Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology

Oslo Bioinformatics Workshop Week 2024 - Bioinformatics in Life Science – BiLS December 9th-13th 2024 will see the third edition of the Oslo Bioinformatics Workshop Week at the University of Oslo, Norway. This event is organised by the Student Committee of the Centre for Bioinfo...

Now accepting workshop proposals for Oslo Bioinformatics Workshop Week 2025, hosted by @uio.no Dec 8–12, 2025. Explore last year's program: www.mn.uio.no/bils/english....
Submit your proposal here: nettskjema.no/a/539526
Supported by @uio.no, UiO: Life Science, @ncmbm.bsky.social, @ocbe.bsky.social

PrefStat 2025: Preference Statistics summer school in Oslo - Integreat As part of the PrefStat summer school, Integreat organises 2nd International Summer School on Preference Learning at the University of Oslo. Registration deadline: 2 June 2025 (early bird 30 April)

Kate will also be a lecturer at the upcoming PhD summer school PrefStat in Oslo next week. @valeriavitelli.bsky.social
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Wonderful Kate Lee (profiles.auckland.ac.nz/kate-lee) presenting our last OCBE Biostatistical Seminar this semester right now about Generalised Bayesian Inference and how to do more robist inference with model specifications. @ocbe.bsky.social

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The nice weather continues in Oslo - today is the traditional summer party in the research group for occupational/environmental epidemiology

Cancer Registry of Norway
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Last Epistat group meeting before summer - outdoors!
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KI-milliarden er delt ut. Arnoldo Frigessis TRUST får 200 millioner kroner - Titan.uio.no Statsminister Jonas Gahr Støre delte ut 1,2 milliarder kroner til seks forskningssentre. To av sentrene skal ledes fra Universitetet i Oslo.

Huge congratulations, Arnoldo @frigessi.bsky.social! Absolutely great that statistics is so much at the centre of AI research in Norway, already now with Integreat and now even more. Looking forward for our @ocbe.bsky.social to participate in this adventure. 😊
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Tildelt ti millioner for å forske på Klebsiella - Institutt for medisinske basalfag Bakterien Klebsiella kan gi lungebetennelse og blodforgiftning, og mange får den mens de er innlagt på sykehus. Nå får Jessica Calland ti millioner fra NFRs FRIPRO for å forske på den lumske bakterien...

Overjoyed to have received one of the FRIPRO Young Talent grants from the Norwegian research council to investigate the effects of hospitalisation on Klebsiella colonisation! 🎉🥳
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This is already the second such grant this year (both from Jukka Corander’s group), and the third FRIPRO grant in 2025. 3 out of 3 for @ocbe.bsky.social ! 😊

Tildelt ti millioner for å forske på Klebsiella - Institutt for medisinske basalfag Bakterien Klebsiella kan gi lungebetennelse og blodforgiftning, og mange får den mens de er innlagt på sykehus. Nå får Jessica Calland ti millioner fra NFRs FRIPRO for å forske på den lumske bakterien...

Congratulations to our own fantastic Jessica Calland @ocbe.bsky.social for receiving the prestigious FRIPRO Young Talents grant from the Norwegian Research Council! 🎉 She will continue her work identifying drivers of Klebsiella colonisation in critically ill patients.

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Thanks for a fantastic first day at www.nbbc2025.com here in Oslo organised by my wonderful colleagues @ocbe.bsky.social! Great talks, interesting chats during breaks and wonderful to catch up with old friends and new contacts! Looking forward to tomorrow!

OCBE newsletter, May 2025 - Institute of Basic Medical Sciences This month we showcase recent publications on physical activity in cancer patients, results of rheumatoid arthritis clinical trials and much more.

Don’t miss the May OCBE newsletter with publications about physical activity and cancer, results of rheumatoid arthritis clinical trials and much more

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JOBS ALERT! PhD position & 3-y postdoc position in statistics within my research group at @ocbe.bsky.social @uio.no
Both are linked to a project funded from the Research Council of Norway on Integrative Bayesian clustering for high-dim data in omics

Deadline: 13 June 2025

More info & links below!

