(TCLS= Thursday Chemistry Lunch Seminar: 12.15-13 @ Tripletten
For ALL employees at the Chemistry Department!
Kangkang Wang is a PhD candidate recruited for the CompFish project at the Xinjiang University. He is conducting a one-year exchange stay at the Department of Chemistry, UiB. 
During this period, he is going to study adsorption of organic pollutants on microplastics and develop new analytical method for quantitively evaluation of microplastics in fish tissues. His research will answer the following questions about microplastics: (1) what is the adsorption mechanism of dyes on nylon microplastics; (2) is there differences for fresh microplastics and aged ones on the adsorption behavior; (3) how does the adsorption affect by the sizes of microplastics; (4) if fluorescence and GPC can be used to quantify microplastics in fish tissue.
Bergenser og UiB alumn. Jeg har en bachelor i fysikk fra UiB og en master i forskningsformidling fra University of the West of England i Bristol. Jeg har jobbet ved UiB i snart åtte år, først i studieseksjonen ved MN-fakultetet og de siste tre årene som koordinator for UiB sin havvindsatsning, Bergen Offshore Wind Centre (BOW). I studieseksjonen har jeg jobbet hovedsakelig med vitnemål og internasjonalisering. Ved BOW har jeg hatt mange roller og vært med på å bygge opp senteret sammen med faglig ledelse. Jeg brenner for å skape gode rammer og godt miljø rundt forskning og utdanning og jeg gleder meg veldig til å bli kjent med dere på Kjemisk institutt!
Bergenser and UiB alumnus. I have a bachelor’s in physics from UiB and a master’s in research communication from the University of the West of England (UWE) in Bristol. I have worked at UiB for almost eight years, first in the study section at the MN faculty and for the last three years as coordinator for UiB’s offshore wind initiative, Bergen Offshore Wind Center (BOW). In the study section, I have mainly worked with diplomas and internationalisation. At BOW, I have had many roles and helped to build up the center together with professional management. I am passionate about creating good frameworks and a good environment around research and education and I am very much looking forward to getting to know you at the Department of Chemistry!
Vennlig hilsen Torill
I´m Amalyn, From Venezuela. I´m a passionate chemist, and I´ll be teaching advanced organic chemistry (KJEM231) during the Autumn. My research interests are design, synthesis and evaluation of bioactive small molecule that can be used as probes for mechanistic studies or lead compounds for drug discovery. I´m also interesting in practicing science communication, hiking, and practice some sports.
Kjære alle gode kolleger på Kjemisk institutt
Det er en tid for alt, og nå går jeg over i ny jobb i Forskningsseksjonen i fakultetsadministrasjonen på Det medisinske fakultet.
Tusen takk godt samarbeid og lykke til videre.
Riktig god sommer.
Beste hilsen
Hege
Hei, eg heiter Marius og er ny studiekonsulent på Kjemisk institutt. Eg administrerer BA og MA programma i nanovitskap og siving. programmet i medisinsk teknologi. Eg har mastergrad i samanliknande politikk frå UiB og har tidlegare jobba som studiekonsulent på Sosiologisk institutt. Når sola skin er eg ofte å finne på eit av byfjella saman med kona og barna mine, og når det regnar sitt eg gjerne heime og les ei god bok. Eg ser fram til å bli betre kjent med dokker
Please give a warm welcome to our new fellow scientist Jan-Åke Husmann, who is a new member of Bengt Erik Haug’s research group at the Department of Chemistry. His work will be focused on the project «Exploration of the TPP riboswitch as a new target for antibiotics» funded by the Joint Programming Initiative on Antimicrobial Resistance (JPI-AMR) in collaboration with Ruth Brenk’s group at Biomidicine at UiB. Jan-Åke holds a Master and Bachelor degree in Biomedical Chemistry from the University of Mainz (Germany).
Course content: The European framework program Horizon Europe supports is the EU’s main funding programme for research and innovation. Running from 2021 to 2027 with a budget of 95.5 billion euros, it is the most extensive research funding programme globally. It supports a wide range of research and innovation activities, including primary and applied research, innovation projects, and networking activities, and provides funding and opportunities for researchers in all fields and at all career stages.
However, complexity and documentation render the program challenging to navigate. Many scientists with excellent ideas are not participating in the program despite their outstanding research. On the other hand, a few magically attract funding. They know how to network, find relevant «Call to Action» and write a competitive proposal, next to being a good researcher. These observations are my main drivers for developing a practical how-to course on using the vast amount of data in the EU system to think outside the box and understand and navigate the Horizon Europe framework program.
Learning outcome:
Participants will get an overview of:
– How to take advantage of past and current projects funded by the EU Commission to think outside the box?
– How to navigate Horizon Europe – Pillar II to find relevant «Call to Action»?
– How to write the core concept of a research proposal?
Target group:
Suitable for both scientific and administrative staff who want to learn more about practical creativity, Horizon Europe and developing research proposals. Please note that this is an internal UiB course, and is only open to UiB employees.
Duration: The course lasts 2,5 hours. There will be an exchange of experience and group work along the way.
Principal trainer: Hiwa Målen (PhD & RM), Department of Research and Innovation, University of Bergen.
For admin. support staff: 10.06.22.
For scientific staff: 17.06.22.
Read more about registration.
Dr. Diego C. Rodríguez Hernández is presently starting up in his new position as a Postdoctoral Researcher for the SEAS program, in Monica Jordheim’s group. This research program (2022-2025) emphasizes the chemical studies of natural products of sustainable organisms living in areas of hydrothermal vents from deep-sea in the Artic and Artic Mid-Ocean Ridge, with an ecological and pharmacological approach, using metabolomics, bio-guided fractionation, modern mass spectrometry and NMR analyses. 
Diego’s research interests are Natural Products Chemistry, Chemical Ecology and Medicinal Chemistry working on the following topics: Isolation and structural elucidation of bioactive secondary metabolites from plants, microorganisms, and deep-sea fauna, among others. Understand the role of these natural products in their different environments. Chemical transformations of Natural Products. Design, Synthesis, and evaluation of Organic Compounds with pharmacological potential.
Meet and greet our new PhD student, Tobias Rindfleisch, who will be a member of the Miettinen group at the Department of Chemistry and CBU. He will focus on testing and developing molecular dynamics models of intrinsically disordered proteins against NMR relaxation data. Tobias holds MSc in Bioinformatics and BSc in Biochemistry from the University of Potsdam (Germany).
Summer School 2022 – Computational Molecular Design — 9th – 11th May 2022, Bergen 🇳🇴
The 2022 NordCO2 Summer School was organised by UiB around the theme of “Computational molecular Design” and ran across 3 days with lectures and exercise sessions conducted and given by a group of dedicated Lecturers:
- Pr. Vidar R. Jensen (UiB)
- Dr. Marco Foscato (UiB)
- Pr. David Balcells (UiO)
- Jonas Ekeli (UiB)
- Simen Reine (UiO)
This summer school is one of a string of events in The Nordic Consortium for CO2 Conversion (NordCO2, funded by NordForsk through the Nordic University Hub call), which is a network for Nordic researchers working on chemical CO2 conversion in the Nordic countries. NordCO2 promotes knowledge exchange, initiates novel scientific collaborations, jointly trains Nordic students and organizes outreach activities.
