The National Graduate School in Infection Biology and Antimicrobials (or IBA) is a research school (forskerskole) funded by the Research Council of Norway, coordinated at the University of Oslo. Both PhD students and postdocs registered at Norwegian universities are welcome to apply for membership in IBA. Our program funds courses and workshops and research stays abroad/in Norway, has annual networking meetings, and we support participation in these activities by co-funding of travel and accommodation costs.
Latest news:
Course on infection and cancer
2021-06-29 11:31:07Our sister organisation in Sweden, NDPIA, in collaboration with Umeå Centre for Microbial Research (UCMR) is offering a course that combines introductory lectures and student learning activities with an international symposium on infection and cancer. International experts will present basic concepts on principles by which viruses and bacteria subvert the cellular micro-environment to cause cancer.
Participants will have an opportunity to:
- Design experimental models to address knowledge gaps in infection and cancer
- Discuss their research with colleagues and international researchers in the field
- Build their national and international scientific network
- Discuss with experts working within infection and cancer research
The course will be online from 23rd – 27th August. Registration deadline: August 4th, 2021.
Click here for more information and instructions on how to register. Contact Chris Hadjineophytou for any questions.
IBA annual meeting 2021
2021-06-25 15:14:11Date/Time: Nov 01, 2021 – Nov 02, 2021, 11:00 am – 2:00 pm
Meeting location: Thon Conference Universitetsgaten (TCU), Oslo
We are happy to invite all IBA members to the IBA Annual Meeting 2021 at the Thon Conference Universitetsgaten in Oslo!
You can register here, the registration deadline is August 30th!
The meeting fee, accommodation, and travel expenses (economy class only) will be covered for all members and associates.
For attendees who need accommodation, the Hotel Bristol will be booked for the night of November 1st and all meals are included. The hotel is located 100 meters away from the meeting location.
All IBA PhD students, postdocs and research track students attending the annual IBA meeting are expected to present their research projects in oral or poster presentation sessions. Please submit your abstract here by September 15th. There will be prizes for the best poster and best oral presentation!
The topics that will be covered in the meeting include antimicrobial resistance and One Health, novel antimicrobials and probiotics, host-pathogen interactions and microbial genomics and metagenomics. Updates on the tentative program, keynote speakers and more practical information will follow later.
Click here for more information
Contact information:
For question regarding the meeting hosted by NMBU in Oslo (agenda, hotel and other practicalities): Özgün C. Onarman Umu
For IBA-related questions: Chris Hadjineophytou
IBA COURSE: ONE HEALTH APPROACH TO ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES
2021-06-07 13:11:55Time and place: 30th of August 2021 – 3rd of September 2021 (Week 35), NMBU Ås Campus
This course will review the microbiology, epidemiology and pathogenicity of some of the most common bacterial zoonotic pathogens in Norway. In addition, the course will introduce the use of modern genetic methods in surveillance, outbreak investigations and research relevant to public health, food safety and veterinary medicine. During one-week course, there will be practical sessions where the students will get a practical approach on the microbial genomics and metagenomics data analysis with no bioinformatical skills are expected.
Please visit our courses and events page for more information. The application deadline is on August 2nd.
IBA offers support for travel and accomodation for our PhD and research track members.
IBA COURSE: MBI-8005 ADVANCED ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE COURSE
2021-05-21 12:59:30Monday October 18 – Friday October 22 – 2021 at UiT – The Arctic University of Norway.
The course will provide detailed insight and knowledge of antimicrobial resistance in bacteria. The objectives will include understanding of principles regarding antibiotic resistance, methods for detection of resistance, clinical breakpoints, resistance epidemiology, mechanisms for resistance development/evolution and spread, drivers behind development of antimicrobial resistance, clinically important resistance mechanisms in bacteria, molecular methods for typing of resistance bacterial clones and concepts in drug discovery.
Please visit our courses and events page for more information. The application deadline for students not registered at UiT is on June 1st.
*course programme updated on May 21st
IBA offers support for travel and accomodation for our PhD and research track members.
IBA PhD association
2021-03-10 12:05:41The IBA PhD association, IBA PhD, was founded in a digital meeting the 25th of February 2021.
The main goal of IBA-PhD will be to ensure the academic and social interests of PhD and research track students that are enrolled in the Norwegian Infection Biology and Antimicrobials (IBA) graduate school.
The organisation will also organise an annual student day with and for IBA PhD candidates, nominate student representative candidates to the IBA board and sit or find candidates to sit on the IBA course planning committees.
IBA congratulates!
Read the full statutes here.
IBA PhD board members:
Runa Wolden (UiT) – Chairperson
Ragnhild Sætra (NTNU) – Vice Chairperson
Marita Mårli (NMBU) – Board member
Srijana Bastakoti (UiT) – Board member
Amit Bansal (UiB) – Board member
Verena Mertes (UiO) – Board member