The core facility for flow cytometry invites everyone interested to a seminar concerning applications of the CyTOF Mass Cytometer. For more information click here.
When: Thursday 23rd October, at 12-14
Where: Lab building HUS, 9th floor, seminar room
The Norwegian Association of Researchers is inviting to a seminar focusing on research politics. The title of this year’s seminar is “The bigger, the better? Structure and quality in the education- and research sector”. For more information click here (in Norwegian). Form for signing up click here (in Norwegian)
Time: Monday November 3, 9:30 – 15:30
Place: Hotell Bristol, Oslo
More collaboration between academia and the pharmaceutical industry is increasingly encouraged, not least through Horizon 2020. This innovative possibility to strengthen the research with our university clinics has not been sufficiently utilized. The Association of the Pharmaceutical Industry in Norway (LMI) may, in this context, provide assistance in establishing such collaboration. LMI represents about 60 membership companies consisting of both international companies as well as smaller biotech enterprises. The companies employ approximately 4000 highly skilled staff where some membership companies also have their own production in Norway.
Demographic changes and an altered panorama of diseases provide the healthcare sector with challenges demanding better utilization of resources, higher efficiency as well as new and improved services. New technology and product development are keys to face new demands, maintain the quality of the health services as well as meet expectations for good welfare services and proper treatments. Within these challenges there is also a major potential for the creation of wealth and innovation. Biomedical and health-related research can meet these health challenges.
What characterizes the current situation? Sure, we have high research activity, but low innovation and way too low inclusion of the private sector. From the HelseOmsorg21 (in Norwegian) strategy we are encouraged to: Increase cooperation between the private and public sectors. More focus on commercialization of research. Increase the number of industrially funded clinical studies. The utilization of health data as a national asset.
The politicians thus have to provide the foundations for increasing the number of start-ups, as well as provide proper development conditions for Norwegian health industry. Simultaneously, the pharmaceutical industry is aiming for higher productivity and scientific excellence. This could be something that our PhD-candidates and post-docs could embrace in their career planning.
Roland
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).
Fagakademiet is inviting anyone interested to a writing course where you will learn how to deliver your message. Time and place: 16.10.14, Bergen, hotel terminus. Deadline for signing up: 29.09.14. 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).
We wish to congratulate Professor Stefan Johansson from K2 and Professor Jan Haavik from Department of Biomedicine with the grant from EU’s 8th Framework Programme, Horizon 2020. The grant is allocated the interdisciplinary research network MiND which focuses on ADD and autism, and where UiB is a partner.
Read more about the allocation here (in Norwegian).