140 participants from all across Norway and 6 keynote speakers joined the 2nd edition of the Norwegian Bioinformatics Days in Bergen for 3 days filled with exciting talks, workshops and poster sessions.
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CBU Leaders workshop
On March 13th CBU group leaders gathered at the Thon Hotel Rosenkrantz Bergen for the workshop to discuss science and strategies.
Excellent evaluation of CBU by the Research Council
Today the Norwegian Research Council sent the results of the evaluation of CBU over the last ten years. We received extremely positive feedback and useful comments that will help us further develop our activities in the future. The unit received top scores in both “organization” and “research quality”, as well as almost full pot in “societal …
Visit at The Korea Institute for Advanced Study
Our group leader Markus Miettinen has been a visiting scholar at KIAS in Seoul for two weeks where he gave an invited talk: High-fidelity Biomolecular Modeling of Disordered Biomolecules.
Successful PhD Defense – Unraveling the Mysteries of the Translatome.
On March 12th Håkon Tjeldnes successfully defended his PhD thesis titled: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Translatome. Protein synthesis, also called translation, is a fundamental process in gene regulation. The translation process consists simply of molecules, called ribosomes, using RNA as a template to create proteins that the cell needs. However, it has been uncovered …
Yasin Tharak and Christoph Bottin joined CBU
Welcoming our new colleagues at CBU: Yasin Tharak Miran, Senior Engineer and Christoph Bottin, Head Engineer. Great to have them on board!
Norwegian Bioinformatics Days 2024
Please, check the conference website for more information: NBD 2024 – Bioinformatics conference (norbioinfo.no)
Florian Pierre Echelard – New PhD researcher
We are welcoming a new PhD student at CBU! Florian Pierre Echelard has Master’s degree in Bioinformatics, specialized in biostatistics and structural bioinformatics from Nantes Universitéstarted. His PhD project is a part of the collaboration between labs with expertise in Bioinformatics, Deep Learning and Biochemistry under the supervision of prof. Nathalie Reuter. The goal is …
Visit at the American Institute of Mathematics @Caltech
Postdoc Anna-Simone Frank and Prof. Susanna Röblitz from CBU spent a week at the California Institute of Technology for a workshop on mathematical modelling of macrophage polarization. Their research visit was funded by a grant from AIM’s SQuaREs program.
Fynn Frederic Wolf – new PhD student
This week we have welcomed Fynn Frederic Wolf as our new PhD student. Fynn received his Master’s degree in Physics with specialization in biophysics from the University of Copenhagen in 2021. PhD topic will be on the formation of stress granules. The focus will lie on the description and modelling of the system pathway. Wolf …