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.
6th NORBIS Annual Conference
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
Boston University research stay by Snorre Sulheim
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
New director of NORBIS
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
NORBIS Covid_19 webinar mini-series
To present some of the work done related to the novel disease Covid_19, NORBIS is arranging a webinar mini-series. First lecture is May 27th at 12.30. The lecturer is Kyrre Lekve from Simula Research Laboratories and topic is “Smittestopp”. Kyrre Lekve is Deputy Managing Director at Simula Research Laboratories and also member of the NORBIS…Continue reading NORBIS Covid_19 webinar mini-series
International exchange report from Xiaokang Zhang
With the support of NORBIS, I visited Professor Bernhard Palsson’s group, Systems Biology Research Group, in University of California, San Diego, USA, from September 2019 to February 2020. The original plan was actually from May to November 2020, but my application of the US visa was pending in the so-called “administrative process” for four…Continue reading International exchange report from Xiaokang Zhang
Register now for the “High Performance Computing in Bioinformatics” course
Registration is now open for the NORBIS course “High Performance Computing in Bioinformatics”, which will take place at UiO, Oslo, March 23rd – April 3rd, 2020. This course will focus on the application of high performance computing (HPC) to bioinformatics analysis, and is organized by Torbjørn Rognes. You will find more details about the…Continue reading Register now for the “High Performance Computing in Bioinformatics” course
Report from the 5th Annual Conference of NORBIS
Entrance to the fortress The 5th Annual NORBIS Meeting began with a ferry ride across the fjord to Oscarsborg fortress. The boat looked extremely serious as it approached us with the island and fort in the background, reminding us of the history of Oscarsborg! We then were off to a strong start, with Sushma…Continue reading Report from the 5th Annual Conference of NORBIS
Report from the NORBIS summer school 2019
A great week at the University of Tromsø! We started the week with an in-depth perspective into the importance of metabolomics, courtesy of our guest lecturer Hans Stenlund from the Swedish Metabolomic Centre, university of Umeå. He ensured we gained a detailed understanding of how we can attempt to study and capture the metabolome,…Continue reading Report from the NORBIS summer school 2019
Register now for the “Metabolic pathway analysis” course
Registration is now open for the NORBIS course “Metabolic pathway analysis”, which will take place at NTNU, Trondheim, 4-8 November 2019. This course will provide an introduction to computational analysis and reconstruction of both small and genome-scale metabolic networks, and is organised by Ines Heiland. You will find more details about the course and…Continue reading Register now for the “Metabolic pathway analysis” course