Newsletter UiO:Life Science May 2019

The life science summer projects have started!
Student gets to test new innovative method to treat chronic pain

Emma Eriksson is a first-year student at the Department of Psychology at the University of Oslo. She is one of the 41 lucky students, who have been offered a grant from UiO:Life Science to work on a life science research project this summer.

Emma is part of the team at the University of Oslo and Oslo University Hospital that will test a new innovative treatment on Norwegian patients with chronic pain. The method involves meditative breathing with monitoring on smartphones at home.

Funding

• Support from UiO:Life Science for events – deadline 1 June
• Support from UiO:Life Science for internationalization – deadline 1 June
• Biomakerspace: New innovation grant for life science students – deadline 13 June
  Master students at six departments at UiO can apply UiO:Life Science for funding to test innovative ideas in the laboratory. The project is the seed for a biomakerspace in the planned life science building at UiO. 
• Open call UiO:Life Science – no deadline
• Support from UiO for events Oslo European green capital 2019 – no deadline

Events

• 27, 28, and 29 May and 5 June: Breakfast meetings on UiO:Life Science's funding opportunities and the life science building
  UiO:Life Science will talk about funding opportunities in research, education and innovation; and the open call, and vice-rector Per Morten Sandset will talk about the status and plans for the new life science building at UiO.
  
   
• 12 June: Workshop for secondary school teachers on the new digital universe in biotechnology and life sciences 
  In Norwegian.
  
  
   
• 19 June: SPARK Norway Educational Forum: Patenting and the value of trademarks 
   
• 13 August: Arendalsuka: Pollutants from electronic waste – knowledge-based handling locally and globally
   
• Save the dates for other events this fall,
  more information to come in the June newsletter
  • 10 September: SPARK academic catwalk, Nordic Life Science Days 2019, Malmö
  • 11 September: breakfast meeting at Nationaltheatret on Shark Drunk (Havboka)
  • 20 and 21 September: Oslo Science Expo (Forskningstorget in Oslo)
  • 24 September: I want you to panic: the role of the education sector in the climate crisis, evening event at Kulturhuset with UiO:Energy, UiO:Nordic and the Student Parliament at UiO as part of the National Science Week

Events with support from UiO:Life Science

• 5 June: Life Science Writing Club

• 13 June: Sven Furberg seminar: Dr. Mark Robinson

• 4 June: Breakfast seminar on dental health among elderly (in Norwegian)

• 7–12 July 2019: ISHPSSB 2019 conference (International Society for the History Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology)

News from the new interdisciplinary research groups – convergence environments

I March UiO:Life Science announced the funded of eight new convergence environments that will solve major societal challenges.

• How is medical evidence interpreted in court? (in Norwegian)
  In the convergence environment Medical, legal and lay understandings of physical evidence in rape cases (Evidently Rape) researchers from the faculties of law and medicine will study how physical evidence matters and can matter in how the crime of rape is met by medical and criminal justice institutions.

• Will look into organ donation (in Norwegian)
  Marius Mjaaland at The Faculty of Theology is one of the principal investigators in the convergence environment Availability and function of donor organs: Debating the dead donor rule (3DR). The project may revolutionize organ donation, and will debate important ethical and existential aspects of organ donation. 
  Kåre-Olav Stensløkken at the Faculty of Medicine is the project leader.

• Vacancies in the convergence environments
  The convergence environments have received funding from UiO:Life Science for 29 PhD and postdoctoral positions. The first position has been advertised by the convergence environment MultiModal Mental Models: converging approaches from genome to mental illness and interplay with psychosocial stressors (4MENT) that wants to better understand the etiology and disease mechanisms of severe mental disorders, focusing on schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and related mental phenotypes.

  • Doctoral research fellow in imaging genetics and machine learning 
    The Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences
    Deadline: 4 August, 2019

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