To those of you who have not yet registered all of your holiday for 2015 in Pagaweb: Please make sure that you register your remaining holiday this year. Deadline: October 31st, 2015.
If you have not registered and / or applied for transference of your holiday by the 31th of October we will consider your holiday as spent and register this in PAGA.

Transfer of vacation:
As a rule all vacation should be completed before the end of the year. You can still apply to have as many as 14 vacation days transferred to the next year via PAGA.  In the application you must explain your plan for these days in 2016 / or why
you have not been able to take all the vacation in 2015 (only sic leave and leave of absence will be consideed as valid reasons). Continue reading →

Financial support for stays abroad for postdoctoral fellows and PhD candidates – autum 2015

The grant is available to university funded postdoctoral fellows and PhD candidates at the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry.  Application deadline: 01.10.2015.
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Hege Synnøve Havstad Clemm will defend her PhD thesis on Friday August 28, 2015
Trial lecture: Friday, August 28, 2015, 09.15
Topic: “Barn med astma bronkiale – utfordringer i idrett og kroppsøving”
Place: Aud. 1, Bygg for biologiske basalfag, Jonas Lies vei 91
Public defense: Friday, August  28, 2015, 11:15
Place: Auditorium 1, BB-bygget, Jonas Lies vei 91
Title of dissertation: “Exercise capacity after extremely preterm birth. Development from childhood to adulthood”
1st opponent: Professor Kai-Håkon Carlsen, Universitetet i Oslo
2nd opponent: Professor Sigurd Loe Steinshamn, NTNU, Trondheim

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Kjersti Oterhals will defend her PhD thesis on Thursday August 27, 2015
Trial lecture: Thursday, August 27, 2015, 09.15
Topic: “Brukermedvirkning som strategi for å bedre utkommet ved hjertekirurgi”
Place: Stort auditorium, Haukeland Universitetssykehus
Public defense: Thursdag, August  27, 2015, 12.30
Place: Auditorium 1, BB-bygget, Jonas Lies vei 91
Title of dissertation: “Patient-reported outcomes in patients with aortic stenosis with and without aortic valve replacement”
1st opponent: Professor Eva Brink, Institutionen för omvårdnad, hålsa och kultur, Högskolan Väst, Sverige
2nd opponent: Professor Rolf Busund, Norges arktiske universitet, Tromsø

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Dr Robert Parker, from the University of Tennessee will be holding a workshop, titled “Building the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Grant Proposal”, at University of Bergen (BBB) on Wednesday, 17th June, 2015.

The workshop will focus on writing the best possible NIH grant application. Dr. Porter’s extensive experience will offer participants a lot of useful information.

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SFF-Norment is hosting a guest researcher, Prof Anders Dale from University of San Diego, who will be holding a seminar titled “Multiple layers of complexity in Schizophrenia: from multimodal imaging to genetic pleiotropy” on Wednesday 17th June, 2015 at 10:30. The seminar will be held at Haukeland Hospital, auditorium HS:B301.

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Høgskolen i Oslo og Akershus is organizing a course in Professional ethics.

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Deadline 18.09.2015

Høgskolen i Oslo og Akershus is offering a course in Professional theory intended for PhD students.

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Deadline 01.09.2015

Maria Boge Lauvsnes will defend her PhD thesis on Thursday June 18, 2015
Trial lecture: Thursday, June 18, 2015, 09:15
Topic: ”The role of auto-antibodies as disease markes and pathogenic factors in diseases of the central nervous system”
Place: Aula 2 etg. Sydbygg, Stavanger University Hospital
Public defense: Thursday, June  18, 2015, 10:30
Place: Aula 2 etg. Sydbygg, Stavanger University Hospital
Title of dissertation: “Cognitive dysfunction in autoimmune diseases”
1st opponent: Prof Ingrid Agartz, University of Oslo
2nd opponent: Prof Trygve Holmøy, University of Oslo

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