We are now happy to announce that the registration for the MedBioInfo conference is open! The conference will be handled in total by MedBioInfo. NORBIS offers up to 25 PhD students and postdocs to join this conference. PhD students will be prioritized. Please click the link below for more information. MedBioInfo conference 2023

    It’s time to save the date for the upcoming sommer school! This year we are collaborating with CEDAS, Center for Data Science at UiB. The summer school will be arranged in Bergen and the dates are 7-11 of August, 2023. Program and registration will be ready soon. So save the date!

Last year NORBIS developed an internship program for PhD students who are looking into jobs outside of academia. In this internship program, successful applicants got a scholarship covering three months of salary and living expenses (if needed) working within the public sector in Norway. NORBIS member Petra Hribovšek was one of the successful candidates and…Continue reading Report from Petra Hribovšek on her three months internship experience at the Institute of Marine Research in Bergen

Last year NORBIS developed an internship program for PhD students who are looking into jobs outside of academia. In this internship program, successful applicants got a scholarship covering three months of salary and living expenses (if needed) working within the public sector in Norway. One of the successful applicants was Sophie Fisher-Holzhausen who spent her…Continue reading Sophie Fisher-Holzhausen reports from the NORBIS public sector internship program

NORBIS PhD student member Thea Os Andersen wrote a successful application to our International Exchange call last year and she is now back in Norway after her exchange to Brisbane, Australia. “It’s never too late to go on exchange, to learn new things and experience a different scientific environment. I’m grateful for the support I…Continue reading Report from Thea Os Andersen on her international exchange to Brisbane, Australia

NORBIS PhD student Sophie has won a prize sponsored by AMGEN (https://www.amgen.com/) for her poster “A mechanistic model for endocrine profiles of female puberty maturation” which she presented at the 2021 Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Biology (https://www.smb2021.org/acknowledgments). Congratulations Sophie!

Friday 30th at 10:15, NORBIS PhD member Xiaokang Zhang is defending his PhD thesis entitled “Biomarker Discovery Using Statistical and Machine Learning Approaches on Gene Expression Data”. NORBIS congratulates! To follow his defense, see who have defended their thesis lately and who will be next, please see our Dissertation site.

The 6th NROBIS Annual Conference will due to the Covid-19 situation be different than normal years. This year we will organize the conference as a hybrid meeting over one and a half days. We plan for the meeting to be streamed online and the different partner institutions that can, arrange a local gathering for those…Continue reading 6th NORBIS Annual Conference

Last winter I was able to spend 6 months at the Daniel Segrè lab  at Boston University thanks to financial support from NORBIS and SINTEF. I arrived on October 1st 2019, in time to enjoy the fall season with beautiful colors, nice weather and good opportunities to explore Boston. Because I found it difficult to…Continue reading Boston University research stay by Snorre Sulheim

NORBIS has gotten a new director!     On October 1st, professor Susanna Röblitz took over the position as director of NORBIS. Susanna is a group leader at Computational Biology Unit (CBU) at University of Bergen (UiB). Her research group focuses on the construction, simulation, analysis and optimization of dynamic, mathematical models for biological and…Continue reading New director of NORBIS