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Centre for Nutrition at the European Nutrition Conference 2019 (23.10.2019)
PhD-candidates and researchers from the Centre for Nutrition participated at the 13th edition of the European Nutrition Conference in Dublin from 15-18th October 2019.
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BSRS 2020: Actionable knowledge to meet global challenges (16.10.2019)
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, BSRS 2020 was organised as a virtual research school. 
Shuntaro received Lightning Talk Presentation Prize at Bergen Stem Cell Consortium meeting 2019
Lightning Talk Presentation Prize (15.10.2019)
Bergen Stem Cell Consortium meeting 2019 took place in Bergen where researchers not only from Norway but also from several European countries came together to discuss about recent development of research and clinical application in stem cell biology. Ph.D. candidate, Shuntaro Yamada, presented his ongoing work with the title of “Plasma surface activation of polymeric biomaterials improved seeding... Read more
Cover image of Journal of Dental Research, October 2019 issue
Cover image of Journal of Dental Research, 2019 Oct issue (15.10.2019)
Tooth morphogenesis is not driven by proliferation but spatiotemporal change in cell shape regulated by actomyosin. Ph. D candidate Shuntaro Yamada’s previous work “Molar Bud-to-Cap Transition Is Proliferation Independent” conducted at King’s College London, UK, was published on The Journal of Dental Research, which is a peer-reviewed and top-cited journal in dentistry. This work revealed the... Read more
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Keynote lecture at the EAO Congress, Lisbon, 2019 (11.10.2019)
Prof. Mustafa presented a keynote lecture at the 28th annual EAO Congress titled "Are stem cells the implants of the future"
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Increasing low birth-weight baby survival with community-initiated Kangaroo Mother Care (08.10.2019)
A team of CISMAC researchers has published the results of CISMAC’s first and largest randomized control trial in The Lancet.
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UiB leadership meets with IGS strategic leaders (04.10.2019)
UiB Rector, Dag Rune Olsen, and Vice-Rector for Global Relations, Anneline Eriksen, met with IGS’ strategic research and education leaders Wednesday 2 October.
Silke Appel portrett
From skis to Sjøgren's Syndrome (01.10.2019)
As a child, Silke Appel was taken on ski trips to Geilo with her family from Berlin. Today she is a research director and deputy head of the Broegelmann Research Laboratory in Bergen, thanks to financial support from the Trond Mohn Foundation.
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The Politics of Abortion (27.09.2019)
The CISMAC supported SAFEZT project has released a special issue on reproductive health and the politics of abortion in Ethiopia, Zambia, and Tanzania.
Gigantic waterfall at Iceland, and people walking into a view plateau in the middle of it.
Stimulating scientific eruptions (23.09.2019)
Iceland’s dramatic landscape served as backdrop for generating ideas and action plans for new collaborations between the University of Bergen/CCBIO and Harvard Medical School/Vascular Biology Program in a meeting August 29th to September 3rd.
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Being born by Caesarian section may affect your intelligence (23.09.2019)
Researchers at the University of Bergen looked if there is a connection between the mode of delivery and the genetics of children’s intelligence.
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Professor Bruce Zetter to be Honorary Doctor at the University of Bergen (20.09.2019)
The University of Bergen is appointing 10 new Honorary Doctors, one of which is Harvard Professor Bruce Zetter, very well known to the CCBIO family, both as advisor in the CCBIO Scientific Advisory Board, and through the CCBIO-VBP INTPART collaboration.
Olga sitting on a wall with landscape in background.
Mapping oral cancer prevention in Eurasia countries (18.09.2019)
The collaboration project for education and research in oral pathology between Norway, Moldova, Belarus and Armenia is an important internationalization project financed by DIKU through the Eurasia program. Within this project, UiB/CCBIO is currently hosting a master student, Olga Golburean, a graduated dental hygienist who is taking her master degree in global health with Professor Dana Costea... Read more
collage of photos from Boston, and the 3 intern students.
Boston summer interns (18.09.2019)
This summer, CCBIO sent their second batch of students to be Boston summer interns in the CCBIO/Harvard INTPART collaboration. Read the full report from Hanna Dillekås, PhD candidate in Oddbjørn Straume’s group, Ridhima Das, PhD candidate in Dana Costea’s group, and Amalie Fagerli Tegnander, medical student affiliated to Lars A. Akslen's group, in Elisabeth Wik’s project.
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IGS General Assembly 27 Aug. 2019 (29.08.2019)
The second semi-annual IGS General Assembly for 2019 was held 27 August. The meeting highlighted the changes to the PhD regulations, an update on Alrek (plan is that IGS takes over 10 August 2020!) and Per Bakke, the Dean of the Medical Faculty, presented some of the most important take-home messages from the new UiB Strategy.
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New research article on selectivity (20.08.2019)
Our new paper on entangling selectivity determining features and on how to use this knowledge to design selective ligands has been published in J Med Chem!
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Conversations about sex need multi-level approaches (08.07.2019)
CIH/CISMAC researcher, Joar Svanemyr has published about his work with the RISE project in Zambia. The paper is also presented in the UK edition of the Conversation.
Vegard Lysne og Anthea Van Parys på Homosystein-konferanse
Centre for Nutrition at the Homocysteine conference (30.06.2019)
The PhD-candidates Vegard Lysne and Anthea Van Parys, from the Centre for Nutrition, participated at the Homocysteine conference in Virgili, Spain.

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