Election notice and invitation to propose candidates from group B for the department council and the faculty board is found here: Dept council K2 2020 and Faculty Board K2 2020.
Proposals must be received by the Electoral secretary, Gjert Bakkevold, gjert.bakkevold@uib.no within 03:00PM Tuesday 31 March 2020.
The election will take place from Thursday 7 May ( 09:00AM ) to Wednesday 13 May 2020 (12:00AM )
Sjur Lehmann will defend his PhD thesis on Tuesday 24th March 2020 at 11:15
Trial lecture: Tuesday 24th March 2020 at 09.15.
Topic: “Caesarean section: evolution of indications and practice in Scandinavia”
Place: Digital defence via Skype
Public defense: Tuesday 24th March 2020 at 11.15.
Title of dissertation: “Trial of labor after a previous cesarean section, Norway 1989-2014: A justified practice?” Place: Auditorium 1, BB-bygget, Jonas Lies vei 91
1st opponent: Professor Tine Brink Henriksen, Aarhus Universitetshospital, Danmark
2nd opponent: Postdoktor Ingvil Krarup Sørbye, Oslo Universitetssykehus
3rd member of the committee: Professor Francisco Gomez Real, Universitetet i Bergen
The defense will be led by professor Jone Trovik
Helse Bergen kan innkalle leger som har permisjon fra Helse Bergen for å arbeide som stipendiater og forskere. Disse kan bli innkalt direkte fra aktuell avdeling. I så fall må de gi beskjed til Gerd Johannessen. Ordningen gjelder IKKE leger som har hovedstilling på UiB, dvs 50% eller over. Fakultetet holder på å lage en avtale med Helse Bergen for disse legene.
Mer informasjon finner du her: Forskere og stipendiater til klinisk stilling
As a result of the new travel advice issued from the Norwegian authorities, UiB now recommends all employees who are on research stays or other work-related journeys abroad to return home.
UiB will cover the expenses of returning home for you as an employee and for your family.
Travel must be booked through travel agency: https://www.uib.no/foransatte/90246/reise?step=3
Here are recent publications with contributions from K2 based on last week’s search on PubMed (and optionally articles that have not been included in previous lists). This time the list includes in total 11 recent publications. The entries appear in the order they were received from NCBI. If you have publications that are not included in this or previous lists, please send the references to Oda Barth Vedøy.
Dear all,
Please see below the updated links for external funding:
External funding opportunities
Funding opportunities for education
The webpages are updated every second week. New calls are marked as NEW.
Kind regards,
Amra, Ramune and Kaia
Dear all employees at the Department of Clinical Science
We are experiencing a dramatic time with no parallel in Norway at peace. But we have to deal with this. We have over 350 employees with large resources in many different ways. Now it is important to use these in a good and constructive way. This is going to cost; it is changing daily life for all of us. But I already notice that you are taking this in a positive way. Thank you so much! Although most of us do not need to worry about the infection itself, it can mean a long illness and even death for old people and those with serious chronic illnesses. And if the hospitals are unable to maintain the basic staffing, it will hit everyone anyway. Henceforth, we must faithfully follow all the advice and orders of the authorities to prevent and prevent the spread of infection. Here are some clarifications and practicalities for K2:
K2 is physically closed
As you are informed by email from Pro-Rector Margareth Hagen and Dean Per Bakke, the entire university is physically closed from yesterday at 18. All activities on campus will be stopped as soon as possible and at the latest during the weekend. With few exceptions, no one should come to work. All activity must now be done digitally. For those premises that have the Helse Bergen IDs card as an access cards, these will function as before. It is possible that doors operated by UiB’s ID cards will be closed to those who cannot access by exception. This is unclear at the time of writing.
What about equipment and special laboratory experiments?
There are certain exceptions when it comes to people who need to inspect or repair instruments as well as special laboratory tests. I have delegated to the research group leaders, that today they will decide which people and what trials will be involved in stopping the trials over the weekend, which persons and trials must continue to be of special importance in terms of scientific and financial importance , and what equipment and people are needed to inspect and if necessary repairing important instruments in the labs, as well as making a list of these issues.
How is Management reached?
