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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.
Annual Report 2011 (27.09.2012)
Year 2011 has truly been an eventful year for the Centre for Geobiology (CGB).
Stop Press! More ICES presentations from FØH (14.09.2012)
John Birks, with Rick Battarbee and John Smol, the medal and title page of...
John's Lifetime Achievement Award (12.09.2012)
John Birks was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award in Palaeolimnology at the 12th International Paleolimnology Symposium in Glasgow.
poster of the ASC in Bergen
UiB’s Hard Rock Cafe comes to the ICES Annual Science Conference (12.09.2012)
Cindy Van Dover – a Passionate Proponent of the Deep-Sea (29.08.2012)
Cindy Van Dover will give her honorary doctorate lecture Thursday 30 August, in Realfagbyget’s Auditorium 4, at 14:15.
Professor Anne Magurran
Magurran æresdoktor ved Institutt for biologi (22.08.2012)
Professor Anne Magurran ved University of St Andrews i Scotland ble den 31. august utnevnt til æresdoktor ved Universitetet i Bergen under doktorpromosjonen i Håkonshallen.
Eurasia student visiting General Microbiology (17.08.2012)
Armine Margaryan from Armenia is the first visiting PhD student in a new Eurasia programme in geomicrobiology
Cover of "Measuring Biological Diversity", Blackwell
Seminar in honour of Anne Magurran (17.08.2012)
University of Bergen awarded Professor Anne Magurran an honorary doctorate on August 31. To mark this event, a seminar in her honour was arranged on August 30. In addition to a keynote talk by Professor Magurran, exciting local research was portrayed.
Guppy hunting in Sri Lanka (13.08.2012)
Ranga Jayawickrama is collecting additional material for his Master thesis at Sri Lanka.

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