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Bergen seen from Floien
BSRS 2021: Science and Society towards the Sustainable Development Goals (29.09.2020)
Digital summer research school.
Cocoa agroforestry systems (Cabrucas) in Bahia, Brazil
Changes in farming urgent to rescue biodiversity (23.07.2020)
Over 360 scientists from 42 countries (including Inger Måren from CeSAM at the University of Bergen) - led by the University of Göttingen and Westlake University China - call for transition of food production systems to agroecological principles.
Younger generation...
Say hello to our PhDs and post-docs (01.07.2020)
The young generation in our group works on a range of different topics withing terrestrial and marine microbial ecology. Methodologies include polar field work, genomics and modeling, to name a few.
Cycles of forcings and responses inferred from proxy records covering the last 1.74 million years
Secrets from a very long interglacial sequence (22.05.2020)
As part of an international consortium led by Yan Zhao (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing), Vivian Felde and John Birks were involved in the publication of a detailed record of past vegetation and climate over the last 1.74 million years from the Tibetan Plateau.
Kom deg unna hoppekrepsen! (30.04.2020)
Planteplankton og dyreplankton danner et av de viktigste grunnlag for livet på jorda.
Photo: Interactive workshop at SDG Conference Bergen 2020.
Nordhordland UNESCO Biosfæreområde på agendaen under Bærekraftskonferansen i Bergen 2020 (10.03.2020)
På Day Zero av Bærekraftskonferansen i Bergen 2020 myldret det i Storelogen på Kvarteret med over 80 entusiastiske mennesker som kom for å diskutere Nordhordland UNESCO Biosfæreområde som en arena for bærekraftig utvikling. Den interaktive arbeidssmia ble arrangert av UNESCO Chair ved Universitetet i Bergen, den norske UNESCO-kommisjonen, Nordhordland UNESCO Biosfæreområde og det norske FN-... Read more
Wisarut Tukanghan (Azan)
Guest PhD student from Thailand (28.02.2020)
Mr. Wisarut Tukanghan, awarded Industry Grant by The Thailand Science Research and Innovation (TSRI), formerly known as the Thailand Research Fund (TRF) is on a 3 months research visit to BIO.
Christine holding up a print of a cod head
Master thesis on the effects of bisphenol compounds on Atlantic cod estrogen receptor (18.12.2019)
In her master thesis, Christine Tveiten Johansen, has studied how bisphenol compounds activate or inhibit estrogen receptor in Atlantic cod. She shows disturbing results of the substitute compounds can be more harmful that the known plastic additive bisphenol A.
Illustration of cod and pollutants
When environmental toxicology meets design (05.12.2019)
During the last months I have been thinking about how to communicate my PhD project to the general public. As a scientist, I explain my work with graphs and figures. But a figure which is easy to understand to my colleagues or peer reviewers, will find it hard to attract the attention of someone outside science.
Mashzhan Akzhigit
Eurasian students from Kazakhistan (15.11.2019)
Mashzhan Akzhigit , PhD student and Musabekov Zhorabek, master student at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University make their first research visit to University of Bergen under the Eurasian Framework. Welcome!
Edoardo Mandolini
Breakdown of keratin-laden biomass waste by the thermophilic bacteria Fervidobacterium pennivorans strain Ker (02.11.2019)
Edoardo Mandolini, will work on his master thesis focussing on the anaerobic thermophilic bacterium Fervidobacterium pennivorans, named strain Ker, isolated from a terrestrial hot-spring in Tajikistan.
EMBRC logo
EMBRC-NO kicks off! (26.08.2019)
The Norwegian node (EMBRC-NO) of the European Marine Biological Resource Centre (EMBRC) starts officially on Wednesday 4 September.
Bilde av en gruppe studenter foran en av posterveggene
Full house on Poster Symposium (25.06.2019)
May 22 was an exciting day for students and staff at the Department of Biological Sciences, when the first Poster Symposium was arranged in Høyteknologisenteret.
Nordhordland, landscape
Norway's first Biosphere reserve approved (24.06.2019)
– People at the University of Bergen together with people from Nordhordland have been slaving away to make the first Norwegian biosphere under UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere programme happen.
Apinya Singkhala
Apinya Singkhala - Doctor of Philosophy in Biotechnology (18.06.2019)
Ms. Apinya Singkhala defended her PhD thesis, tilted Metagenomics and Isolation of Thermophilic Cellulase - producing Bacteria from Thermophilic High Solid Digestion Condition at the Department of Biology, Thaksin University in Thailand in May 2018. Congratulations!
Srisuda Chaikitkaew
Visiting PhD student from Thailand (18.06.2019)
Ms Srisuda Chaikitkaew has a Royal Golden Jubilee PhD scholarship awarded by the Thai Research Fund for a 10 month reseach visit to BIO.
Richard Payne in climbing gear sitting on a rock
Killed in Himalaya (06.06.2019)
Richard Payne, a former Marie Curie Fellow with EECRG in 2003, was killed climbing in the Himalaya
Connecting student active learning with the UN system (31.05.2019)
A unique course on SDG14 brings together student active learning and an interdisciplinary approach on how to engage with sustainability issues and how science can provide knowledge for a sustainable Ocean. We have produced three videos showing what makes the course special.

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