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FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Towards personalized therapy for breast cancer

Purpose of the project: Few protocols have so far been designed with attempts to characterize the systems biology of cancer. The objective of the project is to translate information obtained from integrative molecular analysis of material collected from i ndividual cancer patients, through valida...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Oslo

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

A proteomics node at Ås campus

As part of the NorProteomics FUGE network, Ås campus will develop expertise in the areas listed below and make this expertise available to on-campus and off-campus projects. Our key areas are: 1. Proteomics in difficult matrices, primarily related to food chemistry (meat, cereals; i.e. analysis ...

Awarded: NOK 1.5 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Akershus

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Ultra-high throughput sequencing platform

Recent technological breakthroughs making possible low cost ultra-high throughput gene sequencing (UTS) open up a new era within biology. It is now possible to sequence a bacterial genome in less than a week, a human chromosome in 3-4 weeks or generate m illions of metagenomic sequences in days....

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Oslo

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Local NOR-MIC BioImaging node at the University of Tromsø

At the University of Tromsø we now establish a core facility for BioImaging. This core facility will be equipped with instruments aimed at imaging, flow cytometri, cell sorting and plate/membrane readers of fluorescent and chemiluminescent signals. For th is core facility we will have two full-ti...

Awarded: NOK 0.45 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

LAND: Long-term ecological effects of sheep grazing in alpine ecosystems and its integration with management

We propose to further develop two unique experimental studies in contrasting alpine ecosystems (running from 2000 in Setesdal Vesthei and 2002 in Hol) to address several important new research questions: The overall aim is to facilitate sustainable manage ment of sheep grazing in alpine habitats ...

Awarded: NOK 7.1 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Oslo

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

VANN: Upscaling biological data, processes and models in relation to hydrological processes and models to catchment scale

In order to obtain sustainable use, development and management of water resources, it is crucial to understand how ecological and hydrological processes at small spatial scales relate to the whole catchment. The major challenge in this project is to integ rate the knowledge of the physical enviro...

Awarded: NOK 2.5 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

A novel checkpoint regulating the cell cycle of fission yeast

In this project we shall further study and characterise a novel mechanism of checkpoint regulation that we have recently discovered (Tvegård et al, Genes Dev, 2007). Checkpoints are important regulators of the cell cycle. Cancer development is frequently associated with the lack of checkpoints an...

Awarded: NOK 5.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Oslo

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Norwegian Molecular Imaging Consortium - Subnode: Subcellular interactions and imaging - NTNU

Knowledge about protein-protein interactions as well as interactions between other molecules is of critical importance for functional genomics. By providing the state-of-the-art technologies to study inter-and intramolecular interactions, the national res earch community will be able to move func...

Awarded: NOK 7.4 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Aleström Zebrafish Lab - activities beyond the research projects 2007-2011

The major focus of the AZLab services are two-fold: 1) Being a regional center, in an national and international network of transgenic zebrafish laboratories, with capacity to offer access to the zebrafish model for academic and commercial partners. 2) Es tablish a unique training program in zebr...

Awarded: NOK 4.5 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Akershus

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

LAND: Fire history in Trillemarka

Fire is the principal disturbance process in boreal forests, and little is known about the historical variability of fire frequency in Norway. An understanding of the historic variability in disturbance regimes is essential for implementing ecosystem mana gement. This Ph.D. project will study fir...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Akershus

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

LAND: Trees as drivers of silvopastoral system function

The silvopastoral system is a livestock production option that involves the interaction of woody components (shrubs and trees), herbaceous forage and the different species of domestic herbivores. This system of meat and milk production has many advantages in the tropics both for food production ...

Awarded: NOK 3.8 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

LAND: A new model approach to assess genetically modified plants: their ecotoxicity and potential interactions with environmental pollutants

Genetically modified (GM) plants from modern biotechnology have already a history as commercialised feed and food products. The agricultural industry using GM techniques is rapidly increasing and represents large scale options and challenges for both soci eties and ecosystems. Environmental impac...

Awarded: NOK 6.4 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Advanced MR imaging, MR metabolomics, proteomics and genetic mapping of breast cancer - Clinical tools for personalized patient treatment

Breast cancer has the highest incidence and mortality of all malignant diseases among women globally. The heterogeneous nature of breast cancer results in different clinical presentations and outcomes, and patients show a diverse range of responses to a g iven treatment. Processes leading to more...

Awarded: NOK 5.2 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

LAND: Conservation Covenants in Norway (CoCoviN) - moderating conflicts, reducing bio-diversity loss and improving resource management?

Our main aim is to study the use of voluntary, but formally binding private-public partnership in nature conservation and management. Our hypotheses are: 1) Conflicts around designation of nature conservation areas are seldom founded on disagreement abo ut preservation goals; meaning: The confl...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Innlandet

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Norwegian Structural Biology Centre (NorStruct) Proposal for a continuation of the Centre for 2008-12

NorStruct will continue to offer state of the art services and collaboration in structural biology techniques to the Norwegian research community. The expertise and services will have a solid foundation in in-house research and national and international partners. The services will be organized i...