Associate Professor at the Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology (276924) | University of Oslo Job title: Associate Professor at the Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology (276924), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Sunday, May 18, 2025

Only 4 days left to the deadline: Become our new colleague as associate professor in biostatistical machine learning at Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology @ocbe.bsky.social and our Centre of Knowledge-driven Machine Learning Integreat!
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Associate Professor at the Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology (276924) | University of Oslo Job title: Associate Professor at the Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology (276924), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Sunday, May 18, 2025

Join us in beautiful Oslo!
Associate Professor @ocbe.bsky.social
@uio.no
Deadline May 18th
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Tomorrow last day for early-bird registration to PrefStat 2025, 2nd International Summer School on Preference Learning for Ranking and Ordinal Data (www.prefstat.org)! In Oslo, 30.06 – 04.07. Register here: www.integreat.no/events/publi...
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Find out about new publications from my fantastic colleagues in our new @ocbe.bsky.social newsletter! And follow us all by following our starter pack: go.bsky.app/6bqMnLQ

Researcher with statistical competence in causal inference for infectious disease | FINN.no The Section for Modelling and Bioinformatics, in the Department of Method Development and Analytics, is recruiting a researcher for a permanent position. In

Open permanent position as researcher in causal inference for infectious diseases at the Norwegian Institute for Public Health! Deadline May 16.

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OCBE newsletter, April 2025 - Institute of Basic Medical Sciences Welcome to the OCBE newsletter! This month we showcase our recent publications on environmental exposures and cancer risk, drug repurposing, bacterial DNA sequencing and much more.

We have started a new monthly newsletter, the OCBE newsletter!!! where will be showcasing our recent publications and other relevant news. Check out the first edition here:

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Machine Learning In Clinical Research Workshop - Day 2 PPH Visiting Faculty Scholar Vessela Kristensen is hosting a workshop on Machine Learning in Clinical Research on Thursday, April 10 and Friday, April 11, in Carl Icahn Lab and at 252 Nassau Street. F...

On my way to @princetonupress.bsky.social to speak in a workshop on Machine learning for Clinical Research hosted by Olga Troyanskaya and Vessela Kristensen at Princeton Precision Health

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Associate Professor at the Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology (276924) | University of Oslo Job title: Associate Professor at the Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology (276924), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Sunday, May 18, 2025

🏹 Job alert: Associate Professor in Machine Learning for Biomedical Application

The @ocbe.bsky.social seeks experts in statistical machine learning with a strong interest in medical applications. This is a permanent, tenured position.

📍 Oslo
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➡️ by May 18

I am very excited to start my new roles as associate professor @uio.no @ocbe.bsky.social and group leader at the Oslo University Hospital (Departmemt of Medical Genetics). This would have not been possible without the support and help of all my mentors, colleagues and collaborators. Thank you all!

PhD Research Fellow in Epidemiology (278150) | University of Oslo Job title: PhD Research Fellow in Epidemiology (278150), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, April 21, 2025

3-year PhD position @ocbe.bsky.social in beautiful Oslo.

We are looking for a highly motivated PhD candidate interested in statistial applications and occupational epidemiological research

Join our team!

Deadline: April 21

More information:
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This is interesting! @ocbe.bsky.social

A Bayesian Belief Network model for the estimation of risk of cardiovascular events in subjects with type 1 diabetes Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) represent a major risk for people with type 1 diabetes (T1D). Our aim here is to develop a new methodology that overcom…

A Bayesian Belief Network model to predict CVD in subjects with T1D, from our Horizon 2020 collaboration
Ornella Moro
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
Norwegian Centre for E-Health Research
UiT The Arctic University of Norway
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IUIBS

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Learning Dynamics with Neural Networks mathematical-oncology.org

What is the difference between PINNs, Universal PINNs, Neural Differential Equations (DEs) and Universal DEs?

Don’t miss this blog post that I wrote with a bunch of amazing colleagues from a #MechanisticLearning workshop in Canada

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My fantastic colleagues! 💪 @ocbe.bsky.social reseacher Niki Marjerrison is studying cancer risks for firemen.

Do firefighters get prostate cancer because of their work? - Institute of Basic Medical Sciences When it comes to lung cancer, we know of more than 30 substances that are carcinogenic. But when researchers began investigating why there is a higher incidence of prostate cancer in firefighters, the...

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Welcome to BlueSky from @ocbe.bsky.social ! 📊🧬🧑‍💻

Come join us at @ocbe.bsky.social in beautiful Oslo!