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Storing of research data on SAFE
The IT unit at UoB has developed a secure system for handling of sensitive personal information in research. The system is called SAFE. SAFE is the preferred system for all internally and externally financed research projects at UoB handling sensitive personal information. K2 supports this.
K2 research groups which already have data stored at the server at Haukeland University Hospital do not have to move their data, but can still use this server. The important issue is that this kind of data are stored according to the requirements. Storing sensitive personal information at a PC is not allowed, even if the data should be unidentified.
A significant advantage with SAFE is that is allows not only storing but also statistical handling of the data. According to statisticians at IGS, SAFE is very good system. More information about it may be found here (in Norwegian).
Per
The HSE corner
Invitation: Introduction course for new employees.
The course will be held in Norwegian, but there will be organized similar courses in English.
Time: 29 April, at. 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Location: Student Center, seminar room D
Registration deadline: 25 April
Attachments (in Norwegian):
Invitation letter
Programme
Announcement of cooperation funds between CMI and UIB 2016
Attached (in Norwegian) you will find information about the announcement of cooperation funds between CMI and UIB for 2016. Please disseminate to potential applicants.
Regards
Torunn Olsnes
Head of Research Section
Utrecht Network Research Managers Workshop
Research Managers Workshop – June 2016
We are delighted invite you to the Utrecht Network Research Managers Workshop which is being hosted at the University of Hull, UK. An outline programme for the event which is taking place from Wednesday 15th to Friday 17th June 2016 is attached. Continue reading
The Norwegian Cancer Society’s Open Call 2016
The Norwegian Cancer Society invite proposals for cancer research projects within all research topics under the Norwegian Cancer Society’s aims. See attachment for call text.
Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry certified as Miljøfyrtårn
Tuesday 19 April, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry was certified as a Miljøfyrtårn. This includes the departments, the dental teaching hospital and the faculty administration.This certification is a part of making the whole University of Bergen (UiB) a Miljøfyrtårn this spring, as the first of the major universities in Norway. Read more in this attachment (in Norwegian).
You can now vote for Per Bakke as a candidate for “Fantastiske Formidlere”
Reminder: Doctoral course at Centre for Women’s and Gender Research (SKOK)
The doctoral course “Medical Imaginaries: Postcoloniality and Gender in the Medical Humanities” offers an interdisciplinary investigation of the centrality of gender, sexuality, race, colonial ideologies, social justice, global inequality and class to the medical humanities.
The medical humanities has focused largely on how the humanities can contribute to the field of medicine. In this context, attention to literature and the arts has sought to develop and nurture skills of observation, analysis, empathy, and self-reflection, specifically in the arena of medical practice. Continue reading
Det nærmer seg årets Læringsfestival. Læringsfestivalen er konferansen for alle som er interessert i læring og undervisning på universiteter og høyskoler. Konferansen arrangeres av NTNU i samarbeid med Norgesuniversitetet og finner sted på Realfagsbygget i Trondheim 9. – 10.mai. Årets tema er Studentaktiv læring og teknologi. Continue reading
How to write a dissertation press release?
The University Library has contacted the communications department (and they contacted Bergens Tidende), and we have put in place a seminar on how to write dissertation press releases.
For more information, see this web site and the facebook event for the seminar.
Time: 3 May 1030-1130 am
Venue: Auditorium PI, Johannes Bruns Gate 12, next to the Mathematics and Natural Sciences Library
Summer course in Copenhagen – application deadline 1 May 2016
Dear Partner,
We still have available seats on a newly developed interdisciplinary summer course on healthcare innovation within the themes of healthy living and active aging. Besides teachers from University of Copenhagen, students will be taught by faculty members from Erasmus University Rotterdam; Institute of Health Policy and Management and Copenhagen Business School; as well as practitioners from Novo Nordisk, Steno Diabetes Center and DigiRehab ApS.
The course is supported by the EIT Health and has the title:
“Alive and KICking – innovative solutions to aging-related challenges” Continue reading
Day of Immunology April 29
Bergen Branch of Norwegian Society for Immunology (NSI) arranges the annual “Day of Immunology” on April 29, see attachment for programme. Day of Immunology is an international project that is commemorated worldwide.
The headline this year is: “Immunotherapy for Cancer.” The lectures will suit an audience both with and without research experience.
Attachments: Programme
New Publications
Based on last week’s search for “Department of Clinical Science AND Bergen”. If you have publications which are not covered by this search, send the reference to elin.opheim@uib.no.
Autoimmune regulator and self-tolerance – molecular and clinical aspects.
Abramson J, Husebye ES.
Immunol Rev. 2016 May;271(1):127-40.
