The program for the HSE day is ready.
It will be an exciting day with a varied and eventful program.
Time and place: November 5th, at 8:30 at the Scandic Hotel Ørnen
Binding registration by Monday October 23
Welcome!
The program for the HSE day is ready.
It will be an exciting day with a varied and eventful program.
Time and place: November 5th, at 8:30 at the Scandic Hotel Ørnen
Binding registration by Monday October 23
Welcome!
Speaker: Assoc. Professor Yousef Najajreh, Al-Quds University, East Jerusalem
Title: Design, Synthesis, and Biological Evaluation of Pyrimidine and Pyrazine. Derivatives for Modulation of Kinase Activity
Host: Professor Bjørn Tore Gjertsen, K2
Place: BBB, Auditorium 4
Time: Tuesday 14th October, at 14.30
The new personal webpages will be launched October 22. K2 encourage all employees to use their page. Editing of the pages will be possible from October 7, and all employees will receive an e-mail concerning at that time.
The new solution provides far greater flexibility to edit the page content than before. This gives you the opportunity to highlight what is most important in your work.
We encourage everyone to update their pages with a portrait. Contact Anne Herdlevar for appointment. For more information.
On September 5-6 a skill enhancement day was arranged for technicians at K2. Due to the fact that K2 was a new institute in 2013, the technician group underwent reorganization, and, based on this, reorganization funds from the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry were applied for. The technicians were granted 100.000 kroner, and it was desirable to use these funds to arrange a seminar of both professional and social character.
Beautiful autumn weather and a scenic setting at Panorama Conference Hotel, Sotra, created the perfect frame for our programme. Exciting talks with invited guest lecturers, and, not least, challenging team building tasks provided by Sotra Villmarksenter made for a joyful atmosphere and an enhanced spirit of togetherness amongst the technicians.
The committee wishes to thank everyone who participated and made this a successful event!
We wish the Technician Group at K2 welcome to a seminar on September 4-5 at Panorama Hotel. Sign up by contacting Irene Hjelmaas by July 1. NB: Registration is binding.
Program (in Norwegian).
This years HSE seminar is in the planning. Mark November 5th in your calender already. Program will be published in K2 News as soon as it is ready. See you at the newly opened Hotel Ørnen.
K2Nytt now has employee overviews by fields of study and research groups at K2.
The information you will find under the “Employee info” in the menu.
The information in these overviews are put in manually, so if you should find an error or something missing we will appreciate the feedback. Send mail to Irene Hjelmaas.
Registration form for holiday year 2014 is now available in Pagaweg.
Iformation about how to do this you will find here.
Erasmus+ replaced EU’s programme for lifelong learning starting January 1, 2014, and the first programme period will be until 2021. Funding has now been announced for the joint degree part of the programme. Application deadline is March 27, 2014.
CCBIO (Centre for Cancer Biomarkers) will arrange its yearly symposium at Solstrand on March 25-26, 2014.
The registration deadline is 1 March. Click here for more information.
K2 gets a visit from UoB’s company physiotherapist on February 7th between 9:00 and 13:00. If you want help with facilitation of your work place in the lab or in the office, contact Irene Hjelmaas.
The first come, first served principle will be used.
The K2 movie which was shown on the K2 Communication Day is now available online.
Click here to see the movie
The financial situation of K2 is, as we have pointed out several times in this column, tight. Even after a thorough review with the faculty where we got approval for our view that salary obligations related to old BFS-agreements must be compensated, we still face a year of deficit.
One of the initiatives implemented to balance the situation is the introduction of technician pay. This means that research groups must pay for the technical services received from the institute. It should be stressed that this only applies to technicians receiving salary directly from annum. Technical positions at K2, funded from external sources, or technicians that have been bought free, will not be affected by this.
The principle of technician pay has been discussed in the institute, which has given its support to the initiative. It has been decided that the technician pay will be kr 50 000 pr man-year per year. For research groups where several scientific employees share one technician, the leader of the research group must divide the amount based on internal use of the technician. The financial section at K2 will contact each research group in order to clarify the practical aspects of payment.
The technician pay is calculated to yield approximately 1 million kroner annually to the institute finances, and thus reduce the deficit this year to about kr 900 000. This is a manageable amount which, with tight cost control during the year, may be reduced further.
Per
The courses are named Seminar in clinical and translational research (FSKLI901) and Perspectives in translational medicine (FSKLI902) (Course description will be available next week).
The first is a formalization of the «network lunches» which is organized by the Postgraduate School of Clinical Medical Research.
The second one will consist of monthly seminars and lectures addressing modern and relevant knowledge in particular fields with an emphasis on translational studies.
Both courses give 1 ECTS
You may sign up for the course(s) at Studentweb by February 1st.
Do you need help to learn a language?
In the spring 2014 the Division of Student Affairs will start a Tandem for international students and Norwegian students who wish to improve their language skills.
For more information
It was with great sadness that the Brest Cancer Group at Mohn Cancer Research Laboratory received the news that Hildegunn had passed away on the evening of December 10. Her death was not unexpected; we knew she was seriously ill and that this was inevitable. However, as she quietly passed away on Monday evening in her own home surrounded by her closest family it was a dignified and good ending to a prolonged illness.
