Newsletter UiO:Life Science December 2019

The Oslo Life Science Conference 10–13 February 2020

Join us for the Oslo Life Science Conference 5-year anniversary in 2020! Four days with events on health research, health industry, environmental research and sustainability for all who are interested in research, education, innovation, business and politics in life sciences. In 2020, we have more events for the public. The conference is free and open to all.

Visit the conference website uio.no/oslolifescience.

Main event ?Life sciences in the next decade? in the University Aula and reception in Oslo City Hall 10 February...

What will life sciences bring us in 2020–2030? What is the role of artificial intelligence (AI)? What are the visions for academia, hospitals and industry in a rapidly changing world where we need sustainable solutions? How can Oslo and Norway strengthen its position as a leading life science hub in Europe?

See the programme and sign up!

...and many other exciting conference events on health and environment

Event and workshops mainly for researchers, including students, PhDs and postdocs, and industry, but open to all

11 Feb The 4th Nordic Real World Evidence Conference 2020
11 Feb Novel Methods for Personalized Cancer Therapy
12 Feb Darwin Day 2020
12 Feb Partnership for Life 2020
12 Feb Pollution: Monitoring and Policy
13 Feb Data and Society
13–14 Feb Mimicry in Metabolism(s)

For students, PhDs and postdocs at UiO and NMBU

11 Feb Young talents – career opportunities beyond academia

For kindergarten and schools

12 Feb Boys in upper secondary schools and life sciences
13 Feb Beet-bot for kindergarten
13 Feb Get to know the digital universe in life sciences and biotechnology

For the public in Norwegian

For all

12 Feb The Biotechnology Day 2020
13 Feb Closing event: Life science light event at the Museum of science and technology
11–16 Feb Exhibition: Views from the room at the bottom

Calls UiO:Life Science

Researchers can provide summer project for students – deadline 31 January. If we receive more than 40 project proposals, there will be a categorised draw.
Students can apply for summer projects – registration opens 15 January at 8 AM. The first 100 will get at place at the matchmaking event 3 March. 40 of these will be assigned to a summer research project.
Open life science call for researchers at all units at UiO – no deadline

Support from UiO:Life Science's open call

The board of UiO:Life Science has granted support to the Norwegian branch of The Earth Biogenome Project (EBP) – the project that will map the DNA of all eukaryote organisms on earth. Norwegian researchers want to map species that are of special importance to Norway in terms of both biodiversity and value creation. Read about this funding and previous fundings from the open call (in Norwegian).

Events

SPARK Norway Educational Forum spring 2020

UiO:Life Science's innovation programme SPARK Norway hosts monthly open meetings where you can increase your competence on how to develop an idea into a product.

See the topics and the dates for the meetings.

Life Science Building News

Biomakerspace: R&D simulation day at Bayer

Students, Phd students and postdoctoral fellows from UiO joined UiO:Life Science for a Research and Development Day at Bayer in November. Here they got to try every step of the drug research and development process. The event is part of UiO's collaboration with Bayer, which includes development of a biomakerspace in the new life science building. There students can try out their own ideas in the laboratory. A new R&D day is already planned for March.

Information meetings at the faculties

The UiO management and the Estate Department (EA) will visit the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences on 22 January and the Faculty of Medicine on 23 January to present the plans for offices and laboratories in the Life science building. The meetings are open to all employees. More information will be published on the faculties’ websites.

Remember that you might follow the construction through pictures that are taken by webcam regularly.

News from the convergence environments

UiO:Life Science funds 14 interdisciplinary research groups – convergence environments – that will solve major societal challenges related to health and the environment. They have received PhD and postdoctoral positions as well as running expenses.

Seminar

27–28 January: Genetics and Genomics of cancer, hosted by the convergence environment PERCATHE and partners

New podcast for the mind

Brain researcher Gaute Einevoll has started the podcast ?Vett og vitenskap? – Sense and science. He is professor at both UiO and NMBU, and also member of the convergence environment MultiModal Mental Models (4MENT). The starting point for the podcast is often new non-fiction books. Physicist Anja R?yne at UiO, is one of the researchers who have visited the studio. She talked about her book "The Elements We Live By", a book she for which she was awarded the Brage Prize in the category popular science last year. Listen to the podcast. You will also meet her our event on The habitable earth at the Oslo Life Science conference on 11 February.

Vacancies

Consciousness and brain states: neuroscience studies and conceptual innovation (ConsciousBrainConcepts) wants to further develop the consciousness concept to solve fundamental issues in consciousness research. Read more.

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Philosophy
Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, Faculty of Humanities
Deadline: 31 January 2020

Comparative immunology of fish and humans (COMPARE) wants to find out how the peculiar immune system of the codfishes function in detail and what its implications are for human immune disease. The results will affect future aquaculture, human medicine as well as providing a social sciences case for our awareness of the future possibilities of gene modifications of fish and humans. Read more.

PhD Research Fellow in immunology
Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
Deadline: 20 January 2020

MultiModal Mental Models: converging approaches from genomes to mental illness and interplay with psychosocial stressors (4MENT) wants to better understand the etiology and disease mechanisms of severe mental disorders, focusing on schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and related mental phenotypes. Read more.

PhD Research Fellowship in computational neuroscience/brain physics
Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
Deadline: 18 December 2019

Availability and function of donor organs: Debating the dead donor rule (3DR) wants to increase availability and function of donor organs for transplantation and to create societal awareness and debate on ethical issues using Donation after Circulatory Death (DCD). Read more.

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in comparative physiology
Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
Deadline: 15 January 2020