar is free for mentors at MED and it can accommodate 30 people. Lunch is also included 🙂

Sign up here

Gades Legat announces funds for use in research in pathology, microbiology and immunology. Anyone who is professionally affiliated with the research community at UiB or Haukeland University Hospital within pathology, immunology or microbiology can apply for funding. The application must be concise and contain:

• Name of applicant and workplace
• Name and short description of the project that is applied funding for
• Budget
• The application must not exceed 2 pages in total

The Legate wishes to collect funds to fewer projects with greater allocation for each project. Support for multiannual projects can be considered. Support for travel where you do not present your own research will not be given priority.
Application deadline is Wednesday, April 27, 2018

Application will be sent electronically to Gades Legat by secretary Håvard Hoel Aass

Gades Legat announces funds for use in research in pathology, microbiology and immunology. Anyone who is professionally affiliated with the research community at UiB or Haukeland University Hospital within pathology, immunology or microbiology can apply for funding. The application must be concise and contain:
• Name of applicant and workplace
• Name and short description of the project that is applied funding for
• Budget
• The application must not exceed 2 pages in total
The Legate wishes to collect funds to fewer projects with greater allocation for each project. Support for multiannual projects can be considered. Support for travel where you do not present your own research will not be given priority.
Application deadline is Wednesday, April 27, 2018

Application will be sent electronically to Gades Legat by secretary Håvard Hoel Aass.

It’s time to start planning your leftover holidays.
The Faculty of Medicine has set the following deadlines for application for holidays for 2018:

Application for leftover holidays should be sent in PAGA no later than 01.10.2018.

Information about holidays and how to register holidays can be found here:
http://pagaweb.b.uib.no/english/5-vacation/

If you have any questions regarding Holidays and registering please contact Personnel Consultant:

Elin Myhrvold – Email: Elin.Myhrvold@uib.no Phone: 55972954

Once a year, the faculty has contacted the institutes’ scientific staff and asked for proposals for assignment work for the medical students. When we address us now, we are asking for suggestions for THESIS, which is part of the academic pillar in a new study plan from 2015. At the same time, we will inform you about the role of the supervisor and the framework for work with the main assignment.

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Invited talk by Prof. C. Ronald Kahn, Harvard Medical School.

One of the world’s—if not the world’s—leader in insulin signaling.

Date: Wednesday April 18^th
Time: 09:00
Place: Auditorium @ Armauer Hansens hus, Haukeland University Hospital

A recent study from Prof. Kahn has identified viruses that can produce insulin-like hormones that are active on human cells. This novel discovery brings new possibilities for revealing biological mechanisms that may cause diabetes, as well as autoimmune disease, metabolic conditions or cancer.

Viruses known to infect fish and amphibians, could possibly expose humans to viral insulins. Prof. Kahn and his colleagues at Joslin have found that various viruses can produce peptides that are similar in whole or in part to 16 human hormones and regulatory proteins. Four viruses interestingly have insulin-like sequences, and show ability to bind to and stimulate human insulin receptors and receptors for a closely related hormone called IGF-1 (insulin-like growth factor 1). The viral peptides could this way potentially stimulate all signaling pathways inside the cells that are stimulated by human insulin and IGF-1, including glucose uptake and cellular Growth.

by Andreas Radbruch Prof. Dr. rer. nat.

“Pathogenic memory plasma cells – a roadblock to tolerance induction in chronic inflammatory diseases”

Tuesday, May 15^th, at 13:00 – 14:00
Auditorium AHH

Andreas Radbruch is an immunologist and scientific director at the German Rheumatism Research Centre Berlin as well as professor for rheumatology at the Medical faculty of the Humboldt University of Berlin (Charité), Germany. His research focus is on the topics of autoimmunity, inflammation and immune pathology, biology of T and B lymphocytes and plasma cells, and development of molecular imprinting of immunological memory as well as cytometry and cell sorting. In particular, his work aims at a molecular understanding of the control of immune reactions and immunological memory in vaccination, and autoimmune and allergic inflammation.

Arranged by The Research Group Immunology and Rheumatology, NSI Bergen and The Bergen Research School in Inflammation.