24. April, 2017
NORBIS is happy to offer the opportunity to attend a Nature Masterclass workshop on scientific writing, in Fredrikstad 21-22 June. The training is delivered by editors from selected relevant journals from the Nature Publishing Group, and aims to help institutions and laboratories support their researchers in writing research papers. This high-level writing course is a collaboration between several Norwegian national research schools, and is aimed at senior PhD students and postdocs who are working on high-impact data for top-tier journals.
Read more and register here by 15th May.
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23. April, 2017
We are very happy to announce a workshop entitled ‘Network Biology/Integromics Bioinformatics – Applications Towards Medicine’, to take place in Bergen 23-25 August. During this workshop, world leading experts in the field will teach you how network science meets omics data, give you an introduction to graph theory, an overview of different types of biological networks and integromics approaches for complex disease analysis. Confirmed speakers include Albert-László Barabási, Benno Schwikowski and Laura Furlong and several others.
You may find more information and register (by 15th June) here.
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7. April, 2017
We are happy to announce that registration now is open for this year’s NORBIS summer school, which is entitled ‘Communicating research by visualisation, illustration and storytelling‘, and takes place in Bergen, August 28-September 1. Please read more and register here, by June 8.
3. April, 2017
The first NORBIS international travel grants have now been awarded!
In this very first round of grant applications, the NORBIS board has decided to generously award a total of 450 000 NOK, to support the research exchange of nine NORBIS PhD students. Each student will receive funding corresponding to the newly established NORBIS international travel grant guidelines, which may be found here.
The nine successful student are as follows:
| Name |
Institution |
Destination |
Department |
Duration |
| Francesco Delogu |
NMBU |
Braunschweig, Germany |
Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research |
3 months, Summer-Fall 2017 |
| Teshome Mulugeta |
NMBU |
Zaragoza, Spain |
Laboratory of Computational and Structural Biology |
3 months, April-May and Aug-Oct 2017 |
| Mahsa Jalili |
NTNU |
University of Aberdeen, UK |
Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences |
3 months, Aug-Oct 2017 |
| Kjersti Rise |
NTNU |
University of Iceland, Reykjavik |
The Centre for System Biology |
3 months, Apr-Jul 2017 |
| Vasundra Touré |
NTNU |
Paris, France |
Institut Curie and ENS Paris |
6 months, Sep 2017-Feb 2018 |
| Miriam Gjerdevik |
UiB |
Newcastle University, UK |
Institute of Genetic Medicine |
3 months, Sep-Dec 2017 |
| Anna Frank |
UiO |
Cornell University, New York, USA |
Department of Biological Statistics and Computationl Biology |
6 months, Jan-Jun 2018 |
| Aliaksandr Hubin |
UiO |
Medical University of Vienna, Austria |
Department of Medical Statistics |
3 months, Sep-Dec 2017 |
| Chloe B. Steen |
UiO |
Stanford University School of Medicine, San Fransisco, USA |
Department of Medicine and Stanford Cancer Institute |
6 months, Aug 2017-Jan 2018 |
We wish you all good luck, and look forward to reading your reports when you return!