Optimal Acquisition Settings for Speckle Tracking Echocardiography-Derived Strains in Infants: An In Vitro Study.
Khan U, Hjertaas JJ, Greve G, Matre K.
Ultrasound Med Biol. 2016 Apr 13.
Associations between the MDM2 promoter P1 polymorphism del1518 (rs3730485) and incidence of cancer of the breast, lung, colon and prostate.
Gansmo LB, Vatten L, Romundstad P, Hveem K, Ryan BM, Harris CC, Knappskog S, Lønning PE.
Oncotarget. 2016 Apr 12.
Common and rare forms of diabetes mellitus: towards a continuum of diabetes subtypes.
Flannick J, Johansson S, Njølstad PR.
Nat Rev Endocrinol. 2016 Apr 15.
Detection of enterotoxigenic E. coli in hospitalised children with and without diarrhoea in Blantyre, Malawi.
Prajapati S, Upadhyay K, Mukherjee A, Kabra SK, Lodha R, Singh V, Grewal HM, Singh S; Delhi Pediatric TB Study Group.
Paediatr Int Child Health. 2016 Jan 12:1-5
MANAGEMENT OF ENDOCRINE DISEASE: Epidemiology, Quality of Life and Complications of Primary Adrenal Insufficiency:a review.
Bensing S, Hulting AL, Husebye ES, Kämpe O, Løvås K.
Eur J Endocrinol. 2016 Apr 11.
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Department of Clinical Science Webpages 2.0
The
Department of Clinical Science now aims to improve the webpages. We focus on how the research groups are going to be presented. A main goal is that the website should be updated and as far as possible also standardized to ensure availability of a minimum of relevant information for all research groups. Elements of this standardization include key information about group members (name, image, title and short research profile), research objectives and methods applied in the research group, the collaborators of the research group, and advanced special equipment possessed by the research group.
To reach this goal we have appointed web editors recruited from the graduate students. The editors will provide editorial support to all research groups and follow up with the update and standardization of the webpages in collaboration with the Department, but the research groups will continue to have the responsibility for the actual content of the webpages.
In the future we aim to make the information about the research groups searchable so that the web pages become a catalyst for research at the Department of Clinical Science.
Helge Ræder
The HSE Corner
New framework agreement for eye examination and workplace glasses from 1 March 2016:
From 1 March 2016 Brilleland will be the provider of eye examinations and computer glasses. Staff at UiB must use an optician with a purchase agreement in order to to get costs refunded. For more information, follow this link.
Communication Breakfast 27 April
Digital UiB – reach out to the whole world!
Welcome to Communication Breakfast Wednesday 27 April at 8:30 to 9:45 am (doors open for breakfast from 8 am), Auditorium A, Sydneshaugen school.
MOOC course, My UiB and Podcasts are some of the possibilities to reach a larger audience today. Learn more in this year’s second Communication Breakfast.
Scientists at UoB actively use digital tools and channels, but UoB as an institution is also working on this. In the upcoming Communication Breakfast we share experiences from this work and talk about the researchers’ possibilities of digital dissemination through new surfaces. We also serve coffee, tea and a light breakfast. The complete program and registration form can be found here (in Norwegian).
Novo Nordisk Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme at Karolinska Institutet
As part of this fellowship programme four new postdoctoral research fellowships for 2016 are now offered. The deadline for applications is Sunday 8th May 2016. For more information, follow this link.
The Kavli Seminar in Bekkjarvik 2016
National seminar for researchers within geriatrics and geriatric psychiatry.
Bekkjarvik, May 30-31st, 2016.
See programme (in Norwegian).
Sign up: ida.kristine.sangnes@haraldsplass.no
Information about announcements from SIU
Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry asks that those planning to send an application to SIU inform the faculty. For more information, see the attached letter (in Norwegian).
Prizes of the Year 2015
The Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry will this year also award the Publication of the Year, the Research Group of the Year, the PhD work of the Year, and Prize for Outstanding Research Communication. Suggestions must be sent to Irene Hjelmaas by no later than 25 April 2016. For more informations, see attached announcement (in Norwegian).
Research Sabbatical 2017
The faculty wishes to remind everyone that 1 May is deadline for applying for research sabbatical for 2017. For more information, see attached letter (in Norwegian).
Links:
Guidelines
Application Form
Summer School for Young Scientists
See attached information about the summer school in Hull, arranged through the Utrecht Network.
Attachments:
Information letter (in Norwegian)
Information brochure
Invitation to a Writing Course for People with Norwegian as their Second Language.
This course is for those who have Norwegian as their second language and who write formal texts at work. In this course you will learn how get your message across.
