Month: September 2022

Science festival in Bergen 2022

Science festival in Bergen (Forskningstorget) was held on 23th and 24th September in the city center with 19 different stations. Here you could try, experiment, see and listen to all the exciting things happening in the research and education environment in the city. CBU booth was popular and everyone enjoyed being there.

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Congratulations to the CBU director Nathalie Reuter and group leader Sushma Grellscheid on getting the grant for their project funded by the Research Council of Norway. For more information, please check here.

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Successful PhD Defense – Machine Learning Approaches For High-Dimensional Genome-Wide Association Studies

On August 24th Muhammad Ammar Malik successfully defended his PhD thesis with the title: Machine learning approaches for high-dimensional genome-wide association studies Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) aim to find statistical associations between genetic variants and traits of interests. The genetic variants that explain a lot of variation in genome-wide gene expression may lead to confounding in expression quantitative …

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Bram Danneels – New Postdoctoral Researcher

Bram Danneels is our new Postdoctoral Fellow who has joined the CBU as part of the EBP-Nor project to help develop tools and pipelines for the efficient and high-throughput assembly and annotation of the eukaryotic target species, under supervision of Michael Dondrup and professor Inge Jonassen. Bram got his PhD in Bioinformatics at Ghent University. …

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