UC Berkeley: Peder Sather Grant Program - Projects with the UiO

The primary mission of the Peder Sather Center for Advanced Study is to strengthen ongoing research collaborations and foster the development of new research collaborations between faculty at the University of California, Berkeley and from the consortium of nine participating Norwegian academic institutions.

Projects awarded 2024

Evolution-guided design of monoclonal therapeutic antibodies

  • Johanne T. Jacobsen, UiO
  • Yun S. Song, Berkeley

Locally Induced Pseudohypoxia As A Novel Strategy To Improve Implant Integration In Irradiated Bone

  • Hanna Tiainen, UiO
  • Phillip B. Messersmith, Berkeley

Economics of Innovation

  • Fernando Stipanicic Marquez, UiO
  • Lee Fleming, Berkeley

Integrating Perspectives of Norwegian and American Teachers on AI Enhanced Classroom Science Dialogs

  • Anniken Furberg, UiO
  • Marcia C. Linn, Berkeley

A paleogenomic investigation of the chronology of freshwater adaptation in threespine stickleback

  • Andrew Foote, UiO
  • Craig T. Miller, Berkeley

Filling the Missing Middle: Connecting Experts on Understudied Taxa to Assess Biases, Gaps, and Priorities for Biodiversity Research in the Genomic Era

  • Jessica Nelson, UiO
  • Klara Scharnagl, Berkeley

PhyloFun – Spatial Phylogenetics of Fungi for Biodiversity Management

  • Mika Bendiksby, UiO
  • Brent Mishler, Berkeley

Decoding and Disabling the FLCN-TFEB Axis in BIRT-HOFF-DUBE Syndrome

  • Helene Kn?velsrud, UiO
  • Roberto Zoncu, Berkeley

Projects awarded 2023

Data Assimilation to Quantify Mountain Snow

  • Désirée Treichler, UiO
  • Manuela Girotto, Berkeley

Structure-based Discovery of Chemokine Receptor Antagonists

  • Osman Gani, UiO
  • Robert A. Saxton, Berkeley

Workshop: Multimodal Analytics of Moving for Learning

  • Alexander Refsum Jenesenius, UiO
  • Dor Abrahamson, Berkeley

Uncovering the Main Drivers of Carbon Storage in Marine Plankton: Linking from Primary to Secondary Production

  • Khuong Dinh, UiO
  • Trevor Keenan, Berkeley

Geochronology Along the Southern San Andreas Fault (GSA)

  • Jean-Baptiste Koehl, UiO
  • Roland Burgmann, Berkeley

Tunable Electrons-Magnon Interactions for Ultra Low Energy Device Applications

  • Justin Wells, UiO
  • Frances Hellmann, Berkeley

Adapting Machine Learning to Norwegian Health Data to Enhance Causal Analyses of Patient Pathways and Patients’ Outcome

  • Terje Hagen, UiO
  • Alan Hubbard, Berkeley

Projects awarded 2022

Cellular Function and Mechanism of Single Membrane ATG8ylation

  • Harald Stenmark, UiO
  • James Hurley, Berkeley

Christian and Pagan Philologia in Late Antiquity

  • Boris Rodin Maslov, UiO
  • Susanna Elm, Berkeley

Crisis – the New Normal

  • Helge Jordheim, UiO
  • Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann, Berkeley

Cumulative response to climate change and pollution in a seasonal environment

  • Katrine Borg?, UiO
  • Caroline Williams, Berkeley

David and Goliath Urbanize: City Size and Public Service Delivery in India

  • Fransesca Jensenius, UiO
  • Alison Post, Berkeley

Integrating NLP into MultiLingual Education

  • Andrea Gasparini, UiO
  • Sam Mchombo, Berkeley

Developing tasks aimed at measuring collaborative problem solving within the computational thinking context: From Construct Definitions to Task Designs

  • Ronny Scherer, UiO
  • Mark Wilson, Berkeley

New Histories from Old Fragments: Shared Narratives of the Berkeley and Oslo Papyri from Tebtunis

  • Anastasia Maravela, UiO
  • Todd Hickey, Berkeley

Projects awarded 2021

Teachers’ Skillful Coping with Disruptive Behavior in Norwegian and American Classrooms

