News archive for Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences

Jocelyn Bell Burnell invites John Birks to sign the Fellows book of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

John's investiture in RSE (30.05.2016)

The investiture of John Birks to the Royal Society of Edinburgh took place on Monday 16 May 2016

Alistair Seddon standing before the title slide of his lecture called The Ecological Time Machinee

Alistair gives a Rick Battarbee lecture (30.05.2016)

On Thursday May 19th, Alistair Seddon delivered the Rick Battarbee lecture at University College London

Tiny little deep sea helpers may help Norwegian industry to be greener! (25.05.2016)

Juliane Wissuwa defended her PhD at the University of Bergen (UiB), 25.5.2016. It is entitled: "The Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge Vent Fields - A valuable Resource for Marine Bioprospecting?”.

Evidence for the Oldest Eukaryotic Life Found (21.05.2016)

Yuangao Qu, a post-doc at the Centre for Geobiology (CGB), was a member of a team who discovered macroscopic fossils from the 1 560 Myr old Gaoyuzhuang Formation in the Yanshan area of North China. The results have been published in Nature Communications.

Montage of a young man and woman, each holding a big grenadier on their hands

Studying fjord populations of roundnose grenadier (13.05.2016)

Janne and Aurelien have started their Master's projects with the roundnose grenadier - Janne with feeding ecology and Aurelien with spatial population structure.

A group of people posing in front of a white building

EvoFish in Bekkjarvik (12.05.2016)

Following the tradition establish in 2015, EvoFish convened at the Bekkjarvik Gjestgiveri for the annual meeting.

Schematic representation of the Naa10 protein, encoding exons, domains and localization of mutations in affected males and females.

New NAA10 mutations identified in 11 girls and boys with development delays. (12.05.2016)

In recent years, several sporadic cases of NAA10 mutations have been identified in patients with varying degrees of developmental delays. In the curremt issue of Human Mutation, Svein Isungset Støve, Marina Blenski and Thomas Arnesen from the NAT-group at the Department of Molecular Biology in collaboration with geneticists from Germany, France, the Netherlands and the United States discovered... Read more

Field study in Brasil (02.05.2016)