Current matters - Page 9

Yesterday, CBA leader Dag O. Hessen won two awards in the major literature award, Brageprisen. 

The Research Council has announced that the innovation award goes to founder and scientific director Agnete Fredriksen in Vaccibody.

The student team representing the University of Oslo at the iGEM annual synthetic biology competition, has presented their project ¡°Sal. coli¡±. It is the only team from Norway this year, consisting of: Alexander Refsnes-Petkovic, Jonas Aouay Gr?nbakken and Martin Eide.

UiO:Life Science funds 14 convergence environments that address major challenges within life sciences related to health, environment and sustainable growth. A new application round has started. Researchers from all units at UiO are welcome to participate.

New members of the Faculty Board are to be elected. Until 20 October, you can nominate candidates.

Dag O. Hessen from CBA is among the nominees for Nordic Council Environment Prize 2020. The commitee writes that "Through his research, outreach and writing, Dag O. Hessen has made an extraordinary contribution to our understanding of nature and diversity."

Kjetil Lysne Voje has been awarded 1.5 million Euros in research grants from the European Research Council (ERC). He will take a closer look at how changes in the evolution of species occur over time.

Four out of seven Norwegian recipients of the European Research Council's (ERC) Starting Grants are from UiO. The ERC announced the awards today.

Starting spring 2021, master¡¯s students at UiO can strengthen their academic and environmental skills with a cross-disciplinary green Honours Certificate.  

Lytt til podkast om livsvitenskap med helsedirekt?r Bj?rn Guldvog, UiO-forsker og deltaker i UiO:Livsvitenskaps SPARK-program Gunnveig Gr?deland og viserektor Per Morten Sandset.

Just before the summer, Section for Meteorology and Oceanography, Dept. of Geosciences moved from temporary premises at Ullev?l Stadium to the Blindern campus. Now they are finally in place in nice newly renovated premises on the 2nd floor of Kristine Bonnevies hus.

The university has made plans for the start of studies and teaching in autumn 2020. There will be a mix of digital and physical offerings, and students will be well received in buddy groups as well as groups for teaching.

Note: Different information applies to new international students!

KURT and iEarth hosted a digital seminar about teaching

The Nordic network of imaging platforms, Bridging Nordic Microscopy Infrastructures BNMI, has been awarded NOK 2.5 million from NordForsk. The Norwegian coordinating node in this network is NorMIC Oslo, an infrastructure at the Department of Biosciences, UiO.

A new article shows that accounting for thermokarst-inducing processes matter when predicting permafrost thawing. 

As there were no counter-candidates the election was canceled. Solveig Kristensen is the new Dean and Bj?rn Jamtveit the new Vice Dean from 1 January 2021. They have appointed Knut M?rken as Vice Dean for Education.

The University of Oslo's board has decided that the initiative UiO:Life Science will be continued for a new five-year period.

Many people miss having access to the Botanical Garden. Now the University of Oslo is working towards a careful reopening of the garden, but we must still take infection control measures. 

A recently published paper led by Olivia Roth (GEOMAR; Kiel) together with several members of CEES uncovers a modification of the adaptive immune repertoire of seahorses and pipefish that coincide with evolution of male pregnancy.

There is much new to learn about the Coronavirus. This spring, the Department of Biosciences invited researchers from home and abroad to share what they know about the virus and the development of vaccine. Watch the video from the seminars below.

Inven2 is organizing an exceptional idea competition due to the ongoing pandemic. Are you a student or employee at the University of Oslo or in the South-Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority and have a good idea for an innovative product or service? Then you can take part in the Idea Prize and win NOK 100,000 as well as advice and help to take the idea to market.

Recently, UiO started using Zoom for both digital teaching and video meetings, and the use of Zoom at UiO has seen tremendous growth in the past weeks. But with the use of new tools new questions arise. Here, UiO's head of IT security Espen Gr?ndahl answers the most important questions.

Like every year since 2006, CEES organised Darwin Day at Charles Darwin's birthday February 12^th.

Thanks to all who attended the 5-year anniversary of the Oslo Life Science Conference! Several of the events were filmed, so if you missed any of them, or want to see them again, you may watch them now.

Six new teams have been admitted to UiO?s innovation programme SPARK Norway. They will develop their ideas within health-related life sciences for the benefit of patients and society.