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You are all invited to join the second annual conference of NORBIS, which will take place September 14-16, at Selbusjøen hotell & gjestegård. The conference aims at bringing together students and researchers, fostering collaboration between groups. The participants will learn about each others’ research, discuss science, be inspired by keynotes from leading researchers, and improve…Continue reading Welcome to the 2nd annual meeting of NORBIS 14-16 September!

NORBIS aims to organise in-depth courses and shorter workshops for method-oriented PhD students within the fields of bioinformatics, biostatistics and systems biology. If you carry an idea for a course or a workshop that falls within our fields, we hope that you now will take the opportunity to develop this with our help. Courses and workshops may…Continue reading Invitation to propose courses and workshops for NORBIS

In our new blog post, Gunnar explains how neural networks and deep learning may be applied in everyday life, as well as in bioinformatics; Neural Networks, Brain Bugs and Deep Learning.

Registration is now open for the NORBIS course ‘Bioinformatics methods for next generation sequencing analysis‘, which will take place at NTNU in Trondheim September 19-23! Register here by 19th August.

Read about how Niladri traced the footsteps of his forefathers on the NORBIS writing blog today! At some point they were apparently lost in Europe, before they wisely decided to head back to the warmth of Asia; The time machine in you.

Registration is now open for our next course, Genetic epidemiology and genome-wide association analyses, to be held in Bergen 6th-10th June 2016. Read more and register here!

The first NORBIS summer school, “An introduction to molecular biology, bioinformatics and biostatistics” will take place in Bergen, 13th –  17th June 2016! Read more and register by 29th April here – and help us spread the word outside NORBIS’ boundaries!

New exciting post in our writing blog! Evolution and disease; Why do genetic diseases survive evolution, despite often providing major drawbacks for the carrier? PS. Do you want to practise your writing and communication skills in an informal setting? Join our writing group! We are currently active only in Bergen, but you may still participate…Continue reading New blog post: Evolution and disease

Save the dates 6th-10th June 2016, if you want to learn about “Genetic epidemiology and genome-wide association analyses”. Read more about the course here, and come back in March to register.