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. …
Our PhD student Mariyam Khan is in London for for a six-month research stay at The Alan Turing Institute. Mariyam was selected for the Turing enrichment scheme through NORA as one of three recipients of the 2022 Research Exchange Enrichment award. Read the interview with Mariyam here
The first CBU seminar of this year was held yesterday by Ruth Brenk, our new associate group leader. Ruth is a Professor and the Head of research of the Department of Biomedicine. The overall research goal of the Brenk group is to improve methods used for structure-based drug design and to apply these methods to design inhibitors for enzymes with …
We are pleased to announce Marc Vaudel as an Associate group leader at CBU! Marc currently works as a scientist at the Center for Diabetes Research, Department of Clinical Science, University of Bergen, and at the Center for Medical Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Haukeland University Hospital, both in Bergen, Norway. His research focus is the combination of genetic, signalling, …
Traditional Xmas potluck at CBU: excellent food, secret Santa, Kahoot quiz, best dish prize.
The first Norwegian Bioinformatics Days conference NBD2022 was held on 28th-30th of September in Sundvolden hotel. CBU was one of many co-organizers and Iain George Johnston, CBU associate group leader, was a keynote speaker at the conference. CBU group leader Eivind Valen was a session chair. Our PhD Tobias Rindfleisch and postdoc researcher Franziska Stilla Maria Görtler were presenting …
