Registration open for MedBioInfo conference 2023

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

Save the date! NORBIS-CEDAS summer school 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!

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. 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

Sophie Fisher-Holzhausen reports from the NORBIS public sector internship program

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

Report from Thea Os Andersen on her international exchange to Brisbane, Australia

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

Poster prize awarded to NORBIS PhD student Sophie Fisher

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!

Dissertation for Xiaokang Zhang!

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.