Newsletter UiO:Life Science June 2019

The new life science building at UIO

The process for thematic areas has started

The life science building will be Norway's largest university building when it is completed in 2024. During the next year, UiO will identify the thematic areas that will characterize the building.
"Whether it is brain health, neurological diseases, antibiotic resistance or other areas, we will know in a year," says UiO's Vice-Rector for Research and Innovation, Per Morten Sandset. He has asked faculties and UiO:Life Science to facilitate different parts of the process.

• Read how the faculties and UiO:Life Science will involve employees and external collaborations in the process (in Norwegian)

Environmentally friendly building and environmentally friendly construction site

Minister of Local Government and Modernisation Monica M?land tried the world's first electric excavator on the life science ground 6 June. Project manager at the contracting builder Statsbygg, Per Roger Johansen, and UiO's rector, Svein St?len, were present and informed about the building.

• Read news about the Minister's visit in Uniforum (in Norwegian).
• Read previous news article about the environmental choices that are made for the building (in Norwegian)

Biodiversity, wild flowers and bees on the programme for kindergarten children

Why do we need wild flowers and bees? This is what the eldest children in the University Kindergarten explored when UiO:Life Science and the Agency for Urban Environment invited them to one of the city's flower beds ahead of the Biodiversity Week which is a part of Oslo European Green Capital 2019. 

• See video and pictures from the event (in Norwegian)

Funding opportunities UiO:Life Science

It is desirable that researchers from both medicine, natural sciences, humanities and social sciences at UiO make use of the funding opportunities.

• See overview of funding opportunities (in Norwegian)

Active calls

• Biomakerspace: New innovation grant for life science students
  Master students at six departments at UiO can apply UiO:Life Science for funding to test innovative ideas in the laboratory. The project is the seed for a biomakerspace in the planned life science building at UiO. The application deadline was originally 13 June, but we would like to receive more applications, and the call will be open till over the summer.
• Open call UiO:Life Science ¨C no deadline
• Support from UiO for events Oslo European green capital 2019 ¨C no deadline

Events

• 19 June: SPARK Norway Educational Forum: Patenting and the value of trademarks 
  • See the dates and topics for the meetings this fall and save the dates.
• 13 August: Arendalsuka: Pollutants from electronic waste ¨C knowledge-based handling locally and globally
• 10 September: SPARK academic catwalk, Nordic Life Science Days 2019, Malm?
• 11 September: Breakfast meeting at Nationaltheatret with UiO researchers and others on Shark Drunk (Havboka)
• 20 and 21 September: Meet UiO:Life Science and the convergence environments that works on the immune system of humans and cod at Oslo Science Expo (澳门葡京手机版app下载storget in Oslo)
• 24 September: I want you to panic: the role of the education sector in the climate crisis, evening event at Kulturhuset with UiO:Energy, UiO:Nordic and the Student Parliament at UiO as part of the National Science Week

• 10¨C13 February 2020: The Oslo Life Science Conference 5 year anniversary. Save the dates!

News from the new interdisciplinary research groups ¨C convergence environments

I March UiO:Life Science announced the funding of eight new convergence environments that will solve major societal challenges.

The Anders Jahre Prize for Young Scientists 2019 to researcher in the convergence environment on mental illnesses

Lars Tjelta Westlye at the Department of Psychology receives the Anders Jahre prize for medical young scientists. Westlye is one of the principal investigators in the UiO:Life Science convergence environment MultiModal Mental Models: converging approaches from genomes to mental illness and interplay with psychosocial stressors (4MENT). Congratulations!

• Read news article about the prize winner on the web site of the Department of Psychology (in Norwegian) 

Vacancies in the convergence environments

The convergence environments have received funding from UiO:Life Science for 29 PhD and postdoctoral positions.

• MultiModal Mental Models: converging approaches from genome to mental illness and interplay with psychosocial stressors (4MENT) 

  • Doctoral research fellow in imaging genetics and machine learning 
    The Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences
    Deadline: 4 August 2019

• Linguistics-driven machine learning to decipher the molecular language of immunity (ImmunoLingo) 
  • Ph.D. Research Fellowship in Computational Immunology Research
    Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine
    Deadline: 12 July 2019

  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in antibody engineering and characterization
    Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine
    Deadline: 12 July 2019

• Rediscovery of medicinal plant usage in the ¡°Age of Exploration¡±: From cultural historical heritage to innovative pharmaceuticals (REA:Life) 

  • PhD Research Fellow in Pharmacognosy
    Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
    Deadline: 28 June 2019

  • PhD Research Fellowship in Botany
    Natural History Museum
    Deadline: 20 August 2019

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