  • Liv Duesund, UiO
  • Elliot Turiel, Berkeley

Optimizing Affective and Cognitive Impact of Network Visualizations 

  • Roger Antonsen, UiO
  • Gregory Niemeyer, Berkeley

A new software for evaluating phylogenetic hypotheses and its application to the evolution of Bilateria

  • James Fleming, UiO
  • John Huelsenbeck, Berkeley

Conservation of biodiversity hotspots: Developing new collaborations and innovative approaches to study lichen biogeography  

  • Einar Timdal, UiO
  • Brent Mishler, Berkeley

Developing and applying probabilistic inversion frameworks for the advancement of paleogeographic reconstruction

  • Trond Torsvik, UiO
  • Nicholas Swanson-Hysell, Berkeley

Homotopy continuation for unitary coupled-cluster theory 

  • Andre Laestadius, UiO
  • Lin Lin, Berkeley

Algorithmic Citizenship: Labor, Literacy and Societal Governance in the United States and Europe

  • Susanne Bauer, UiO
  • Massimo Mazzotti, Berkeley


Exploring the Ottoman World: Translation and Interconfessional Relations in the long 19th century

  • Einar Wigen, UiO
  • Christine Philliou, Berkeley


Towards a Global Summit on Gene Editing for Environmental Purposes? An interdisciplinary debate on risk, uncertainty and precaution in the new genetic era

  • Nertila Kuraj, UiO
  • Daniel Farber, Berkeley

Projects awarded 2020

Molecular Mechanisms of Lysosomal Transformation in Cancer

  • Cinzia (Anita Maria) Progida, UiO
  • Roberto Zoncu, Berkeley

Solving Nuclear Data Deficiencies in the A=95 Fission Fragment Mass

  • Sunniva Siem, UiO
  • Jasmina Vujic, Berkeley

Markers of brain activity in early Alzheimer’s Disease: The Berkeley-Oslo alliance

  • Anders M. Fjell, UiO
  • William Jagust, Berkeley

Towards a Global Summit on Gene Editing for Environmental Purposes? An interdisciplinary debate on risk, uncertainty and precaution in the new genetic era

  • Nertila Kuraj, UiO
  • Daniel Farber, Berkeley

Unravelling the genomic basis for adaptation in the snowy owl (Bubo scandiacus)

  • Helle Baalsrud, UiO
  • Rasmus Nielsen, Berkeley

Post-Conflict Security Structures: The Political-Geography of State Control

  • Scott Gates, UiO
  • Aila Matanock, Berkeley

Groundwater Response to Snowpack Changes

  • Andrea L. Popp, UiO
  • Laurel G. Larsen, Berkeley

The Rise of the Hindu Right in Indian Electoral Politics

  • Francesca Jensenius, UiO
  • Pradeep Chhibber, Berkeley

Projects awarded 2019

(De-)Valuing Different Lives: Intersections of Animality and Disability

  • Michael Lundbald, UiO
  • Susan Schweik, Berkeley

The Body in Translation – Challenging and reinventing medical knowledge translation

  • John ?demark, UiO
  • Michael Wintroub, Berkeley

Scandinavian Political Communities in the Middle Ages: European, or Something Different?

  • Hans Jacob Orning, UiO
  • Geoffrey Koziol, Berkeley

Genomics of Convergent Invertebrate Morphology

  • Torsten Struck, UiO
  • Rosemary Gillespie, Berkeley

Maintaining the Balance: Mitigating divergent interests in cultural property

  • Gro Birgit Ween, UiO
  • Benjamin Porter, Berkeley

Myths into stories: narrative devices in Ancient Greek lyric and drama

  • Boris (Rodin) Maslov, UiO
  • Leslie Kurke, Berkeley

Modeling collaborative problem-solving tasks for individual-level and team-level inferences

  • Ronny Scherer, UiO
  • Mark Wilson, Berkeley

The neural and psychosocial basis of adolescence as a period of vulnerability and opportunity

  • Christian K. Tamnes, UiO
  • Ronald E. Dahl, Berkeley

Projects awarded 2018

Realizing Corporate Sustainability in a Globalized World (RealSusty)

Conceptualizing Public Schools’ Democratic Potential in Two Distinct Political Contexts: A Cross-National Comparison

