The research school would like to invite all interested PhD-Candidates to a network luncheon on Monday December 15 at 11:30 in the Conference room, 3^rd floor, BB-Building.  The following candidates will present their research this time:

1.  Øystein Solberg Eikrem, PhD candidate.

Title:”Correlation of Transcriptome Sequencing Data from Formalin-Fixed Paraffin-Embedded vs. RNAlater® stored Kidney Biopsies” Group:Renal Research Group. K1.

2.  Yunpeng Ding,  PhD candidate.

Title:  “Plasma glycine levels and risk of coronary artery disease in patients with suspected stable angina pectoris”. K2.

After the presentation a delicious lunch will be served – free of charge!

Please send an e-mail if you are interested in participating to Hildur.skuladottir@gmail.com

The University of Bergen is inviting anyone interested to the annual one-day conference on equality on December 5.  At this year’s conference you will meet researchers, activists and practitioners who, from their different viewpoints, will contribute with illuminating the topic of sexual orientation in regards to discrimination at the work place.  Kim Friele and Norman Anderssen are among the exciting speakers invited.  The conference will be opened by Rector Dag Rune Olsen and will finish with a panel debate hosted by Linda Eide.

Read more here (in Norwegian)

Sign up here (in Norwegian). Deadline for signing up is November 30.

The World Diabetes Day is approved and recognized by UN as an international day for highlighting diabetes.  Through World Diabetes Day, diabetes will receive the attention it deserves as one of our time’s largest epidemics.  Read more here (in Norwegian).

The Research Council at K2 has discussed the budgeting of equipment for 2015. The Research Council reviewed all suggestions regarding what equipment benefits the institute the greatest, as well as what equipment already exists today at K2 and in the Laboratory building. Cilck here for a summary of the meeting (in Norwegian). Click here for detailed budget (in Norwegian).

Centre for Pharmacy encourage scientists to offer master projects in Pharmacy for the year 2015/2016. For more information click here. Deadline to submit projects is 17th December 2014.

Novartis, in cooperation with Hans Petter Eikesdal from the Department of Oncology, Haukeland University Hospital, is happy to invite anyone interested to an exciting afternoon meeting with Professor Fabrice André, one of the world’s leading researchers in treatment of breast cancer.

Time: Thursday November 27, 2014, at 3 pm

Place: Morning meeting room, Department of Oncology, Parkbygget, U. floor.

Please send an e-mail to anita.fredriksen@novartis.com if you wish to participate at the meeting.

For more information click here.

In cooperation with BBMRI. Karolinska Institutet will arrange the course “Biobanking as a resource for bio-medical research” on February 9-13, 2015.

For more information click here.

Rokkansenteret (Uni research) arranges a course in STATA, a software for statistical analyses. For more information click here (In norwegian)

Place: University of Bergen (U-phil, Professor Keysers gt. 1)

Time: December 11th and 12th

Registration deadline: November 21th

The research school in clinical medicine invites you to present your work to fellow researchers and the general audience. If you have presented a poster or had an oral presentation at a scientific meeting or a conference in 2014, you are welcome to submit your work. There will be arranged a poster exhibition , january 26-30, 2015 and oral presentations january 29, 2015. Prizes will be awarded to the three best presentations in each category! For more information.

Registartion deadline: 1^st of December 2014.

We remind you that sick-leave forms alsways shoud be sendt to employer, also for assosiate positions. Please sendt to The Department of Clinical Science for registration.

As employees use code 470 – Sykt barn/barnepasser (staying home due to child being sick) it is important that information is available that the employee exercising this right actually has a child which gives right to such leave of absences.

If any employee registers absence with code 470 and this is approved and sent in, a warning in PAGA will be generated saying:

“Rejected – no registered child which gives right to this absence” if the employee has not submitted information about children.

The absence is registered, but it will only have status as a warning at PAGA at the payroll office.

To register children in PAGA, use the form “Personal and family information”

The new webpages will be launched in week 42. The present contents on all personal webpages will automatically be transferred to the new pages, and well ahead of the launch, employees will receive an e-mail linking to their personal webpage and access to edit this. Everyone is encouraged to fill in information on research field and areas of expertise, as these webpages will be used by the Division of Communication and media.  You are also welcome to upload a nice picture. For more information (in Norwegian).

The announcement is open for all postdocs funded by the university. Application deadline 01.10.14. For more information.

The Program Committee for nutrition calls for master and bachelor projects. Short description of project and tasks (maximum one page) are requested to be submitted by October 20th to Guro Akre. For more information (in norwegian).

We wish to invite you all to the next monthly K1/K2 Seminar Series!
Title: “Parkinson’s disease: a journey into heredity, entropy and energy failure”
Held by Charalampos (Haris) Tzoulis, MD, PhD, Department of Neurology, Haukeland University Hospital, Center for Translational Science in Neurodegeneration and Aging
When: Wednesday October 1, 14:15 – 15:00
Where: Main Auditorium, 3rd floor, Sentralblokken
Chair: Roland Jonsson
For more information and abstract.

UiB invites to a conference on language policies where the aim is to discuss the current status for UiB’s focus on language policies, and how we can revitalize this focus. The conference is open for leaders and employees at UiB. Time and place: September 29, The Law Building, UiB. For more information (in Norwegian).

National Centre for Food, Health and Physical Activity is a newly established resource centre, and is inviting to an opening conference. The conference will take place at Bergen University College, in their new grounds at Kronstad, October 28-29, 2014. The programme for the opening conference features a range of exciting and practically oriented talks within the topics of mastering and physical activity, and food for, and education of, children and youths. The conference presentations will cover new research within the field, various relevant projects, and examples of good practices in kindergartens and in schools. Deadline for signing up: 01.10.14.  For more information (in Norwegian).