Che Fai Alex Wong (PhD stipendiat) and Swapnil Bhujbal (postdoctoral researcher) joined our lab. A warm welcome to both!
New funding – NTNU-Discovery
PhotoSynLab received NTNU-Discovery project for the SUPERAP technology.
Group Meeting, Feb 2nd, 2017
Time: 13.00-14.00 Location: R D4-132 If you came across an interesting paper, please talk about it! Martin give a presentation about “scientific writing” Rahmi will give presentation on “open science” .
Group Meeting, Jan 26th, 2017
Room: R E5-103 Date: Thursday, 26.01.2017 Time: 13:00-13:45 Tatjana and Anne will hold a presentations. For Anne’s presentation see: Chana Kranzler, Nivi Kessler, Nir Keren andYeala Shaked Enhanced ferrihydrite dissolution by a unicellular, planktonic cyanobacterium: a biological contribution to particulate iron bioavailability Environmental Microbiology (2016) 18(12), 5101–5111 doi:10.1111/1462-2920.13496
Journal Club, Dec 15th, 2016
Summary made by Anne Vogel Erin K. Zess, Matthew B. Begemann, Brian F. Pfleger Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Vol. 113, No. 2, February, 2016 Construction of New Synthetic Biology tools for the control of gene expression in the cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp Strain PCC 7002 DOI: 10.1002/bit.25713 Paper focuses on two different methods to control gene expression: An anhydrotetracycline-dependent induction system…
Group Meeting, Dec 15th, 2016
Overview of this week’s meeting: Anne presented an article. PhD position available at the NT-Faculty (link to jobbnorge.no)
Conferences 2017
4th International Winterschool on Bioelectronics, Bio-compatible, bio-integrated, bio-inspired materials and devices March 11 – March 18 2017, Kirchberg in Tirol, Austria http://www.jku.at/conferences/content/e216103 Open Science conference March 20-23 2017, Berlin, Germany http://www.open-science-conference.eu/programme/ Gathering for Open Science Hardware March 22-25 in Santiago, Chile http://openhardware.science/2016/08/24/save-the-date-gosh-2017-will-be-march-22-25-in-santiago-chile/ SynBioBeta April 4th-6th, 2017, Imperial College London, UK http://synbiobeta.com/conferences/synbiobeta-london-2017/ SB7.0, the Seventh International Meeting on Synthetic Biology 13-16 June…
Christmas Dinner
Our lab enjoyed a delicious Norwegian julebord (Christmas Dinner) together. Merry Christmas and god jul!
EU – H2020 funding
Our lab received its first EU – H2020 funding. The project, “Advanced toolbox for rapid and cost-effective functional metagenomic screening – microbiology meets microfluidics” coordinated by the University Autonoma de Madrid, received funding for €8.808.363. Rahmi is involved as a partner in the project. For further details see the EU-CORDIS web page.
Anne’s research in the news
Anne Vogel has been interviewed about her PhD thesis research for the university blog about her work on cyanobacterial iron acquisition. Here is a link to the entry: http://blog.nt.ntnu.no/how-cyanobacteria-eat-iron/ Well done Anne!