News archive for Faculty of Science and Technology

New webpage for the DATED Project (29.01.2013)

An Atlas to Earth’s Oxygenation (29.01.2013)

Focusing on the wealth of information gleaned from the recent Fennoscandian Arctic Russia - Drilling Early Earth Project (FAR-DEEP), “Reading the Archive of Earth’s Oxygenation” is a veritable atlas for current knowledge of a literally life-changing period in Earth’s history.

Shen, here pictured in the guppy lab, is the deputy director of the Fisheries...

Shen Gongming visiting EvoFish (27.01.2013)

EvoFish has a pleasure of hosting Shen Gongming, a visiting scholar from the Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences.

CGB Welcomes New PhD Students (09.01.2013)

2013 has begun, and so have the studies of two CGB students in our PhD programme. We are pleased to welcome Jan Vander Roost and Sven Le Moine Bauer to Bergen and to our team.

New protein tricks from an old enzyme (02.01.2013)

Small chemical groups are commonly attached to proteins in order to control their function. In eukaryotic cells, N-terminal acetyltransferases (NATs) attach acetyl groups to the very first amino acid (the N-terminus) of a majority of proteins. Now, researchers at MBI (UiB) and VIB-Gent have discovered that NATs also carry out other types of protein modifications.

What’s on your dinner plate? (02.01.2013)

Recent research indicate that there may be a link between contaminants in food-stuff and the explosion in metabolic diseases, incl. type 2 diabetes, in the western world.