Tuesday 2 March 10.00 a.m, SiO Health will start large-scale Covid-19 testing of students and staff at the University of Oslo. Everyone on the Blindern campus during the next three weeks is encouraged to take a rapid Covid-19 test once a week.
The faculties can plan for physical teaching for up to 20 people, and student pubs and basements for reopening, as of Monday 1 March.
Departments/faculties at UiO can apply UiO:Life Science for support to develop interdisciplinary courses within life sciences. For 2021 the deadlines to apply are 1 April and 15 October.
The University of Oslo is opening reading rooms, libraries and buildings for students from 18 February.
The Medical Library offers courses in literature searching in medical and interdisciplinary reference databases, critical appraisal of articles, reference management, OA-publishing and research visibility. Find more information and sign up via the overview below.
The government allows some students who need skills training or access to experiments back on campus, to prevent them for being delayed in their education, to attend physically from 3 February for an initial period until 10 February.
We are happy that Bastiaan Star joined IBV as an Associate Professor in marine genomics at the Centre for Evolutionary and Ecological Synthesis (CEES) earlier last year.
The government will implement new infection control measures from 23 January at 12.00. Teaching will be digital for all students, and the campus is closed to students until 31 January 2021.
Are you a PhD student, postdoc or Master’s student in life sciences and interested in career opportunities beyond academia? Sign up for Young Talents on 16 February! You will hear inspiring talks by director general in Norwegian Food Safety Authority (Mattilsynet) Ingunn Midttun Godal, in addition to speakers from DNV GL, AstraZeneca, Mowi, Norsvin and entrepreneur Morten Isaksen from Bio-Me.
The University of Oslo Library continues to ensure access to the journals Annals of Internal Medicine, BMJ (British Medical Journal) (29 journals) and JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) (8 journals) for staff and students at UiO and OUS.
A reliable sense of space is essential for daily life and memory formation. Breaking down the extracellular matrix around grid cells makes the mental map unstable [Nature Communications 11th of January, 2021].
UiO:Life Science has announced a new call for funding of new convergence environments and will in this round fund five to six interdisciplinary research groups. Researchers from all units at UiO are welcome to participate in the application round.
All new students will be welcomed as planned, however all other lectures run digitally until 18 January 2021.
We are happy that Jonas Paulsen joined IBV as an Associate Professor at the section for Genetics and Evolutionary Biology (EVOGENE) earlier this year.
This year Viola Lobert, who teaches genetics and developmental biology at the Department of Biosciences, has made virtual lab tours of four model organism facilities to introduce her students to the wonders of development, but also to give them a taste of what it’s like to do experiments in a lab.
Read about the work of Elise Holter Thompson at Forskning.no (Norwegian only): Lagring av minner i hjernen – hva kan det si oss om demens?
We have new safety representatives at the department. Do you know who your safety representative is and what the safety representative can help you with?
The application results for the RCN calls for "Researcher Project for Scientific Renewal" and "Collaborative Project to meet Societal and Industry-related Challenges" have been announced. CEES had a high success rate. Congratulations to all, we are proud of you and extremely happy that CEES had so many successful applications this year.
The Research Council of Norway (NFR) has funded two projects from the Department. The projects are EcoForest and #AgriDeer. Head of EcoForest is Håvard Kauserud, and head of #AgriDeer is Atle Mysterud.
UiO:Life Science will fund educational summer research projects for 40 students between April and September 2021 for students currently enrolled in a bachelor, master or relevant professional degree program at UiO. We now invite you to suggest projects for one or two students. The application deadline was 1 February 2021.
UiO:Life Science will fund 40 educational summer research projects for students between April and September 2021. Students currently enrolled in a bachelor, master or relevant professional degree program at the University of Oslo are eligible to apply. The first 100 students to register will be admitted to a digital matchmaking on 9 March.
Listen to Gaute Einevoll talk about neuroscience and technology in these podcast episodes (Norwegian only):
UiOs students and staff can now get access to PressReader. The service allows you to read more than 7400 newspapers and magazines from around the world.
Yesterday, CBA leader Dag O. Hessen won two awards in the major literature award, Brageprisen.
We are happy that Inger Skrede started as an Associate Professor at the Department of Biosciences earlier this year. Learn more about Inger, and the world of fungi.