Dear all, 

Fitting to a rather short newsletter, here comes a rather short introduction. 

First of all, I would like to congratulate Nils Halberg and Jim Lorens for having received funding from the Cancer society. That’s well deserved, and I am looking to seeing more cool research happing in your groups! 

Next, I would like to congratulate our colleague Prof. Eystein Jansen, a climate researcher at the Department of Earth Science here, for having been elected as vice-president of the European Research Council (ERC). This is a large honour and I wish him the best of luck for his aim of ensuring that ground-breaking basic research gets its important place in the research landscape! 

Good luck also to everybody who has applied for ERC starting grants, innovation calls from the RCN or other calls! Fingers-crossed that you will receive funding to put your exiting research plans into action. 

Many might not know that we are part the European “Integrated Services for Infectious Disease Outbreak Research” network (ISIDORe). ISIDORe provides free of charge access to cutting-edge resources and services to support research projects in the field of infectious diseases in “peace time” as well as during outbreaks, epidemics or pandemics. Do you need specific research services, tools or resources to advance your research in infectious diseases? If yes, check out their webpage: ISIDORe project: services for infectious disease outbreak research (isidore-project.eu)

Have a nice and productive week 

UTLYSNING AV ARBEIDSMILJØPRISEN
Er du opptatt av godt arbeidsmiljø? Kjenner du noen kollegaer eller miljø som gjør en god innsats for arbeidsmiljø og trivsel? Det medisinske fakultet lyser ut arbeidsmiljøprisen til den eller de som har gjort en særlig innsats for arbeidsmiljøet i 2022.
Nominasjon eller søknad sendes her med frist 9. desember 2022:  Arbeidsmiljøpris på Det medisinske fakultet 2022 (uib.no)
Prisen deles ut på fakultets HMS-dag den 22. februar 2023, og vinneren tildeles:
Heder og ære! Diplom. Prispenger på kr. 20.000, – til arbeidsmiljøet.
Oversikt over fullstendige kriterier finner du her: HMS arbeidsmiljøpris MED 2022 kriterier.pdf (uib.no)
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Guest lecture at the Bergen Research School in Inflammation

We have an upcoming guest lecture held by prof. Anna Blom of Lund University, a world-renown specialist in complement system. See her webpage here: Protein Chemistry | Protein Chemistry (lu.se)
Lecture will be held on the 9^th of November in the Auditorium 4 of the BBBuilding, 12:00.

Dietary Selenomethionine Reduce Mercury Tissue Levels and Modulate Methylmercury Induced Proteomic and Transcriptomic Alterations in Hippocampi of Adolescent BALB/c Mice.
Mellingen RM, Myrmel LS, Rasinger JD, Lie KK, Bernhard A, Madsen L, Nøstbakken OJ. Int J Mol Sci. 2022 Oct 13;23(20):12242. doi: 10.3390/ijms232012242.PMID: 36293098

Lactate dehydrogenases promote glioblastoma growth and invasion via a metabolic symbiosis.
Guyon J, Fernandez-Moncada I, Larrieu CM, Bouchez CL, Pagano Zottola AC, Galvis J, Chouleur T, Burban A, Joseph K, Ravi VM, Espedal H, Røsland GV, Daher B, Barre A, Dartigues B, Karkar S, Rudewicz J, Romero-Garmendia I, Klink B, Grützmann K, Derieppe MA, Molinié T, Obad N, Léon C, Seano G, Miletic H, Heiland DH, Marsicano G, Nikolski M, Bjerkvig R, Bikfalvi A, Daubon T. EMBO Mol Med. 2022 Oct 24:e15343. doi: 10.15252/emmm.202115343. Online ahead of print.PMID: 36278433 Free article.

Analysis of Plasmodium falciparum myosin B ATPase activity and structure in complex with the calmodulin-like domain of its light chain MLC-B.
Pires I, Hung YF, Bergmann U, Molloy JE, Kursula I. J Biol Chem. 2022 Oct 20:102634. doi: 10.1016/j.jbc.2022.102634. Online ahead of print.PMID: 36273584 Free article.

