New course on functional metagenomics at NMBU, Ås

This year, NORBIS will offer two courses on metagenomics analysis. ‘Bioinformatics for metagenomics and environmental sequencing‘  will run at UiO in March, and will primarily deal with amplicon-data and the corresponding data analysis. The new course, ‘Bioinformatics for functional metagenomics‘, will run at NMBU Ås in September, and will focus more on assembly, binning, annotation, transcriptomics and…Continue reading New course on functional metagenomics at NMBU, Ås

Join the next BREW, in Bergen 1-2 June 2017

Registration for the next BREW – Bioinformatics Research and Education Workshop – is now open! BREW is a workshop for PhD students in bioinformatics and computational biology, and aims to give an introduction to scientific conferences, including submission, peer review and presentation of scientific papers. All participants must submit a paper and take part in reviewing…Continue reading Join the next BREW, in Bergen 1-2 June 2017

Funding available for international exchange!

NORBIS encourages you as a member to spend part of your PhD period (at least 3-6 months) at an institution abroad, to benefit from international expertise and to expand your international network. We have funding available for such an exchange, and we now invite you to apply for financial support for your stay. Read more and apply here…Continue reading Funding available for international exchange!

Meet our students!

NORBIS now finally has an overview over its student members, so that you more easily can see what topics your fellow students are working on. Go have a look here, and please let us know if you want to update your own entry.