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Plastics researcher Amy Lusher makes it to the highly cited researchers list (15.02.2022)
Publishing data and articles is one of the most important things a researcher does. It is then very important that your publications get noticed and used in further science – and that often means cited.
Female pied flycatcher
Extra-pair paternity facilitates cooperation in pied flycatchers (10.02.2022)
New study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that infidelity can promote cooperation among male pied flycatchers.
Florian Muthreich presents one of the funded projects
CeSAM's Fast Track Initiatives awarded (08.02.2022)
In 2021, we announced our first ‘CeSAM’s Fast-Track Initiative’ grants. We had many strong applications, of which four received funding.
Bilde av Tom Fisk fra Pexels
The pulse of marine food chain models (08.02.2022)
It is essential to examine whether the mathematical description of marine food webs reflect the ecosystems they represent. A new proposal is integrating multiple mathematical disciplines and this requires collaboration on an international front.
Example of nature values mapped
People matter – Understanding what and where communities value nature in a UNESCO biosphere reserve (24.01.2022)
How and where does nature add value to our lives? In this new study, PhD candidate Jarrod Cusens engaged local communities to understand the spatial distribution of people's values for nature in The Nordhordland Biosphere Reserve; Norway’s first UNESCO Biosphere Reserve established in 2019.
Vigdis Vandvik presenting at Arendalsuka
Vigdis Vandvik introduces 'the big debate about climate' at Arendalsuka (20.01.2022)
CeSAM and UiB were well represented this year at Arendalsuka, the political festival held in Arendal every summer.
Talks, discussions and Lønningen Lystgård
CeSAM affiliate meeting November 2021 (13.01.2022)
The second annual meeting of UiB’s Centre for Sustainable Area Management (CeSAM) took place on November 17th 2021, at Lønningen Lystgård in the UiB botanical gardens in Minde.
Close-up of a worm with its hooks visible
Why I found working with Gyrodactylus rewarding (02.01.2022)
It took longer than expected for our Gyrodactylus to feel at home in our lab. But once the stock “had warmed its feet” I have been grown more and more appreciative about them. Here are some of the reasons why.
Young lady holding a bird chick in her hand
Lisa is studying how spring weather affects phenology in birds (13.12.2021)
Lisa Hansen Simonsen is about to hand in her Master thesis on the link between spring weather and phenology in small birds
Two male salmon lice guarding females and a lonely louse
Marie is studying dispersal in salmon lice (13.12.2021)
Marie Hauso is a high school teacher student interested in parasites and behaviour. She is now starting her Masters project with Adele Mennerat.
Mixed bottom trawl catch with a box crab on the top
Fishers fine-tune their catch profiles following price fluctuations (10.12.2021)
Bottom trawl is usually considered a relative unselective fishing gear, but Taiwanese coastal trawl fishers show a good ability to change their catch profiles to match market demands
Red brick façade of a school building
Collaboration with the International School of Bergen (10.12.2021)
Beatriz Diaz Pauli joined forces with 8th graders from the International School of Bergen and their teacher Lars Haugen Aardal to become reviewers for the Frontiers of Young Minds journal.
Outreach (09.12.2021)
Outreach activities connected with the CONFECT project will be displayed here.
Speakers of the seminar
Plastics Network Seminar (28.10.2021)
Finally, the Plastics Network got a chance to gather and for the first time connect their members face-to-face in a seminar 23 November.
DNA
New insights into sea lice genomics – the key to sustainable sea lice control? (24.09.2021)
In a new publication where researchers at SLRC have contributed, is 13081 protein-coded genes from the Atlantic sea lice annotated.
Amy Lusher
Monitoring microplastics in the environment (21.09.2021)
"I believe that we have a duty as research scientists to appropriately communicate the global efforts to understand plastic and microplastic pollution," says Amy Lusher, researcher of Environmental Contaminants at NIVA, and at the Department of Biological Sciences at UiB.
Elisabeth and Andreas
Congratulations to Elisabeth J Lind and Andreas Midlang on their master degree! (29.06.2021)
Immunostaining PI3K p110b (green) and PIP3 (red)
Our new article in J. Cell Science (29.06.2021)
Nuclear upregulation of class I PI3K p110β correlates with increased rDNA transcription in cancer cells

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