Purine nucleoside phosphorylase controls nicotinamide riboside metabolism in mammalian cells.
Kropotov A, Kulikova V, Solovjeva L, Yakimov A, Nerinovski K, Svetlova M, Sudnitsyna J, Plusnina A, Antipova M, Khodorkovskiy M, Migaud ME, Gambaryan S, Ziegler M, Nikiforov A. J Biol Chem. 2022 Oct 17:102615. doi: 10.1016/j.jbc.2022.102615. Online ahead of print.PMID: 36265580

BBB seminar 

Juan Antonio Vizcaíno from the European Bioinformatics Institute, EMBL-EBI, Cambridge, UK, will give a talk entitled “Benefits of open science practices in proteomics and challenges arising from clinical datasets”. 

Position: Proteomics Team Leader at the European Bioinformatics Institute
Research field: Proteomics, public repositories, open data, data standards
Main achievements: Vizcaíno’s team is responsible of the development of the PRIDE database (https://www.ebi.ac.uk/pride), the world-leading public repository for mass spectrometry proteomics data. Vizcaíno also co-founded and is coordinating the ProteomeXchange Consortium (http://www.proteomexchange.org), aiming to standardize data submission and dissemination in proteomics resources worldwide. Over the years, Vizcaíno has also heavily contributed to the development of open proteomics data standard formats, as part of the HUPO Proteomics Standards Initiative (PSI), and he is co-leading the ELIXIR Proteomics Community in Europe (https://elixir-europe.org/communities/proteomics).
Seminar focus: The recent increase in availability of proteomics data in the public domain has triggered numerous data re-use activities. I will highlight some of these ongoing efforts, including examples of machine learning approaches applied to public proteomics datasets. Proteomics is also increasingly used for clinical studies, resulting in potential ethical issues. I will describe the current state of the art, and the expected changes for the future in the context of data management practices in the field. 

 Thursday, November 3, 14:30 

BBB seminar 

Charalampos Tzoulis from the Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Bergen, will give a talk entitled «Mitochondria and Parkinson’s disease: from bench to bedside».

Seminar focus: Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a major cause of death and disability, with a rapidly growing global socioeconomic impact. Current treatments for PD make no substantial impact on disease progression and, despite several candidate neuroprotective therapies showing encouraging preclinical results, these have failed to show disease-modifying effects in clinical trials. A growing body of evidence suggests that therapies targeting mitochondria and NAD metabolism may confer neuroprotective effects in PD. This presentation will cover hallmark experimental evidence supporting these hypotheses, and illustrate how basic laboratory research led to the first clinical trial of NAD replenishment therapy in PD, which showed encouraging results (Cell Metabolism, Brakedal et al., doi: 10.1016/j.cmet.2022.02.001).
Neuromics research group: https://neuromics.org 
Neuro-SysMed Center: https://neuro-sysmed.no
Chairperson: Aurora Martinez (aurora.martinez@uib.no), Dept. of Biomedicine 

Thursday, November 10, 14:30 

Horizon Europe kurs, UIB Prosjektøkonomer

I samarbeid med Forskningsrådet vil det tilbys kurs i Bergen for alle som jobber med søknader til Horizon Europe.
Foreløpige datoer for kursene er 10., 11., og 12. januar.
Kursene er nivå 1 kurs. Kursholder er Europa Media. Påmelding skjer via Forskningsrådet sine nettsider, og her er det første til møllen (kursene er åpen for alle, også utenfor UiB).
For prosjektøkonomene anbefaler vi å velge «D.1: Basic Finance and Budgeting in Horizon Europe».
https://forskningsradet.pameldingssystem.no/grant-week-b-1-c-1-d-1
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Protonseminar om forsking

Velkommen til seminar om forskning innen protonterapi!
Tid: mandag 21. november kl 9-15
Sted: Storstuen, Bikuben kurs- og konferansesenter i Haukelandsparken
Formålet med seminaret er å få et innblikk i hva forskerne ved HUS, HVL og UiB arbeider med, og styrke samarbeid og kontakt på tvers av institusjonene. Målgruppen for seminaret er forskere som arbeider innen protonforskning, samt andre som er interessert i forskning innen protonterapi. Protonseminaret arrangeres på initiativ fra programstyret for protonterapiprosjektet i Bergen. Seminaret er gratis og inkluderer lunsj.
Besøk nettsiden for program og påmelding: Protonseminar om forsking – Helse Bergen (helse-bergen.no)
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Veilederlunsj for ph.d.-veiledere

