We cordially invite you to the upcoming CCBIO Junior Scientist Symposium, December 8th. We present a scientific program that should be of great interest.

For program please consult this link. There is no registration fee and lunch is also included!

A highlight of this symposium is an inspirational lecture on supervision by Professor Arild Raaheim from the Department of Education at the University of Bergen. Raaheim will in his talk focus on the challenges and possibilities related to supervision, from a supervisor’s point of view. We look forward to his talk and hopefully a lively discussion related to this topic.

Professor Curtis C. Harris will come all the way from Bethesda, Maryland to give an inspirational lecture at the Junior symposium. Professor Harris works at the Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, NIH, and his Areas of Expertise includes 1) precision medicine, 2) biomarkers of cancer, 3) molecular epidemiology, 4) p53 function in cancer and aging, 5) metabolome, 6) microbiome. The title of his talk will be announced shortly.

Furthermore, several talented PhD students will present their ongoing projects on tumor biology, cancer therapy and tumor-stroma crosstalk and signaling.

If you want to attend, we kindly ask you to register through this link within December 6th.

All are welcome to attend, so please feel free to circulate this e-mail if you know other researchers/staff that you think would find the symposium interesting.

It’s possible to apply for a number of funds and endowments for funding for medical and dental research at the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry.

One of the funds – Astri and Edvard Riisøen Endowment for the promotion of scientific research, has a longer deadline than the others (December 21st), Attached  you’ll find an Application form for this fund

Read more here

Nansenfondet and related funds. Call for PhD funding. Deadline for application. January 15th-2017. Read more here.

Internationalisation will help raise the quality of higher education and to promote intercultural competence. But what does it take to promote quality and how developed really intercultural competence?

Where and when: The Internationalization Conference 2017 is being arranged in Oslo March 15th-16th. SIU is arranging in cooperation with the education sector in Norway in general. HiOA conference is hosted in collaboration with NMBU.

Registration: Program, more information and link to the registration can be found here

Gunnar Husebø
Time: 09:00 – 10:00
Place: Meeting room  9.1 og 9.2 lab-building.
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Elise Grytten
Time: 11:00 – 12:00
Place: Meeting room  9.1 og 9.2 lab-building. .
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Jie Gao
Time: 12:45 -13:45
Place: Meeting room  9.1 og 9.2 lab-building.
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Karl Erik Müller
Time: 13:45-14:45
Place: Meeting room  9.1 og 9.2 lab-building.
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Brita Skodvin
Time: 14:45 – 15:45
Place: Meeting room  9.1 og 9.2 lab-building.
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–       Younger researscyer:  yngre forskere

–      Excerllent research:   fremragende forskningsformidling

–       Honorable award for distinguished research. Every fifth year

All professors and institute heads at the University of Bergen have the right to nominate candidates for the Meltzer awards. It would be an advantage if several professors could agree on the same nominee. Deadline for submitting nominees is December 1^st, send to Kristin.Hansen@uib.no at the FA Department.

Please find attached information on the upcoming Symposium on Long-Term Effects of Preterm Birth, which will be held at the Novo Nordisk Foundation January 31, 2017.

Registration for the symposium will be open until January 23. Please note that there are limited seats available and that registration is on a first-come first-served basis.

Further information and link to the registration site can be found on the Foundation’s website: http://novonordiskfonden.dk/en/content/symposium-long-term-effects-preterm-birth

COST is a European network organization including most European countries. An important task for COST is to promote European research collaboration by initiating scientific networks (“COST actions”)

General information on COST is found here: www.forskningsradet.no/COST og http://www.cost.eu/ .

In October 2016 it was decided to start 25 new COST actions of which the following are within medical and health research

SIU wishes to offer guidance on the design of capacity building Applications in Erasmus +, with a deadline of February 9, 2017.

There are no general presentation of Capacity-building measure, but call and guidance on a specific project being planned. It is assumed that the applicant has started writing and sending an application draft to us prior to the meeting so that we can put into the project in advance. Provision of guidance of course apply to the further development of application from previous application rounds. There will be no general application writing seminars for this measure, as we had the previous application round.

Those dates we have set up are the 5th and 6th of December, at 09: 00-16: 00. Location: SIU premises in Fortunen 1, Bergen.

Roland Jonsson appointed honorary member of Norwegian Society of Immunology. K2 congratulates!