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DIV-INT-Annet internasjonalt samarbeid

Tipping Point Norway/The Art of Adaptation 23.- 24. juni 2008

Hovedmotivasjonen for "Tipping Point Norway" er delvis et ønske om å skape et sterkere engasjement fra kunstverdenen i klimadebatten, samt å imøtekomme behovet fra klimaekspertene om nødvendigheten av å finne et nytt pubikum som er mer effektiv i sin resp ons og uttrykk enn samfunnskritikere, akt...

Awarded: NOK 0.49 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Oslo

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

The Norwegian plant transcriptional profiling centre

The Norwegian Arabidopsis Centre (FUGE-NARC) was established as a part of FUGE I. NARC provided national service in plant functional genomics and the service activity was shared between Univeristy of Life Sciences (UMB, transformation/genotyping), Univers ity of Oslo (Y2H, in situ hyb) and Norwe...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Vibriosis and furunculosis vaccines for Atlantic cod: efficacy, protective antigens and specific immune responses

Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) is an upcoming marine species in Norwegian fish farming industry. Bacterial diseases as vibriosis and furunculosis, are causing problems and efficient vaccines will be crucial in order to develop a sustainable industry. Today, most cod juveniles are vaccinated against ...

Awarded: NOK 7.5 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Biogas residue - a safety risk in organic farming?

The Norwegian government aims to increase the organic food production and consumption to 15 % of the total within year 2015. To reach this ambiguous goal, it is estimated that of the total Norwegian agricultural area for each crop, approx. 18 % of the mea dow, 20 % of the pasture, 7,5 % of cereal...

Awarded: NOK 4.7 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Akershus

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

From plants to human - plant accumulation and transfer of organic foreign compounds in primary food chain

The transfer of contaminants from soil through the food chain -from farm to fork- is a major issue of the agenda of the European Commission and also a thematic priority area within The Food Research Programme's Call for 2008. To achieve the goal of food s afety, knowledge and tools for estimating...

Awarded: NOK 3.9 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Akershus

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Differential neuroendocrine regulation of follicle-stimulating hormone and luteinizing hormone in Atlantic cod and GFP-transgenic medaka.

This project investigates how pituitary gonadotrope cells develop and mature during puberty, and how the two gonadotropins, FSH and LH, are differentially regulated. Puberty is regulated by the brain-pituitary-gonad axis. Forebrain GnRH binds to specific receptors on pituitary gonadotropes, there...

Awarded: NOK 8.2 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Oslo

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Mycotoxin contamination in oats, - characterization of the infection process by the major T-2 and HT-2 toxin producer Fusarium langsethiae

The trichothecene deoxynivalenol (DON) is frequently found in wheat. However, in Norway also the more toxic trichothecenes T-2 and HT-2 are often found, particularly in barley and oats. In 1999 Langseth and Rundberget concluded that 'Norwegian oats were f ound to contain HT-2 and T-2 toxin in con...

Awarded: NOK 5.9 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Akershus

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Digestion studies of fatty acids and proteins in milk from different species - Effect on gut health

Gastro-intestinal infections are increasing in industrial countries and for certain diseases, e.g. diarrhoea caused by bacterial and viral infections, there is an increase in incidences that is described as having epidemic proportions. Detection of natura l components in foods that can replace an...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Akershus

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

The effect of dietary carbohydrates on muscle metabolism, connective tissue composition and fillet quality in cod (Gadus morhua L).

Post mortem softening of fish muscle and occurrence of gaping are major problems for the fish industry. Muscular connective tissue provides mechanical integrity, rigidity, and elasticity to skeletal muscles. Extracellular matrix (ECM) represents an import ant part of the connective tissue, and ch...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Dissection of Epigenetic Mechanisms and Transcriptional Networks in Seed Development

Seed development is the product of double fertilization of the egg cell and the central cell by two sperm cells from the pollen and requires a coordinated interplay of the transcriptional programmes in the embryo, the endosperm and the maternal seed coat. Parent of origin dependent expression pl...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Oslo

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Functional and structural characterization of the membrane-integrated plastid phosphate translocators

Atomic structures of proteins provided a wealth of information about the functioning of proteins at the molecular level, e.g. the catalytic mechanisms of enzymes, pointing to the enormous impact of X-ray crystallography on modern biology. Because of techn ical hurdles almost all of the more than ...

Awarded: NOK 5.2 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

Fibre based packaging materials: Development of innovative and sustainable barrier concepts

The global urge for environmental sustainability is a strong driving force towards the development of new sustainable material concepts aiming at increased use of renewable materials. To satisfy the ever more demanding customers and convenience chains, th e food industry is in need of new packagi...

Awarded: NOK 16.5 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

A systems biology approach to for modelling of plant signalling and host defence.

The whole-systems approches have created new opportunities for studying and modelling how cellular processes are regulated/coordinated to meet the organism/cell demands. We propose to use a whole-system approach to develop methods for modelling of plant c ellular processes. In addition to generat...

Awarded: NOK 5.3 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MILPAAHEL-Miljøpåvirkning og helse

Dioxin-like Organohalogen Carcinogenesis

Dioxin-like organohalogens include polychlorinated dibenzodioxins, dibenzofurans and 11 planar bifenyls (PCB). In addition, brominated flame retardants (PCDE) may share many of their characteristics. They are persistent environmental pollutants which acc umulate in food chains. Human exposure oc...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Oslo

DIV-INT-Annet internasjonalt samarbeid

IHDP - Prime sponsorship 2007 -2009 including special support for 2008

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Awarded: NOK 0.69 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NANOMAT-Nanoteknologi og nye materialer

Immunisation strategies against viral pathogens of Atlantic salmon

This project will build a knowledge platform where the aim is create a basis for development of efficacious virus vaccines for Atlantic salmon. Vaccines that confer good protection against bacterial diseases have been developed, the challenge lies in obta ining equal protection against major vira...

