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Celebrating 25 years together (06.03.2013)
A delegation from UiB headed by Rector Sigmund Grønmo visited Makerere University to celebrate 25 years of collaboration between the two universities.
Biologisk Karrieredag 2013 (05.03.2013)
EvoFish trophy, with the names of PhDs from EvoFish (as of end 2012)
EvoFish trophy (02.03.2013)
EvoFish now boasts an exclusive trophy, dedicated to PhDs from EvoFish.
Remembering Torstein Solhøy (14.02.2013)
Associate Professor Torstein Solhøy has passed away. Friends and colleagues at the Department of Biology and around the world will deeply miss this genial, enthusiastic, knowledgeable ecologist.
Have research competency, will travel (14.02.2013)
Marie Curie Actions provide researchers with stepping stones of new research opportunities.
Anna Hakobyan visiting General microbiology (06.02.2013)
Extremophilic microbes from Armenia
Ocean conservation: A big fight over little fish (01.02.2013)
Do size quotas have an evolutionary impact on fish populations? Mikko Heino and Jeppe Kolding are in a recent Nature News Feature.
An Atlas to Earth’s Oxygenation (29.01.2013)
Focusing on the wealth of information gleaned from the recent Fennoscandian Arctic Russia - Drilling Early Earth Project (FAR-DEEP), “Reading the Archive of Earth’s Oxygenation” is a veritable atlas for current knowledge of a literally life-changing period in Earth’s history.
Shen, here pictured in the guppy lab, is the deputy director of the Fisheries...
Shen Gongming visiting EvoFish (27.01.2013)
EvoFish has a pleasure of hosting Shen Gongming, a visiting scholar from the Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences.
CGB Welcomes New PhD Students (09.01.2013)
2013 has begun, and so have the studies of two CGB students in our PhD programme. We are pleased to welcome Jan Vander Roost and Sven Le Moine Bauer to Bergen and to our team.
What’s on your dinner plate? (02.01.2013)
Recent research indicate that there may be a link between contaminants in food-stuff and the explosion in metabolic diseases, incl. type 2 diabetes, in the western world.
R/V JOIDES Resolution
CGB participates in Hess Deep Plutonic Crust Drilling Expedition (05.12.2012)
CGB researcher Dr. Romain Meyer joins IODP vessel JOIDES Resolution to explore evolution and formation of deep oceanic crust
Bearded goby females reveal their reproductive secrets (08.11.2012)
Yusra Taha is making good progress with her master project on the reproductive biology of female bearded gobies. After a field trip to Namibia, it has been many long hours in the lab.
Beatriz Diaz Pauli with opponents Anne Magurran and Esben M. Olsen
Bea, the guppy doctor (07.11.2012)
Beatriz Diaz Pauli, or Bea as we know her, was awarded PhD degree after a good debate with the opponents. EvoFish congratulates!
A future collectors item?
Green light for new EvoFish PhD defence! (15.10.2012)
The evaluation committee gives green light for the PhD defence of Beatriz Díaz Pauli.
Snowbird Cod: Not only Norwegians go to Mallorca! (13.10.2012)
CGB research featured in PNAS (08.10.2012)
A multidisciplinary team of researchers at the Centre for Geobiology (CGB) have published their findings about how the geochemicial stratification in seafloor sediments correlates with stratification within microbial communities also found there.
Fishing in the pond hosting guppies and a range of native fish species.
Guppies reach new heights (28.09.2012)
While hunting for guppies in Sri Lanka, Ranga Jayawickrama discovered a location hosting a guppy population at a high altitude.

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