News archive for Department of Biological Sciences (BIO)

Jan Mayen survey points to petroleum potential (30.11.2011)

The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) and the University of Bergen have acquired samples from steep parts of the seabed on the Jan Mayen ridge between Norway and Iceland.

Geobio paper published in Science (24.11.2011)

CGB researcher, Bjarte Hannisdal, is co-author of a paper that shows that long-term changes in the diversity of marine animals may have been linked to the earth's geological evolution over the last 500 million years.

Ranga starts his master's project on guppies (17.11.2011)

EvoFish welcomes new master's student, Ranga Jayawickrama, who will study moprhological variation in guppies.

Finding out more about life beneath the sea floor (16.11.2011)

The International Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) aims to discover vital information about our Earth System.

Farmed salmon diet fattens mice (10.11.2011)

Jérôme Ruzzin, a post-doc in the Experimental Toxicology research group, was involved in a study with mice that provides more evidence that a diet high in farmed salmon contaminated by persistent organic pollutants - POPs - contributes to weight gain and increases the risk of diabetes.