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This conference will bring together leading ageing researchers from around the world working on molecular, cellular, individual and societal levels of ageing.

The survival of green plants depends on the efficient use of photosynthesis in the leaves, where sunlight, water, and CO2 are transformed into sugar ¨C the raw material, which builds up even the largest trees. The dissolved sugars are transported by osmosis through the sieve tubes of the phloem, a vascular system, which runs through the veins of the leaves and on through the stem, all the way down into the roots. The sugar production sites (mesophyll) are distributed over the entire leaf, and it is important for the functionality of the leaf that they are all able to export their sugars. For conifer needles the linear venation architecture makes this challenging, and they have an extra ¡°transfusion tissue¡± that bridges between production and transport. We are currently studying this complex collection of interdigitated water -and sugar-carrying cells by micro X-ray tomography on intact needles and by network modelling, to understand the pathways for water and for sugars (running in opposite directions) with huge pressure differences (say 3 MPa) across tiny length scales (say 5 microns).

Thomas Bohr is Professor of Physics at the Physics Department of the Technical University of Denmark.

By Roger Pielke Jr. from University of Colorado Boulder, USA. Note the time: 12.15.

Diffusion and reactions are central to understanding life. However, studies often focus on dilute systems, while the interior of living cells is crowded with macromolecules that occupy about 20 % to 40 % of the cell volume, affecting virtually all intracellular processes [1]. In this talk, I will mainly focus on diffusion, emphasising the effects significant to crowded intracellular environments, such as polydispersity of crowders [2], macromolecular shapes, interactions [3], and softness [4]. We will also briefly discuss how reactions proceed under crowding, paying particular attention to enzymatic reactions [5] and the cooperativity of divalent binding [6].

Cheng-Zong Ruan, Postdoctoral Fellow at Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Oslo.

In this talk, Professor of Anthropology, Dr. Lesley Green, will draw on current Anthropocene scholarship in the environmental humanities and social sciences to suggest four approaches to strengthening trans-disciplinarity engagement between social and natural sciences. 

By Josefin Stiller from Copenhagen University and Joost Raeymaekers from Nord University

Hvorfor har vi egentlig sans for humor - og hva er det som skal til for ? utl?se humorgleden?

Professor Ewan Birney, CBE FRS FMedSci, Deputy Director General, EMBL & Director, EMBL-EBI will give a public talk and guest lecture followed by a Q&A session. The session is hosted by Inge Jonassen, UiB & Kjetil Task¨¦n, OUH/UiO.

In this Global Health Unpacked seminar, pandemic expert Dr. Clare Wenham will discuss the proposed pandemic treaty and why it might not make the world better equipped to tackle future global health crises.

Eva Leu from Akvaplan NIVA

ILNs egen Hans-Olav Enger, professor i nordisk spr?k, forklarer hvorfor hypoteser om at visse skandinaviske s?rdrag skyldes samisk p?virkning, neppe holder vann.

Sladana Radinovic, PhD student at Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Oslo.

Breakfast seminar with Professor Brian Ganson from Stellenbosch Business School, Cape Town.

How has our understandings of relations between soil, plants, and fungi have changed over time? In this lecture, professor of anthropology Dr. Michael J. Hathaway will explore the role of fungal mycelium in engaging the soil matrix.

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P? tredje arrangement i seminarrekken Perspektiver p? tenkning skal Brynulf Bakkenget (H?gskolen i Innlandet) snakke om Paul Ricoeur. 

Alexander M¨¹ller-Hermes will give a talk with title: Capacities of quantum channels

Welcome to the next seminar of the semester, where there will be a talk by Dr. Suman Kumar (Ciosk group, BMB).

Harvard Professor David Ludwig will talk about the Carbohydrate-Insulin Model of Obesity. In the panel: Professor J?ran Hjelmes?th and Associate professor Frode A. Norheim.

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The environment is having a massive impact on music, changing what music is and how it comes to be, not just what it is about or how it sounds. In this lecture, Dr. Kyle Devine, professor of musicology at UiO, presents the nuances in this Great Recomposition, and the importance of overriding our defaults.