Awarded: NOK 6.9 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Akershus

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Overseas research grant application for the PhD-student, Hanne Digre, connected to the project etisk slakting av hvitfisk (p.nr. 164715/40

PhD student and research scientist, Hanne Digre, SINTEF Fisheries and Aquaculture, intends to spend the academic year 2007/2008 as a guest scientist at Crop & Food Research, New Zealand (6 months) and Wageningen IMARES, Netherlands (6 months). The PhD-stu dent is currently linked to the project "...

Awarded: NOK 0.32 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Extension of dr.scient stipend.

I started my dr.scient programme in 2002 and was supposed to finish in 2006. Due to major difficulties with the computersystem used to analyze the data for my project I am delayed in the process of finishing when supposed to. With this proposal I apply fo r additioanal 12 months of funding.

Awarded: NOK 0.61 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Vestland

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Public health aspects and the relationship between Shiga toxin-producing and Enteropathogenic E. coli in the ruminant food production chain

During the human E. coli O103 outbreak in 2006, isolated E. coli O103 without toxin genes (EPEC O103) showed very similar genetic profiles as the human isolates. However, EPEC O103 were isolated from a variety of sheep products from various industrial est ablishments and many of these could not b...

Awarded: NOK 10.1 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2014

Location: Akershus

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Utvikling av kvantitative multiplekse PCR metoder for deteksjon av allergener i næringsmidler

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Awarded: NOK 0.78 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Østfold

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Multiple stress responses and adaptations

Farmers and breeders know that combinations of biotic and/or abiotic stresses in the field (e.g. disease and drought or high-light and cold) cause the greatest losses to crop productivity worldwide. Responses and tolerance to stress combinations are rarel y addressed in genomics research because ...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

S-AFRIKA-Program for forskningsamarbeid med Sør- Afrika

DDT and "current use pesticides" in mothers and children in a malaria control area in South Africa

The effects of environmental pollutants on human health are often subtle, long-term, sometimes transgenerational and difficult to measure even in long-term epidemiological studies in large populations. There is therefore a need for comprehensive research that monitors the concentration and distri...

Awarded: NOK 0.61 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Akershus

VRI-Virkemidler for regional innovasjon

Virkemidler for regional innovasjon i Finnmark

VRI- Finnmark skal utnyttes som en mulighet til å realisere sentrale mål i de strategiene for næringsutvikling, kunnskapsutvikling og internasjonalt samarbeid som fylkeskommunen har utarbeidet i de senere årene. Økning av forskningen i og for næringslivet er et viktig virkemiddel i disse strate...

Awarded: NOK 6.9 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Finnmark - Finnmárku - Finmarkku

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Regulatory processes of melanisation in the Atlantic salmon

Pigment depositions in fillet and internal organs represent a costly problem to Norwegian aquaculture industry. In the worst cases, the production quality of up to 20% of fillets from certain farms is affected, and this implies trimming, cassation and sub sequently extra production costs. In a pr...

Awarded: NOK 4.8 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Oslo

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

New tools for optimising quality and performance management for Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) reared in cyclic environments

A restricted feeding regime does not only improve the feed conversion factor and reduce the cost of feed; it also has a positive effect on the flesh quality. The increased muscle quality using a restrictive feeding regime is associated with a higher muscl e fibre density, and an enhanced texture ...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

CORE ORGANIC: Quality analysis of critical control points within the whole food chain and their impact on food quality, safety and health

Project summay 'quality definition' in the project 'Quality analysis of critical control points within the whole food chain and their impact on food quality, safety and health (QACCP)': Consumer demand for healthy, safe and high quality food is increasin g. Against this background, the demand fo...

Awarded: NOK 1.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Akershus

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Oppfølging av slakteprosjekter

Nye forskrifter og krav knyttet til slakting av fisk og trykk fra markedet om større hensyn til fiskens velferd i kombinasjon med krav til kvalitet har økt behov for forskning på slaktemetoder. For tiden er flere institutter i gang med forskning på områd er som bedøvelsesmetoder, fremføring, tre...

Awarded: NOK 0.35 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Utvikling av nye miljø- og kostnadseffektive løsninger for emballering og distribusjon av økologisk dyrket frukt- og grøntprodukter

Målet for prosjektet er å bidra til økt omsetning av økologisk frukt og grønt og å sikre at emballering og distribusjon av økologisk frukt og grønt har høy verdikjede-effektivitet og dermed sikre en optimal miljø- og ressursprofil for produktene Basis fo r prosjektet er ønsket fra en stor del av...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Oslo

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Seeds for growth - Identification of transcriptional programs controlling seed growth and development from Arabidopsis to rice

The last decades have brought about a tremendous increase in our understanding in molecular mechansims of seed development. However, further progress appears to be haltered by three major constraints. First, seeds are compound structures that harbour many tissues and cell types. Currently, a rel...

Awarded: NOK 1.3 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Framtidens sunne og gode grønnsaker i varmretter

Målsettingen er å gi viktige tilskudd til folkehelsen ved å øke bruken av attraktive og næringsrike grønnsaker i ferdigretter. Andelen varmretter som spises utenfor hjemmet er sterkt økende fordi mange etterspør hurtige og enkle ferdigretter i en travel h verdag. I tillegg har det foregått en kra...

Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Vestfold

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