Category: News

  • Webinar April 13th: Using biotech to accelerate breeding and development of crops

    Managing director Dr. Jon Falk from Saaten-Union Biotec GmbH will present an introduction to the biotechnology used at SU Biotec to speed up the development of high-yielding crops with new breeding techniques, improved photosynthesis, and AI applications.

    SU Biotec involves 8 plant breeding company members, with two main premises located in Germany. Their main goal is bridging basic with applied research, so they are in constant contact with private and public research centers to take part in R&D projects and transfer the results to practical plant breeding. They utilize technologies like flow cytometry, tissue cultures, and molecular markers to assist the selection process of ideal plant traits. Better crop plants are vital for healthy and safe food, and breeding better crop plants depends on scientific progress. 

    You will be able to ask questions after the presentation. You can read more about SU Biotec’s work here: https://www.saaten-union-biotec.com/ 

    Our UiT ambassador Corine Faehn is the is the moderator of this webinar.

    Thursday April 13th 14:00-15:00

    Join Zoom Meeting

    https://uit.zoom.us/j/66710441469?pwd=ZTdodVNUdGhvanFCTDNldkVQRmRzQT09

    Meeting ID: 667 1044 1469

    Password: 630602

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  • PhD position avalible at AWI

    AWI invites applications from outstanding candidates for this position, subject to funding by the Norwegian Research council. You will become part of the seaweed working group (Dr. Inka Bartsch) at the Alfred-Wegener Institute (AWI), Helmholtz Centre for Marine and Polar Science, in Bremerhaven in the department Biology, section ‘Functional Ecology’. Project lead is at Faculty of Biosciences and Aquaculture, Nord University (Bodø, Norway), thereby you will become part of an interdisciplinary multi-national research team.

    More about the position here.

    Application deadline March 31st, 2023.

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  • Job opportunity in FjordAlg AS as an algae grower

    Do you want to create a new microbiological industry in beautiful surroundings between mountains and fjords and contribute to FjordAlg‘s goal of an algae factory?

    Want to be part of the FjordAlg team?

    FjordAlg is starting a project to scale up the production process and need a new employee who can start as soon as possible. The project they are hiring for lasts for 6 – 8 months, but there are good opportunities for extending the employment.

    They are looking for you that:

    • Enjoy working in a laboratory
    • Knows basic techniques in microbiology

    Formal competence in biotechnology, chemistry or biology is a plus, but not a requirement.

    It is of course an advantage if you have worked with microalgae before.

    The tasks are varied and can be adapted to your skills and background. They deal with start-up, operation, sampling and analysis of algae cultures grown in various reactors.

    FjordAlg can assist you in finding housing in an area with beautiful surroundings and room for many nature experiences.

    Go here for the annoncement and application process.

    Contact info for this position:

    CEO Gabriel Ossenkamp, phone:95030335, E-mail:g.ossenkamp@fjordalg.com

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  • Feb 28th: Visit the potato company Tromspotet and side dish company Kokt og klar

    Our Buisness mentor Ulrike Naumann is inviting our PhD candidates to visit the potato company Tromspotet, and the side dish company Kokt og klar (“boiled ready”) outside of Finnsnes (Silsand to be exact) Tuesday the 28th of February. If you want to join send an email to photosyntech.no.

    Exact program will be determined later.

    The speed boat leaves Tromsø at 07.00 and the returning boat arrives Tromsø at 19.15.

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  • Jan 10th: New deadline to sign up for Modelling in systems biolgy course

    https://photosyntech.no/course/modelling-in-systems-biology-i-metabolic-pathway-modelling/

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  • Postdoc position available at NTNU: Coordination between cell wall integrity and cell cycle activity in plants

    Department of Biology at NTNU has a new Postdoc vacancy:

    Postdoctor on the project “Wall2Cycle: Coordination between cell wall integrity and cell cycle activity in plants” (3 years) (236789) | NTNU – Norwegian University of Science and Technology (jobbnorge.no)

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  • Join the NOVA PhD course Genomics-based plant breeding for climate adaptation in January

    5 ECTS

    Time: 22-27 January, 2023. Location: Trolltun Gjestegård, Dombås, Norway

    The course will provide PhD students with theoretical background and practical examples of using plant breeding methods to adapt plant material to changing climate conditions. The main focus will be on abiotic stress tolerance – and how knowledge on stress responses and tolerance mechanisms can be used to breed new crop plants with improved climate adaptation. In addition to giving examples of conventional breeding and selection methods, the course will provide insight into new methods like marker-based breeding, genomic selection, genome editing, speed breeding and sensor-based phenotyping methods as tools to achieve plants with improved stress tolerance. The overall goal is to support the development of sustainable food production systems in the Nordic countries.

    Application deadline: Dec. 1st, 2022.

    More information and how to register here.

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  • PhD course at SLU Alnarp/Lund: “Common Data Standards and Integrative Analytic Methods for Plant Phenotyping”

    One of our External advisors, Erik Alexandersson, offers this to Photosyntech student members:

    If someone within the Photosyntech research school is interested, we still have, even if deadline just past (15 Oct), a couple of places for the NOVA PhD course at SLU Alnarp/Lund: “Common Data Standards and Integrative Analytic Methods for Plant Phenotyping”, 3 ECTS, 28 November – 2 December 2022

    The changing climate requires the development of faster breeding methods. This course is part of a series that aims to introduce the emerging research fields of high throughput plant phenotyping and omics technologies (including bioinformatics). The focus of the course is on computational solutions for handling and analyzing plant phenotyping data.

    The course will introduce the following methods:

    Automated and image based plant phenotyping technologies that are intended to remove bottlenecks between genotype and phenotype screens

    • High throughput field phenotyping technologies
    • The use of analysis tools including R to analyze plant phenotype and -omics data
    • The use of common standards for data handling, metadata generation using ontologies and data storage

    Deadline for application is 15 October 2022. Students will be admitted until the course has reached maximum capacity.

    More information and application here

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  • Online lecture “The Swedish Algae Factory”

    One of our external advisors, Angela Wulff, is giving an online lecture about her company “The Swedish Algae Factory” this Thursday. The lecture is part of a UiT course (Industrial Biotechnology BIO-3610) and Photosyntech members are welcome to join this guest lecture.

    Time: 14.00-16.00, October 13.

    Location: Zoom (join by clicking here).

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  • More robust agriculture in Norway

    In Nordnorsk debatt we put the spotlight on the need for more robust agriculture in Norway and how our new graduate school can contribute to this.

    Read our chronicle in Nordnorsk debatt

    Foto: Tromspotet

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  • Kick-off meeting in Trondheim

    Most of the participants at the kick-off.

    In August we had the Photosyntech Kick-off meeting in Trondheim.

    We discussed how we will work within the school and the frameworks for courses, grants, and organization. We also got to know each other a bit more. Inn addition, the student council and the steering committee also had their first meetings.

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