Velkommen til seminar for ph.d.-veiledere ved Det medisinske fakultet. Vi har gleden av å invitere til foredrag og påfølgende diskusjon med professor Sigrunn Eliassen.
Veilederlunsj for ph.d.-veiledere | Det medisinske fakultet | UiB
02.11.2022 – 11.30–13.00, Armauer Hansens Hus, 4.etg. Styrerommet
Påmeldingsfrist  31.10.2022
Professor Eliassen er visedekan for utdanning ved Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet. Hun var en av vinnerne til Olav Thon Stiftelsens nasjonale pris for framragende undervisning for 2021. Hun forsker blant annet på evolusjon av samarbeid som har blitt omtalt som banebrytende i Nature.
På veilederlunsjen skal hun holde foredrag om hvordan veiledning er en sentral del av ph.d.-kandidatenes faglige utvikling og viktig for nettverksbygging, innføring i forskningspraksis og utvikling av ferdigheter for videre karriere. Samtidig er denne læringsformen tidskrevende og potensielt sårbar dersom veiledningsrelasjonen ikke fungerer. Forskning viser at kvaliteten på avhandlingen og sannsynligheten for at kandidatene gjennomfører er avhengig av ulike sider kandidat-veileder interaksjon.
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UiB som arbeidsplass: Velkommen til innspillmøte

Stipendiater, forskere og teknisk-administrativt ansatte: Menneskene er universitetets viktigste ressurs. Hvordan skal UiB utvikles for å bli en best mulig arbeidsplass? Møt opp 7. november og gi dine innspill.
UiB skal lage ny universitetsstrategi for perioden 2023–30. Som et ledd i arbeidet med den nye universitetsstrategien ønskes alle kollegaer velkommen til innspillmøte om UiB som arbeidsplass.
Tid: Mandag 7. november. 
Sted: Sydneshaugen skole, Auditorium B kl 1400-1600. Informasjon og påmelding her: UiB som arbeidsplass: Velkommen til innspillmøte | Arbeid med ny UiB-strategi 2023–2030 | UiB
Her vil inviterte innledere dele sine perspektiver på hvordan UiB kan bli en enda bedre arbeidsplass. Det er satt av tid til innspill og spørsmål fra salen.
Har du ikke mulighet til å delta på innspillmøtet 7. november? Send gjerne innspill på e-post til strategi@uib.no. Hold deg oppdatert på arbeidet med ny strategi på UiB.no/strategi.
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Learning from the COVID-19 pandemic: an interdisciplinary approach

January course for master and PhD students. Information and sign-up here:

Learning from the COVID-19 pandemic: an interdisciplinary approach | University of Bergen (uib.no)

To analyse the pandemic from multi- and interdisciplinary perspectives in order to achieve a better understanding of the generation of knowledge used to understand and address an unprecedent global health threat in society. Further, to reflect upon different approaches to complexity and uncertainty for better preparedness for new crisis. Sign-up has opened now.

Guest lectures

Please note the forthcoming back-to-back guest speakers presenting in person.
Time and Venue: Wednesday 2. November 2022, 10:30-12:00, BBB, Auditorium 4.
Guest lectures by Rajan Gogna and Esha Madan | The Department of Biomedicine | UiB
– Rajan Gogna, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark / School of Medicine Human and Molecular Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA. Title and Abstract: Role of Cell Fitnes and Flower Code in tumor-host interactions.
– Esha Madan, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal. Title and Abstract: Molecular Mechanism of the regulation of Flower Exon-3 in Tumor Microenvironment.

ISIDORe emergency call for proposals

– Monkeypox virus (MPXV), Monkeypox virus – ISIDORe project (isidore-project.eu)
Pre-application deadline: 29 November 2022, 23:59 CET

-SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2 & COVID‑19 – ISIDORe project (isidore-project.eu)
Pre-application deadline: Open as long as funding remains available

Researcher Project for Scientific Renewal (Thematic Priority Call)

Researcher Project for Scientific Renewal (Thematic Priority Call) (forskningsradet.no)

Application deadline: 8 February 2023, 13:00 CET

Funding scale: minimum NOK 4 000 000

Project duration: 36-72 months

Purpose: Funding is intended to support scientific renewal and development in research that can help to advance the international research front. This call is therefore targeted towards researchers who have demonstrated the ability to conduct research of high scientific quality. Which disciplines and research areas the call is open for, are specified under each thematic area and topic.

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