On behalf of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Mexican Agency for International Development Cooperation (AMEXCID) invites foreign citizens who are interested in studying for a specialization, master’s degree or doctorate, conducting graduate or postdoctoral research, or taking part in an undergraduate or graduate-level academic mobility program, to participate in the 2017 Mexican Government Scholarship Program for International Students.

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UiB has signed a new framework agreement for purchases and delivery of flowers in connection with our employee anniversaries, PhD defenses and other markings where the presentation of flowers is part of the even.

The framework agreement was signed with Botanica Flowers AS who might be familiar to most.
The agreement is active, and it created a new directory that you find in the BasWare PM with prices and pictures of the different options.

The agreement can be found here: https://sourcing.amesto.com/Avantra/Customer/Bergen/Modules/Contract/Card/Default.aspx?ContractId=3207&search=blomster
Botanica’s website can be found here: http://www.botanica.no/

We remind you that it is important that we are loyal to the framework agreement when ordering flowers.

University of Bergen has a new plan of action – Health, safety and environment at UiB – a good working environment for all.
You can find it here.

Introducing Linn Iversen, new finance officer at K2 from September 1st  2016. Linn will predominantly work for Breast Cancer Group led by Professor Per Eystein Lønning. Every Monday, she will have her office in the 8th floor of the lab building, so please stop by to say hello.

Forskningskonsulentene ved fakultetets 5 institutter har tatt initiativ til en karrieredag for fakultetets ph.d-kandidater 6. oktober. Arrangementet er støttet av fakultetet og visedekan for forskerutdanning Roland Jonsson vil åpne dagen

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UiB welcome you to the Alumus-day, saturday September 10th 2016 at 11 AM.
The event is free for both UiB staff and past and current UiB students. Fell free to bring Your friends and Family.
More information can be found here.

CUHK is a very reputable research university in Hong Kong / China with excellence of research and infrastructure. A lot of UiB researchers collaborate with CUHK, both bilaterally and multilaterally through Wun. As Wun member university, the University of Bergen one of CUHK priority international partners and UiB researchers administered thereby the opportunity to apply for funding for research stays at CUHK through their Inbound Research Mobility Scheme.

This is an opportunity for UiB researchers to apply for funding for research at Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) during the 1st half 2017

Introducing Reidun Æsøy, Ph.D. in molecular biology. Reidun began in August 2016 as a researcher in the group of Prof. Lars Herfindal. If you want to say hello, you can find her in the floor 9 in lab building.

We hereby invite you to attend the local symposium in the memory of Helga B. Salvesen to be held 14^th September 2016 in Store Auditorium at Haukeland University Hospital. The symposium is titled “Biomarkers in Female Cancer” and is a joint effort between CCBIO and the K2 department at UiB and Kvinneklinikken at Helse Bergen. The aim of the symposium is to honor Helgas memory by focusing on the state of the art within research on gynecologic cancer as well as younger researchers efforts within the field.

As you can see from the program (link below), we have secured international, national and local speakers. There will also be a combined lunch and poster session in the Aula of the Building for Basic Biological Research (BBB), where younger researchers can present their work. The symposium is open to all and free of charge, so please feel free to forward this invitation.

We would like to underline that all participants need to register through the below link within 8^th September 2016. Please note that after pressing “Continue” and reviewing the registration you need to press “Register”. You are not registered before you have received the confirmation.

• Registration, within 8^th September 2016: https://skjemaker.app.uib.no/view.php?id=2355656
• Program:  http://vedlegg.uib.no/?id=d321580fecd799e51bd8f8552673e51f
• Further information about CCBIO:  www.ccbio.no

Questions: To CCBIOs Administrative Leader Geir Olav Løken on geir.loken@uib.no

We hope that Helgas memorial symposium will be an inspiring event to all participants!
On behalf of CCBIO and its partners at K2 and Kvinneklinikken,

Helga Bergljot Midtbø will defend her PhD thesis on Friday, September 9th, 2016
Trial lecture: Friday, September 9th, 2016 09:30
Topic:  “The bearing of inflammation on cardiovascular disease. Present knowledge and future Challenges”
Place:  Stort auditorium, Haukeland Universitetssykehus
Public defense: Friday, September 9th, 2016 11:15
Place:  Stort auditorium, Haukeland Universitetssykehus
Title of dissertation:  “Subclinical cardiovascular disease in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Relation to disease activity and cardiovascular risk factors”
1st opponent: Associate professor Giuseppe Schillaci, Universitetet i Perugia, Italia
2nd opponent: Professor Karin Manhem, Universitetet i Gøteborg, Sverige

Press release (in Norwegian)