EcoArch has been awarded €12 million in research funding from the European Research Council (ERC) to study 6,000 years of human, climate, and wildfire impacts on African and Arabian landscapes and biodiversity.
The iGEM-team from The University of Oslo achieved a gold medal in the international final in Paris, with their project "LactIQ: Real-Time Insight for Smarter Training".
Professor Inger Skrede is the new deputy head of the Department of Biosciences. She succeeded Professor Melinka Alonso Butenko on 1 October 2025.
Inga Angelica Frøland Steindal has been accepted as a new member of The Young Academy of Norway. Inga is a researcher at the Center for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES) at the Department of Biosciences.
The Biological Optical Microscope Workshop resumed this spring after being paused in 2024. The event aimed to foster collaboration among Scandinavian researchers, with numerous participants eagerly awaiting registration.
Norway's largest research project, The Nansen Legacy, has now had its final report approved by the Norwegian Research Council (NFR). The report contains new knowledge, tools, and a strengthened interdisciplinary collaboration among ten institutions during the project period from 2018 to 2024.
Clare M. Andvik from IBV has been awarded for the best presentation in toxicology at the NSFT winter meeting. Her talk focused on the impact of pollutants and whale-watching boats on orcas.
Pierre Chymkowitch at the University of Oslo is awarded 12 million NOK by The Norwegian Research Council, to investigate how SUMOylation influences epigenetic stability and could prevent diseases like obesity and cancer.
