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STORFORSK-Store forskerinitierte prosjekter

The TOP study - Identification of phenotypes and genetic susceptibility in severe mental disorders

Severe mental disorders (schizophrenia and bipolar/manic-depressive disorder) are major causes of disability worldwide, and rank as some of the most costly disorders to afflict humans. The etiology still remains elusive, but there is now overwhelming evid ence that genetic factors play a prominen...

Awarded: NOK 19.9 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2011

Location: Oslo

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Tools for Microbial Nucleic Acid Sample Preparation for Diagnostic and Genomic Analyses

Access to high quality nucleic acid is imperative to conduct any form of genetic analysis. Working with micro-organisms that are difficult to cultivate and/or are embedded in complex materials is a particular challenge. The market is seeking more sensitiv e, simplified, rapid and efficient method...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2009

Location: Oslo

DIV-INT-Annet internasjonalt samarbeid

Blåkveite ved Grønland; utbredelse, biologi og seleksjon/bidødelighet i trål.

Prosjektsammendrag Prosjektet er et samarbeid mellom forskere i Grønland og Norge i henhold til den bilaterale avtalen mellom Norge og Grønland av 1991. Prosjektet vil gjennom nært samarbeid sikre, analysere og publisere innsamlede data ved Grønland i per ioden 1992-2004. Blåkveita er utbredt lan...

Awarded: NOK 8.8 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2014

Location: Møre og Romsdal

YFF-Yngre, fremragende forskere

Exploring the nuclear phase diagram using hard and electromagnetic probes

The project will be focussed on the use of high transverse momentum electromagnetic probes (photons and dileptons) as tools for investigating the early stages of a heavy-ion collision. High-pT hadrons, charged and neutral, are created during the initi al partonic collisions. Through their en...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2010

Location: Oslo

YFF-Yngre, fremragende forskere

GENOMIC PLASTICITY

Directly turning a differentiated cell into a pluripotent cell would be beneficial for producing isogenic replacement cells. It would also present societal benefits by eliminating the use of cells of embryonic or fetal origin. Altering cell fate involves a reprogramming of nuclear function. We ha...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2010

Location: Oslo

YFF-Yngre, fremragende forskere

Coping with the NP-hardness: Parameterized and exact algorithms

The seminal observations from the late 1960s that many computational problems did not seem to have any efficient algorithm and could therefore not be solved in practice, has continued to guide the field of algorithms and computational complexity. Several methods for dealing with NP-hard problem...

Awarded: NOK 7.8 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2010

Location: Vestland

GNBIO-Grunnleggende næringsrettet bioteknologi

Molecular and functional studies of the WAVE-like regulatory protein complex in Arabidopsis thaliana

The recent years, much attention has been directed towards the mechanisms that regulate the actin cytoskeleton in eukaryotic organisms. In mammalian cells, the ARP2/3 protein complex and its' regulators, WASP and WAVE, are central activators of actin nucl eation and polymerisation, leading to the...

Awarded: NOK 5.8 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Karakterisering av virus assosiert med Hjertesprekk (CMS) og Hjerte- skjelettmuskel betennelse (HSMB)

Norsk lakseoppdrett er i betydelig grad påvirket av sykdommer med uklare årsaksforhold, noe som presser næringens små fortjenestemarginer i negativ retning. I denne gruppen sykdokmmer finner en blant annet hjertesprekk (Cardiac Myopathy syndrome, CMS), he morrhagisk diatese (Haemorrhagic smolt sy...

Awarded: NOK 4.1 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2010

Location: Vestland

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Process modelling of forest ecosystems and integrated analysis of climate change impacts in Norway

Forest covers 38% of Norway’s land area, is basis for forestry and forest industries as one of the country’s most important land-based economic sectors, and provide important environmental services, like recreation, conservation of biological diversity, and sequestration of climate gases. Futu...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2014

Location: Akershus

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Pollution risks and water management at airports and roads in a changing climate

Management of surface runoff formed during snowmelt is a challenge in many urban areas. Even in areas with normally high infiltration capacity, the ground surface can become impermeable during snowmelt. Climate change is expected to increase precipitation during autumn and give more frequent tem...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2009

Location: Akershus

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Phenotypic variability in life-history traits: is intra population variability important for zooplankton dynamics

State-of-the-art studies in theoretical disciplines predict that populations will evolve as environments change. There is hardly any empirical information that can shed light on the importance of this process for natural marine zooplankton. This is most u nfortunate, as many of the changes predic...

Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2010

Location: Svalbard

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Efficient combination of QTL detection and introgression schemes in aquaculture

The commercial Norwegian fish production constantly needs to optimise and improve all parts of the system to continue to be in the forefront of growing international competition. One vital part of the production system is the genetics of the breeding mate rial that it utilises. Most fish populati...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2009

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

GNBIO-Grunnleggende næringsrettet bioteknologi

Enzyme evolution and advanced strain engineering in biorprocess development

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Awarded: NOK 8.2 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

COMPAS

Based on relocation of the Principal Investigator from the USA to Norway, a group for interdisciplimary studies of climate dynamics will be established. COMPAS will fill the gap in the current understanding, and assess the impact, of the Atlantic Ocean o n the climate of Northern Europe and Nor...

Awarded: NOK 6.4 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2011

Location: Vestland

FRIBIO-Biologi og biomedisin

Adaptive food web models

For almost a century, mathematical studies of ecosystem dynamics have been based on the Lotka-Volterra differential equation approach. This approach has been able to integrate different actors, such as resources, producers, predators, decomposers and dise ase vectors. The great success has, howev...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2009

Location: Vestland

STORFORSK-Store forskerinitierte prosjekter

Environmental Triggers of Type 1 Diabetes: The MIDIA Study (MIDIA is the Norwegian acronym for "Environmental Triggers of Type 1 Diabetes")

Type 1 diabetes is one of the most prevalent chronic diseases in childhood, and is the end-stage of a destructive inflammation of the insulin producing beta-cells in the pancreas. The disease is caused by unknown environmental factors affecting individu als at genetic risk. In contrast to other...

