Dear PhD students and supervisors,

Join us for three days of hands-on training and laboratory demonstrations on experimental methods to assess cardiac energy consumption and function.

Training will be performed using:

1)      an intact large animal model
2)      exvivo mouse heart
3)      isolated mitochondria

The course also offers opportunities to discuss your own PhD project and how this relates to the methods presented.

This exclusive event is limited to 8 participants, so register early!

Where: Tromsø
When: January 17th – 19th 2017
Application deadline: December 1st 2016
Contact: ole-jakob.how@uit.no

Refund of travel expenses is available to all NORHEART-student members.

Click for further information and registration.

Dear PhD students and supervisors!

Join us for the CHFR workshop ”Interactions and cross-talk between Cardiac signaling pathways” Time: Monday December 5th 2016, 11:30 – 16:30
Place: Rikshospitale B: Green auditorium 1.

-Invited lectures by Professor Emilio Hirsch and Alessanadra Ghigo from University of Torino, Italy, world leading experts on potential drug targets in inflammation and cardiocascular dysfunction.
-Presentations and discussions of ongoing CHFR Projects
– A unique opportunity for New Insight and fruitful discussions With colleagues With shared Research interests.
-Free lunch for all registed participants!
NORHEART will cover COSTs for travel and accommodation for PhD students.
Registration deadline: November 30th 2016 at 23:00

Click here for program and registration.

This CHFR workshop is orginized by Lise Romàn Moltzau and Finn Olav Levy, Department of Pharmacology, University of Oslo and Oslo University Hospital

You can find the resymè from the Helga Salvesen Memorial Symposium in Boston 2016 here

Welcome to a Horizons lecture Thursday 1 of December in Egget at Studentsenteret

Kenneth Hugdahl:  Auditory hallucinations: To hear voices that do not exist

http://www.uib.no/en/matnat/102436/auditory-hallucinations-hear-voices-do-not-exist-kenneth-hugdahl

Refreshments (hopefully included “julegløgg”) will be served from 15.45,  prior to the lecture which starts at 16.15, on Thursday 1 of December in Egget at Studentsenteret.

Everybody is welcome!

The lecture is held in English.

Novel research program for the municipalities from the NRC, read more here

Will you be sending Christmas gifts to foreign countries, it’s okay to look at the deadlines. For Christmas mail in Norway recommended December 16th, packets will broadcast time will increase by up to 2 days from December 12th.

To help you make sure that your Christmas letters and packages  will be received before Christmas, we recommend sending by the dates specified for each country.

Here are the deadlines for sending letter: A-Priority

Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Iceland – December 16th
Rest of Europe – December 14th
The United States and Canada – December 12th
Other countries in the world – December 5th

Regular delivery time:
A-priority earliest 2-6 days in Europe and the earliest 4-8 days to the rest of the world
B-priority: Earliest 4-10 days in Europe and 10-14 days earlier than the rest of the world.

Here are the deadlines for Christmas packages:
Package abroad – (carryon) Finland, Iceland, Sweden and Denmark – December 14th.
Other countries in the world and express consignments (Quickpack) – last ned pdf her. (dowload pdf here)

Cancer Society wishes to provide information about preliminary announcement in ERA-NET for translational cancer research – TRAN SCAN

The theme for the upcoming announcement is Minimally and non-invasive methods for early detection and / or progression of cancer. You can read more about the call on the NCS and TRAN SCAN their websites, see here and here 

Norwegian researchers are encouraged already now to prepare their participation in the announcement.

We note that the German-Norwegian Study at the University of Kiel announces seed funding for collaborative projects in research and education for spring and summer 2017.
Deadline: December 15th 2016. 

If the deadline is too short now, you can also apply for in 2017. It’s planned to announce seed funds again in six months, so you can plan projects that’s done in June or December 2017

See attached letter regarding announcements of Erasmus + in 2017. The first attachment summarizes announcements in Erasmus +. The last three attachments apply Erasmus + global mobility (Credit Mobility).
Here you’ll find Erasmus + program guide.
Here you’ll find tentative budget for Erasmus +

You can read about the announcement Erasmus + mobility and cooperation projects in the world from 2017 to 2018 here and here

Attached you’ll find the poster and the  flyer for Summer School on Intellectual Property 2017 in Germany.

Øystein Fløtten (skype)
Time: 09:00 – 10:00
Place: Meeting room  9.1 og 9.2 lab-building.
For more information  

Hege Kristiansen
Time: 10:00 – 11:00
Place: Meeting room  9.1 og 9.2 lab-building. .
For more information

Ardita Aliko
Time: 11:00 -12:00
Place: Meeting room  9.1 og 9.2 lab-building.
For more information

Caroline Engen
Time: 13:45-14:45
Place: Meeting room  9.1 og 9.2 lab-building.
For more information

”På Høyden” has written an article about scientists from Norwegian institutions that are among the world’s most cited scientists.
Kenneth Dickstein is on the list, Kenneth is working at Department of Clinical science but Works in Stavanger.
Read the article here. (in Norwegian)

Subject: Fine tuning of antibody responses by distinct T follicular helper subsets in humans.
Speaker: Professor Hide Ueno, Mount SInai School of Medicine, New York, USA

Time: Monday November 21st 2016 – 11:00 – 12:00
Place: 5.1 and 5.2, 5th floor, lab.building

Here you can read about the announcement of seed money from the German-Norwegian study center in Kiel. The announcement is being forwared on behalf of Professor dr.juris Gudrun Holgersen who is the University’s representative in the Norwegian home board of the German-Norwegian study center in Kiel.

