News archive for Michael Sars Centre
Researchers from the Michael Sars Centre participated in the third edition of One Ocean Week. On the program, engaging the public with our research projects and exchanging with industry stakeholders.
In the spring of 2025, general elections will be held for the faculty boards and department councils at the NT faculty, including the Michael Sars Centre's Advisory Board. The deadline for candidate nomination is March 28th.
A new study conducted in the Lynagh group shows that closely related neuropeptide receptors do not always recognize ligands in the same way. The work lays out the blueprint for ligand recognition in this receptor family.
As the ocean warms, researchers are racing to uncover the impact of the climate crisis on marine life. In an innovative multi-scale project, developmental biologist Lionel Christiaen sets the focus on the very beginnings of life in a changing environment.
Rogue or freak waves (monster waves) are exceptionally large waves that can suddenly loom into existence, seemingly from nowhere. Are these waves truly different from ordinary storm waves, or are they just what you should expect to see if you wait long enough?
The Michael Sars Centre at the University of Bergen and the Paris Aquarium have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to exchange expertise on comb jelly husbandry. The collaboration marks a significant milestone as animals first raised at the Centre are now on display in the aquarium’s Medusarium©, the largest jellyfish exhibit in Europe.
Join us on June 6, 2025 at Media City Bergen for a day of exceptional talks. This year, our invited speakers will explore the theme: "Decoding signals and unveiling architectures, from molecules to organisms".
A team led by researchers at EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), in collaboration with a PhD candidate in the Christiaen group at the Michael Sars Centre, developed an open-source large language model (LLM) framework designed for custom biomedical research.
By conducting systematic observations of animals in the laboratory, researchers in the Christiaen group uncovered crucial information on the post-embryonic development of Ciona. Their results, including a new culture protocol, are published in Open Biology.
A new study published in Science Advances reveals evidence of electrical signaling and coordinated behavior in choanoflagellates, the closest living relatives of animals. This elaborate example of cell communication offers key insights into the early evolution of animal multicellularity and nervous systems.
In a new article, researchers from the Lynagh group explore the unexpected activation of an ion channel by a family of small molecules known to inhibit other similar channels .
After studying biodiversity in class, Grade 4 students from the International School of Bergen (ISB) discovered marine species at the Michael Sars Centre.
Apply before January 6. 2025 to join our team! We offer an attractive work environment to address fundamental questions in molecular, cellular and organismal biology.
For most animals, ageing is a one-way journey. In a recent PNAS publication, researchers Joan Soto-Angel and Pawel Burkhardt discovered that a species of comb jelly can reverse its life cycle, returning from adulthood to a larval stage.
All animals need stem cells to reproduce, grow, and replace tissues through their lifetime. In a new article published in Nature Communications, lead author Paula Miramón-Puértolas and her colleagues discovered a population of stem-like cells in a sea anemone.
The new exhibit aims to challenge the public’s perspective on the often-misunderstood animals by highlighting their beauty and ecological relevance. It will run until January 26, 2025.
At the Michael Sars Centre, the group of Marios Chatzigeorgiou develops unique tools to study underwater noise as part of the pan-European project DeuteroNoise.
Coral reefs produce a lot of oxygen during the day (thanks to photosynthesis), but at night the oxygen levels decrease. Can this threaten fishes at the reef, or do they have strategies to survive? To find out we spent six months of fieldwork and experiments on the island of Moorea in French Polynesia.
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