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Ribbon cutting
Expanding our senses using technology (06.06.2016)
Much is unknown about Norway’s marine potential. Rolf Birger Pedersen, Professor at the Centre for Geobiology (CGB) says that much awaits to be discovered.
Picture showing Gijs investigation an outcrop section consisting of stacked turbidite beds
New publication: deep-marine rift basin deposits in east Greenland (and video) (06.06.2016)
EPOS-IP IT Workshop 2016 - group picture
EPOS-IP IT Workshop 2016 (02.06.2016)
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Tiny little deep sea helpers may help Norwegian industry to be greener! (25.05.2016)
Juliane Wissuwa defended her PhD at the University of Bergen (UiB), 25.5.2016. It is entitled: "The Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge Vent Fields - A valuable Resource for Marine Bioprospecting?”.
Nature Communications
Evidence for the Oldest Eukaryotic Life Found (21.05.2016)
Yuangao Qu, a post-doc at the Centre for Geobiology (CGB), was a member of a team who discovered macroscopic fossils from the 1 560 Myr old Gaoyuzhuang Formation in the Yanshan area of North China. The results have been published in Nature Communications.
Schematic representation of the Naa10 protein, encoding exons, domains and localization of mutations in affected males and females.
New NAA10 mutations identified in 11 girls and boys with development delays. (12.05.2016)
In recent years, several sporadic cases of NAA10 mutations have been identified in patients with varying degrees of developmental delays. In the curremt issue of Human Mutation, Svein Isungset Støve, Marina Blenski and Thomas Arnesen from the NAT-group at the Department of Molecular Biology in collaboration with geneticists from Germany, France, the Netherlands and the United States discovered... Read more
Feltbilde fra Brasil
Field study in Brasil (02.05.2016)
SponGES logo
SponGES Kickoff Meeting (11.04.2016)
The UiB-led H2020 Blue Growth project, SponGES, kicks off 19-21 April 2016 in Bergen. CGB’s theme leader, Hans Tore Rapp, is the project coordinator. Another CGB researcher, Joana R. Xavier, is the scientific project manager.
the TIM barrel fold
Similarity in shape dictates signature intrinsic dynamics despite no functional conservation in TIM Barrel enzymes (05.04.2016)
Similarity in Shape Dictates Signature Intrinsic Dynamics Despite No Functional Conservation in TIM Barrel Enzymes
The Norwegian jetSTREAM crew met at workshop in Oxford
Norwegian jetSTREAM workshop in Oxford (05.04.2016)
The Norwegian jetSTREAM (Atmospheric jet variability: linking STRucture, Evolution And Mechanisms) crew met for a three days’ workshop in Oxford March 16-18.
Chasing Polar Microbes (05.04.2016)
PhD student Maria Lund Paulsen tells the exciting story of being a polar marine microbiologist.
Møte Epos
EPOS Kick-off meeting 4-5 February 2016 (07.03.2016)
Epos Kick-off meeting 4-5 February 2016
A small experimental trawl in an aquarium
EvoFish visiting Shaun Killen lab at the University of Glasgow (26.02.2016)
Beatriz Diaz Pauli was invited to give a seminar at the Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow.
View of Southern Ocean with icebergs
Southern Ocean: salps, krill, and whales (24.02.2016)
Torborg's Master thesis in the Southern Ocean: Letter 19.2.2016 — More trawling...
A lady in winter gear against arctic landscape
Martine completes her BIO299 project (18.02.2016)
Martine Røysted Solås participated in BIO299, Research Project in Biology. Her task was to study whether salmon fry from enriched hatchery environment have higher survival in the wild than those from the normal hatchery environment. The final touch to the work was given while she was taking the Arctic Biology course at UNIS (University Centre in Svalbard).
Tail of a diving humback whale
Trawling in the Southern Ocean (17.02.2016)
Torborg's Master thesis in the Southern Ocean: Letter 12.2.2016 — Trawling
View from a vessel towards blue sea with some white wave tops
From Montevideo to the South Orkney Islands (10.02.2016)
Torborg's Master thesis in the Southern Ocean: Letter 6.2.2016 — From Montevideo to the South Orkney Islands
Photograph of a woman with helmet on board a research vessel
Torborg is starting her studies of climate effects on the Antarctic krill (29.01.2016)
Torborg Rustand is heading to the Southern Ocean where she will be collecting zooplankton samples for the Master project.

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