Hall Schartum-Hansen will defend his PhD thesis on Tueday May 23rd 2017
Trial lecture: Tuesday May 23rd 2017 at 10:15 AM
Topic: ”New markers and impact of secular trends on cardiovascular risk prediction”
Place: Stort auditorium, HUS, Sentralblokken 3rd floor, Jonas Lies vei 65
Public defense: Tuesday May 23rd 2017 at 12:15 PM
 Stort auditorium, HUS, Sentralblokken 3rd floor, Jonas Lies vei 65
Title of dissertation: ”Determinants of long-term outcome in patients With cardiovascular disease. Choline oxidation and loop diuretics- cross – sectional and prospective relationships in large Norwegian cohorts of patients With suspected or verified coronary heart disease”
1st opponent: Professor Stefan Agewall, Universiy of Oslo
2nd opponent: Professor Henrik Schirmer, UiT – The Arctic University of Norway

Press release  (Link in Norwegian)

Reminder to staff

Have you remembered to vote in the election of new members to The Faculty Board?

The election ends on Monday the 22th of May at noon.

You may vote here: https://valg.usit.no/uib/valg/login.do

Next week, innovation is in focus. Together with the Department of Biomedicine, we have invited Ulf Landegren, Professor of Molecular Medicine at the Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology and SciLifeLab, in Uppsala to hold the CCBIO / BBB seminar on Thursday 11.5 at 1430 in Auditorium 4, BBB.

In addition, there will be a lecture on innovation at 8.30 at BBB, room 9A109 on the 9th floor aimed at research group leaders. There will also be an opportunity to meet Ulf for individuall conversation. If you like to have an individual meeting with Ulf we your need feedback, preferably within the next Tuesday through email to Eystein or Helge.

Ulf Landegren is distinguished both through outstanding scientific efforts, but also because he has over 40 patents and applications that have been commercialized. He has started a total of six companies and two of them have been sold to Affymetrix and Agilent, respectively.

We hope to see you at a seminar with Ulf Landegren next week.

Good weekend wishes

Eystein og Helge

To staff in group C – candidate for the university board from K1 / MOF

Elections of Group C members from Group C start Monday May 8th, and Jorunn Skei from K1 will nominate. She hopes to raise and represent this important and highly competent group of technical and administrative staff at MOF / UiB.

Here is Jorunn’s candidate presentation:http://www.uib.no/foransatte/107367/jorunn-skei

With this election, you have 9 candidates to vote – use the right to vote:: http://www.uib.no/foransatte/104336/valg-v%C3%A5ren-2017

Iren Drange Hjellestad  
Time: 11:00 – 11:45
Place: Meeting room  5.1 og 5.2 lab-building.
For more information

Maria Karoline Jonsson
Time: 13:00 – 13:45
Place: Meeting room  5.1 og 5.2 lab-building. .
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Shahinul Islam
Time: 09:00 – 09:45
Place: Meeting room  9.1 og 9.2 lab-building.
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Tor Henrik Anderson Tvedt
Time: 11:00 – 11:45
Place: Meeting room  9.1 og 9.2 lab-building. .
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On the website http://www.uib.no/foransatte/104336/valg-v%C3%A5ren-2017 there is information about the candidates for the University board

Remember: The Election starts May 8th 2017

We have the pleasure of hosting Prof. Berit L. Strand from the Norwegian university of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim. She will present important structure-function relationships of alginates and results from the use of alginate in the fields of islet encapsulation and tissue engineering. Her talk will be entitled: “Alginate in cell transplantation and tissue engineering”.

Alginate, a polysaccharide from seaweed, is known as a biocompatible polymer that form gels at physiological conditions, which makes it a popular material for cell encapsulation and tissue engineering. Alginate based capsules is proposed for immune protection of cells upon transplantation, e.g. insulin producing tissue for the treatment of Type 1 diabetes.

Date:  Thursday 4th of May

Time:  11:30 – 12:00 + discussions

Place:  BUS1: Meeting-room 6132 Aarskogsalen

International partnerships for excellent education, research and innovation (INTPART).

Deadline for registration:  24 May^.

For more information about the call, see here and here.