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Ebola is striking once again, this time in the Democratic Republic of Congo. A few years after the 2014-2015 Ebola crisis, has the world learnt its lessons? Are we better prepared? Come and join the debate!
Professor Frank Sobott, Chair of Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry at the Astbury Centre, University of Leeds, will give the talk titled, "Dynamic protein structure: from protein disorder to membrane pores"
Master Christine Ijino Oyenak at the Department of Education defends her doctoral dissertation for the degree of PhD:
Decentralisation and Multiculturalism in the Sudan/ South Sudan. An Analysis of the Policy and Practice of Multicultural Education in Selected Public Primary in South Sudan.
Maria Witek (Birmingham) will lecture on "Musical Groove: Effect on pleasure, body-movement and the brain".
Cand.paed.spec. Randi Myklebust defends her doctoral dissertation for the degree of Ph.d.:
Talk in the Multilingual Classroom. A study of students' talk in Norwegian in five peer groups at the 7th grade of the primary school.
Master Ann Elisabeth Gunnulfsen defends her doctoral dissertation for the degree of Ph.d.:
Micro Policy Making in Schools. Use of National Test Results in a Norwegian Context.
This meeting is cancelled. Please check our web page for meetings relevant for the SPARK Norway community later.
Dr. Jane Maienschein is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series. Maienschein is University Professor, Regents’ Professor, President’s Professor, and Director of the Center for Biology and Society at Arizona State University. She is also a Fellow at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, where she heads the project funded by the James S. McDonnell Foundation on “Putting History and Philosophy of Science to Work with the Life Sciences.” Maienschein has served as president of the History of Science Society and of the International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology. Author of Embryos Under the Microscope and Whose View of Life?, she is also (co)editor of a dozen volumes including most recently Visions of Cell Biology and The Ark and Beyond.
Dr. Mika R?met, of PEDEGO research unit, University of Oulo, Finland, will give a talk titled, "Zebrafish as a model to study Mycobacterial infection".
Ankur Garg, PhD, will give a talk titled, "Structural and functional analysis of ribonuclease ZC3H12C mediated regulation of immune responses"
Lecture by Gabriele Iannàccaro, University of Milano-Bicocca
Cand.philol. Harald Eriksen defends his doctoral dissertation for the degree of Ph.d.:
Assessment for learning – investigating Norwegian Language arts teachers’ assessment practice in two schools
Do you want to join the application process in 2018/2019 for funding of new interdisciplinary research groups in life sciences? Then you should sign up for one of UiO:Life Science?s meetings in the end of May.
Do you want to join the application process in 2018/2019 for funding of new interdisciplinary research groups in life sciences? Then you should sign up for one of UiO:Life Science?s meetings in the end of May.
Do you want to join the application process in 2018/2019 for funding of new interdisciplinary research groups in life sciences? Then you should sign up for one of UiO:Life Science?s meetings in the end of May.
Do you want to join the application process in 2018/2019 for funding of new interdisciplinary research groups in life sciences? Then you should sign up for one of UiO:Life Science?s meetings in the end of May.
Melissa Lane is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series. Lane is the Class of 1943 Professor of Politics and the Director of the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. An associated faculty member in the Princeton Department of Classics and Department of Philosophy, she researches and teaches in the area of the history of political thought, with a special expertise in ancient Greek thought, and in normative political philosophy, including especially environmental ethics and politics.
The seminar is open for everyone!
Marieke Kuijjer, of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard T.H. School of Public Health, will give a talk titled: "Understanding cancer using integrative network models"
Samir Okasha is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series. Okasha is Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Bristol. His research is focused around philosophy of biology, evolutionary theory, epistemology and philosophy of science.He is a winner of Lakatos Award for his book Evolution and the Levels of Selection.
The seminar is open for everyone!
From research to the regulated world – a SPARK Norway educational lecture.
Join us for the screening of Pili, a feature length drama set in rural Tanzania reflecting the life a poor, HIV-positive single mother of two children. The film will be followed by a Q&A with Dr Sophie Harman, producer of the film and researcher in International Relations/Global Health (QMUL).
We wish you welcome to a seminar by Ray Dingledine
In connection with Ray Dingledine’s inauguration as elected member of The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (DNVA), we organize a seminar at which Ray will give two presentations, as introductions to informal discussions.
In this seminar drawing from a combined epidemiological and ethnographic study, Dr Freya Jephcott (Queen's College Cambridge), will unpack the consequences of involving different types of actors, both national and international, in the response to a mysterious outbreak in Ghana (2012). Come and join us for an interesting discussion!