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).

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).

It is a recurrent problem that people park their cars in the guest spots at the parking lot outside the 8th floor of the Laboratory Building without having reserved the spot in advance. As long as you do not have an allocated spot, ALL parking in the guest parking spots must be approved by either Lars or Klaus in the 8th floor reception in advance.
Parking in the handicap spots is not allowed without a valid handicap certificate.

The upcoming autumn’s most important day is, without a doubt, this year’s Exam and Teaching Seminar. Here is the program (in Norwegian). The seminar is mandatory for all lecturers at K2. Sign up here before August 25.

The Bergen Postgraduate School of Clinical Medical Research will arrange a new course in clinical practice for PhD-candidates (GCP901) autumn 2014.
Course schedule is:
23.06, at 08.30 – 12.00
25.09, at 08.30 – 16.00
03.10, at 09.00 – 11.00
On 25.09 the lectures are joint with Helse-Bergen’s GCP-course.
Completed course will yield one course credit.
Sign up in StudentWeb by September 1.
Click here to read more about the course.

The library offers courses in literature searching and handling of references

The courses are aimed at employees and students at University of Bergen and Haukeland University Hopsital.  The courses are free of charge.

Autumn 2014 courses are offered in:

–          PubMed & EMBASE

–          Literature searching within knowledge based practice

–          EndNote – course for beginners and refresher course

Click here for complete course programme with dates and information on how to sign up (In Norwegian).

If other seminars or courses are desired at the section, the library may be contacted.  Click here for more information (In Norwegian).

On Thursday August 14, the network in the lab-building will be unavailable in periods between 6 am and 8 am due to replacement and upgrade of network-switcher.

The work will begin on floors 1-2-3 at 6 am, then floors 4-5-6, and finally there will be a new shut down off the network for one of the four switches serving floors 7-8-9 for installment of the correct part.

This last task will affect the same systems which suffered the longest shut down last time. All work will be completed by 8 am.

Lise Gundersen, senior scientist at K2, and Ingvild Aukrust, postdoc at K2, have written an article which is published in Bergens Tidende.  The article discusses diabetes in Latino Americans. Click here to read the article (In Norwegian).