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!
Five international travel grants awarded!
We are happy to announce that the NORBIS board has awarded a total of 275 000 NOK, to support the research exchange of five NORBIS PhD students during 2018. Each student will receive funding corresponding to the NORBIS international travel grant guidelines, which may be found here. The five successful students are as follows:…Continue reading Five international travel grants awarded!
Integration of knowledge and logical modeling at Institut Curie and ENS in Paris
by Vasundra Touré, NTNU I had the chance to do my international exchange in Paris for 6months where I visited two research groups: Pr. Emmanuel Barillot’s group at Institut Curie and Pr. Denis Thieffry’s group at ENS Paris. Both have common domains of interest with my group. With the approval of my supervisor, I did this…Continue reading Integration of knowledge and logical modeling at Institut Curie and ENS in Paris
Developing new ideas at the Institute of Genetic Medicine in Newcastle
Newcastle International Centre for Life, Newcastle University by Miriam Gjerdevik, University of Bergen I visited Heather J. Cordell, Professor of Statistical Genetics, and her research group at Newcastle University, Institute of Genetic Medicine, from September 2017 to December 2017. Heather Cordell is a world-leading researcher within the development and application of statistical methodology to…Continue reading Developing new ideas at the Institute of Genetic Medicine in Newcastle
Learning advanced analysis of gene regulation in Zaragoza
CSIC – Estación Experimental de Aula Dei (EEAD), Zaragoza, Spain by Teshome Mulugeta, NMBU I am so grateful to NORBIS that I was given the opportunity to travel to EEAD-CSIC, Zaragoza, Spain as a visiting PhD student. It was a useful experience to me to work and talk with several outstanding people. My visit…Continue reading Learning advanced analysis of gene regulation in Zaragoza
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?
The same principles behind the internet, social networks and biological networks
Illustration: Colourbox NORBIS, supported by CCBIO, DLN and CBU, recently hosted a workshop on “Network Biology/Integromics Bioinformatics – Applications Towards Medicine” at Grand Hotel Terminus in Bergen, August 23rd-25th 2017. Konstantina Dimitrakopoulou and Eli Synnøve Vidhammer at CCBIO have written a nice report about the workshop at the CCBIO webpages, which you can read here. In…Continue reading The same principles behind the internet, social networks and biological networks
A report from our third annual national conference at Sommarøy
Snorre Sulheim has written a nice report from our third conference at Sommarøy, for the Centre for Digital Life Norway here, thank you so much Snorre! For more photos from the conference, please see our Facebook albums here and here.
An autumn with Bayesian approaches in Vienna
Hi, my name is Aliaksandr Hubin and I am a PhD student at the department of Mathematics of the University of Oslo. In this report I would like to share my international exchange experience, which took place in Autumn 2017 and was funded by the NORBIS travel grant. During my exchange I was…Continue reading An autumn with Bayesian approaches in Vienna
Learn ‘High Performance Computing in Bioinformatics’
Want to learn how to effectively use HPC clusters for running computationally or data intensive bioinformatics applications? Register now to join our course on ‘High Performance Computing in Bioinformatics‘, which runs in Oslo 16-27 April, by Torbjørn Rognes et al. Read more and register here by 1st February (for obtaining credits, the deadlines are as…Continue reading Learn ‘High Performance Computing in Bioinformatics’