News archive for Michael Sars Centre

New work from the Steinmetz group at the Michael Sars Centre unveils the secrets behind the starlet sea anemone's extraordinary ability to adjust its body size according to food availability.

Efforts to make the Christiaen and Burkhardt laboratories more sustainable were rewarded with the highest-level certification from international environmental organization My Green Lab. The initiative received support from the UiB Climate Fund.

This summer, PhD candidate Max Jordi Makem Pekouankouang from the Christiaen group at the Michael Sars Centre attended the prestigious Embryology course at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, USA. He shares how this experience transformed his approach to science.

Researchers from the Institut de la Mer de Villefranche and the Michael Sars Centre received support from the French-Norwegian mobility program Åsgard. Through seminars and discussions, participants laid the groundwork for a long-term collaboration between the two institutes.

The fourth edition of the Michael Sars Symposium brought together experts from a variety of research fields within biology, all united by a common theme – evolution.

Head engineer Anne Aasjord collaborated with researchers at NORCE on a project to better understand the ecological relevance of the small planktonic animals. The work was recently highlighted in a documentary, watch it below!

Researchers from the Michael Sars Centre participated in the third edition of One Ocean Week. On the program, engaging the public with our research projects and exchanging with industry stakeholders.

A new study conducted in the Lynagh group shows that closely related neuropeptide receptors do not always recognize ligands in the same way. The work lays out the blueprint for ligand recognition in this receptor family.