Monday 04th November at 13:15, NORBIS PhD member Chiara Fantinato is defending her PhD thesis entitled “Implications of background and environmental DNA on activity level evaluation of DNA traces collected at the crime scene”. NORBIS congratulates! To follow his defense, see who have defended their thesis lately and who will be next, please see our Dissertation…Continue reading Dissertation for Chiara Fantinato!

Friday 25th October at 13:15, NORBIS PhD member Belén García Pascual is defending her PhD thesis entitled “Mathematical Modelling of Cellular and Evolutionary Processes in Changing Environments”. NORBIS congratulates! To follow his defense, see who have defended their thesis lately and who will be next, please see our Dissertation site.

Colloid conference ECIS-2024 from the perspective of membrane biophysics Written by Aleksei Nesterenko, PostDoc at CBU, University of Bergen I attended the yearly European Colloid and Interface Society meeting in Copenhagen on 1-6th of September with my poster about the computation of microscopic stress at phase interfaces. As I am focused on lipids in my…Continue reading Conference report from Aleksei Nesterenko

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 is welcoming two new student board members; Hannah Rose Babel at the University of Bergen (UiB) and Ashley Ahimbisibwe at the University of Oslo (UiO).

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!