The Management has from now on home office, but Julie Stavnes, Eystein Husebye and I will physically be able to get into the buildings in emergency situations. Use mail or phone to reach us.
What are the Management´s phone numbers?
Pål R. Njølstad 481 41 578
Julie Stavnes 995 91 846
Eystein Husebye 994 04 788
Silk Apple 410 80 067
Jone Trovik 924 25 171
Emmet McCormack 482 03 610
What about economy and staff functions?
These should be taken care of as far as possible through a home office.
How do we do it with signatures from the Head of Department?
Signature documents must be sent to me or Eystein in electronic format. If something is urgent, make sure we are available via sms.
Teaching
As communicated before, this must be done digitally, and here you have to be creative. It is referred to previous mails from the Faculty and K2.
How can I set up Skype or video conferencing from home?
For help setting up Skype or video conferencing from home, see https://it.uib.no/Skrivebord.uib.no
Who is the contact person for equipment?
This is Eystein Husebye
It will be a different weekend and time ahead of us. Take good care of each other.
Pål
The work on the Incubator building has now started, and since the building is so close to the Laboratory building, this has some consequences for those who have their workplace there. Among other things, the door on the 8th floor is closed and the parking spaces have been moved, in addition it might be expected some noise for those who are situated close to the construction site.
Les oppdatert nyhetssak fra UiB der Rebecca Cox svarer på ti kjappe om coronaviruset. 
Professor Rebecca Cox ved Klinisk institutt 2 er ekspert på virus og vaksiner. Foto/ill.: Wikipedia og Kim E. Andreassen
I forbindelse med det pågående virusutbruddet, ser vi at også ph.d.-utdanningen vil bli
rammet på ulike måter. Det medisinske fakultet har mange ph.d.-kandidater som berøres
enten ved at de skal disputere i vår eller ved at de skulle reist på ulike større kurs eller
konferanser som nå avlyses eller utsettes.
K2 har satt siste frist for innlevering av disputaser til 30.mars for disputaser som ønskes gjennomført før sommeren 2020.
Har du allerede en foreløpig dato så ta kontakt med instituttet ved Irene Hjelmaas slik at instituttet er informert om at innlevering kommer.
Disputaser:
– Skal inntil videre gå som planlagt på følgende måte:
– Gjennomføres med 1 . og 2. opponenten på skype med 3. opponent, Custos og doktorand fysisk tilstede.
– Publikum følger disputas digitalt
Det er tid for at fakultetet igjen må etterspørre hovedoppgaver til medisinstudiet. Mer informasjon finner du her: hovedoppgaveveiledere i medisinstudiet . Innmelding av hovedoppgaver fylles ut av oppgaveveileder her.
Fristen for innmelding er 20. mars.
Vi gjør dog oppmerksom på at veiledere også har anledning til å sende inn oppgaveforslag kontinuerlig hele tiden, og disse vil straks gjøres tilgjengelig for studenter. Men da nå et helt kull (kull 17) er på jakt etter oppgaveprosjekter denne våren, håper vi å få inn en del forslag til nye hovedoppgaver nå.
Universitetet i Bergen lyser ut til sammen 2,1 millioner kroner i søkbare insentivmidler for kvalitetshevende tiltak i utdanningene. Utlysningsteksten finner du her: Intensivmidler. Retningslinjene finner du her: Retningslinjer insentivmidler oppdaterte i januar 2020 og søknadsskjema finner du her: Søknadsskjema insentivmidler. Søknadsfrist: 3. april.
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.
Here are recent publications with contributions from K2 based on last week’s search on PubMed (and optionally articles that have not been included in previous lists). This time the list includes in total 6 recent publications. The entries appear in the order they were received from NCBI. If you have publications that are not included in this or previous lists, please send the references to Oda Barth Vedøy.
Dear all,
Please see below the updated links for external funding:
External funding opportunities
Funding opportunities for education
The webpages are updated every second week. New calls are marked as NEW.
Kind regards,
Amra, Ramune and Kaia
This is to refer to the information sent out from the University Director and the Faculty of Medicine February 28 on handling the coronavirus at UiB (https://www.uib.no/en/corona).
