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Cand.polit. Eva Elisabeth Hessevaagbakke defends her doctoral dissertation for the degree of Ph.d.:
Title:
The characteristics of nurses’ pedagogical competence.
Ageliki Lefkaditou is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series. Lefkaditou is senior curator at The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology (NTM) and a historian of science. She is writing on the history of physical anthropology, human population genetics, race and racism from late 19th century to present with a specific interest in Greece. Her interests include the development of museum theory, methods and practices, public understanding of science and science communication. Lefkaditou is the co-curator of the upcoming exhibit FOLK at NTM.
Howard Young from the Department of Biochemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada will give a lecture titled, 'Correlating Structure and Function of Human Genetic Variants in Calcium Homeostasis and Cardiac Contractility'
Master Jarmila Bubikova-Moan defends her doctoral dissertation for the degree of PhD:
Discursive portraits of language, literacy and learning: emerging bilinguals in Norway.
Professor i historie, Teemu Ryymin kommer til Forum for Vitenskapsteori for ? innlede under tittelen: Hvilken rolle spiller historikerne og historiefaget i norsk politikkutvikling?
Seminaret er ?pent for alle!
Imre V?strik, Research Coordinator in the Bioinformatics Team at the Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM) will give a talk titled, "TheDB - a smart integrated IT systemfor managing and analysing precision medicine data"
Monika B?r?e Nerland, Professor of Education and leader for the research group ‘Expert cultures and institutional dynamics: Studies in higher education and work’ at the University of Oslo, Faculty of Education, is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series.
The Lecture is open for everyone!
B?r?e Nerland specializes in research on knowledge cultures and epistemic practices in professional education and work, with a particular interest in how ways of generating and sharing knowledge influence educational practices and development of expertise. Together with colleagues she has led and been involved in several projects that investigated these issues in different professions through a comparative approach.
Open to all researchers, clinicians, industry representatives, patient groups and others with an interest in stem cell biology, research and applications.
Dr. Eivind Valen, Group Leader at the Computational Biology Unit of the University of Bergen, will present the lecture "Searching for function in the dark matter of the genome."
Jason Brennan, Robert J. and Elizabeth Flanagan Family Term Associate Professor at Georgetown University, is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series (in cooperation with Department of Political Science, UiO). He specializes in politics, philosophy, and economics.
The seminar is open for everyone!
IOB hosts a mini-seminar on molecular changes in aging with two invited speakers from the Center for Healthy Aging at the University of Copenhagen.
Odd O. Aalen's contributions in fundamental concepts, methods, theories and instruments to modern statistical science during his long career are highly valued. He has been a key person in establishing biostatistics as a strong research field in Norway. On the occasion of his 70th birthday, colleagues, friends, collaborators, supporters and admirers wish to celebrate Odd with a symposium in his honour. The symposium will take place on the 11th and 12th of October, 2017, at the University of Oslo.
The talks will cover current topics in survival analysis, causal inference and infectious disease modelling.
Welcome to the next Oslo University Hospital (OUH) Research Seminar: "Individualised Cancer Treatment"
Michail Sitkovsky, Professor and Director of the New England Inflammation and Tissue Protection Institute at the Northeastern University College of Science, Boston, USA, will give a guest lecture titled, 'Anti-Hypoxia/HIF-1alpha and anti-A2A-Adenosinergic Co-adjuvants to enable the rejection of the most therapy-resistant tumors'
Paula Linnea B?ckdén at the Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law will be defending the thesis The Contract of Carriage - multimodal transports and unimodal regulations for the degree of Ph.D.
Algae can be used to make foods, medicines and energy. What role can researchers, entrepreneurs, policy makers and investors play in bringing ideas to the market?
Dr. Christopher Yau, Reader in Computational Biology based in the Centre for Computational Biology at the University of Birmingham will give a lecture titled, "Probabilistic modelling approach for pseudotime estimation in single cells and populations."
Professor Banu Subramaniam is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series. Subramaniam is a professor of women, gender and sexuality studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Subramaniam won the 2016 Ludwik Fleck Prize for the book “Ghost Stories for Darwin: The Science of Variation and the Politics of Diversity".
The lecture is open for everyone!
Cand.polit. Inga Staal Jenset defends her doctoral dissertation for the degree of Ph.d.:
Title:
Practice-Based Teacher Education Coursework: An Examination of the Extent and Characteristics of How Teacher Education Coursework Is Grounded in Practice Across Six Teacher Education Programs in Finland, Norway and California, US.
Cand.polit. Hilde Christine Hofslundsengen defends her doctoral dissertation for the degree of Ph.d.:
Title:
The meaning of children's invented writing in preschool. A quasi-experimental intervention study.
Lecture "A new era of medicine with induced pluripotent stem cells – iPS cells" and panel discussion "Implications of Stem Cell Therapy for Patients and Society" with Shinya Yamanaka, 2012 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine.
Lecture "A new era of medicine with induced pluripotent stem cells – iPS cells" and panel discussion "Implications of Stem Cell Therapy for Patients and Society" with Shinya Yamanaka, 2012 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine.
'Exploring and exploiting the constraints of local signaling', by Professor John D. Scott
Professor and Director Sylvia Richardson will receive the Honorary Doctorate from the University of Oslo. She will hold an open Lecture on A personal view of statistics as a tool for discovery in the health Sciences. Welcome!