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Dr. Christopher Yau, Reader in Computational Biology based in the Centre for Computational Biology at the University of Birmingham will give a lecture titled, "Probabilistic modelling approach for pseudotime estimation in single cells and populations."

Professor Banu Subramaniam is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series. Subramaniam is a professor of women, gender and sexuality studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Subramaniam won the 2016 Ludwik Fleck Prize for the book ¡°Ghost Stories for Darwin: The Science of Variation and the Politics of Diversity".

The lecture is open for everyone!

Cand.polit. Inga Staal Jenset defends her doctoral dissertation for the degree of Ph.d.:

Title:

Practice-Based Teacher Education Coursework: An Examination of the Extent and Characteristics of How Teacher Education Coursework Is Grounded in Practice Across Six Teacher Education Programs in Finland, Norway and California, US.

Cand.polit. Hilde Christine Hofslundsengen defends her doctoral dissertation for the degree of Ph.d.:

Title:

The meaning of children's invented writing in preschool. A quasi-experimental intervention study.

The objective of this interdisciplinary course is to explore challenges to sustainable modernity in cultural, economic, political and institutional realms.

Application deadline was May 02, 2017.

First guest of the seminar series "Global Health Unpacked", Adam Fejerskov will discuss the Gates Foundation's promotion of technology-based development policies and question the power, legitimacy and accountability of this major player.

Lecture "A new era of medicine with induced pluripotent stem cells ¨C iPS cells" and panel discussion "Implications of Stem Cell Therapy for Patients and Society" with Shinya Yamanaka, 2012 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine. 

Lecture "A new era of medicine with induced pluripotent stem cells ¨C iPS cells" and panel discussion "Implications of Stem Cell Therapy for Patients and Society" with Shinya Yamanaka, 2012 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine.

'Exploring and exploiting the constraints of local signaling', by Professor John D. Scott

Professor and Director Sylvia Richardson will receive the Honorary Doctorate from the University of Oslo. She will hold an open Lecture on A personal view of statistics as a tool for discovery in the health Sciences. Welcome!

Morten Schak Nielsen, of Copenhagen University, will give a lecture titled, 'Connexin 43 gap junctions at the nexus of cardiac activation'.

Tor Egil F?rland, Professor of History at the Department of Archaeology, conservation and history, University of Oslo, is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series. The Lecture is open for everyone!

Dr. Roderic Guig¨°, coordinating the Bioinformatics and Genomics program of the Centre de Regualci¨® Gen¨°mica in Barcelona will present a lecture on his current research.

Cand.philol. Agnete Andersen Bueie defendsh er doctoral dissertation for the degree of Ph.d.:

Title:"These types of comments are helpful" - Pupils' understanding and use of teacher comments in Norwegian.

Master Solveig Roth defends her doctoral dissertation for the degree of Ph.d.:

Title: Educational trajectories in Cultural worlds: An ethnographic study of multiethnic girls across different levels of schooling.

Master of Laws Stian ?by Johansen at the Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law will be defending the thesis; The Human Rights Accountability Mechanisms of International Organizations. A Framework and Three Case Studies for the degree of Ph.D.

Jeremy Greene, Professor of Medicine and the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series. The seminar is open for everyone!

Cand.philol. Ingvill Krogstad Svanes defends her doctoral dissertation for the degree of Ph.d.:

Title: Teachers' instructional practices during seatwork in Norwegian language arts lessons

Noah Smith is an economist and blogger at Bloomberg View. His blog, under the name ¡°Noahpinion¡± is one of the most widely read blogs on the scholarly discipline of economics in the world, and he has become something close to a blog superstar in economics. Smith has a Phd in economics from the University of Michigan, and was an assistant professor of Finance at Stony Brook University, New York. 

Mag.art. Vidar Gr?tta defends his doctoral dissertation for the degree of PhD:

Title:

The transformation of humanities education. The case of Norway 1960 - 2000 in a systems-theoretical perspective.

It is 50 years since the first scientific articles about the lack of LCAT was published. The symposium will discuss the importance of what lecitihin-cholesterol acyltransferase (LCAT) means for the transport of cholesterol in the organism, and it will take place at the hospital where the hereditary disease LCAT deficiency was first discovered.

The meeting is open to all interested, but registration is needed

The foremost experts in the field of personalized medicine will come together with the Nordic hospital directors and medical faculty deans to explore issues such as data sharing, privacy, innovation, stakeholder engagement, and cross-border studies from an interdisciplinary perspective.