Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to invite you to our first digital gathering for the informal Research Infrastructure Network at the University of Bergen.

The network is initiated by a core group of three persons at different faculties (Hiwa Målen/SVFA, Susanna Pakkasmaa/MATNAT & Jorunn Viken/PSYKF), to share experiences, information, best practices and the like, and the potential members will be people working hands-on with research infrastructures.

Please see the agenda for our first digital gathering, that will take place on Tuesday 19 May, between 13:00-14:30.

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Dear all

We are happy to announce that the two courses formerly postponed due to the corona measures, now will take place as web-based courses which you can attend from your home office:

• CCBIO904 Biomarkers and Tumor Biology in Clinical Practice: May 25-27, 2020 (full days)
• CCBIO908 Scientific Writing & Communication Seminar, June 8-11, 2020 (4 half days)

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Arbeidsmiljø – trakassering – håndtering

Et godt arbeidsmiljø kjennetegnes av god ledelse, medvirkning fra ansatte og tydelige organisatoriske rammer. Kompetanse, god kommunikasjon, mestring og anerkjennelse gir både trygghet og trivsel. Noen ganger er det imidlertid ikke slik og det oppstår situasjoner på arbeidsplassen om fører til mobbing og trakassering.

Vernetjenesten ved UiB ønsker å sette fokus på betydningen av godt arbeidsmiljø gjennom frokostseminarserien Arbeidsliv i endring – hva med arbeidsmiljøet. Serien setter søkelys på arbeidslivs- og arbeidsmiljøfaktorer under endring og omstilling. Hvordan tar vi vare på arbeidsmiljøet vårt og hverandre i en verden som stadig er i endring? Hvordan ha fokus på arbeidsmiljø med stadig nye krav til effektivitet, kompetansebygging, fleksibilitet, bærekraft og nye digitale løsninger i arbeidslivet? Målgruppen er alle ansatte og ledere.

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Due to the corona virus the seminar is cancelled. We hope to be able to arrange this day later this year.

Due to the corona virus the teaching day is cancelled. We hope to be able to arrange this day later this year.

The Norwegian Society for Flow Cytometry (NFCF) would like to welcome you to:

·       Nordic Flow Cytometry Meeting 2020 – Thursday 27th and Friday 28th of August

Expand your horizon with versatile talks by exciting international and Scandinavian speakers (see attached program). Meet the Scandinavian cytometry community and make new contacts. Discover the latest innovations at the commercial exhibition and talks. Submit an abstract and discuss your project during the poster session. For students: A poster at this international conference is eligible for 2 study points (ECTS) at all Norwegian Universities.

·       Basic Flow Cytometry course – Wednesday 26th of August (optional)

The day before the meeting, a flow cytometry course will be held by the talented Dr. Mikkel S. and Dr. Charlotte C. Petersen. You can sign up for this course in addition to the meeting. For students: The course is eligible for 1 study point (ECTS) at different Norwegian Universities.
For registration and more information: www.flowcytometri.no/oslo-2020

For a list of the speakers and more information about the course topics, see the attached file: Flyer NordicFlowCytometryMeeting2020

We are happy to invite you to the CCBIO course CCBIO904 – Biomarkers and tumor biology in clinical practice, April 20-22, 2020.

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Save the date for a Satellite Symposium May 11th 2020 at Solstrand Hotel, the day before and the same place as the CCBIO Annual Symposium 2020. This year’s overarching topic is Biomarkers in Immunotherapy. Registration is now open. Preliminary program and registration is found here.

Save the date! The 8th CCBIO Annual Symposium will take place at Solstrand Hotel May 12-13 2020. More information and registration is found here. Registration is open.

26. mars arrangerer KK, i samarbeid med UiB, sin eigen forskingsdag. Fødselshjelp og kvinnesjukdommar engasjerer bredt og vi ønskjer å fortelje alle interesserte om kva vi forskar på, kvifor, kva resultata seier og korleis vi brukar ny kunnskap.

Vi kan lokke med nokon av landets dyktigaste kvinnehelseforskarar, og tør påstå at du ikkje bør gå glipp av å høyre på dei spennande og aktuelle debattantane i panelet vi jobbar med å setje saman.

Første halvdel av programmet vil vere retta mot fagmiljø og andre forskarar (kl. 14-16). Andre halvdel av arrangementet er ope for alle med korte publikumsvennlege presentasjonar, før vi avsluttar med paneldebatt om forsking og kvinnehelse (kl. 17-19).

K2 sine involverte forskningsgrupper på KK (Line Bjørge, Cathrine Ebbing og Camilla Krakstad) er hjarteleg til stade og viser fram si forskning.

Tid: kl. 14.00–19.00 (mingling & mat kl. 16.oo–17.00)

Stad: Auditoriet, 4. et. Kvinneklinikken på Haukeland universitetssjukehus

Det blir enkel servering

Meir utfyllande program kjem snart, men du kan allereie melde deg på her meld deg på her

Vel møtt!

Beste helsing frå forskingsmiljøet på KK/UiB

Are you planning to submit a grant application for a life science
research project? This course will cover how you can generate a data
management plan which meets the requirements of the funding organisations.

When: 04.03.2020 – 09.00–16.00
Where: UiB Learning Lab Store læringsrom i Media City
Bergen, Lars Hilles gate 30
Registration deadline: 26.02.2020

For more information about the work shop and registration click here.