Hildegunn arrived in our group in 1995; and except for natural leaves of absence due to three child births, she was working continuously in our group until her illness made this physically impossible. She belonged to the group of veterans joining us early and working with us up until what the group has become today. Hildegunn excelled from the beginning as a highly skilled coworker. In the beginning she was among those developing our new assays for high-sensitive estrogen-measurements, and this work would later prove decisive in the understanding, and use of, the new aromatase inhibitors, which today is standard treatment for hundreds of thousands of women with breast cancer worldwide. Later she participated in the pioneer-work related to the development of biobanks in addition to performing a number of other analytical tasks. She was one of the key staff members during the planning and furnishing of our new Mohn Cancer Research Laboratory. She was a coworker who never said no to new challenges; she knew her own skills, and she met new challenges with the attitude “I can’t do this, but given the opportunity I would love to learn this and do the task”. Knowledge and appliance of statistics for data-processing is one example, her commitment as HSE-representative is another; together these two examples illustrate the breadth of her work efforts and the skills of an unusually gifted person.
Above all she was one of the founding pillars in the good working environment we have enjoyed for many years in the group. Both as a role model and, not least, as a person actively taking part in the introduction and training of new personnel, she played a key role. Her winning personality and good sense of humor will always be remembered; she was not afraid to bring up problems, but she always did this in a constructive way. It was with great joy that we could formally promote her to senior engineer autumn 2012, a position suitable to the tasks she had executed in an outstanding way over several years.
It was not a coincidence that Hildegunn applied her work energy to cancer research. Through several performance assessments she genuinely expressed how meaningful she found her work. Hence it becomes even more meaningless that it was precisely a cancer disease which would end her life at an early age of 42.
We mourn Hildegunn’s passing. At the same time we are left with a warm memory, and a genuine thank for everything she was for us through all these years; both professionally and personally. Our thoughts are with Hildegunn’s closest family; Svein Inge, who has lost his life partner, and their three minor children who have lost their mother.
Per Eystein Lønning, Professor, K2
The Chemical Storage Facility will be closed from Monday 24/12, and will open again next year.
The calls for independent experts for Horizon 2020 have been published.
Click here for more information
Novo Nordisk Founden has two announcements – the Novo Nordic Excellence Project for young researchers in endocrinology, and the Clinical Research Fellowship Program at Steno Diabetes Center
Last weekend we witnessed an unusually active response to K2Nytt from many parts of the institute. You would think that it was the content of the newsletter which initiated a debate, but it was, in fact, the layout. The comments touched upon communist newspapers, and even Mao was brought up, and let the hundred flowers bloom. It is very nice that K2Nytt engages people, and several of the comments were indeed very good.
As for the layout of the newsletter it is, as Kristian pointed out, not just a simple matter of going back to the old format because the server on which this program was located, has been shut down. But most of us agree that they layout needs work, and the K2-group is working on this issue, so hold out, hold out.
Otherwise I hope that people will be just as engaged in paying attention to the content, as the presentation, of the material in K2Nytt. Comments are most welcome in the newsletter itself (yes, you may comment on each issue!) instead of through E-mails to everyone.
Per
COST is a European network where most European nations are participants. An important task for COST is to promote research collaboration through scientific networks (“Cost-actions”). Click here for more information (In Norwegian). Other useful links: New Cost-actions November 2013 BMBS; application form.
The 15th of December is the deadline for registering projects to the Postgraduate School for class 13. The projects should be made so that they can be transferred into a PhD. The students of the School is an important resource.
They are young and enthusiastic, but have a limited medical education. The projects should be adapted accordingly. So far, about 70 % of the students of the School have continued with their projects after finishing their cand. med.
education. Therefore, to get a student of the School in you research group is a great opportunity to gain a PhD student long-term. There are also funding associated with these students. Feedback from groups that have invested in
students of the School are almost all positive.
More information about the applications you will find here. This is an encouragement for you to send in potential projects to the Postgraduate School.
Per
This is an invitation for all PhD candidates to the Bergen Postgraduate School of Clinical Medical research (Forskerskolen I Klinisk Medisin) Networking Luncheon. We hope you will join us for a lovely christmas lunch.
The vacation year 2013 is nearing its end, and that means that the vacation accounts for each individual employee soon will be completed. We therefore remind you that all used or planned vacation days in 2013 must be registered by you in the employee portal PAGAweb: http://pagawew.uib.no .
Last deadline for sending in the travel expenses in 2013 is December 10th. The travel expenses must be registered through Pagaweb, and original receipts delivered to the economy section at the institute by this date. Any travel expenses registered after this date may not be payed at last salary in December.You can use this year’s budget.
Employees in all positions at UoB may, in agreement with your group leader or supervisor, take the day off either Christmas Eve or New Year’s Eve, as well as one day in the week between the two eves, if your current work situation allows it. This is in addition to the regular holidays (Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day).
Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve are considered normal work days until 12am.
The remaining days of Christmas have regular work hours at UoB.
Funny movie from The University of Tromsø 🙂 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5HirFpnNmQ
International School of Quantitative Research are holding a web course in regression models for medical science.
University of Santiago, Cape Verde 27-30 March 2014