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Newsletter September 2022
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Centre for Digital Life Norway – message from the centre leaders
Register now to join your Digital Life Norway colleagues in October at the 2022 annual Digital Life conference in Trondheim! This year we are highlighting national and international examples of how to work transdisciplinary in biotechnology – what, how, and why. All DLN projects are expected to join. Alongside keynote talks, hands-on workshops, and cross-project meetings, we are also bringing back (by popular demand) the poster session for younger researchers. Sign up here!
For Arendalsuka 2022, DLN hosted a panel debate on biotechnology and innovation in Norway featuring leading voices from the Research Council, innovation sector, pharmaceutical industry, and research – you can now watch the event recording online.
In addition, DLN and our “sister project” AFINO together with the Research Council, were thrilled to host the annual Policy Forum at Kringler, to provide a learning arena around understanding our roles in transformative research policy. Stay tuned for a short video coming soon.
More courses, networking events, and seminars are coming up (including a new season of Digital frukost). Read more below and get in touch with our team if you have new ideas and want to get involved.
Trygve Brautaset, Scientific director
& Kam Sripada, Centre manager
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UPCOMING ACTIVITIES
Find more events on our events calendar on the website
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Digital Life Annual Conference
We are excited to gather the whole Digital Life Norway community in Trondheim this October 20-21!
This is an arena where all the Digital Life Norway research projects, expert task force, junior resource group competence hub and national & international guests, meet up, network, enjoy excellent talks and workshops!
The registration is now open and free.
Poster session
This year we are bringing back the poster session for young researchers. Send in you poster abstract by September 30 via the registration form.
Cross-project activities at the conference
At the conference, we encourage and facilitate for cross-project meetings between projects in the DLN portfolio. Maybe the meeting can lead into an application for the next cross-project activity call? Please reach out to marta.eide@uib.no if you are interested. We can also help with suggestions for projects with similar interests.
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Forskning for folket – unge forskere forteller!
Forskningen må være åpen, tilgjengelig og ansvarlig. Populærvitenskapelig formidling er et viktig bidrag for å involvere folket i forskningen.
Kom og hør om grensesprengende forskning fra Digitalt liv Norge. Denne kvelden gir vi ordet til yngre forskere som bruker bioteknologi til å finne løsninger på vår tids store samfunnsutfordringer. Navn og titler vil bli publisert på nettsiden fortløpende.
Tid og sted: 19. okt. 2022 19:00–20:00, LITTERATURHUSET I TRONDHEIM (Kulturtorget)
Hent din gratisbillett her!
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Life Science Data Management: Planning workshop
Generate a data management plan for a Life Science research project that will meet the requirements of Norwegian institutions
Time and place: Sep. 26, 2022 9:00 AM–Sep. 27, 2022 1:00 PM, online
Read more and sign up here.
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Norwegian Bioinformatics Days 2022
The Centre for Digital Life Norway is proud to be co-organizing a national meeting for bioinformaticians in Norway, taking place at Sundvolden Hotel 28-30 September 2022
Time and place: Sep. 28, 2022–Sep. 30, 2022, Sundvolden Hotel.
Visit the conference website: norbioinfo.no and sign up for updates.
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Digital Frukost/Forskningsdagene: Can we find the solution to the antibiotic resistance crisis in the ocean?
The World Health Organization (WHO) states that antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest threats to global health, food security, and development today. A growing number of infections are becoming harder to treat as the antibiotics used to treat them become less effective. In addition to reducing the overuse of antibiotics, we need to discover and bring new antibiotics to market. This is a formidable challenge, but perhaps part of the solution can be found in the ocean?
Time and place: Sep. 30, 2022 9:00 AM–10:00 AM, Zoom
Read more and register here.
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BT8121 - Transdisciplinary biotechnology - a Digital Life Norway course
Time and place: Oct. 3, 2022–Dec. 2, 2022, Selbusjøen hotel & NTNU Trondheim
Read more and register here
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Insightful and interesting policy forum with DLN, AFINO and The Research Council of Norway
Stay tuned for videos in the making to get full interviews and more information about topics discussed! Big thanks to everyone that participated!