Quantopia: Developing a Visual Path from Bit to Qubit

A Posteriori Error Estimates for Coupled-Cluster Theory

Comparing Extremes: US Hyperincarceration and Norwegian Penal Exceptionalism, 1960-2017

Does Feeling ‘Moved’ Bind Relationship Partners Together? Experiments Observing Interactions in Couples and Among Strangers

Modal Semantics of Eastern Polynesian Languages

Pronominal Elements in Understudied Languages of the World

Transnational Migration and Inequality: Implications for Health and Health Services

Book Workshop “Environmental Change and Ritualized Relationships with the Other-Than-Human World”

Projects awarded 2017

Centers, Peripheries And Zones Of Contact: Scandinavia, Russia, Japan

Technology, Equity, And Global Governance: An Exploratory Analysis Of Regime Formation In The Fields Of Nuclear And Renewable Energy

Vitamin D Regulation Of MS-Associated Genes In Human T Cells

Towards An Integrated Neural Model Of Inhibitory Control Over The Human Motor System

Two Worlds Collide: Bringing Synchrotron-Based Spectroscopy And Advanced Kinetics Together To Characterize Metal-Support Interactions In Catalysis

Projects awarded 2016

The Dose Is The Demon -  Establishing The Role Of Ambient Versus Household Air Pollution For Population Exposure In Order To Support Cost-Effective And Equitable Air Pollution Policies

Dissecting The Timing, Ecological Signature, And Environmental Context Of The Largest Biodiversification In Earth History

Assessing The Impact Of Leadership Preparation In Two Distinct Testing And Accountability Policy Contexts

Environmental Change And Ritualized Relationships With The Other-Than-Human World

Bridging Simulation To Experiment In Stem Cell Based Cardiac Micro Physiological Systems

  • Aslak Tveito, UiO
  • Kevin Healy, Berkeley

Projects awarded 2015

The Dead: Ruptures and Continuities in the Long Reformation

The Body in Translation - Translation, the Human body and Early Modern Demarcations of Knowledge

Advanced Computational Methods for the Quantum Mechanical Many-Body Problem in Physics and Quantum Chemistry

Gangs, Brands and Intellectual Property Rights: Outlaw Bikers, Luxury Brands and Legal Battles Over Trademarked Insignia

Targeting NBEAL Proteins as an Approach to Defeating Cancer and Metastasis

Projects awarded 2014

Temporal dynamics of cerebellar contributions to language processing

Nor-Wise - Investigating Science Learning in Norway and the US

Berkeley-Oslo Initiative in Valuation Studies

Wireless Sensor Network for Snow Digital Elevation Models (SnowDEM)

First BCCP-Oslo Workshop in Computational Cosmology: Advanced Statistical Methods in Large Scale Structure

Probing the role of inhibition in the brain with optogenetic pharmacology

Health Production or Overspending: Comparing Cardiovascular Treatment Intensity and Outcomes in the U.S. with the Norwegian EuroHOPE Project

Workshop package on: Unpacking the Nordic Model

Programmable Self-assembly and Folding of Synthetic Proteins in Solution

Assessment of Students' Digital Competence

Addressing Nuclear Data Needs in the Thorium Fuel Cycle

Projects awarded 2013

A Computational Approach to the Rational Design of Hydroamination Catalysts

A Comparative Study of Distruptive Behavior Between Schools in Norway and the United States

Electrophysiology of Frontal-Parietal Control of Spacial Attention

Creating in the Cloud:  A study of online collaboration across cultures and learning contexts

Critical Perspectives on Courts and Human Rights

Disability and Identification: A comparative Analysis

Gene Expression Affected by Methylation Changes in Multiple Sclerosis

Synchronizing the World.  Universal Histories, Encyclopedias, and World Maps

Toward a Virtual Tebtunis

Facilitating High Expectations for a Diverse Student Population:  A Cross-National Comparison of Norwegian and US-American Approaches

Equasions in Algebraic Geometry

What Color are Atomic Nuclei?

A Systems Analysis of Anthrax Epidemiology in Mammalian Herbivores

Bearing Witness:  Improving Witness Protection and Services at the International Criminal Court

Development of Episodic Memory

Published June 23, 2016 - Last modified Oct. 3, 2025
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