News archive for Faculty of Science and Technology

Portraits of Amy Eycott on the left and Joe Chipperfield on the right

EECRG Farewells (27.03.2017)

EECRG says farewell to two post-docs

Ørjan Totland, John-Arvid Grytnes, Alistair Seddon, and John Birks standing in a line in a meeting room

EECRG celebrations (27.03.2017)

Congratulations to John and Alistair on their recent successes

Newsletter - March (27.03.2017)

Did our ancestors change the climate? (16.03.2017)

John Birks is Principal Investigator in the project HOPE, which aims to discover the impact prehistoric people had on the biosphere. The project is made possible by the prestigious ERC Advanced Grant.

Forsker Alistair Seddon, Institutt for biologi, Universitetet i Bergen (UiB).

Alistair Seddon wins Meltzer Award for Young Researchers (08.03.2017)

The Meltzer Award was given to Alistair in recognition of his outstanding academic record in terms of degrees, prizes, research grant, innovative research projects, broad research experience, and international publications.

Submit to our Goldschmidt session! (08.03.2017)

Please remember our session when considering attending the Goldschmidt conference in Paris this year (August 13-18)!

Perpetra Akite standing in her graduation gown at the ceremnony of her PhD graduation

Matrix PhD graduation (08.03.2017)

Dr Perpetra Akite was awarded her doctoral degree at a ceremony in Kampala, Uganda on 21 February 2017.

Caged cod in Kollevågen

Cod caged as canaries in polluted Kollevåg (02.03.2017)

Schematic figure showing a Naa60 protein attached to the golgi membrane by an alpha-helix, while acetylating the N-terminus of another transmembrane protein sitting in the golgi membrane

Hangin’ out at the Golgi (02.03.2017)

Many proteins have the Golgi apparatus as their favorite hangout place. For N-terminal acetyltransferases (NATs), however, this is a rather unique characteristic as only one NAT, Naa60, was shown to localize to intracellular organelles.