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FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Protein-protein interactions at atomic levels

Our DNA is every day subjected to external and internal damaging agents and understanding the mechanisms of DNA repair at a molecular level is increasingly important in order to address future challenges for the human health. This project aims to reveal n ew information about molecular mechanisms...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2014

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

Sophus Lie Seminar at the University of Tromsø - 2008

It is a real problem that one experiences isolation performing research at the University of Tromsø. To intensify our investigations we created the scientific-research seminar "Sophus Lie" (named after the great Norwegian mathematician, whose ideas we app ly and develop until nowadays). This is t...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Neutral and Ion Dynamics in the Auroral Region

This project proposal concists of 2 subprojects. The aim of subproject A is to understand the physical mechanisms behind naturally enhanced ion acoustic lines (NEIALs) observed with the EISCAT radars, and flickering aurora. Recent advances in optical inst rumentation have revealed that auroral em...

Awarded: NOK 1.5 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

KOSK-II-Katalyse og org.synt.kjemi II

MICROPEP II - Design and synthesis of antimicrobial peptides targeted against pathogenic fungi.

Radiation treatment of head and neck cancer must be suspended due to Candida infection in the mouth and throat. This is just an example showing the need for new treatment of fungal infections. The present project addresses these issues by proposing to ide ntify pharmacophores for antimicrobial ac...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Structure based rules for protein kinase inhibitor selectivity

Protein kinase inhibitors are now emerging as a major class of new targeted drugs. Many diseases, especially cancers, are associated with disregulation of signalling pathways, and modulation of protein kinase activity is now a clearly validated approach f or therapy. Because there are over 500 pr...

Awarded: NOK 5.3 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2013

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Ion cyclotron heating in laboratory and space plasmas with flows

Current-driven ion cyclotron instabilities are the class of plasma instabilities that have the lowest threshold current to grow in a wide range of parameters relevant to space plasmas. Theoretical and experimental evidence have been given that for shear ed plasma flows parallel to the magnetic ...

Awarded: NOK 5.7 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2013

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SFF-Sentre for fremragende forskn

Centre for Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, CTCC

Kjemi er tradisjonelt en eksperimentell vitenskap, der kunnskap er bygget opp i et tett samspill mellom eksperiment og teori. I løpet av de siste tiårene er imidlertid en ny metode blitt viktig: simuleringer på datamaskiner. På det mest grunnleggende nivå simuleres kjemiske systemer kvantemekanis...

Awarded: NOK 93.9 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2017

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Assessement of benthic foraminifera as environmental proxy in the Arctic region

What are the long term oceanographic changes of Arctic fjord and shelf environments? In order to answer this important question this project aims to significantly advance benthic foraminifera as proxy indicators of modern and past environments in the fjor ds and shelves of Svalbard, the Barents S...

Awarded: NOK 5.1 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2014

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRITEK-Teknologi

OPTICAL FUNCTIONS AND LAB-ON-A-CHIP FOR MICROPARTICLES AND BIOMEDICINE

Photons do not have mass, but they have momentum. This momentum can be used to move objects. However, the momentum is very small, and intense laser beams are necessary to move microparticles. In this project, light propagating in an optical waveguide will be used to move microparticles and cells...

Awarded: NOK 6.6 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

Vibronic contributions to higher-order molecular properties

In recent years we have had a strong interest toward the development of methods for calculating higher-order molecular properties and vibrational contributions to these properties. The present proposal will seek to extend this work from scattering process es to absorption processes, and in partic...

Awarded: NOK 4.5 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

EVITA-eVitenskap

Kan virkelig tørr statistikk være nyttig innen klimaforskning og medisin?

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Awarded: NOK 19,999

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

Arctic Predators as Indicators of Tundra Ecosystem State. A Norwegian IPY proposal under the ArcticWOLVES initiative ID No: 672

Strongly cyclic interaction between plants, herbivores and predators typically drives the food web dynamics over large tracts of the arctic tundra biome. These interaction cycles, however, now appear to be fading out at the southern edge of tundra, possib ly due to climate warming. The Arctic Cli...

Awarded: NOK 9.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

KOSK-II-Katalyse og org.synt.kjemi II

Design and optimisation in organic synthesis: Methodologies for the optimisation of multi-step one-pot batch processes

Assume tha a three step one-pot reaction is tt be optimised: Lay out a design to map the first step. Depending on how detailed information is desired, this can be a fractional factorial, factoral, D-optimal, or a response surface design for quardratic m odels. Run the experiments and detrmine t...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

PETROMAKS2-Stort program petroleum

Depostional models for Cenozoic sandy systems

A recent gas discovery in the North Sea is located at just 160 m sub-bottom depth. The reservoir consists of Pliocene glacial sandstone capped by glacial diamicton; it represents a milestone in exploration of the North Sea and highlights the potential for commercially recoverable hydrocarbons in...

Awarded: NOK 6.6 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2013

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRIBIO-Biologi og biomedisin

Does ovarian fluid favour MHC-dissimilar sperm?

