Research and research groups at BIO
The research activity of the Department of Biological Sciences covers a very broad area; from genes and proteins to cellular processes, from the growth and reproduction of organisms to dynamics and structure of populations and ecosystems. Our research ranges from examining the basic processes of life to mapping how we can best manage nature's resources by studying the interplay between human activity and biological systems.
Main content
The research groups of BIO mainly conduct research within microbiology, marine and terrestrial ecology and evolutionary biology, fisheries, biodiversity, developmental biology in fish, aquaculture, deep-sea biology, fish health, environmental toxicology and paleoecology. We have an extensive activity within molecular biology that includes biomedicine, biophysics, structural studies, biochemical and molecular characterization of proteins, and functional studies of living model systems like bacteria, yeast, sebra fish and cell cultures.
We collect data in the field, on cruises at sea and in dry and wet laboratories, through experiments, observations and time series, and use methods in biostatistics, computational biology and bioinformatics.
The Department of Biological Sciences has the largest and strongest university research environment within marine biology and we have large and strong activities within ecology and molecular life sciences.
Research at the Department of Biological Sciences (BIO) at UiB is organised in different research groups. The Department also has a large project portfolio. Around half of the scientific positions at BIO are supported through externally-financed research projects.
Our research groups
- Deep Sea Biology [Norwegian language]
- Terrestrial Ecology
- Environmental Toxicology
- Fish Immunology [Norwegian language]
- Marine Developmental Biology
- Fjord and Coastal Ecology
- Marine Microbiology [Norwegian language]
- Molecular Biology Group
- Sea Lice Research Group
- Theoretical Ecology Group
We collect data in the field, on cruises and in laboratories, through experiments, observations and time series and use methods within biostatistics, computational biology and bioinformatics, and we have Norway's largest and strongest university environment within marine biology and we have a large activity within ecology and molecular life sciences.
Many of our researchers study biological phenomena in polar areas. Øystein Varpe is the coordinator for polar research at the Department of Biological Sciences. The Theoretical Ecology research group has a thematic page that presents examples of our polar research.
BIO's external milieu
The department has close cooperation with other groups at the University of Bergen and Faculty of Science and Technology, mainly the, Department of Earth Sciences, Geophysical Institute, Bergen Museum, Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Sars Centre for Marine Molecular Biology and Computational Biology Unit (CBU)
BIO collaborates closely with other research institutes in the Bergen region, including the Institute of Marine Research (IMR)
Centres
BIO is involved in several centres at UiB:
