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The strange genetics of the fish that never grows up

The world's smallest fish lives like a larvae throughout its whole life. But the really strange discovery is that the "baby carp" has a genome lacking a lot of important bits.

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Preparing spruce for climate changes

Geobiologist and bestselling author Anne Hope Jahren has no doubts. Her “best lab ever” is the one she recently started at the University of Oslo.

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Bamboo-eating Bale monkeys could still be saved from extinction

There are less than 10,000 surviving Bale monkeys in Ethiopia, and they prefer to eat only bamboo – but the bamboo forests are shrinking. New research shows that the Bale monkeys can still be saved from extinction.

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28 May
Life sciences: Information and input meeting funding of new convergence environments
8:30 AM, Blindern, Vilhelm Bjerknes' hus, auditorium 2
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28 May
Life sciences: Information and input meeting funding of new convergence environments
3:00 PM, Blindern, Vilhelm Bjerknes' hus, auditorium 2
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29 May
Topology Meeting at the University of Oslo
10:00 AM, Georg Sverdrups hus Auditorium 2 (BL271511)
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30 May
Topology Meeting at the University of Oslo
Georg Sverdrups hus Auditorium 2 (BL271511)
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  • bilde-kina The Silicon Road – Chinese-Norwegian partnership in photovoltaics May 16, 2018 11:16 AM

    The Chinese company Jinko Solar is currently the world’s largest producer of solar panels, and it manufactures the solar cells with the highest efficiency. Jinko Solar is also a key partner in the INTPART-project SiNorAPV: Sino-Norwegian Alliance in Photovoltaics, coordinated by Prof. Andrej Kuznetsov at the Centre for Materials Science and Nanotechnology (SMN), UiO. SiNorAPV is now looking for MSc- and PhD-students from UiO, NTNU, NMBU and UiA, who would like to spend a two-week internship this summer at the Jinko Solar factory near Shanghai. Five internships are available in 2018, the call can be found here.

  • livsvitenskap_kollasj_660 Life sciences: Information and input meeting funding of new convergence environments May 8, 2018 1:20 PM

    Do you want to join the application process in 2018/2019 for funding of new interdisciplinary research groups in life sciences? Then you should sign up for one of UiO:Life Science´s meetings in the end of May.

  • Call for nominations to Alf Bjørseth’s inspiration prize May 4, 2018 11:10 AM

    The second annual prize will be awarded on June 12th 2018.

  • aa32027-17-fig4 Highlight in "Astronomy & Astrophysics" Apr. 23, 2018 2:01 PM

    A new article by professor Mats Carlsson at RoCS, among others, was recently selected as a highlight in the scientific journal "Astronomy & Astrophysics".

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