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Illustration of cod and pollutants
When environmental toxicology meets design (05.12.2019)
During the last months I have been thinking about how to communicate my PhD project to the general public. As a scientist, I explain my work with graphs and figures. But a figure which is easy to understand to my colleagues or peer reviewers, will find it hard to attract the attention of someone outside science.
Mashzhan Akzhigit
Eurasian students from Kazakhistan (15.11.2019)
Mashzhan Akzhigit , PhD student and Musabekov Zhorabek, master student at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University make their first research visit to University of Bergen under the Eurasian Framework. Welcome!
Edoardo Mandolini
Breakdown of keratin-laden biomass waste by the thermophilic bacteria Fervidobacterium pennivorans strain Ker (02.11.2019)
Edoardo Mandolini, will work on his master thesis focussing on the anaerobic thermophilic bacterium Fervidobacterium pennivorans, named strain Ker, isolated from a terrestrial hot-spring in Tajikistan.
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EMBRC-NO kicks off! (26.08.2019)
The Norwegian node (EMBRC-NO) of the European Marine Biological Resource Centre (EMBRC) starts officially on Wednesday 4 September.
Bilde av en gruppe studenter foran en av posterveggene
Full house on Poster Symposium (25.06.2019)
May 22 was an exciting day for students and staff at the Department of Biological Sciences, when the first Poster Symposium was arranged in Høyteknologisenteret.
Nordhordland, landscape
Norway's first Biosphere reserve approved (24.06.2019)
– People at the University of Bergen together with people from Nordhordland have been slaving away to make the first Norwegian biosphere under UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere programme happen.
Apinya Singkhala
Apinya Singkhala - Doctor of Philosophy in Biotechnology (18.06.2019)
Ms. Apinya Singkhala defended her PhD thesis, tilted Metagenomics and Isolation of Thermophilic Cellulase - producing Bacteria from Thermophilic High Solid Digestion Condition at the Department of Biology, Thaksin University in Thailand in May 2018. Congratulations!
Srisuda Chaikitkaew
Visiting PhD student from Thailand (18.06.2019)
Ms Srisuda Chaikitkaew has a Royal Golden Jubilee PhD scholarship awarded by the Thai Research Fund for a 10 month reseach visit to BIO.
Richard Payne in climbing gear sitting on a rock
Killed in Himalaya (06.06.2019)
Richard Payne, a former Marie Curie Fellow with EECRG in 2003, was killed climbing in the Himalaya
Connecting student active learning with the UN system (31.05.2019)
A unique course on SDG14 brings together student active learning and an interdisciplinary approach on how to engage with sustainability issues and how science can provide knowledge for a sustainable Ocean. We have produced three videos showing what makes the course special.
Project partners and collaborators
dCod'ers at the PRIMO 20 conference (28.05.2019)
The dCod 1.0 project puts its marks on successful PRIMO 20 in Charleston, South Carolina
Jakhongir
Visiting master student from Uzbekistan (06.05.2019)
Jakhongir Alimov, is a master student at National University of Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
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Visiting PhD student from Tajikistan (14.03.2019)
Ms. Munavvara Dhzuraeva, is a Phd student at the Biotechnology Center, Tajik National University, Tajikistan.
A row of orchids hanging from a high shelf at Kew Gardens
Orchids - Celebrate the Colour of Colombia (04.03.2019)
In 2019, the annual orchid festival at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew is devoted to Colombia.
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ERANet-funded research visit to University of Exeter (27.02.2019)
Researcher Antonio Garcia-Moyano made a research visit to the Centre for Biocatalysis at the University of Exeter, United Kingdom, hosted by Professor Jennifer Littlechild. Prof. Littlechild leads a group of experts in biochemistry and structural biology.
VirVar illustration
VirVar: Uncovering key players for regulation of phytoplankton function and structure: lessons to be learned from algal virus-haptophyte coexistence (07.02.2019)
New Marinforsk project, led by Ruth-Anne Sandaa (UiB) will explore the co-evolution of host resistance and virulence
Pau
Developing tools for heterologous expression of thermozymes (05.02.2019)
Pau Ximeno, student from Barcelona University will be working with us on his bachelor thesis for the Degree in Biotechnology. He will be involved in different tasks related to the development of molecular tools for the expression of thermophilic proteins in Thermus thermophilus.However he will also test the production, purification and activity of proteins in other alternative expression hosts.
Karina Dale posing with an Atlantic cod and a diploma
Award(winn)ing time at Beitostølen (31.01.2019)
The dCod project has been gathered at Beitostølen for the annual winter workshop. Following the workshop, many of us stayed on for the winter meeting of Norsk selskap for Toksikologi og Farmakologi (NSFT), where Karina Dale received award for best presentation in toxicology.

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