When males provide nothing but genes, female choice of mates is expected to favour individuals that can best increase offspring survival. This selection process may not only occur at an individual level, but also on the gamete level. Recent studies have i ndicated that the ova may select sperm on...

Awarded: NOK 2.7 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

EVITA-eVitenskap

The Power of Scale-Space Methods and Gaussian Markov Random Fields Applied in Climatology and Medicine

In practice one will frequently like to study phenomena that can be described as a stochastic process that evolves in time and/or space. Examples include stock prices, defects in production, temperatures, and medical imaging. A common factor for such ap plications is that we would like to find ...

Awarded: NOK 8.4 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

F-MAT-Naturvitenskap, matematikk

Conference "Differential Equations: Geometry, Integration Methods and Applications"

The Conference is devoted to geometric methods in differential equations and applications. This is a traditional area of mathematics, having roots in the pioneer works by Norwegian mathematicians Abel and Lie. On the other hand this area of mathematics is still very actual, because nowadays we h...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

What was the palaeoenvironment of the Arctic Ocean in Middle Eocene times?A study into the nature and genesis of biosiliceous-rich laminae

High abundances of marine diatoms and freshwater chrysophyte cysts are preserved in mm-scale laminated organic-rich Middle Eocene sediments on the Lomonosov Ridge in the Arctic Ocean. This work aims to elucidate the nature and genesis of the laminations i n terms of biosiliceous components and ch...

Awarded: NOK 3.3 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

EISCAT in a New Context: An integrated approach to cross-scale interactions in the geospace environment

The Department of Physics and Technology at the University of Tromsø will direct its research towards new applications of the mainland and Svalbard EISCAT radars, development and application of existing and new instrumental infrastructure, and development of data processing methods and theory wh...

Awarded: NOK 0.70 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Investigation of dust related phenomena in the Earth's upper atmosphere.

The Earths middle, or upper atmosphere contain some intriguing phenomena, such as the noctilucent clouds (NLC) and the abnormally strong radar reflecting layers (PMSE) at 80-90 km height, the highest clouds in the atmosphere. These clouds increase in st rength and extent and it is speculated if...

Awarded: NOK 1.4 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IS-NAD-Samarbeid med NORAD-land

Bhattacharjee, Sudeep Indisk spes 2006

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Awarded: NOK 12,300

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

CAIM - Context Aware Image Management

Caim (Context-Aware Image Management) prosjektet benytter kontekstinformasjon til bilder (slik som dato og sted et bildet ble tatt) for automatisk å finne mer informasjon om det man ser i bildet (for eksempel i form av Wikipedia artikler og web-sider) og tilby nye typer bildesøk. Vi tilbyr for e...

Awarded: NOK 10.5 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2014

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRITEK-Teknologi

New Information Theoretic methods for Intelligent Data Analysis

The goal of the three year IT-IDA postdoctoral project is to develop new machine learning algorithms for intelligent data analysis, such as robust non-linear clustering and classification techniques, based on recently developed concepts in information the ory, Mercer kernel theory and graph spect...

Awarded: NOK 2.5 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRIBIO-Biologi og biomedisin

Protein - DNA interactions at atomic levels

The project aims at exploring protein-DNA interactions at atomic levels using novel DNA-binding proteins. Protein targets will be selected from the genomes of the extremophiles Deinococcus radiodurans and Vibrio salmonicida and produced recombinant in qua ntities necessary for structural and func...

Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2011

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

ESRF-ESRF – Program for synkrotronforskning

A comparative structure/function study at an atomic level Comparing enzymes from the fish-pathogen Vibrio salmonicida and the radiation

The project will perform a structure/function study at an atomic level where protein targets will be selected from the extremophilic ("being able to survive under extreme conditions") bacterias Deinococcus radiodurans and Vibrio salmonicida. The target se lection will be mainly based on results f...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

TU-Tungt utstyr

Replacement of Equipment for Protein and Small Molecule X-ray Crystallography

The application concerns REPLACEMENT of most of the central equipment for protein and small molecule crystallography in Tromsø. Present equipment has been used very extensively over (very) many years but is now worn out, outdated and becoming very diffi cult to service. The individual items a...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

Scale invariance in plasma and geospace systems. A cross-disciplinary approach to self-organized critical behavior.

The project consolidates a cross-disciplinary venture started in 2004 and brings together theorists and experimentalists, young outstanding researchers and highly qualified established scientists, with the purpose to work out tests of recently formulate d paradigms for the description of comple...

Awarded: NOK 2.5 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2008

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

F-MAT-Naturvitenskap, matematikk

Sophus Lie Seminar at the University of Tromsø

It is a real problem that one experiences isolation performing research at the University of Tromsø. To intensify our investigations we created the scientific-research seminar "Sophus Lie" (named after the great norwegian mathematician, whose ideas we app ly and develop until nowadays). This is ...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

GENPLAN-Gen. planlegging/utredn./eval

Communicating Science and Technology (CST) - Europeisk realfagskonferanse i Tromsø i 2006

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Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2007

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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