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PROVIZ-team completes Digital Life Norway’s Innovation Resource Grant
The Prostate Cancer Visualization Project (PROVIZ), led by NTNU Professor Tone Frost Bathen, has just concluded a six-month innovation resource grant from Digital Life Norway (DLN). Through the grant, PROVIZ had the opportunity to allocate resources for researcher Mohammed Sunoqrot to spend time outside daily laboratory work to investigate potential new innovations. The team’s experiences will help shape new DLN innovation support activities.
Read more here.
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Innovation Roadmap and debate from Digital Life Norway event at Arendalsuka
Arendalsuka 2022 - Full recording of the innovation Roadmap presentation and the following debate on how to increase innovation from biotechnology research - now available (in Norwegian).
See the recordings here.
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Digital Frukost: Next generation bioinformatics - recording of event now available
In collaboration with Tekna, we kicked of a new season of the "Digital Frukost" seminar series with a pre-event for the national bioinformatics conference Norwegian Bioinformatics Days 2022. The seminar looked into the fascinating and exciting aspects and possibilities of bioinformatics.
See full recording here.
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DLN Junior Resource Group – Call for new members (Deadline 23. Sept)
A major focus of the Centre for Digital Life Norway is to train and support a new generation of transdisciplinary life scientists. The Centre’s Junior Resource Group (JRG) provides advice and feedback that help shape the Centre’s activities to reach PhD students and post-docs. Now the Junior Resource Group is recruiting new members to be a voice of young researchers in digital biotechnology in Norway.
Read more and apply here.
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Networking evening at the Munch Museum, Oslo
DLN hosted a networking dinner with DLN project leaders together with incubators, industry, and start-ups, representing diverse perspectives from digital biotechnology in Norway. Many thanks for a stimulating and memorable evening together! Stay tuned for more opportunities to strengthen our digital biotechnology network across Norway.
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Networking dinner at Munch Museum
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Testa Challenge 2023
Testa Challenge is an open innovation challenge dedicated to companies in the technology/digital/data/IT sector to test and verify their technology in a fully-funded standard bioprocess at Testa Center, Uppsala, Sweden.
Read more here.
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Nordic Life Science Days
Nordic Life Science Days is the largest Nordic partnering conference dedicated to the life science industry. Digital Life Norway will be on this year's Norwegian stand together with DLN projects and support partnering and other meetings.
Read more here.
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Nordic AI Meet – 14 and 15 November 2022, Oslo, Norway
Join NORA.ai for a conference with some of the world's brightest minds in the field of AI to learn, inspire and build a community. The NordicAIMeet symposium provides a platform for young AI researchers to exchange ideas, build collaborations and form a nordic approach to building AI solutions for the societal good.
Following the successful conference last year with a lineup of excellent speakers, NORA.ai is happy to share the news that our keynotes for the NordicAIMeet 2022 will be Prof. Anders C. Hansen, Cambridge University & University of Oslo, Prof. Christian Igel, University of Copenhagen, Prof. Amy Loutfi, Örebro University, and Prof. Nitin Sawhney, Aalto University.
Stay tuned on NordicAIMeet website for more information and to register for the conference.
Read more here.
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CodeRefinery workshop September 20-22 and 27-29, 2022
In this course, you will become familiar with tools and best practices for scientific software development. This course will not teach a programming language, but we teach the tools you need to do programming well and avoid common inefficiency traps. The tools we teach are practically a requirement for any scientist that has to do their own programming. The main focus is on using Git for efficiently writing and maintaining research software.
Read more here.
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Open call for Digital Life Norway project membership
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Digital biotechnology projects in health, aquaculture, agriculture, and industrial biotechnology are invited to apply to join DLN 2.0! Selected projects will have access to support from the dedicated DLN team and will contribute to synergies, innovation, and knowledge-sharing with other research projects in the centre and the research school. Applications will be evaluated on a continuous basis.