Here you can find the announcement and here you can find application forms

Who can apply?
· Researchers at the University of Bergen can apply for funding for the development of joint projects with Carl-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel.

What can be supported?
· Activities that identify and start collaborative projects in research and education. Seed Funds may be allocated to travel, work meetings, workshops and symposia.

How much support?
· It can be assigned max. EUR 6,000 (approximately NOK 55,000) in funding per project.

Where the application is sent?
· Applications should be submitted to the German-Norwegian study center in Kiel v / project manager Andrea Hesse email dnsz_buero@email.uni-kiel.de

Deadline?
· The application deadline is December 15th, 2016.

Havjin Jacob
Time: November 14th at 11:00 AM
Place: Laboratoriebuilding 8th floor 8.1
For more information

Attached you will find an invitation and the schedule to the Nordic PhD course Bio-8303: “Molecular and Clinical Aspects of Cancer”. The course will take place at the University of Tromsø in week 10 this year (March 6^th to March 10^th, 2016). An international faculty teaches the course (please find the preliminary lecture schedule attached).

There is no course fee and for the cost of 4.000 NOK each external PhD student will be offered housing at an Apartment Hotel in the centre of Tromsø.

For more information and application see http://uit.no/mcac

Please note that the application deadline is already DECEMBER 1^st.

It’s time to start planning your leftover holidays. The Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry has set the following deadlines for application for holidays for 2016:

Application for leftover holidays should be sent in PAGA no later than 01.10.2016.

Information about holidays and how to register holidays can be found here: http://pagaweb.w.uib.no/english/5-vacation/ If you have any questions regarding Holidays and registering please contact Personnel Consultant: Elin Myhrvold – Email: elin.Myhrvold@UiB.no

The topic for the coming preliminary call is Minimally and non-invasive methods for early detection and/or progression of cancer. Norwegian researchers should start to prepare for their participation in the call. You may read more about here

 https://kreftforeningen.no/forskning/sok-forskningsmidler/

 http://www.transcanfp7.eu/news-update/preliminary-announcement.html

H2020 Health, demographic change and wellbeing

You may apply at SC1 Health in 2017, click here for more information

Please, find the enclosed announcement of the upcoming MedViz Seminar on Friday 11.11 (12:00-13:00) here.

There will be light food and beverages served for free and opportunities for informal mingling afterwards.

The Norwegian university in St. Petersburg is open for research and teaching activities in all scientific disciplines. The center is owned and financed by NTNU and the Universities of Bergen, Oslo and Tromsø conjointly. Attached are three calls for proposals from the Norwegian University Center in St. Petersburg – all three in Norwegian and English

1) Funds for academic seminar in 2017 – a deadline of 15 December 2016

2) Funding for PhD activities in 2017 – a deadline of 15 December 2016

3) Funding for professional networking 2017-18 – deadline 15 February 2017

More about the center: http://www.st-petersburg.uio.no/english/

How to use genetic research to improve the public Health.
Meeting in Oslo December 5th,

Program and information on sign up here.

Monday November 7th 2016 MOF holds its annual faculty administrasjonsdag which is mandatory for all administrative at the faculty and departments
The administration is gone that day but fresh back Tuesday November 8th

CONTENT:
• Assessment of injury, safety
• Notification of emergency services
• Evaluation and examination of sick / injured person
•Free Airways
• Unconscious person and lateral
• Lifeless person and cardiopulmonary resuscitation
• Foreign body in respiratory tract
• Practical training
• Examples of specific diseases and injuries are discussed along

WHEN: Tuesday November 8th or Wednesday November 9th
TIME:.at 0830 – 1130
PLACE: Meeting Venue A + B downstairs, Muse Square 1, entrance from Prof. Keysersgt
HOW MANY Max. 20 participants per. course
COURSE PROVIDER: Fredrik Bærheim

REGISTER HERE:  https://skjema.app.uib.no/forstehjelp

Friday 11.11.2016 (12:00-13:00): MedViz Lighthouse Project – Image-based quantitative assessment on abdominal organ function, managed by Professor and Chief physician Jarle T. Rørvik, Department of Radiology, Haukeland University Hospital and Clinical Department K1, University of Bergen.

Friday 02.12.2016 (12:00-13:00): MedViz Lighthouse Project – Multimodal imaging and ultrasound microbubble drug delivery in targeted cancer therapy, managed by Professor and Chief physician Bjørn Tore Gjertsen, Clinical Research unit, Section for research and innovation, Haukeland University Hospital and Clinical Department K2, University of Bergen.

Friday 16.12.2016 (12:00-14:00): MedViz Lighthouse Project – Model-supported data visualization to improve the diagnosis process, managed by Professor Helwig Hauser, The Visualization Group, Department of Informatics, University of Bergen. This event is also organized as a common Christmas Seminar in cooperation with Visual Computing Forum from Department of Informatics, UiB.

All the seminars are free, including light meals and coffee, and take place in the MedViz Incubator, Møllendalsbakken 7, 5^th floor. You might read more about the projects and interviews with some of their project staff in the enclosed MedViz Annual Report from 2015.

Each arrangement will also be announced individually. We will be happy to see you.