Det medisinske fakultetet inviterer til visning av BIFF-dokumentarfilmen “Jim Allison: Breakthrough” mandag 23. september kl. 14.30 i auditoriet i Armauer Hansens hus.
Det er gratis adgang.
Silje Michelsen Solberg will defend her PhD thesis on Thursday 20th June 2019
Trial lecture: Friday 27th September 2019 at 10.30.
Topic: “Psoriasis and comorbidity, what is the connection?”
Place: Auditorium 1, BB-building, Jonas Lies vei 91
Public defense: Friday 27th September 2019 at 12.30.
Title of dissertation: «Systemic inflammation in psoriasis: Circulating immune cells and cytokines»
Place: Auditorium 1, BB-building, Jonas Lies vei 91
1st opponent: Professor Charlotta Enerbäck, Linköpings universitet, Sverige
2nd opponent: Professor Lone Skov, Københavns universitet, Danmark
3rd member of the comittee: ProfessorEinar Klæboe Kristoffersen, Universitetet i Bergen
The defense will be led by professor Tor Hervig.
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 3 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 Hege F. Berg.
Dear all,
Please see below the updated links for external funding:
External funding opportunities: http://www.uib.no/en/med/112772/external-funding-opportunities
Funding opportunities for education: http://www.uib.no/med/113987/funding-opportunities-education
The webpages are updated every second week. New calls are marked as NEW.
Kind regards,
Amra, Ramune and Kaia
With the Helse Vest deadlines just around the corner, I would firstly like to wish anyone who is applying the best of luck with their respective applications. Also, please be aware of the possibility of applying for innovative projects through Helse Vest. Later this month we also have deadlines for SFI applications and with several researchers from K2 involved in these applications, Id like to wish applicants there the best of luck!
As institute leader Pål discussed recently when the Rector of UiB was visiting the medical faculty a number of weeks ago, external funds brought in by K2 researchers accounted for approximately 15% of the total external funding attracted to UiB in 2018. That is an incredible statistic for one institute, and demonstrates what can be achieved when state-of-the-art core facilities of the university and the innovative minds of our researchers combine with the clinical potential of Haukeland University Hospital (HUS). With tougher times ahead for UiB, resultant of dwindling funding from the government, the emphasis on attracting external funding, particularly from NFR and EU, will intensify. Resultantly, we need to continuously evolve our collaboration with HUS so that our research remains relevant, competitive and innovative. This will get us some of the way, but as always the devil is in the details – particularly budget details, as many of you with translational projects will have experienced. The challenge here will be to have greater flexibility and dynamism in how HUS and UiB interact, and that they can find a symbiotic and synergistic relationship to further nurture and not hinder this uniquely innovative research environment at campus Haukeland. Thus, I would urge our leaders both at the university and hospital to find workable solutions around these challenges for the betterment of the research environment and benefit of the faculty’s purse strings.
Finally, I would like to draw your attention to innovation week OPP (https://www.innovasjonsukenopp.no/om-opp/) that starts next Monday 16thof September. OPP is a celebration of innovators! The aim is to to inspire people to explore the possibilities within innovation through events all over our region, aiming to connect entrepreneurs, collaborators and investors. OPP is thus a great place if you have a good idea you want to discuss, if you want to learn more about specific topics or if you want to learn more about innovation.
We hope you all had a nice summer and want to remind you that it is now time to plan the remaining vacation for the fall and Christmas.
The deadline for registering holiday for 2019 in the HR portal is (as usual) 1 October. You can also transfer some days to the next calendar year by sending an application in the HR portal. The application has to state why you are unable to spend the holiday this year, and how you are planning to spend them in 2020.
Both the application for transfer and registration of holiday are done in the “Holiday” form in the HR portal. Information about vacation regulations can be found in the employee handbook.
Information on how to register vacation in the HR portal can be found here.
Also this year, K2 organizes the display of one of the year’s BIFF films. The movie is open and free for all.
This year, the choice fell on “Human Nature” by Adam Bolt. More about the movie here:
https://www.biff.no/filmer/article1404929.ece
Welcome to a BIFF movie experience at work and not least: spread the word 😊 Its open for all employees, students, HUS-employees and friends and family.
Hope to see many of you there.
Best regards Julie
Time and place: Large auditorium, Sentralblokken. Tuesday 17th September, 14.30.
We are planning to defrost and clean the freezer. However, there are still a few boxes left. Please remove these boxes by Thuesday September 17th. The remaining boxes will be transferred to the -20 storage room.
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More information here.
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 8 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 Hege F. Berg.
Dear all,
Please see below the updated links for external funding:
External funding opportunities: http://www.uib.no/en/med/112772/external-funding-opportunities
Funding opportunities for education: http://www.uib.no/med/113987/funding-opportunities-education
The webpages are updated every second week. New calls are marked as NEW.
Kind regards,
Amra, Ramune and Kaia
Autumn is often the time for the annual employee interviews. These are part of targeted management and employee development. Therefore, the annual, systematic and mutually prepared personal conversations between an employee and the immediate superior are.
The employee interviews should be linked to K2’s strategic plans and be a real and results-oriented management tool to achieve set goals. The conversation is also an important arena for clarifying expectations of performance, providing mutual feedback and insight into each other’s work situation and addressing the working environment and conditions at the workplace.
The conversation will also be used to uncover competence needs, change and development. Elements related to life phase can be addressed as a theme. The content of the employee interview should be focused on the relationship between the manager and the employee can do something about.
As a natural part of the performance appraisal and the expectation clarification, the contractual conversation about pay is included as part of the employee interview. It is important to remember, then, that we have established wage bargaining systems.
As head of the department, I am in principle responsible for all employees being offered annual employee interviews and am responsible for including the results of the discussions in the unit’s plans and budget. It is not possible to do this for all of K2’s 350 employees, so the conduct of the talks is delegated in such a way that I have employee interviews with the research group leaders while again being responsible for conducting the conversations with their group members. When it comes to administrative staff, Julie Stavnes is the head of administration.
It is important to communicate what you want to achieve in the employee interview and to facilitate the confidentiality needed for the conversation to have added value for both parties. This can be a gradual process that may take some time. To foreign employees, it is important to pay attention to their need to understand overall strategies and goals for the business, the importance of a good and inclusive work environment and the individual’s opportunities for contribution to the community. Relevant topics may also be their social networks, trust vis a vis the leader and colleagues, experience of belonging and in some cases facilitation and integration also outside the workplace.
Finally, I will remind you of the Faculty Lunch on Wednesday 11 September at 11.30-12.20. The Faculty management by Per Bakke and Marit Bakke will discuss the importance of external funding / BOA for the future of our university.
Also this year, K2 organizes the display of one of the year’s BIFF films. The movie is open and free for all.
This year, the choice fell on “Human Nature” by Adam Bolt. More about the movie here:
https://www.biff.no/filmer/article1404929.ece
Welcome to a BIFF movie experience at work and not least: spread the word 😊 Its open for all employees, students, HUS-employees and friends and family.
Hope to see many of you there.
Best regards Julie
Time and place: Large auditorium, Sentralblokken. Tuesday 17th September, 14.30.
We are planning to defrost an clean the freezer. However, there are still a few boxes left. Please remove these boxes by this Wedensday.