Newsletter UiO:Life Science September 2019

Follow the construction of the Life Science Building at UiO

The Life Science Building will be Norway's largest university building when it is completed in 2024. The building will contribute to increased international competitiveness and value creation within life sciences. After Prime Minister Erna Solberg cut the first sod February, the contracting builder Statsbygg and the contractor HENT AS have had good progress in the construction project.

• Follow the construction process through pictures that are taken by webcam regularly.
• Read more about the plans the University of Oslo has for the building. Right now, UiO is working on plans for how to organise the building and the thematic areas in life sciences that will characterise the building.

Join us at events the coming days and weeks

The National Science Week 24 September:
I want you to panic: the role of the education sector in the climate crisis.

Should the university play a role in solving the climate crisis? What effect do the school strikes have? How do we educate students for a more sustainable working life? And do professors have to fly so often? The Student Parliament at UiO and UiO's three major interdisciplinary initiatives, UiO:Life Science, UiO:Energy, and UiO:Nordic and, invite you to debate at Kulturhuset. (In Norwegian)

Career Week 25 September 
How to become a part of the life science initiative and health industry in Oslo?

UiO invests heavily in life sciences and wants to contribute to new health industry. Thermo Fisher Scientific is one of the companies that has succeeded in using results based on Norwegian research throughout the world, while maintaining activity in Norway. What do they look for in students from UiO, and what can they offer? You will also meet a young researcher from UiO:Life Science's innovation programme SPARK Norway. (In Norwegian)

EdTech Day Oslo Innovation Week 25 September
Experiences from digital universe on life sciences and biotechnology

UiO:Life Science, the Norwegian Biotechnology Advisory Board and the Edtech company Creaza has developed a digital universe in life sciences and biotechnology for the secondary school. On EdTech Day, Creaza, a member of the Oslo Edtech Cluster, will share experiences from the project.

The National Science Week 26 September: 
What is my phone doing in Africa?

What happens to the cell phone when you throw it away? How does it end up as electronic waste in Tanzania? In UiO:Life Science's  interdisciplinary research group AnthroTox, natural scientists and social anthropologists work together on the management of electronic waste. Meet them at Litteraturhuset.

SPARK Norway Educational Forum 9 October:
Repurposing

Repurposing of drugs can potentially bring medications with known safety profiles to new patient groups. What is the industry looking for when they consider to invest in a repurposing project? What is the regulatory framework in this area? How is IP handled? Monthly open meeting organised by UiO:Life Science's innovation programme SPARK Norway.

• Sign up for the meeting in October and save the date for the meeting in November.

Did you miss

• Oslo Science Expo 20 and 21 September: The cod and you!
  UiO:Life Science interdisciplinary research group COMPARE works on the immune system of humans and cod. Postdoctoral fellow Monica Hongr? Solbakken from the Department of Biosciences and PhD fellow Silje Morsman from TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture engaged the audience with microscopes, the sound of cod and the big cod quiz.

  • Test your knowledge and join the draw of nice prizes. (In Norwegian)

• Breakfast meeting at Nationaltheatret 11 September: The value of the ocean
  What would we do without the ocean? Inspired by the theater based on Morten Str?ksnes' Shark Drunk (Havboka) we dived into the dark, big, blue ocean with researchers from UiO and artists.

  • Watch video from the breakfast meeting. (In Norwegian)

Remember to save 10–13 February 2020 for The Oslo Life Science Conference 5-year anniversary!

Calls

• Health related life sciences and innovation: SPARK Norway ¨C deadline 14 November

  The annual call for UiO:Life Science's innovation programme SPARK Norway is a great opportunity for researchers at UiO, OUS or Ahus to develop innovative ideas further into new technology, treatments or services. We will provide you with experienced mentors and funding.

• The idea award 2019 ¨C deadline 7 October

  Do you have an idea for a new product or a new service? Participate in "Id¨¦prisen" and win 250.000 NOK to develop your idea! We encourage employees and students at UiO to participate.

• Open life science call for researchers at all units at UiO ¨C no deadline

• Support from UiO for events Oslo European Green Capital 2019 ¨C deadline 25 September

Events with support from UiO:Life Science

• 24 September: Life Science Writing Club
  • See more meetings this fall
• 14 October: Endoplasmic Reticulum Proteostasis in Health and Disease - Oslo Symposium 2019
• 22¨C25 October: NorMIC Workshop on Microscopy Image Processing
• 24 October: Hjernehelsekonferansen 2019

• 31 October: Sven Furberg Seminars in Bioinformatics and Statistical Genomics: Dr. Tero Aittokallio

  • See more seminars this fall

• 31 October¨C1 November: Chemistry 2019: On Odd Hassel?s shoulders
• 8 November: BIO-konferansen 2019: Livets opprinnelse og hva er egentlig liv?
• 18 November: TTA4 ¨C 4th Turning the Tide of Antimicrobial Resistance Conference
• 19 November: The 6th National Microbiota Conference

News from the convergence environments

In March UiO:Life Science announced the funding of eight new interdisciplinary research groups ¨C convergence environments ¨C that will solve major societal challenges. They received for 29 PhD and postdoctoral positions.

Do we need a new definition of rape in the law?

In Norway and Europe, activists are struggling to change the law on rapes so that rapes are defined as sex without consent. This will neither change nor solve anything particular about the problem, according to the researchers in the convergence environment Evidently Rape. They study how the medicine, the court and most people understand the physical evidence in rape cases and follow the physical evidence from being collected until they are presented in court. Read the article in forskning.no. (In Norwegian)

Vacancies

• Protons contra cancer (PROCCA) wants to create an excellent platform for collaborative efforts in proton therapy in Oslo and among other issues study how biological short term and long term side effects of radiation therapy can be reduced. 
  Read more.
  • PhD Research Fellow - PROCCA
    Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine
    Deadline: September 29, 2019
• Medical, legal and lay understandings of physical evidence in rape cases (Evidently Rape) wants to study how physical evidence matters and can matter in how the crime of rape is met by medical and criminal justice institutions.
  Read more.
  • PhD Research Fellowship position in forensic genetics
    Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine
    Deadline: September 30, 2019
• Rediscovery of medicinal plant usage in the ¡°Age of Exploration¡±: From cultural historical heritage to innovative pharmaceuticals (REA:Life) wants to unveil the processes that have shaped the social and cultural development of medicine and identify bioactive compounds in historical medicinal plants with cutting edge methods.
  Read more.
  • Doctoral Research Fellowship in Cultural History
    The Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, Faculty of Humanities
    Deadline: October 1, 2019

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