The seminar will take place on February 12-13, 2015. Deadline for signing up is February 1. For more information about the seminar (in Norwegian). For detailed programme (in Norwegian)
The faculty is requesting proposals for new Medical Student Theses (særoppgaver). Note that all scientific employees at the faculty have a duty to supervise at least one student thesis every second year. Deadline for proposing thesis topics is 15.02.2015. For more information (in Norwegian)
Oslo Cancer Cluster and LMI hereby invite anyone interested to an open breakfast meeting in a political meeting series.
The meeting series focuses on how Norway will ensure that its cancer patients are treated at the best possible international level – today and in the future.
For more information (in Norwegian)
There is now a new opportunity to apply for parking by the BB building or “on the roof”, as it is also called. You send the application to Lars Mossefinn. Anyone have parking there now must also reapply. Deadline 23 January.
The journals are looking for experts with background in health sciences to act as editors of the journals, which are Open Access journals. For more information
Professor Hilde Nilsen from the University of Oslo is presenting a guest lecture at the department. The lecture is entitled “Causes and consequences – the role of base excision repair in aging and age-related diseases”. Time and place: Wednesday January 21, at 13:00 in the seminar room, 9th floor, Laboratory building. Everyone is welcome to attend.
For more information
Pirjo-Riitta Salminen
will have her public defence on Friday January 23, 2015
Trial lecture: Friday January 23, 2015, 11.30
Topic: ” Translating the cardiac conditioning paradigm from animal models to patient care”
Place: Stort Auditorium, Haukeland Univeritetssykehus
Public defence: Friday January 23, 2015, 13.30
Place: Stort Auditorium, Haukeland Universitetssykehus
Title of dissertation: ” Myocardial protection and antiapoptotic intervention at reperfusion. Experimental studies in translational porcine models of myocardial ischemia and reperfusion”
1st opponent Professor Gary F. Baxter, Cardiff University, U.K.
2nd opponent Professor Kristian Bartnes, Norges arktiske universitet, Tromsø
Publishing in scientific journals has for long used to be pretty straightforward. The researcher submitted manuscripts with their latest work, which was evaluated by experts in the field, type-set, printed and sold to libraries, universities and interested individuals – and this was quite profitable for some publishers.
This is not the case any longer. The ways scientific data and information is shared has changed dramatically in the digital age. Increasingly, publishers are competing by offering additional services that help the authors and readers through media organizations and science blogs. However, journals charge exorbitant fees to subscribe or download papers, restricting this to those who can afford them.
To partly solve this, free electronic scientific publishing also called “Open Access Publishing” has emerged. This grants full access to anyone, for any purpose, but transfers the publication costs to the authors or their organization. Nothing is free! However, currently UiB offers support to cover “Open Access Article Processing Charges”
A side-effect of the open access model is a malignant proliferation in junk publishers with the sole objective of making money without any regards for scientific quality. In year 2011 there were 18 identified predatory publishers, which increased to 693 in 2015. The list is updated through the year on the blog Scholarly Open Access, http://scholarlyoa.com. Take a look at this list when your mailbox is swamped by the numerous offers for publishing!
Happy New Year!
Roland Jonsson
PS. Do not forget to verify that all your works from 2014 have been added to Cristin. Check this via https://www.cristin.no/as/WebObjects/cristin.woa/8/wa/registrering?la=no. Log in by choosing institution “University of Bergen”, and then use your regular user name and password.
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Svein Joar Auglænd Johnsen will have her public defence on Friday January 9, 2015
Trial lecture: Friday January 9, 2015, 09:15
Topic: ” Environmetal and host-dependent risk factors of lymphomagenesis in human”
Place: Aula 2. et., Sydbygg, Stavanger Universitetssykehus
Public defence: Friday January 9, 2015, 10.30
Place: Aula 2. et., Sydbygg, Stavanger Universitetssykehus
Title of dissertation: ” Malignant Lymhoma in primary Sjøgren’s syndromes”
1st opponent Ph.d. Førsteamanuensis Klaus Beiske, Universitetet i Oslo
2nd opponent Førsteamanuensis Anne Marie Lynge Pedersen, Universitetet i Cobenhagen, Denmark
Every semester the University of Bergen organizes a educational course for group leaders (seminar leaders) who will work with teaching during the semester. The course is organized by the Program for university education at the Faculty of Psychology. Location and time: VilVite, Bergen, week 33/35. Registration by e-mail to Kåre Helleve.
For more information (in Norwegian)
It is always exciting and nerve racking to wait for the results of the various grant applications every fall. This year we first learned that 2 groups received funding from the NovoNordisk Foundation. Shortly afterward a ERA-Net (Mellgren) and Marie Curie project (Johansson) was awarded to K2-researchers. Thereafter K2-researchers received large grants from The Norwegian Cancer Society. The Stian Knappskog was awarded one of the prestigious BFS-grants. This week K2-researchers have received large grants from The regional Health Authorities and NFR. The latter was divided amon 2 FRIPRO projects (Gjertsen, Njølstad), a mobility grant (Reksten), and a Young Investigator Grant (Bryceson). Altogether the NFR grants are worth 27 million NOK over 3 years. Finally, K2 captured 2 of the 3 PHD-grants announced from UiB.
Congratulations to all of you who have received grants. I also wantt to take the opportunity to thank all those who have helped writing these Grants. Thanks to Corina Guder and Sumathi Subramaniam for helping with grant applications, to Siv Eggereide and her team for putting together budgets and to Synnøve Myhre who has organized and overseen the work
To those of you that did not receive grants – send an improved application next year. To those of you who did not apply – do so next time!
Remember that NFR and EU grants come with overhead and are obtained in fierce competition on national and international competitors. This is very important for the K2’s economy – it now looks somewhat less bleas than last week. Next week we can worry about the budget, but this week I prefer to have a content smile
Have a peaceful weekend
Eystein
Head of Institute
It is now possible to apply for parking spot on haukelandsbakken for 2015. For more information (in Norwegian)
