Congratulations to Kayko who won the poster prize at the 61st Contact Meeting of the Norwegian Bioscience Society!
Poster Prize award: Md Kaykobad Hossain
Author: Luiza
Journal Club: Somatostatin venom analogs evolved by fish-hunting cone snails: From prey capture behavior to identifying drug leads
by Lucas Unger This week’s journal club focuses on a study from Science Advances (2022) describing how predator-prey evolution has generated several somatostatin analogs used in venoms.
Farewell to: Thomas Aga Legøy
It’s hard to believe that Thomas is leaving us! While we will miss your presence here, we know you will achieve great things in your new adventure.
Journal Club: Comparative and integrative single cell analysis reveals new insights into the transcriptional immaturity of stem cell-derived ϐ-cells
by Agnes Sandvik: This week’s journal club focuses on a study from BMC Genomics (2024) using single-cell sequencing datasets to characterize the transcriptional identity of islets from in vitro differentiation, fetal islets, and adult islets
10th Meeting of the Study Group on Genetics of Diabetes, May 6 – 8, 2026
Our institute is organising the 10th Meeting of the Study Group on Genetics of Diabetes (SGGD) which will take place in Solstrand, near Bergen between 6th – 8th of May, 2026. Abstract submissions Abstract submission are opened until 2nd of…
Grant award: The Norwegian Cancer Society
Absolutely thrilled to announce that we have been awarded funding from @Kreftforeningen to continue our work on bladder tumor biology! Many plans and experiments are now possible and we are delighted to continue our work on the research project Mapping the…
Speaking at CCBIO Seminar: Luiza Ghila
Luiza will give a talk about new developments in the lab and work on bladders at the next CCBIO Seminar (11th of December 2025, 14:30).