Category Archives: 2023

Masterproject to IBM

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Dear all

The new students on the Master’s programme of biomedicine will be looking for projects this autumn and spring. We are therefore collecting project descriptions for them. Please use the attached form if you have projects for our students. The timeline of the projects is from June/august 2023 to June 2024.

Please send your project to studie.biomed@uib.no by the 24th of October. We will distribute all the projects to the students on Mitt UIB after this deadline. The students are then encouraged to approach the supervisors of the projects they are interested in.

We also ask you to hand in the Master’s agreement (see attached file) 14 days after you have formally signed on a student, or let us know if a project is taken. Then we can update the list of available projects.

Please let me know if you have any questions about taking on a master student. 

Best, Bianca

Center seminar 30.10.23 on: Women’s Health, menopause, social security utilization and sustainable work participation

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Associate professor Inger Haukenes and professor Silje Mæland present. Are YOU ready? Then bring your lunch box to meeting room 8.1-8.2 Laboratory building, Monday 30.10.23 @ 12-13. Coffee and tea will be served together with the Center cake. The event is open to all.

More details here. 

# Joint MED-CBU seminar

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CBU will host a joint MED-CBU seminar open to all interested in
bioinformatics and data on the 19th of October at 11:15 in the Blåbær
room, høyteknologisenteret 5th floor. This will be followed by an
opportunity to mingle between the MED and CBU communities around *free
pizza*.
If you are interested in joining, please contact Marc
(marc.vaudel@uib.no) so that we can plan the amount of pizza to order.
Please also include dietary requirements and whether you need assistance
of any kind.
Hoping that many of you will join,
Anagha and Marc

Call for Applications for CAS Research Grant

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The Centre for Advanced Study (CAS) invites researchers to pursue excellent, fundamental, curiosity-driven research in Oslo during the 2025/2026 academic year. Assemble your international dream team of prominent researchers and apply for a research stay at CAS.

Each year, we host three research groups working within and across the following fields:

  • Humanities/Theology
  • Social sciences/Law
  • Natural sciences/Medicine/Mathematics

The research groups stay at CAS, situated at the stately premises of The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in Oslo, for one academic year. Each project receives a grant of roughly NOK 3.2 million.

Application deadline: 18 October 2023.

https://cas-nor.no/call-applications-cas-research-grant

 

Call for master’s projects Biomedicine

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The new students on the Master’s programme of biomedicine will be looking for projects this autumn and spring. We are therefore collecting project descriptions for them. Please use the attached form if you have projects for our students. The timeline of the projects is from June/august 2023 to June 2024.

Please send your project to studie.biomed@uib.no by the 24th of October. We will distribute all the projects to the students on Mitt UIB after this deadline. The students are then encouraged to approach the supervisors of the projects they are interested in.

We also ask you to hand in the Master’s agreement (see attached file) 14 days after you have formally signed on a student, or let us know if a project is taken. Then we can update the list of available projects.  

Please let me know if you have any questions about taking on a master student. 

MAL Projectdescription
Ferdig masteravtale engelsk versjon (skrivbar PDF) (1)

Launches new application portal for external funding

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Research advisors at the Faculty of Medicine have recently launched a new portal for researchers applying for external funding.

The web portal acts as a common entry point for researchers at all departments seeking different types of external funding: «Application Support for External Funding»

“The new portal, or webpage, is a result to deliver simpler and streamlined processes for external funding applications”, says leader of the faculty research advisor team, senior advisor Ramune Midttveit.

Better utilization of the competence of the different advisors

Midttveit believes that with the new routines, they will be better able to utilize the competence of the different advisors.

“Previously we were organized with individual advisors tied to specific departments, which made it more difficult to match the individual strengths to the needs”, she explains.

“In this way, we ensure that researchers have easy access to advisers regardless of department”.

Making it easier to transfer tasks

The previous system also created challenges with maintaining quality when staff left or went on various kinds of leave:

“With the new organization, all advisors are involved throughout the entire process across departments, which makes it easier to transfer tasks between us”, the senior advisor explains.

“At the same time, we ensure that the individual adviser gets the best use of his expertise, regardless of the institute”, Midtveit concludes.

Read more at the portal  «Application Support for External Funding»

Editorial

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Research day at MED – an inspiration for collaboration

The research day at MED brought together around 100 inquisitive K2 employees this week. The main theme was collaboration and new alliances, both within the institute and externally conveyed by lectures, poster presentations and informal discussions.

