Daily Archives: Friday May 13th, 2022

Improve Your Academic Writing and Presentation skills in English

Mastering academic English is as important as mastering your discipline itself. This is a Course for PhD candidates and Postdoctoral fellows who want to improve their academic writing and presentation skills in English. We will group participants from the faculties according to the list below as far as possible.

More information here

Joint MRCRM-TOR seminar on May 19

Mohn Research Centre for Regenerative Medicine (MRCRM) and Center of Translational Oral Research (TOR) at IKO-UiB welcome you to our upcoming joint seminar on May 19, 2022.

How close are we to biofabricated steak meat?

Please note the forthcoming (digital) speaker Prof. Shoji Takeuchi, a world-leading researcher in biofabrication and biohybrid systems.

He will update us on his latest developments on realizing steak meat with its original texture in his talk entitled “From lab to fork: 3D tissue engineering for meat production”.

Time: May 19, 11:30-12:30 CET
Venue: Auditorium Armauer Hansens hus (AHH) or digital at Teams.
Link to the abstract: “From lab to fork: 3D tissue engineering for meat production”.

Coffee, tea and light refreshments will be served outside the auditorium (no registration required).

New publications from K2 colleagues

Najafian B, Silvestroni A, Sokolovskiy A, et al. A novel unbiased method reveals progressive podocyte globotriaosylceramide accumulation and loss with age in females with Fabry disease. Kidney Int. Published online April 26, 2022:S0085-2538(22)00341-6.

Strand K, Stiglund N, Haugstøyl ME, et al. Subtype-specific surface proteins on adipose tissue macrophages and their association to obesity-induced insulin resistance. Front Endocrinol (Lausanne). 2022;13:856530.

Have you recently published a paper? Send it to me, and I will include it in the next newsletter.