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Newsletter September 2021
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Join us for the Digital Life conference in Oslo 11 November!
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Last year we met online for the annual conference for the Centre for Digital Life Norway (DLN). This year we hope to meet physically in Oslo!
11 NOVEMBER we invite members of Digital Life Norway projects to a know-how workshop on intellectual property rights (IPR) in digital biotech; a plenary event on how we can strengthen Norwegian biotechnology with inspiring talks on omics, gender equality and transdisciplinarity; and social gathering in Oslo Science Park. You are also welcome to schedule cross-project meetings to discuss collaboration to apply for funding from the centre.
We invite all Digital Life Norway projects to contribute with a 1-minute video to be shown before and at the conference.
10 NOVEMBER seven young researchers affiliated with the centre will talk about their work at the public event "Data analyses that save lives – science not fiction" which is tailored towards a young audience.
All the talks at the conference will be streamed.
We will follow any local and national COVID-19 regulations at the conference, thus changes to the programme might occur.
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New Digital Life Norway public debate meeting series at Litteraturhuset in Trondheim (in Norwegian)
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15. september: Er vi klare for en bioteknologisk laks?
Panel med Tommy Reinås, MDG; Terje Finstad, førsteamanuensis Institutt for tverrfaglige kulturstudier ved NTNU; Tone-Kari K. Østbye forsker fra NOFIMA; og Olga Mikhailova NMBU fra DLN-prosjektet EcoGene
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20. oktober: Helsedata som gullgruve?
Panel med Arnoldo Frigessi, UiO, medlem av DLNs expert task force for OUS; Håvard Kolle Riis direktør for Avdeling helsedata i Direktoratet for e-helse; Camilla Stoltenberg, direktør FHI; flere navn kommer
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Limited number of places at Litteraturhuset, sign up now to make sure you get a ticket! Some of the events might be temporary sold out due to COVID-19 restrictions. The meetings are streamed and will be announced in social media the week before each event.
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"Digital frukost" is an open breakfast seminar series focusing on research activities at the interface between the biological sciences and that of mathematics, computer science, physics, engineering or social sciences.
- 24 September: Rights to genetic resources in a global innovative world
Morten Walløe Tvedt, National Science Week special edition
Registration deadline: 23 September
- 29 October: member of the DLN expert task force Inge Jonassen, UiB, Open Access Week special edition
- 26 November: member of the DLN expert task force Susanna Röblitz, UiB
- 17 December: member of the DLN expert task force Hanne Haslene-Hox, SINTEF
Save the dates and check our events webpage for programmes and registration.
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7–8 September: Data management planning workshop for life science projects
Generate a data management plan for a life science research project that will meet the requirements of the Research Council of Norway.
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New call: Cross-project activities
We are pleased to announce that all DLN projects again have the opportunity to apply for support for cross-project activities. This time we encourage you to meet at the Digital Life conference in Oslo 11 November to discuss potential collaboration, and apply.
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New funding for researchers affiliated with the centre
Several researchers affiliated with the Centre for Digital Life Norway (DLN) were granted funding from the Research Council of Norway in June. Among the newly funded projects is a project in precision cancer medicine resulting from matchmaking facilitated by the centre. Also the initial launch phase of the gigantic Earth BioGenome Norway initiative was granted funding. The DLN procedure for how researchers may join the centre with new projects, is in pipeline.
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CCBIO – Centre for Cancer Biomarkers
Fall term courses CCBIO and Neuro-SysMed – registration deadline TODAY 1 September. If you're not enrolled as a student at UiB, you apply for UiB guest student status when you register.
DLN cancer researchers on Arendalsuka
External events
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nanoRIP – combining optical and mathematical systems to create a better nanoscope
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- New chip-based microscopy technique enables super-resolution images over large areas to be captured of salmon skin cells: Researchers at UiT have developed a microscopy method that will help researchers understand more about the salmon’s immune system and may thus be of high importance for Norwegian aquaculture.
Read their blog about the work.
Scientific paper: Fluorescence fluctuation-based super-resolution microscopy using multimodal waveguided illumination
Ida S. Opstad, Daniel H. Hansen, Sebastian Acuña, Florian Ströhl, Anish Priyadarshi, Jean-Claude Tinguely, Firehun T. Dullo, Roy A. Dalmo, Tore Seternes, Balpreet S. Ahluwalia, and Krishna Agarwal
- Improved quality of fluorescence images: Researchers at UiT have designed a new algorithm to enhance the contrast of fluorescence images of cell structures.
Read their blog about the work.
Scientific paper: Deriving high contrast fluorescence microscopy images through low contrast noisy image stacks
Sebastian Acuña, Mayank Roy, Luis E. Villegas-Hernández, Vishesh K. Dubey, Balpreet Singh Ahluwalia, and Krishna Agarwal
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PINpOINT – screening of cancer drug sensitivity data to predict cancer therapies
dCod 1.0 – decoding the systems toxicology of Atlantic cod
- Toxicity assessment of urban marine sediments from Western Norway using a battery of stress-activated receptors and cell-based bioassays from fish
Siri Øfsthus Goksøyr, Helene Sørensen, Bjørn Einar Grøsvik, Daniela M. Pampanin, AndersGoksøyr, Odd André Karlsen
- Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons modulate the activity of Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) vitamin D receptor paralogs in vitro
Siri Øfsthus Goksøyr, Jed Goldstone, Roger Lille-Langøy, Erik-Jan Locka, Pål A. Olsvik, Anders Goksøyr, Odd André Karlsen
Both papers are part of the PhD work of Siri Øftshus Goksøyr.
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New employees in the centre's operational management team
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Elisabeth Hyldbakk has been hired as administrative coordinator at NTNU. She has a MSc in biotechnology (molecular biology) from NTNU and has previously worked at NTNU Department for Biology as an engineer and within teaching. Elisabeth has worked at Coegin Pharma AS as an Office Manager the last seven years and is now looking forward to be a part of the DLN administration.
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Randi Elisabeth Taxt has been hired as senior advisor 50% for one year in the innovation and industry collaboration team at UiO to work on the innovation roadmap project primarily. She has a cand.scient. in cell biology from UiB and an executive master in technology management and is a registered technology transfer professional. Randi is currently also employed at Vestlandets Innvovasjonsselskap AS (VIS).
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