Two working groups presented ways to improve cooperation. The most exciting was a “matchmaker function” called Science Match, which will facilitate collaboration both at K2 and the faculty. As an app or website, Science Match is intended to help K2 employees and students to find expertise, instruments, equipment and chemicals at campus. You need not travel to California (even if that is more fun) for an expertise that can be found on the floor below. In the subsequent discussion, it was brought up that some universities apply PhD and Master’s student rotations between research groups. I think this is an exciting concept that will increase the students’ competence and stimulate collaboration – perhaps it can be implemented in the 4-year PhD program at MED? The challenge is hereby sent to the deanery.

But research and collaboration require funds. Eystein Jansen, perhaps the most merrited researcher at UiB and vice-president of the European Research Council (ERC), talked about ERC grants, both for young people (Starting Grant), those on the way (Consolidator) and seniors (Advanced). Synergy Grants can be sought for ground-breaking research where 2-4 partners join forces to create something completely new. Somewhat unique to the ERC grants is that there is only one criterion, scientific excellence! Norway does not come out very well in this competition, neither in relation to our Nordic neighbours, and especially not compared to countries such as Israel, Switzerland and The Netherlands, which are at the top of the world in terms of innovation and technology. Those who want to apply can get good support from the Research Department and positioning funds can be applied for. There is also the opportunity to register as a panel member and thus learn more about the application process and what is required.

Later in the day, we received a presentation from Ole Johan Borge, Director for Health Research and Innovation at The Research Council of Norway. He told us that we cannot expect the Research Council to receive more funds in the future and the competition is fierce, but there are opportunities and there are K2’ers who succeed. Øystein Fluge (K2) and Johan Tronstad (Biomedicine) recently received funding under the Women’s Health Program for research on ME – congratulations!

Women’s health is indeed one of the thematic umbrellas at MED with several strong groups, and where it can be expected that earmarked funds will come in the future. I believe most of K2’s groups can do have a women’s or gender perspective on their research, so work strategically.

Another thematic umbrella is bioinformatics, which is becoming an increasingly important part of research at the faculty. Here we need to build a stronger environment at the faculty and improve the service to the groups so that bioinformatic analyses do not become a major delay in projects – if it takes years to get a dataset analysed we lose in the competition.

Last but not least, the poster competition was a refreshing and interactive exercise, with many excellent presentations. In tough competition, Marianne Hannisdal and colleagues from K2 and Biomedicine won with a poster on the use of MRI and artificial intelligence to predict the growth of gliomas – congratulations!

The research day was a success and will certainly stimulate more collaboration across groups, departments and faculties – we look forward to the continuation.

Eystein Husebye
Vice Head of Department

Young Researchers Night

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Join us for an ‘Energetic’ evening of science, socializing and music on 29th September!

 The Young Academy of Norway (AYF) and UIBdoc cordially invite you to join us at the Young Researchers Night in Bergen which will take place at EITRI on 29th September. This year’s theme for the “Forskningsdagene” is centred around Energy. This event will delve into offshore wind generation, the perspectives of Norwegians regarding energy production, burnout, and the advancement of academic career paths.

Hosts: Mari Skuggedal Myksvoll (AYF) and Salwa Suliman (AYF)

Program
19:00 Doors open
19:00 – 19:30 Mingling with pizza & drinks
19:30 Welcome (short info about AYF and UiBdoc)
19:35 Thea Gregersen, Senior Researcher, Norce: ‘Norwegians’ view on energy production’
20:00 Lise Doksæter Sivle, Researcher, Institute of Marine Research: ‘Offshore wind production and noise in the ocean’
20:20 Break + Drinks (Violinist Masoumeh Jahani Kadousaraei, PhD student, UiB)
20:30 Silje Mæland, Professor, Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, UiB: ‘Burnout (Work/Life Energy)’
21:00 Career Development dialogue: Salwa Suliman (UiB), Mari Skuggedal Myksvoll (Institute of Marine Research) and Valentyn Oksenych (UiB)
21:30 Mini-Concert by ‘Specific Moments’ (Funky Indie Pop/ Rock)
23:59 Doors close

The primary audience is early career researchers, including PhD students. However, the event is open to everyone, and we extend a warm welcome to students who have an interest in science to join us.

The event is free of charge and will take place at EITRI (Haukelandsbakken 31).

A complimentary bar and pizza will be provided for early arrivals. 

Please register for the YRN Bergen 2023 event here: https://app.checkin.no/event/61744/young-researchers-night-bergen

More information is found at the Facebook-event: https://fb.me/e/GJ2U46xJ