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CGB researchers, UiB rector, Per Sandberg
Norway's Fisheries Minister Visits (15.09.2016)
Fishery Minister, Per Sandberg, visited the Norwegian Ocean Laboratory today. Researchers from the Centre for Geobiology (CGB) were on hand to welcome him, and to share highlights from their deep sea research activity.
A bird with long tail and strong bil sitting on a tree branch
EvoFish back in Taiwan (31.08.2016)
The temporary EvoFish outpost in Taiwan is active again, this time for a full year: I am now a guest professor at the National Taiwan University.
Schematic image of Naa60 showing the main structural features of the monomeric and homodimeric forms of the enzyme
MBI –researchers reveal the molecular structure of an enzyme involved in organization of the cell. (17.08.2016)
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Silje completes her Master degree (14.06.2016)
Silje has studied whether environmental enrichment affects aggressive behaviour in juvenile salmon.
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Ingeborg completes her Master degree (14.06.2016)
Ingeborg has been studying whether the timing of environmental enrichment affects spatial learning in juvenile salmon.
Master student pointing to a fish wireframe diagram
Eihab completes his Master degree (10.06.2016)
Eihab has been studying how shape and colour have changed in experimentally harvested guppy populations.
Ribbon cutting
Expanding our senses using technology (06.06.2016)
Much is unknown about Norway’s marine potential. Rolf Birger Pedersen, Professor at the Centre for Geobiology (CGB) says that much awaits to be discovered.
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
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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?”.
Nature Communications
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.
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EvoFish in Bekkjarvik (12.05.2016)
Following the tradition establish in 2015, EvoFish convened at the Bekkjarvik Gjestgiveri for the annual meeting.
SponGES logo
SponGES Kickoff Meeting (11.04.2016)
The UiB-led H2020 Blue Growth project, SponGES, kicks off 19-21 April 2016 in Bergen. CGB’s theme leader, Hans Tore Rapp, is the project coordinator. Another CGB researcher, Joana R. Xavier, is the scientific project manager.
Chasing Polar Microbes (05.04.2016)
PhD student Maria Lund Paulsen tells the exciting story of being a polar marine microbiologist.
A group of people standing on deck of a vessel, with arctic background
Southern Ocean: reflections from home (11.03.2016)
Torborg's Master thesis in the Southern Ocean: Letter 10.3.2016 — finally home
Portrait of John Birks
John Birks elected (09.03.2016)
John Birks - now a Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Vigdis Vandvik in front of a back drop of the city of Bergen
Vigdis Vandvik elected (07.03.2016)
Vigdis has been elected a Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters

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