Since we work in a health institution, we must also follow the guidelines of Helse Bergen, which in turn follows the advice of the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. We therefore ask all employees who have been in areas with a persistent spread of coronavirus to stay home from work for 14 days after returning home. The purpose is to reduce the risk of infection to patients and employees in the health and care service. The health and care service is particularly vulnerable to outbreaks of infection that can affect vulnerable patient groups. This council has retroactive effect for travelers returning home after February 17.
Travelers who develop respiratory symptoms during the first 14 days after returning home should isolate themselves at home and contact their GP on the phone. If you do not get in touch with your GP, call an emergency room on telephone 116117.
Symptoms of corona virus infection are fever, cough, difficulty breathing, or other respiratory symptoms.
Sustainable sites include mainland China, Iran, South Korea, Italy (all regions of Italy north of Rome – Valle d’Aosta, Piedmont, Liguria, Lombardy, Marche, Emilia-Romagna, Trentino-Alto Adige, Veneto, Friuli Venezia Giulia and Tuscany), Japan, Singapore, and Hong Kong.
The University management wants to be constantly updated on which employees we have at all times. Employees may have stayed in risk areas even in their spare time, but it is still important that this information is shared.
We hence ask you to register your own travel activities in the following form whether you have stayed, are staying or will be staying in areas with the spread of the coronavirus in the form that you find here: https://skjemaker.app.uib.no/view. php? id = 8138964
We do not yet know the extent of the epidemic and whether it will be a pandemic. If there are many who have to stay home without being particularly ill, I urge you to be inventive in meeting the most important university assignments. Mail is probably handled 24/7 for most of you anyway, but it is also possible to hold lectures or group lessons via Skype or similar platforms so that students get the education they need. Lectures and meetings that were scheduled in or outside Bergen can be conducted with video or telephone conferences if planned. As mentioned, it´s just to be innovative
Have a nice (corona free) weekend!
Pål Rasmus Njølstad
In connection with construction starts on the parking deck outside the eighth floor of the Laboratory Building, the entrance on the eighth floor is closed for regular access. The exit is however still the escape route for the eighth and ninth floors, and will be opened automatically upon evacuation. An emergency door opener has been installed.
New mustering place is at the parking lot by Ulriksbanen.
Internasjonale ph.d. gjesteforskere kan registreres i FS som PhD-VISIT og gis studentrettigheter, dersom deres finansiering er tilsvarende lånekassen sine satser. For oppdatert informasjon: https://www.uib.no/foransatte/130671/internasjonale-phd-gjesteforskere-med-egne-midler
We will show you how to create your educational portifolio (will be required for future academic positions), practical use of MCQ in Mitt UiB and Martin Biermann will talk about how to use e-learning platforms to promote learning. After lunch, we sum up the OSCE (objective structured clinical exam) –experiences , and we may all take part in groups creating new OSCE tasks that may be included in the exam database. Please register here. Press «continue reading» to view the program of the day.
Lunsjseminaret har som vanlig to høyaktuelle innlegg. Denne gang får vi besøk fra Norsk sender for forskningsdata som vil snakke om forskjellen mellom anonymisering og avidentifisering av forskningsdata.
Videre vil professor Nils Roar Gjerdet komme for å snakke om sluttfasen av et ph.d.-prosjekt: hvordan opprettholde momentum og hvilken rolle veileder spiller her.
Lenke til påmelding: https://www.uib.no/med/134238/veilederlunsj-phd-veiledere
Lunsjseminaret er gratis.
Prosjekt Tjenesteutvikling arrangerer POP-UP verksted i uke 11! Denne uken er vi innom de ulike fakultetene for å ha korte verksteder/kurs der du kan lære ny metodikk. Oversikt over de ulike kursene og hvor de befinner seg finner du her.
POP-UP verksted er et lavterskeltilbud for administrativt ansatte ved UiB. POP-UP verkstedene har ulike tema, varer 45 min og vil arrangeres på ulike lokasjoner i uke 11 (09.mars-13.mars). Se mer informasjon på www.uib.no/tjenesteutvikling
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
Can you tell us a little about your work? What are your specific tasks?
