Department of Biological Sciences (BIO)

Are you interested in studies preparing you for working with the unfolding nature crisis, sustainable goals, food production, human health, or pollutants? Eager to focus on urgent issues where biology plays an important role for understanding and contributing to solutions for societal problems? Department of Biological Sciences at University of Bergen offers study programs that will give you the training and tools that prepare you for this.

Our bachelor's and master's programmes

We also offer two 5-year Integrated master's programmes:

Aquaculture (civil engineer)
Aquamedicine

Contact us at studie.bio@uib.no
Overview of our courses.

Research

To kvinner utenfor administrasjonsbygget ved UiB

Millions in Research Funding for Fish Health at UiB

Sea lice and bacterial diseases are among the biggest challenges in Norwegian aquaculture. Now, two researchers at the University of Bergen have received funding from the Research Council of Norway to develop new knowledge that can improve fish health and strengthen sustainability in the industry.

Calendar

Master's presentation by Ole Kollstrøm Heilevang: "A comparison of FlowCAM automated imaging and manual microscopy for mesozooplankton enumeration and classification"

Grupperom 209M1, 2nd fl., Datablokk, Høyteknologisenteret: https://link.mazemap.com/NeAn5NFD

20.04.2026 10:15–10:45

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Room 439C1 ("the Incubator), 4th floor Bioblokken, Thormøhlens gt 55

Functional Characterization of Common HNF1A Haplotypes in Type2 Diabetes and Rare Nuclear Localization Signal Variants in Suspected HNF1A-MODY (Seminar)

09:15–10:00

Seminar room K3 (room 1H19), Thormøhlens gt 53B

Insights into the Molecular and Cellular Interactions of Xenobiotic Compounds and Xenobiotic-Sensing Receptors in Marine Mammals (Seminar)

14:15–15:00

Sars Seminar Room. Thormøhlensgt. 55, 5006 Bergen

Dr. Hiroshi Watanabe, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan (Seminar)

10:00–11:00

Statsraaden Bar & Reception, Bradbenken 2

Frameworks for ocean management in a changing climate (Event)

19:00–20:00

BIO's vision

BIO aims to produce fundamental and pioneering knowledge of the origin of life, its development, processes and systems, and help solve major global challenges.