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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.
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.
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.
Project partners and collaborators
dCod'ers at the PRIMO 20 conference (28.05.2019)
The dCod 1.0 project puts its marks on successful PRIMO 20 in Charleston, South Carolina
Jakhongir
Visiting master student from Uzbekistan (06.05.2019)
Jakhongir Alimov, is a master student at National University of Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
Munavvara
Visiting PhD student from Tajikistan (14.03.2019)
Ms. Munavvara Dhzuraeva, is a Phd student at the Biotechnology Center, Tajik National University, Tajikistan.
A row of orchids hanging from a high shelf at Kew Gardens
Orchids - Celebrate the Colour of Colombia (04.03.2019)
In 2019, the annual orchid festival at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew is devoted to Colombia.
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ERANet-funded research visit to University of Exeter (27.02.2019)
Researcher Antonio Garcia-Moyano made a research visit to the Centre for Biocatalysis at the University of Exeter, United Kingdom, hosted by Professor Jennifer Littlechild. Prof. Littlechild leads a group of experts in biochemistry and structural biology.

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