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Dr. Florian Markowetz, Group Leader of the Integrative Cancer Biology team at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Cambridge, UK, will present his current research.

Msc. Kaiqi Xu at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis   «Artificial photosynthesis – Advanced nanomaterials and use of biocatalysts for novel photoelectrochemical cells» for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Msc. Gurpreet Kaur at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis «Optimization of UiO-67 type Metal-Organic Frameworks for Catalysis» for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Msc. Sigbjørn Løland Bore at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "Advances in the Hybrid Particle-Field Approach: Towards Biological Systems" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

SPARK Norway Educational Forum are monthly open meetings organized by UiO:Life Science and SPARK Norway partners.

Having a new idea is not enough to create a new innovation. The hardest part is to build a successful business around it – this is the entrepreneurial challenge. One of the key elements that needs to be worked out is the right Go-To-Market strategy.

Wondering how to pitch your PhD or PostDoc experience to get a business career? What skills you have as a researcher that businesses might be looking for? Don't miss this talk, organised in collaboration with the Boston Consulting Group! 

Coffee and tea will be served :) Please sign up for the coffee! https://nettskjema.no/a/139107

The PhD completion seminar is a full day seminar for PhD candidates at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences supporting them in the final period of writing the popular scientific summary, preparing for and executing the trial lecture and defence.  

In this edition of the PhD (and Postdoc :)) Breakfast Club, we will be focusing in on what EU grants there are to apply for, and how to apply for them. 

Free Breakfast will be served from 8.30, so sign up below. Start your day well!

Dr. Matti Nykter, Professor at the Tampere University, Finland, will present the lecture "Computational analysis to understand aberrant gene expression and treatment induced responses in prostate cancer."

We invite the citizens of Oslo to an indoor light event with glimpses of life sciences at UiO. Free entrance for the duration of the event.

We have invited the oldest children in a kindergarten to join us "Programming: Bees and Flowers" at the Museum of science and technology.

The workshop will bring together people from different disciplines inside and outside academia in order to enable a dialogue on mimicry as a productive concept to understand and juxtapose industrial chemicals and synthetic hormones.

Nowadays the amounts of data generated presents unique opportunities in research and technological innovations. This also raises a range of challenges, including data standards, analysis and visualization, as well as ethical considerations such as data protection, privacy and ownership.

In this symposium we want to explore the increasing role that data plays in our lives. The event will explore research and technological innovations that involve data and the society.

For lower secondary schools.

An interdisciplinary panel from UiO consisting of neurologists, philosophers and psychologists shares their knowledge, gives us the latest news in brain research, disagrees a bit, but takes us on a journey into our own consciousness.

An interdisciplinary panel from UiO consisting of medical scientists, economists, philosophers and literary scientists. What do we know about aging, what is the latest in research on elderly and health, and how does our identity change at different stages of life? Existential questions and discussion.

What were the most important biotechnology debates in 2010? What will be important in 2020?

This year's Darwin Day event covers a moonshot for biology: Resolving all genomes on earth within a decade! Speakers: Kerstin Lindblad-Toh, Josefin Stiller, Maren Wellenreuther, and Tom Gilbert.

LMI and partners welcome you to join this  day with presentations and discussions from the Norwegian life science ecosystem and industry leaders from Global Pharma.

For boys in upper secondary schools.

How are international regulations of pollutants followed up nationally and locally in Norway and Tanzania?

The workshop will bring together Norwegian and Tanzanian environmental authorities to address how international regulations on persistent organic pollutants are met nationally and locally.

What is happiness? What does it take to create and live a happy life? Is happiness more readily available to those who are able to see meaning in the little things? Is there any universal answer to what happiness really is to man?

NanoCosmos shows striking microscopy images from researchers in the convergence environment Programming Cell-Like Compartments. They will give you a glimpse into the nanoworld of soft matter and the microworld of cells – a "Wunderkammer" – where science becomes art. Join us for the opening February 11 at 18!