Awarded: NOK 23.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

FORURENS: Understanding Long-Range Atmospheric Transport Behaviour of Emerging Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)

Circumstances have been described where concentrations of contaminants have been higher in remote regions of the globe than in source regions. Examples are elevated concentrations of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in Arctic and high mountain regions . POPs are organic chemicals known to be ...

Awarded: NOK 4.4 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Akershus

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

The Proteomics Core Facility at the University of Tromsø as a node in the national consortium of proteomics platforms (NorProteomics)

The core facility for Proteomics in Tromsø has been fully operational since the end of 2004. The main purpose of the facility has been to serve research labs in the FUGE North region. The facility has 3 Mass spectrometer systems from Waters/Micromass. A M ALDI Micro MX, a Q-TOF Ultima Global with...

Awarded: NOK 1.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

PES-INST-Prosjektetablererstøtte EU (FoU)

Situation Awareness and Surveillance for Risk and Crisis Management in Water Distribution Systems

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Awarded: NOK 47,619

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Marine Ecosystem Response to a Changing Climate

The climate of the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans will undergo rapid changes over the next century. Climate influences many important ecosystem drivers which will change marine biogeochemical and ecological processes, ecosystem functioning and biodivers ity. MERCLIM will provide critical new un...

Awarded: NOK 15.7 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Vestland

SIP-Strategiske instituttprogram

Tid og usikkerhet

Hovedproblemstillingen i programmet er å komme fram til mer realistisk verdsetting av tidsbesparelser og økt pålitelighet i transport og tilgrensende aktiviteter. Problemet har to sider: den fysiske og den økonomiske. Vi trenger å vite mer om verdsetting av tid og pålitelighet, både for gods og...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Oslo

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Coordinated action: Lice international (Canada (USA), Scotland, Ireland and Norway)

Increased levels of farmed salmonid hosts for parasitic sea lice have raised the question of transfer between farmed and wild sources. The study of distribution and dispersal of sea lice has thus become more important over the last years and key institute s from several countries are currently do...

Awarded: NOK 0.98 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Vestland

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

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Increasing basic knowledge on muscle abnormalities in intensive production systems

Abnormalities in fish muscle represent not only an ethical and welfare issue, but may also have a negative impact on economy and market acceptance due to growth impairment in affected fish, elevated mortality and reduced fillet quality. Alertness and know ledge on this field is also important for...

Awarded: NOK 4.5 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Norwegian bread wheat with high baking quality and sustainable disease resistance through marker-assisted selection (188291).

Norway has in recent years become almost self-sufficient in wheat thanks to better and more adapted varieties. While nearly all high quality wheat for bread making was imported a couple of decades ago, the milling and baking industry now depend on quality wheat produced in Norway. To achieve bre...

Awarded: NOK 3.9 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Akershus

VAM-Velferd, arbeid og migrasjon

Sunne arbeidsplasser - Organisatoriske faktorer som fremmer og hemmer langtidsfriske arbeidstakere i et globalisert arbeidsliv

Prosjektet har som viktig ambisjon å frambringe kunnskap om de utfordringer som ligger til globale selskapers innsats med å utvikle helsefremmende arbeidsplasser. Det har sin innretning mot organisatoriske faktorer knyttet til produksjon og verdikjede, ma rkedsforhold og intern organisering av ar...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

SIP-Strategiske instituttprogram

Videreutvikling av nytte-kostnadsanalyser: Investeringer under usikkerhet, irreversibilitet og imperfekte markeder

Store investeringer og tiltak vil på ulike måter påvirke rammebetingelsene for bedrifter og enkeltpersoner på kort og lang sikt. Samfunnsøkonomiske nytte-kostnadsanalyser er den etablerte metoden for å veie fremtidige fordeler og ulemper opp mot hverandre , og derigjennom avgjøre om en planlagt i...

Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Møre og Romsdal

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Habitat restoration in overgrazed areas on the northern Norwegian coast

The principal objective is to test the hypotheses that former kelp forests that were grazed by sea urchins can be restored by artificially re-introduce three-dimensional habitats. This may promote colonisation of sea urchin predators that may reduce recru itment of sea urchin populations and indu...

Awarded: NOK 5.7 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2014

Location: Oslo

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Terrestrial C sequestration potential in Norway under present and future climate

Terrestrial ecosystems in the northern hemisphere have been a significant sink in the global C cycle. However, strength and duration of the terrestrial C sink is uncertain and will impact future trends in atmospheric CO2 concentrations. Likely factors, al so relevant in Norway, to affect the terr...

Awarded: NOK 6.1 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Oslo

OST-Øst-Europa-programmene

Study of Russian Air Pollution Sources and their Impact on Atmospheric Composition in the Arctic

RAPSIFACT will interpret existing and conduct new measurements of greenhouse gases, gaseous air pollutants, and aerosols in Russia, which is the most important source region for Arctic air pollution. This has especially high relevance and is extremely urg ent because climate change is proceeding ...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Akershus

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Low-frequency acoustics - potentials and dangers for marine ecosystem application

Low frequency acoustics from hundreds of Hz to 10 kHz includes the range for Navy sonars and have recently been tested assessing the distribution, density, and behaviour of pelagic fish. These frequencies are within the hearing range of fish and marine ma mmals. Operation at these frequencies may...

Awarded: NOK 3.4 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Vestland