The conference kicks off with Darwin Day at Blindern campus Monday 12th of February and continues on with a series of lectures and events until Thursday 15th. The main event during Oslo Life Science 2018 is held in the University Aula on Tuesday 13th of February.
Collaborators
The conference is a collaboration between the University of Oslo and NMBU, Oslo University Hospital, Legemiddelindustrien, The Norwegian Biotechnology Advisory Board and the City of Oslo. CEES, at the Department of Biosciences, is responsible for arranging Darwin Day. I encourage you all to have look at the program and sign up for the events. Read more about the conference at Vice Dean Finn-Eirik Johansen's blog at titan.uio.no (only in Norwegian).
See program and how to sign up.
A big deal
The Life Science initiative is important to the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences. We have departments that in their entirety work within life science, departments that have major projects within life science and departments that are important contributors to life science by developing generic theories, methods and tools which are used when researching life science.
Our two main contributors when it comes to life science is Oslo University Hospital and the Faculty of Medicine, a collaboration that has been growing strong over the years. Several of the lectures will focus on the collaboration across faculties and institutions. As we know, life science entails more than medicine and health, I am therefore pleased that Darwin Day now is a part of the conference and that NMBU is a contributor to the Life Science Conference.
Student summer projects
Students can apply for UiO:Life Science’s summer research projects and I am pleased to say that many students already have applied. Researchers have until February 15th to send in project proposals to UiO:Life Science. Read more about the summer research projects.
Other initiatives across faculties at UiO
The two other major initiatives across faculties and museums are UiO:Energy and UiO:Nordic. Our faculty has a naturally large impact in UiO:Energy because of our research areas. We also participate in UiO:Nordic, although on a smaller scale.