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 …
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.
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 …
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. …
Aura Zelco is excited to start her master thesis project at CBU as an Erasmus trainee. Aura is a MSc Bioinformatics student at Lund University (Sweden) and will work under the supervision of CBU group leader Anagha Madhusudan Joshi-Michoel. In her project, she will characterize sex-specific differences in brain at a single cell level using several public datasets, with …
