Here are recent publications with contributions from K2 based on last week’s search on PubMed (and optionally articles that have not been included in previous lists). This time the list includes in total 16 recent publications. The entries appear in the order they were received from NCBI. If you have publications that are not included in this or previous lists, please send the references to Johnny Laupsa-Borge.
As new deputy head of research at the Department of Clinical Science, will research education be something I focus on. The past years, the number of PhD thesis defences at the Faculty for Medicine has declined. While it was 98 and 97 defences in 2015 and 2016, respectively, it was only 82 in 2017. At the same time, the number of candidates taken up into the PhD programme has been quite stable between 90 and 100 per year. The numbers for the Department of Clinical Science are following a similar pattern. The number of defences has decreased from 31 in 2015 to 19 in 2017, while around 30 new PhD fellows have been taken up per year. Therefore, the leader group will give more attention to having PhD candidates finalizing their thesis and try to arrange as good as possible for this to happen. All PhD candidates and supervisors are encouraged to take contact if they encounter any problems.
In the last round of PhD positions from the Medical Faculty, the Department of Clinical Science was very successful with up to 16 new PhD candidates. That is very good news! Most of them have gotten a 4 years position with 25% obligatory duty work. As the head of research at the time, Roland Jonsson, wrote already in 2014, this is a great asset for the institute. In order to get a fair distribution of the obligatory duty work, all PhD candidates financed from the university will be contacted during the next weeks for a short meeting regarding planning of the obligatory duty work, together with representatives from the leader group, main supervisor and PhD coordinator Irene Hjelmaas.
Silke
In order to improve the time registration at the University of Bergen, the University Management has decided that all technical and administrative staff at UiB should use My Time (“Min Tid”). This applies to both those with fixed and flexible working hours, and hourly paid. My Time will replace the flex time schedule, and for hourly paid, the system will replace the time lists.
My Time will be introduced on Monday 12 February for all employees who have a flexible schedule today, with the exception of IKO clinics and employees at the Animal Department. They will come later.
Information about My Time is given at the following locations and times:
IGS
Monday 12.2. at. 9–10, Bjerkedalsrommet, Kalfaret.
IKO
Wednesday 14.2. at. 10:45.
HUS / BBB
Friday 9.2. at. 13–14, auditorium 4, BBB
Monday 12.2. at. 12–13, conference room, BBB
Wednesday 14.2. at. 12:30–13:30, auditorium 4, BBB
In connection with the launch of Office 365 at UiB, a task kit has been created that provides a basic introduction to the software package. Read more on the web pages here.
Kai Triebner, postdoctoral fellow at K2, received recently the price for the best original research paper 2017 from the Norwegian Association for Pulmonary Medicine (Norsk forening for lungemedisin).
The award was given for the article Menopause is associated with accelerated lung function decline.
K2 congratulates!
Dear all,
Please see below the updated links for external funding.
External funding opportunities:
http://www.uib.no/en/med/112772/external-funding-opportunities
Funding opportunities for education:
http://www.uib.no/med/113987/funding-opportunities-education
The webpages are updated every second week. New calls are marked with NEW.
Please let us know if you have any comments on the webpages or if the researchers at your department are missing something.
Kind regards,
Amra, Ramune, Itana and Kaia
Here are recent publications with contributions from K2 based on last week’s search on PubMed (and optionally articles that have not been included in previous lists). This time the list includes in total 19 recent publications. The entries appear in the order they were received from NCBI. If you have publications that are not included in this or previous lists, please send the references to Johnny Laupsa-Borge.
I am writing to you to encourage participation at the upcoming week´s event, the Annual Research Presentations by the Research School in Clinical Medicine.
What is The Research School in Clinical Medicine?
It is an arena for PhD students from K1, K2 and Helse-Bergen to socialize and present own research to fellow students. The research school also organizes courses that may be included as part of the mandatory training component of the PhD program, and a seminar series where current research from the faculty is presented by excellent speakers.
Our own Professor Stefan Johansson is the current leader. The team also includes Researcher Kristoffer Haugarvoll (K1), Leader of the Research Unit for Children, Camilla Tøndel (Helse Bergen), Researcher Stian Knappskog (K2), Professor Thomas Halvorsen (K2), Solveig Lund Witsøe (K1), PhD Student Torbjørn Kråkenes (K1), and PhD Student Andreas Venizelos (K2).
The poster presentations will take place Wednesday 24 January in the reception foyer, floor 0, Sentralblokken, Haukeland University Hospital; oral presentations Thursday 25 January in Birkhaugssalen, floor 3, Sentralblokken, while the award ceremony will be Friday 26 January 12:00–12:30 in the reception foyer, floor 0, Sentralblokken.
The research school was founded by Professor Emeritus Amund Gulsvik and has been a great success. I take the opportunity to thank him, and all following leaders and staff members for organizing this important event. But what is more, the Research School would be nothing if it were not for the participants, presenters and audience; my sincere thanks to them, too. My high school teacher said I should post the following sentence over my bed: ”Never a day without a line (to read)”. There is always something new to learn. So come! And please, do not only read: Also ask a question. Not to show the others that you can ask a question, but because there is something you want to learn. We learn from questions because that urges us to find out why. Novel knowledge arises.
Enjoy!
Pål Rasmus Njølstad
The Faculty refers to announcements for the Falch’s Junior Prize 2018 and the Falch Lecture 2019.
Proposals are sent to: okonomi@med.uib.no.
Deadline for both: 1 March 2018.
The Junior Prize is awarded on the Faculty’s day, 14 June, which also includes the Falch lecturer of the year, Professor Philippe van de Perre.
BFS has announced a new round of the recruitment stipend with final deadline 15 March. Since there is a limitation in the number of nominated candidates from each department, we kindly ask interested applicants to send a project sketch of about two pages and their CV (BFS asks for a CV of maximum three pages, including the most important and relevant publications) within 12 February. Please send this information to amra.grudic@uib.no, cc’ing Pål Njølstad and Julie Stavnes.
Haukeland University Hospital, together with UiB and the Research Council of Norway, invite to a seminar on the announcements HELSEVEL, BEHANDLING and BEDREHELSE with deadline 25 April 2018. Part of the program will cover health relevant EU calls, and information about user involvement and how that can strengthen a project.
In addition, representatives from RCN offer one-to-one sessions on specific EU calls. If this is of interest, please send a «Project Outline» (link in the right margin) to bn@rcn.no one week before the seminar takes place.
Time: 7 February 2018 at. 10:30–15:00.
Venue: Bikuben, Haukeland University Hospital.
Information and program.
Registration.
If you have any questions, please contact Amra Grudic-Feta at K2: amra.grudic@uib.no / 55 97 46 71.