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
Register now for “Bioinformatics for functional metagenomics”
We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the NORBIS course “Bioinformatics for functional metagenomics“, which will take place at NMBU, Ås, 4-8 November 2019. This course will include an array of contrasting tools to decrypt microbial communities, including those that assess community structure (metagenomics, predictive genome-reconstruction) and function (metatranscriptomics, metaproteomics),…Continue reading Register now for “Bioinformatics for functional metagenomics”
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?
Registration now open for our 5th annual conference – September 30 – October 2
We are happy to invite you to this year’s annual conference of NORBIS, the national research school in bioinformatics, biostatistics and systems biology. Our fifth conference takes place in beautiful surroundings at Oscarsborg fortress, situated on an island in the Oslo fjord, on September 30 – October 2. Join us there for great talks…Continue reading Registration now open for our 5th annual conference – September 30 – October 2