Awarded: NOK 19.6 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2011

Location: Oslo

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

Integrated statistical analysis based on likelihood and confidence: applications to the hare-lynx cycles and the status of bowhead whales

The proposed project aims at further developing statistical methodology for handling a great variety (and kinds) of data (e.g., a combination of ecological and genetic data). Fisherian likelihood methods will be coupled with numerical techniques and simul ation/bootstrapping to obtain confidence ...

Awarded: NOK 5.2 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2010

Location: Oslo

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

Structure Formation and Properties of Polyelectrolyte Complexes

Complexation of DNA with polycations attracts interest as it offers a way to compact DNA into small sizes necessary for efficient gene delivery within gene therapy. Compared to other polycations, chitosan has the main advantage of being biodegradable. Whe n DNA is complexed with polycations, stru...

Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2009

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

STORFORSK-Store forskerinitierte prosjekter

Population genetics in an ecological context

The aim with the present project is to provide a link between population genetics and ecology. The project has both a theoretical and a empirical part. In the theoretical part we will focus on development of models for random genetic drift that can be use d under natural conditions. This models w...

Awarded: NOK 18.3 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Proliferative gill inflammation in Atlantic salmon – identification of aetiology

Proliferative gill inflammation (PGI) is an important cause of losses related to mortality and reduced growth rate in seawater farmed Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar). Although reported since the 1980s, the disease appears to be increasing both in frequency and degree in later years. It is estimated...

Awarded: NOK 4.5 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2011

Location: Akershus

FRIBIO-Biologi og biomedisin

Molecular mechanisms of mammalian DNA repair

Mutations are the fundamental cause of all forms of cancer and a number of different, but integrated processes operate to prevent such genetic changes from occurring. DNA repair is of fundamental importance in limiting the occurrence of mutations. We will carry out comprehensive studies on the m...

Awarded: NOK 2.8 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2009

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Larval and fry mortality in intensive cod, Gadus morhua, production: Etiology, pathology, and countermeasures

The project aims at identifying and characterising a condition defined as the bacterial enteritis syndrome of juvenile cod, described from several Norwegian cod hatcheries recent years. The causative agent of the syndrome must be found, and confirmed by t he demands of Koch’s postulate Patholog...

Awarded: NOK 1.7 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2009

Location: Vestland

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Geohazards, Climatic Change, and Extreme Weather Events

Geohazards are events related to geological features and processes that cause loss of life and severe damage to property and the natural and built environment. The most common in Norway are snow avalanches, clay-, debris- and rock slides, which together c aused more than 2000 deaths during the la...

Awarded: NOK 10.1 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2009

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Climatic responses in boreal ecosystems: a spatiotemporal analysis spanning 70 years of vegetation dynamics in a north-boreal alpine ecotone

The north boreal forests and the low alpine areas cover a large proportion of the Norwegian land surface. The predicted anthropogenic climate changes are supposed to have large influences in these areas due to potential immigration of tree species above t he existing treeline. Steep temperature g...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2009

Location: Akershus

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

FEEDTAG - A telemetry system for quantification of individual feeding behaviour for improved feed utilization in intensive fish cultures

A low feed conversion ratio (FCR) is a very important criteria in salmon farming management, both economically and environmentally. Key information needed to achieve low FCR is the feeding rate of the fish. Too much feed (feed/min and feed/day) increases feed loss. Reduced feeding may decrease ...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2010

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

SAMF-Fagkomiteen for samfunnsvitenskap

Demand, unemployment and inflation

Our project consists of three sub-project. In sub-project 1, Aggregate demand and persistent unemployment, we will explore the reasons for persistent high unemployment in Europe. The dominating view is that this is caused solely by institutional factors, while an alternative view is that persiste...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2011

Location: Oslo

STORFORSK-Store forskerinitierte prosjekter

Adipose Stem Cells: Molecular Basis of Pluripotency

Stem cells reside in many adult tissues and are responsible for maintaining tissue homeostasis. Adipose tissue-derived mesenchymal stem cells (ASCs) display sufficient plasticity to differentiate into cell types outside their predicted developmental linea ge. This might create opportunities for a...

Awarded: NOK 18.5 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2011

Location: Oslo

STORFORSK-Store forskerinitierte prosjekter

In the wake of colonialism. Norwegian commercial interests in colonial Africa and Oceania

Our knowledge about Norwegian commercial interests in colonial Africa and Oceania in the period ca. 1880-1950, has many lacunas. Very little is known about the extent of Norwegian trade, investments and activities in these regions, and the result has been a distorted perception of the Norwegian ...

Awarded: NOK 9.1 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2011

Location: Vestland

FRISAM-Fri prosjektstøtte samfunnsvitenskap

Incentive contracts in labour market equilibrium

The project examines the relationship between wage contracts in individual firms and the equilibrium in the labour market. We will analyse the interdependence between wage contracts and unemployment, human capital investment, turnover, and entrepreneurshi p. Much of the theoretical analysis will ...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2012

Location: Oslo

ELSA-Etiske,rettslige og samf.m. as

The moral status of human embryos with special regard to stem cell research and therapy

This is a multidisciplinary project with contributions from biology, medicine, philosophy and theology. The background for the project are the developments going on within the fields of basic and clinical research on and clinical use of human stem cells. These new biotechnological possibilities h...

Awarded: NOK 2.7 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2010

Location: Oslo