Friday 13 December Parveen Gartan successfully defended his thesis named “Advanced Free Energy Methods in Retrospective and Prospective Drug Design: Application to Serine Proteases”. Follow this link to access the thesis, and this link for more information about the defence. Congratulations!
Researcher and member of CBU Franziska Görtler has been awarded funding from RCN (Research Council of Norway) FRIPRO for early career researchers. With this she will receive 8 million NOK to establish and conduct research that will, over three years from 2026, work on groundbreaking projects with significant medical benefits. In addition to being a valuable …
Associate Professor and member of CBU Marc Vaudel has been awarded a prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant. With this he will receive around 23 million NOK to establish a research group that will, over the next five years, work on groundbreaking projects with significant societal benefits. In addition to being a valuable member of CBU, Marc …
The Journal of Human Genetics has awarded Sean Bankier, postdoctoral fellow in the Michoel Group, with the Young Scientist Award 2024. JHG Young Scientist Award recognises articles by young researchers that have made significant contribution to Journal of Human Genetics, thanks to their scientific excellence and impact in the field of human genetics. Bankier received …
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.
On March 13th CBU group leaders gathered at the Thon Hotel Rosenkrantz Bergen for the workshop to discuss science and strategies.
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 …
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.
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 …
Welcoming our new colleagues at CBU: Yasin Tharak Miran, Senior Engineer and Christoph Bottin, Head Engineer. Great to have them on board!