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Junior Resource Group members Emil Karlsen (left) and Eric Juskewitz (right) successfully defended their PhD theses
Emil Karlsen (NTNU) successfully defended his PhD thesis “ Theoretical and applied aspects of genome-scale metabolic modeling” in September. Eric Juskewitz (UiT) successfully defended his PhD thesis “Antimicrobial activity and mode of action” in August.
Congratulations!
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Cell4Chem: Idun Burgos presents poster at ISME Conference
PhD student Idun Burgos from the Cell4Chem research group presented the project at the ISME Conference in Lausanne in August.
Read more about the conference here
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OxyMod project: New publication and popular science article
A new PNAS article by The Protein Engineering and Proteomics Group (PEP) at NMBU shows how light stimulates enzymatic turnover of biomass and contributes to reaching the goals of the OxyMod-project.
Read the PNAS article here.
Read the popular science article here.
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EBP-nor: New scientific coordinator and new website & Twitter account
Scientific coordinator Dr Rebekah Oomen
This summer EBP-nor hired a scientific coordinator Dr Rebekah Oomen. The research group is very pleased that Rebekah has agreed to accept this position, and she will be the prime contact person regarding general consortium matters. Rebekah is an evolutionary ecologist and she has experience with biodiversity genomics - also in connection with establishing the European Reference Genome Atlas (ERGA) and the new Horizon Europe supported “Biodiversity Project Europe.
You can contact Rebekah directly by using this email-address: ebpnor-post@ibv.uio.no
New EBP-nor website & Twitter account
Check out the new website and follow the project on Twitter.
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BEDPAN – Dirk Linke group:
New publication from the 7th of June 2022 in Journal of Nanobiotechnology "Nanoparticle classification, physicochemical properties, characterization, and applications: a comprehensive review for biologists".
Nadeem Joudeh is defending his thesis on the 28th of September 2022. The thesis title is: "Escherichia coli-mediated palladium nanoparticle synthesis".
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New publications from DIAP (APT – Group)
Teigen ,I. A., Åm, M. K., Riaz, M., Christiansen, S. C., and Carlsen, S. M., Vasodilatory effects of glucagon: A possible new approach to improve subcutaneous insulin absorption in artificial pancreas devices, Frontiers in Bioengeneering and Biotechnology, to be published.
Åm, M. K., Teigen ,I. A., Carlsen, S. M., and Christiansen, S. C., Severe bradycardia and hypotension in anaesthetized pigs: Possible interaction between octreotide, xylazine, and atropine: A case series, Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Sciences, to be published.
Benam, K. D., Khoshamadi, H., Lema-Pérez, L., Gros, S., and Fougner, A. L., A Nonlinear State Observer for the Bi-Hormonal Intraperitoneal Artificial Pancreas, Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC) 2022, Glasgow, Jul 2022, to be published.
More information about the project here
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- Postdoctor in computational chemistry - The Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University - apply by September 19
- Researcher for Bioprocesses, Technology Development Team in the Biorefining Business Development & Production Unit, St1 Nordic Oy, Helsinki - apply by September 19
- Postdoctoral Fellow in federated machine learning for medical imaging, The Department of Circulation and Medical Imaging, NTNU, Trondheim - apply by September 18
- 2 PhD Candidates in Synthetic Biology/Functional Metagenomics, The Department of Biotechnology and Food Science, NTNU, Trondheim - apply by September 28
- Machine learning engineer with chemistry applications, Deep Chemistry team in the Molecular AI department, AstraZeneca, Gothenburg, Västra Götaland County, Sweden - apply by October 16
- Computational Scientist – Molecular Dynamics Expert with Interest in Machine Learning, Molecular Insights team in the Molecular AI department, AstraZeneca, Gothenburg, Västra Götaland County, Sweden - apply by October 16
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