I am employed in a 100% position as professor of medical virology at the Department of Clinical Science. In addition, I am a senior consultant in the microbiology department, Haukeland University Hospital. In this latter position, I have for many years been involved in the introduction and use of nucleic acid diagnostics (e.g., PCR) for the rapid and accurate detection of viral infections in patients. Clinical and laboratory work is very useful in virology teaching for medical students.
At K2, I am the group leader for the Prostate Cancer Therapy Research Group. This group has a solid molecular biological background and has researched basic regulatory and signaling mechanisms in cancer cells and virus-infected cells. Over the past few years, innovation has become a bigger role. Panels of chemical substances have been screened for effect on cancer cells, and we have discovered new chemical substances and published what for protein the drug interacts with in the cell and the mechanisms of action. Patenting is underway in collaboration with VIS and with further development in collaboration with research groups in Shanghai and the company Xennials Therapeutics in Chicago. One exciting project is cryoimmunotherapy, abbreviated CryoIT. This is a form of immunotherapy that uses the patient’s own dendritic immune cells. After parts of the cancerous tissue are killed by a freezing process with special equipment inside the patient, the immune cells are injected into the freeze-killed cancerous tissue. These dendritic cells are capable of responding to what is different in cancer cells and can then instruct the entire immune system to attack the cancer cells, including cancer cells that have spread in metastases around the body. A Phase I clinical trial has just been conducted with CryoIT for patients with metastatic prostate cancer. The results are very useful for the next generation CryoIT with start-up in 2021.
The research group has received support from the Research Council’s program NFR TREATMENT and from the Cancer Society for robust production of more potent therapeutic dendritic cells for the next generation of CryoIT. The cells will be produced in the new therapeutic cell laboratory in the Helse Bergen building on the Laboratory building floor 1M. In this work, we focus on a synergy between the pharmacological screening project and CryoIT.
What do you enjoy working on at K2?
It is research that is the major challenge and the biggest commitment, otherwise I would probably have gone in clinical direction with patient work at the hospital. The collaboration with the others in the group and colleagues and clinical teams is inspiring. It is also rewarding to be able to teach and disseminate to the students and to experience the many young talents that are going on with their education and goals. I feel that there is a good environment in the Laboratory building, but that the potential for research and innovation is still greater than what has manifested itself until now. We have a compact medical campus with a very well equipped laboratory. It is sad that so many colleagues lack project funding. In particular, the experimental research is underfunded as operating expenses are relatively high. I am extremely grateful for the great support that my research group has received from private heathens in Bergen. This support has been essential to ensure that our projects are progressing well, that new people are being hired, and that we are looking forward to exciting years where new cancer treatment is a key goal.
Here are recent publications with contributions from K2 based on last week’s search on PubMed (and optionally articles that have not been included in previous lists). This time the list includes in total 6 recent publications. The entries appear in the order they were received from NCBI. If you have publications that are not included in this or previous lists, please send the references to Oda Barth Vedøy.
Dear all,
Please see below the updated links for external funding:
External funding opportunities
Funding opportunities for education
The webpages are updated every second week. New calls are marked as NEW.
Kind regards,
Amra, Ramune and Kaia
We have already written quite a lot about RETTE here, but since there are still many projects with lacking information in the system, I will write a bit more here.
The RETTE system was established by the UoB in order to comply with GDPR and ensure that we follow existing legislation. UoB shall have an overview and control of all research projects and student projects that process personal data. Medical/Health research projects need approval from REK. Some projects have consulting duty with data protection officer, and NSD can assist in considering assessing privacy. After assessment or approval, information from NSD and REK is transferred to the RETTE.
RETTE automatically transfers projects approved by REK. Several of you have probably received an email stating that you have one or several projects in RETTE. When you log in the system (https://rette.app.uib.no/) you can fill inn additional information about the project and answer certain questions before you confirm the project. This is the responsibility of the project leader. I can recommend looking at “Start the project wizard” and “Documentation” on the website where you will get some answers as to what needs to be registered.
We will also have a faculty lunch with RETTE as topic in the near future.
Greetings from sunny and snowy Sjusjøen
Silke