The annual NorDoc PhD Summit brings together PhD students from the Nordic countries for two days of interaction and discussions. The summit is open to PhD students, faculty and administrators.

The topic of this year’s summit is Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Career Development

The final programme for the summit and the courses will be available here in March, when registration opens.

Day Zero will take place: Wednesday 5th February 08-21

Day Zero is the first day of the annual SDG Conference in Bergen. This will be an informal kick-off for the conference. The events are mainly aimed at students and staff in the university sector, and participation is free (except for the reception).

The events include workshops, panel debates, lectures, scientific poster displays and more at Kvarteret and the Student Centre (Studentsenteret). Day Zero wraps up with an informal reception at Kvarteret, which includes the metal science opera Fish to Mars, and a public debate at Litteraturhuset.

See entire programme here: https://www.uib.no/en/sdgconference/128007/day-zero-wednesday-5-february-2020

The career day for PhD-candidates and post docs has become a regular event on the agenda of the Faculty of Medicine. This year we have invited a professional career consultant from the University of Aarhus, and want to look into innovation as a career opportunity. As usual, we will also hear from former PhD-candidates who now have exciting jobs and in the afternoon there will be three parallel workshops on skills that are useful for your future career. Plakat Karrieredag 2020 A3

The Faculty of Medicine covers the participation fees (so its free for you), but please register for lunch and the workshops. https://skjemaker.app.uib.no/view.php?id=7836080

Senter for ernæring har gleden av å invitere til et nytt seminar i vår seminarrekke. Serien tar opp sentrale utfordringer innen ernæring og helse.

Maternal nutrition in a modern world. Are we creating new risks for the baby?

Foreleser: Eleni Papadopoulou, PhD, Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH), Oslo

Moderator: Petur Benedikt Juliusson
Tid: Torsdag 23. januar kl. 14.30-15.30
Sted: Auditorium 2, BB-bygget, Jonas Lies vei 91

Eleni Papadopoulou is an epidemiologist at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH). Her background is in nutrition and environmental health. She holds a PhD in Environmental Epidemiology (2013) from the Barcelona Institute for Global Health, Spain, on the impact of early life exposures to environmental contaminants on fetal growth and endocrine disruption. Her research is focused on the investigation of exposures to environmental contaminants with toxic effects for humans, especially using birth cohorts, as well as the interactions with beneficial nutrients. When coming to NIPH, she first received funding as a Marie Curie post-doctoral fellow to study human dietary exposures to new “emerging” toxicants and currently she is funded by the Norwegian Research Council (“CATCH-UP project”) for a study aiming to identify early life environmental stressors that can affect child growth in the Norwegian Mother, Father and Child cohort study.

Abstract
Diet and nutrition are among the major modifiable risk factors for the prevention of Non-communicable diseases (NCDs), and more specifically alcohol use, inactivity and unhealthy diet, as well as obesity. In addition, exposure to environmental chemicals have become hot topics due to the link to increase NCD risk. These chemicals are now considered the new threats for human health, mainly because some of them after they enter the human body can mimic the function of our hormones and promote adverse health effects. The periods of pregnancy and early life are identified as critical periods to tackle NCD risk development, as the risk factors are developing long time before the occurrence of the disease, all the way to the pregnancy period and the fetal life. This is no different for environmental chemicals, as the placenta is not protecting the fetus from being exposed to them and the child is born with detectable levels of several environmental chemicals. In this talk, she will focus in the role of maternal diet as a source of exposure to environmental chemicals as well as beneficial nutrients and the associations with child’s physical development and health.

Det blir lett servering.

Velkommen!

http://www.uib.no/ernaring

International Centre invites scientifically personnel to mobility seminar Thursday 17. January 2020 13.30-15.30

The following topics will be presented:

• Financial sources
• Insurances
• National insurance scheme
• Tax
• Practicalities

Seminar will be held in English.

Link to calendar event here.
Link to registration here.

The Centre for Nutrition at UiB invites to a new seminar in the series of lectures on nutrition. The series addresses key challenges in nutrition and health.

Time: Wednesday November 20th  at 14.30-15.30

Venue: Auditorium 4, BB Building, Jonas Lies vei 91

Obesity and cancer

Speaker: Nils Halberg

Moderator: Simon E. Nitter Dankel

Dr. Halberg completed his graduate studies at the University of Copenhagen in 2009. Working in the laboratory of Dr. Philipp Scherer at the UT Southwestern Medical Center he studied the functional role of hypoxia and fibrosis in obese white adipose tissue. He did postdoctoral work in the laboratory of Dr. Sohail Tavazoie at the Rockefeller University studying the mechanisms of metastatic secretory programs in breast cancer. In 2015, he moved to the University of Bergen to start his academic laboratory in the Department of Biomedicine. His laboratory seeks to better our understanding of the mechanistic connection between obesity and cancer.

Obesity and overweight is consistently linked to tumor initiation and progression across 13 tumors types. This currently rank obesity as the second leading preventable cause of cancer right behind smoking. Although the epidemiological evidence is overwhelming the cellular mechanisms behind the link between obesity and cancer has been elusive. We propose a model wherein cancer cell adaptation to an obese environment leads to a cell differentiation towards a cancer stem cell phenotype through chromatin remodeling.

There will be light refreshments.

Welcome!

https://www.uib.no/en/nutrition