CEDAS, the Center for Data Science at the University of Bergen, and NORBIS, the Norwegian Research School in Bioinformatics, Biostatistics, and Systems Biology, invite both starting and experienced data scientists to an exciting joint summer school on data science and its biomedical applications from 7-11 August 2023. The summer school will be held in Bergen at …
A Modelling-Based Investigation Of The Dynamic Behavior Of Reproductive Hormones In Girls And Wom On May 5th Sophie Fischer-Holzhausen successfully defended her PhD thesis titled: A matter of timing – A modelling-based investigation of the dynamic behavior of reproductive hormones in girls and women. Female health is an important but often understudied field of human …
Bioinformatics in Bergen 2023 Conference took place on 24-25 May at the Solstrand Hotel thanks to the financial support from the Trond Mohn Foundation. The aim of the event was to create opportunities for networking and collaboration among all locally situated researchers that use bioinformatics in their work. It was a privilege to have the key …
CBU leaders’ workshop took place at the Scandic City Bergen, May 15th. The focus was on grant application proposals, discussing computing resources for CBU, communication and visibility, and discussions in groups.
Alexey Nesterenko is our new Postdoctoral Fellow who has joined the CBU to contribute in simulating lipid membranes and carbohydrates, and to do biomacromolecular force field validation, under supervision of Markus Miettinen. Alexey got his PhD in a field between computational chemistry and electrochemistry in 2014 at the Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry …
This week we received word that Eivind Valen has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant. Eivind has been leading the Valen group at the Computational Biology Unit at the University of Bergen for 9 years, where they are working towards solving questions surrounding regulation of gene expression. We are hugely proud of Eivind, and thrilled …
Lennart is a guest researcher joining Reuter’s group who will work with us at CBU for 6 months. The goal of the project is to evaluate the ability of molecular mechanics force fields to model, through molecular simulations, the properties of peptide-bilayer systems observed from solid state NMR. The bulk of the work will be …
Tobias Ziolkowski, a guest researcher joining Michoel’s group who will work with us at CBU for 3 months. Tobias started his PhD in January 2022 after two years of research experience at the Christian-Albrechts-University in Kiel. His working group “Magmatic and Hydrothermal Systems” at GEOMAR focuses on the topics oceanic volcanism, petrology, marine mineral resources …
We are glad to host Meije Mathe, a MSc Bioinformatics student at the University of Rouen Normandie, in France. Along with her master’s degree, Meije worked for 2 years as an apprentice at the Institute Pasteur of Paris. The aim of her apprenticeship project was to decipher the informational content of epigenome mediated regulation in …
Postdoc Anna-Simone Frank from the Computational Biology Unit (CBU), Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, has been selected as one of 15 delegates into UIB’s flagship development program – Momentum. The Momentum program is for early-stage researchers (postdocs, researchers, or associate professors), who wish to pursue an academic career at a research university. …
