News archive for Faculty of Science and Technology

Extremophilic microbes from Armenia

Focusing on the wealth of information gleaned from the recent Fennoscandian Arctic Russia - Drilling Early Earth Project (FAR-DEEP), “Reading the Archive of Earth’s Oxygenation” is a veritable atlas for current knowledge of a literally life-changing period in Earth’s history.

Small chemical groups are commonly attached to proteins in order to control their function. In eukaryotic cells, N-terminal acetyltransferases (NATs) attach acetyl groups to the very first amino acid (the N-terminus) of a majority of proteins. Now, researchers at MBI (UiB) and VIB-Gent have discovered that NATs also carry out other types of protein modifications.

The team from University of Bergen was the best norwegian team during the North Western European Regional Programming Contest in Delft, November 23 - 25.

Hilde Kristin Grung-Berle will defend her master thesis Tuesday 11th December 2012. Her thesis is entitled: "Characterization of the transcription factor NF-E2p18/MafK as a nuclear phosphoinositide effector protein"

Report from Earth Science Women's Network (ESWN) workshop on networking and communication skills.

Names and university affiliation of the members in the different committees are available here