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write-it-right In January Anke Stuken invited Gadi Rothenberg and Christopher Lowe to UiO to course 40 PhD students, postdocs, and researchers. For a successful career in research you must get your work published, read and cited. In our Write it Right (WiR) workshops we learnt how to: Write clear technical English, Structure our article effectively, Enhance titles and graphics to make an impact MERG research projects The MERG on going research project covers a wide range of areas in microbial ecology and evolution. here is a overview of the title of the projects. further details of the research content and the participating teams are described on MERG web pages. • Regulatory RNA and the origin of animal multicellularity. • X-cell parasites: an emerging threat to marine fish. • Population diversification and horizontal gene transfer processes in freshwater cyanobacteria: genomic and ecological perspectives. • Saxitoxin biosynthesis and genomics in organisms from two kingdoms - horizontal gene transfer or parallel evolution? • Biodiversity of marine eukaryotes (BioMarKs). • Phylogenomic and single cell whole genome amplification of Radiolaria. • Bioinformatics applications for evolutionary and ecologically high throughput sequence analysis. • A molecular phylogeny of the brown-spored agarics (Basidiomycota). • Endophytic fungi in boreal forest bryophytes. • Population genetics and phylogeography of Serpula lacrymans. • Comparative genomics of Serpula spp. • Microbial ecology of mycorrhizal symbiosis. • Fungi and climate change. • Ectomycorrhiza on Salix repens in coastal ecosystems on Lista peninsula, Vest-Agder, SW Norway. • Origin of animals and plants. • Evolutionary diversification and functional genomic studies of the Collodictyonidae. • Hydrurus foetidus, a large freshwater representative of the Chromalveolate (SAR?) clade. • Habitat fragmentation and pathways to extinction in dead-wood dependent fungi. • Advanced monitoring of the introduced crayfish plague (Aphanomyces astaci) for improved management of endangered freshwater crayfish. • High throughput sequencing of deep sea metagenomes. • Alkaloid profiles in Claviceps purpurea - relationships between chemotype, genotype, host and habitat.
adVanced equiPMent aPPlication The total figure announced for new applications of equipment and infrastructure is NOK 22,828,000. Applicable funding is categorized into advanced scientific equipment, scientific databases and collections and eInfrastructure, and costing at least NOK 1 million. Suitable coordinated applications across the university will be favoured. Grants will be made on the bases of the longterm priorities for academic and research activities. Our candidates are: BI- OLOG and Influx flow (see illustrations). Deadline for application is 1.March. Infrastructure improvement 2012 At present the Bioportal, a web-based front-end to the computational resource Titan at the University of Oslo (UiO), is a highly successful method for accessing the resource for many researchers in the field of life science. The primary goal with the Bioportal has been to reduce the barriers for users to explore the HPC resources. The success of the Bioportal is largely due to the simplified user interface that enables non-programmers access to advanced computational tools in their research. Close to 3 million CPU hours were consumed through the Bioportal during the last allocation period (2010.2). The usage prognosis for the present period is the same, limited only by the present allocation. As the demand for simplified and user-centric interfaces to computational resources are increasing, so is the demand for a wider range of applications and tools presented through these interfaces. Bioportal is a web-based bioinformatics service at UiO, which is initiated by MERG participants. Bioportal is the most used bio-informatics service in norway. In 2012 we will implement Galaxy as an infrastructure middleware. obJectiVes of the ProJect The major objective with the requested project from NOTUR is to implement the Galaxy infrastructure at the computational resources at UiO and develop this system to handle jobs from the Bioportal. the teaM Kamran Shalchian-Tabrizi (BIO), Hans A Eide (USIT), Bjørn-Helge Mevik (USIT), Katerina Michalickova (USIT),
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