For whom: Public sector employees who have Norwegian as a second language
Lecturer: Ragnar Eriksen
Location: Bergen, 1 June 2016
Registration Deadline: 2 May 2016
Attachment:
Invitation (in Norwegian)
Links:
More information
Registration
Bjørn Cristiansens memorial lecture 2016
Bjørn Cristiansens memorial lecture 2016 will be held by Edvard Moser.
For more informations, see attached invitation.
New Publications
Based on last week’s search for “Department of Clinical Science AND Bergen”. If you have publications which are not covered by this search, send the reference to elin.opheim@uib.no.
Juniors’ voice at the ERS International Congress, Amsterdam 2015: Juniors’ voice.
Polverino F, Longhini F, Vanaudenaerde B, Bikov A, Aamli A, Singanayagam A, Kahn N, Boots A, Skoczynski S.
Breathe (Sheff). 2015 Dec;11(4):303-305.
Circulating Folate and Vitamin B12 and Risk of Prostate Cancer: A Collaborative Analysis of Individual Participant Data from Six Cohorts Including 6875 Cases and 8104 Controls.
Price AJ, Travis RC, Appleby PN, Albanes D, Barricarte Gurrea A, Bjørge T, Bueno-de-Mesquita HB, Chen C, Donovan J, Gislefoss R, Goodman G, Gunter M, Hamdy FC, Johansson M, King IB, Kühn T, Männistö S, Martin RM, Meyer K, Neal DE, Neuhouser ML, Nygård O, Stattin P, Tell GS, Trichopoulou A, Tumino R, Ueland PM, Ulvik A, de Vogel S, Vollset SE, Weinstein SJ, Key TJ, Allen NE; Endogenous Hormones, Nutritional Biomarkers, and Prostate Cancer Collaborative Group.
Eur Urol. 2016 Apr 6.
Fluid filtration and vascular compliance during cardiopulmonary bypass: effects of two volatile anesthetics.
Svendsen ØS, Elvevoll B, Mongstad A, Stangeland LB, Kvalheim VL, Husby P.
Acta Anaesthesiol Scand. 2016 Apr 8.
Response – letter to the editor on early autoantibody panel by AS Lichtbroun.
Jonsson R, Henriksson G, Theander E.
Arthritis Rheumatol. 2016 Apr 5.
Expansion of myeloid derived suppressor cells correlates with number of T regulatory cells and disease progression in myelodysplastic syndrome.
Kittang AO, Kordasti S, Sand KE, Costantini B, Kramer AM, Perezabellan P, Seidl T, Rye KP, Hagen KM, Kulasekararaj A, Bruserud Ø, Mufti GJ.
Oncoimmunology. 2015 Jun 24;5(2):e1062208
Treatment of stage I seminoma, with one course of adjuvant carboplatin or surveillance, risk-adapted recommendations implementing patient autonomy, a report from the Swedish and Norwegian Testicular Cancer Group (SWENOTECA).
Tandstad T, Ståhl O, Dahl O, Haugnes HS, Håkansson U, Karlsdottir Å, Kjellman A, Langberg CW, Laurell A, Oldenburg J, Solberg A, Söderström K, Stierner U, Cavallin-Ståhl E, Wahlqvist R, Wall N, Cohn-Cedermark G; SWENOTECA.
Ann Oncol. 2016 Apr 6.
Use of probiotics and prebiotics in infant feeding.
Bertelsen RJ, Jensen ET, Ringel-Kulka T.
Best Pract Res Clin Gastroenterol. 2016 Feb;30(1):39-48.
Reference Ranges for Head Circumference in Ethiopian Children 0-2 Years of Age.
Amare EB, Idsøe M, Wiksnes M, Moss T, Roelants M, Shimelis D, Júlíusson PB, Kiserud T, Wester K.
World Neurosurg. 2015 Dec;84(6):1566-71.e1-2.
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Correct affiliation
The university has an increased focus on correct affiliation, not only related to publications, but also in contact with the press. In the latter case, it is important to check that we are addressed by the name of the institute and then University of Bergen. You may also want to first state the name of the research group, and that is of course OK. As to the title, we for are for instance professor at the Department of Clinical Science, UoB. Those who are also employed by the for instance Haukeland University Hospital or Stavanger University Hospital may be consultant, while not professor at the hospitals.
One may argue that the press will not accept such an affiliation as it is too extensive. However, Laurence Bindoff at K1 is a recent example that this is quite possible. When his research was presented in VG, he was addressed with Department of Clinical Medicine, UoB.
A good advice is to review the text prior to publication and this is an opportunity to also check the affiliation. My experience is that also the journalists want the content of their papers to be correct.
Per