The workshop Towards in Silico-Guided Clinical Trials in Cancer to be held in Oslo, 15-16 May 2019 at Scandic Holmenkollen Hotel. We bring together experts in systems medicine, mathematical oncology and bioinformatics to discuss novel concepts for personalise cancer medicine. Check the workshop website for more details and for registration: https://osloinsilico2019.weebly.com/ Confirmed speakers: Robert A. Gatenby, Moffitt Cancer Center, USA…Continue reading Towards in Silico-Guided Clinical Trials in Cancer
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Report from exchange to École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Report from exchange to École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Thanks to NORBIS I got the unique opportunity to experience a different laboratory in Switzerland for 6 months. First, upon arrival in Switzerland it took some time to organize everything before being able to start experiments. However, as soon as everything was in place the…Continue reading Report from exchange to École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Zhi Zhao’ research stay at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Developing new Bayesian models in London I am a PhD student at the Department of Biostatistics of the University of Oslo. I had stayed in London for four months funded by the NORBIS, as a visiting PhD student with the group of Dr. Alex Lewin, who is Associate Professor in Biostatistics at the Department…Continue reading Zhi Zhao’ research stay at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
VISITING FELLOW AT THE DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL STATISTICS AND COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY, CORNELL UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK, USA
By: Anna-Simone Josefine Frank I’m currently a PhD student at the School of Pharmacy (UiO) with a background in mathematics. A travel grant from NORBIS, for which I’m grateful, enabled me to spend six months (January to June 2018) as Visiting Fellow at Cornell University in New York, USA. My main affiliation at Cornell was…Continue reading VISITING FELLOW AT THE DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL STATISTICS AND COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY, CORNELL UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK, USA
Registration now open for our 4th annual conference – October 17-19
We are excited to invite you to join this year’s annual conference of NORBIS, the national research school in bioinformatics, biostatistics and systems biology. Our fourth conference takes place in alpine surroundings at Voss, along the train track between Oslo and Bergen, on October 17-19. Join us there for great talks by international experts and…Continue reading Registration now open for our 4th annual conference – October 17-19
Want to organise a course or a workshop with support from NORBIS?
Do you carry an idea for a course or a workshop within the fields of bioinformatics, biostatistics or systems biology? Want to invite international experts to give lectures at this event? Once again it is time for NORBIS to ask you to propose a course or a workshop to be organised with financial and administrative…Continue reading Want to organise a course or a workshop with support from NORBIS?
Nature Masterclass on scientific writing, September 6-7
We are happy to again offer you the opportunity to attend a Nature Masterclass workshop on scientific writing, in Fredrikstad September 6-7. The training is delivered by two senior editors from the Nature Publishing Group (Nature Biotechnology and Nature Communications), who will teach you how to get the most out of the writing process, to…Continue reading Nature Masterclass on scientific writing, September 6-7
NORBIS Summer School 2018: Robust and reproducible practices in bioinformatics programming, August 6-10
We are happy to announce that registration now is open for this year’s NORBIS summer school, ‘Robust and reproducible practices in bioinformatics programming‘, which takes place in Oslo, August 6-10. Please read more and register here, by June 20.
MedBioInfo course in ‘Machine Learning in Medical Bioinformatics’ June 11-15
We are happy to announce that NORBIS will have a number of seats available for our members at the course in ‘Machine Learning in Medical Bioinformatics’, organised by our Swedish collaborators MedBioInfo.se in Linköping, Sweden, June 11-15. NORBIS members may apply for a seat and a travel grant to attend the course, please read more here.
Apply for post doc membership to NORBIS!
Post-docs working in fields related to those of NORBIS may now sign up as post-doc members and enjoy the benefits of prioritised access to, and the possibility to apply for funding to join, NORBIS courses and workshops. In return, NORBIS expects post-docs to agree to list your project and areas of expertise in a database…Continue reading Apply for post doc membership to NORBIS!