News archive for Department of Biological Sciences (BIO)

Plankton Portraits - the architectural wonders of marine microbiology (30.09.2009)

Visual artist Ellen Karin Mæhlum writes that “Art and science often begin with visual observations followed by mental adaptation and subsequent interpretation. My aim was to make visible something that is normally both invisible and inaccessible. One of the things that interested me was what happens to the motif when the original photographs taken under the microscope are enlarged, adapted and... Read more

Two important annual events in Public Outreach from UiB (09.09.2009)

Counting out 56 500 seeds! (09.09.2009)

PhD students Joachim Spindelböck and Eric Meineri are involved in a project that is investigating how Norwegian vegetation is responding to climate change. The project involves counting out the seeds of six different reference species into 113 packages of 300 or 500 each,, seeding them in the field in locations different in climate from their origin and then observing how their germination and... Read more

Grasshopper writing and focused strings (03.09.2009)

Over sixty students filled the little auditorium at BIO to learn more about how to approach thesis writing. Associate Professor Karen Lunsford from the University of California, Santa Barbara actively engaged them in a series of short exercises addressing issues of writer’s block and controlling information flow.

Minstemann blant mektige skip (24.08.2009)

Det norske forskningsskuta "G.O. Sars" havner i klasse med verdens største containerskip og bilfrakteverktøy i dokumentaren "Mighty Ships".

NMA’s advanced course initiative a positive experience (19.08.2009)

Here are some comments after one course: A great way to kick-start the academic year! Wonderful opportunity to network build! I got new ideas about how to proceed with my own project!

Fish maintain a balance (17.08.2009)

Ole Brix and Ivar Rønnestad et al have just published an article entitled, “Whether depositing fat or losing weight, fish maintain a balance” in the Proceedings of TheRoyal Society Biological Sciences. the article was selected as a “highlighted paper”.

High microbial diversity or simply incorrect interpretation of data – how can we know for certain? (17.08.2009)

DNA-sequencing gives us the possibility to study the genetic code of all living organisms. Many researchers today take advantage of developments in molecular biology technology that have led to the development of massive parallel pyrosequencing.

Toward Darwinian Fisheries Management (14.08.2009)

Journal "Evolutionary Applications" has published a special issue "Toward Darwinian Fisheries Management", based on the symposium EvoFish organized in 2008.

CGB aboard GOSars again! (27.07.2009)

CGB researchers re-visited Loki's Castle, the world's northernmost identified Black Smoker, and Håkon Mosby Mud Volcano. This year Discovery channel was also onboard.

MAR-ECO at sea again! (30.06.2009)

Researchers from the MAR-ECO project at again at sea over the mid-Atlantic Ridge, first for a 40-day cruise aboard the new NOAA Research Vessel, the Henry B. Bigelow and then for six weeks aboard the newest English research vessel, the James Cook.

Water, Ice and the Origin of Life in the Universe (29.06.2009)

CGB will be taking an active role in an Astrobiology summer school addressing these issues 29 June-13 July 2009. Professor Nils-Kåre Birkeland will be one of the lecturers, lecturing on the "Genetics of thermophiles" and the "Molecular basis of the stability of biomoleculees in hot environments". Researcher Ida Helene Steen and research assistant Solveig Hoem are leading some of the lab courses... Read more

Peatlands and heavy metal release and storage (26.06.2009)

Guest researcher and mineralogist Beata Smieja-Król says that peatland is only interesting when it is polluted!

Funding exchanges with Germany and France (26.06.2009)

This spring there have been a number of notices in the weekly update from the Research Council of Norway about funding programmes that support student and faculty exchanges with both Germany and France. BIO researcher, Christiane Todt, recently participated in a German exchange and highly recommends the experience.

Cruising in the South Pacific (24.06.2009)

Professor Lise Øvreås is participating in a research cruise in the Lau basin, east of Fiji, where scientists are investigating extreme organisms living around the hydrothermal vents found there.

BIO awarded top learning milieu prize 2009 (23.06.2009)

In 2008 UiB established an internal prize to encourage high quality in learning milieux at the university.

New PhD thesis in fisheries management (12.06.2009)

Dorothy Dankel successfully defended her thesis in fisheries management

Student exchange experience enriching on many levels (11.06.2009)

Knut Wiik Vollset had a six-month exchange in the US. He definitely recommends that other PhD students have an exchange experience.

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