- March - Data management planning course, Ås, Bergen, Trondheim and Oslo
On how to generate a data management plan for a life science project that meet funding requirements. Open for all, organized by DLN and Elixir Norway. 4.3 in Bergen, 11.3 in Ås, 20.3 in Trondheim and 27.3 in Oslo.
- 2. March - Bioprospecting: Access, Regulation and Digital Data, Oslo
DLN partners are invited to a 1-day workshop aiming at enabling an arena for researchers, policy advisors and legal practitioners to discuss current developments on debates on access to and commercial exploitation of biodiversity. Organized by DLN-project Res Publica.
- 3. – 5. March - North Atlantic Seafood Forum, Bergen
- 1. April - Kunstig intelligens i kreftdiagnostikk –mellom håp, realisme og etiske utfordringer, Trondheim
Kunstig intelligens nevnes stadig som en løsning på fremtidens utfordringer, også innenfor helsetjenestene. Digitalt liv-prosjektet PROVIZ, som forsker på utvikle kunstig intelligens til bruk i diagnostikk av prostatakreft, arrangerer foredrag og diskusjon rundt hvilken rolle kunstig intelligens kan ha i diagnostiseringen av kreft, hvordan diagnoser skal stilles i framtida, og hvilke nye etiske spørsmål som dukker opp når vi innfører ny teknologi.
- 11. May - Satellite Symposium on Biomarkers in Immunotherapy, Solstrand (CCBIO)
- 12. - 13. May - Centre for Cancer Biomarkers’ (CCBIO’s) 8th Annual Symposium, Solstrand
- 25. - 27. May - From Systems Medicine towards Digital Health, Heidelberg, Germany.
NB: Abstract deadline 15. March
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Research School events
Digital Life Norway course preparing early career researchers in Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) in their research practice. Early bird registration deadline June 14. .
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Other events for junior researchers
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THE DIGITAL LIFE FOOTPRINT
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Admitted to Innovation Programme
One of the latest additions to DLN, the Inhibition of aortic valve calcification-project lead by Arsenii Zabernyk, Jarle Vaage and Kåre-Olav Stensløkken, has been admitted to the innovation programme SPARK Norway at the University of Oslo. The programme aims to further develop ideas within health-related life sciences for the benefit of patients and society. Admission includes getting assigned a mentor, advisors and project coordinator who is responsible for following up their innovation development. Read more.
The project also recently received the funding from the European Union´s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the EU-OPENSCREEN program which facilitates collaboration for laboratories within European Union and EEA countries. With this grant they are given the possibility to test 100 000 small molecules against investigated target in one of the European high throughput facilities.
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Can statistics and mathematics save as many lives as new medications?
Read the Aftenposten commentary (in Norwegian) about how the researchers in the Digital Life research project PerCaThe use computational methods in trying to develop a better tool to treat cancer. Read more.
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Recent Digital Life Publications
The Aha! research project recently published an article pointing to the effects of environmental and hormonal control on fish growth:
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Researchers working on the two DLN research projects Double Intraperitoneal Artificial Pancreas and Listening to the Patients have recently published two articles:
- Kölle, K., Biester, T., Christiansen, S. C., Fougner, A. L., and Stavdahl. Ø., Pattern Recognition Reveals Postprandial Changes in CGM Data: Non-Individualized Meal Detection in DM1, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 594–602, Feb 2020. (Preprint).
- Fuglerud, S. S., Milenko, K., Aksnes, A., and Hjelme, D. R., Surface-Enhanced Absorption Spectroscopy for Optical Fiber Sensing, Materials, Vol. 13, No. 34, Jan 2020.
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The MEDIATE research project has just published new insight into dysregulation of neuronal signaling molecules in metabolic disease:
- Barone H, Bliksrud YT, Elgen IB, Szigetvari PD, Kleppe R, Ghorbani S, Hansen EV, Haavik J. Tyrosinemia Type 1 and symptoms of ADHD: Biochemical mechanisms and implications for treatment and prognosis. Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet. 183(2):95-105. doi: 10.1002/ajmg.b.32764
- Ghorbani S, Szigetvari PD, Haavik J, Kleppe R. Serine 19 phosphorylation and 14-3-3 binding regulate phosphorylation and dephosphorylation of tyrosine hydroxylase on serine 31 and serine 40. J Neurochem. 152(1):29-47. doi: 10.1111/jnc.14872
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In collaboration with their international networks NMBU researchers connected to the OXYMOD research project are starting to gain insights into novel connections within the redox enzyme systems that break down lignocellulose, in these two recently published articles:
OxyMod researchers Eijsink and Røhr also recently had two top publications on key redox enzymes involved in conversion of polysaccharides in biomass:
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Digital Life Norway internal networking in three cities
Representatives from almost the complete Digital Life Norway portfolio came together in Bergen, Oslo and Trondheim in the beginning of the month, to get an update on or introduction to the centre research, to ask questions and to discuss each others' work. Read more.
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Transdisciplinary publication of the year
Nominate your candidates for the Digital Life Norway "Transdisciplinary Publication of the Year" for 2019. All projects, both DLN funded research projects and the associated projects can participate. Deadline March 4. Read more.
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Webinars on Calls for Proposals
The Research Council of Norway (RCN) has announced four webinars about this year's calls for proposals. Read more and register.
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Support for Cross-Project Research Activities
The Centre provides support for research activities between projects. This could be exchange of competence, methods, small pilot projects, workshops, research visits etc. This is also a good opportunity to involve researchers and postdocs in the project. Deadline February 28. Read more.
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Vacant Position
Two postdoctoral researchers and a PhD student to work on the next generation of (bio)catalysts at NMBU
The research group around the OXYMOD research project is recruiting three 3-year positions to work on an ERC-funded Synergy project called “CUBE -Unravelling the secrets of Cu-based catalysts for C-H activation”.
In this project, four leading European research groups will jointly work on developing the next generation of synthetic and enzymatic catalysts for selective activation of C-H bonds. The NMBU contribution will focus on further understanding of LPMOs and on evolving these enzymes to become better and more versatile biocatalysts.
We are looking for candidates who are familiar with enzymes, enzyme engineering and catalysis, at an experimental and/or theoretical level. We are particularly interested in candidates that bring something new to the NMBU team, for example relevant experience in organic or computational chemistry, structural biology, synthetic catalysts, or polymer chemistry.
The deadline has passed, but interested candidates with the right skillset can still apply by E-mailing vincent.eijsink@nmbu.no.
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