Welcome to participate in the university’s Higher Education Conference in Gothenburg (HKG 2023)! The main conference language will be Swedish. However, one keynote speech will be in English. Some of the afternoon presentations will probably be in English as well. Abstract deadline is September 8, acceptance will be notified by October 20 at the latest. The conference will be held at Pedagogen November 16. It is aimed at everyone at the University of Gothenburg with an interest in teaching. You can give a presentation or lead a round table discussion or a workshop. Theme: Students’ health and work environment. All contributions are welcomed.

This summer semester, you are welcome to visit Servicecenter Pedagogen at Västra Hamngatan 25. Between 10 July and 11 August, Servicecenter Pedagogen is open Monday-Friday, 10am-2pm. You can always contact us via email or phone if you have a question that does not require a visit in person.

• 26 June–7 July: All Servicecenters are open Monday-Friday, 10am-2pm.
• 10 July–11 August: Servicecenter Pedagogen is open Monday-Friday, 10am-2pm. The other Servicecenters are closed.
• 14–18 August: All Servicecenters are open Monday-Friday, 10am-2pm.
• From 21 August: All Servicecenters are back with regular opening hours.

Email: servicecenter@gu.se
Phone: +46 31-786 6500
Phone hours: Mon-Thurs 8am-4pm, Fri 8am-2pm
Webpage: www.gu.se/english/servicecenter

Linn Renborg, PhD student at the Institute of Biomedicine and specialist physician at Sahlgrenska University Hospital, has received Pfizer’s and the Swedish Society of Infectious Diseases’ scholarship for clinical research in infectious diseases. She shares the award with Camilla Lorant at the Academic Hospital in Uppsala. The scholarship of SEK 75,000 was awarded at this year’s Infection Week/Microbiology spring meeting in Halmstad on May 25.
– I feel very happy and honored to be part of this scholarship. People with HIV are a group I am especially passionate about and it feels good that they are being noticed. I hope that my continued research on HIV in the central nervous system will benefit patients in the future, says Linn Renborg.

Kerstin Persson Waye, professor at the Institute of Medicine, has been awarded the Sven Andersson Award. She receives the award because throughout her entire research career, with high accuracy and without compromise, she devoted herself to showing how noise that people are exposed to in their everyday lives affects health and well-being. She has shown that the nature of the sound, and not just the sound level, is important for the effects of exposure. The Sven Andersson Award recognizes commendable contributions to creating healthy indoor environments. The Sven Andersson Awardis an honorary award, and is awarded biannually by the Center for Healthy Indoor Environments at Lund University.

Every year, ForskarFredag arranges a citizen research project that involves the public, often with a focus on school students. In these mass experiments, the public helps researchers collect more and a different type of data than they could have managed on their own. The projects also create valuable contacts between researchers and the public, give the participants insight into scientific method and contribute to an understanding of how research works. The non-profit association Vetenskap & Allmänhet coordinates the mass experiments as part of the annual science festival ForskarFredag. Schools and the public all over Sweden are invited to participate. We are now looking for researchers who want to collaborate for the coming year. Email massexperiment@forskarfredag.se no later than June 8, 2023.

 

Fredrik Jäwert, researcher at the Institute of Odontology and a maxillofacial surgeon at the specialist clinic, receives SEK 100,000 in research funds from the Foundation Patent Fund for Odontological Prophylaxis Research. The group studies driving genomic changes in the development of tumors in the head and neck area. The long-term goal is to find new biomarkers that can identify patients with high risk of developing cancer. The research funds will be used to study driving genomic changes in oral leukoplakias that develop into cancer. The main part of the research takes place at the Sahlgrenska Center for Cancer Research.

Between 25–30 September, University of Gothenburg participates in the activities ‘Borrow a researcher’ and ‘Researcher Friday’ organized by Vetenskap och allmänhet (‘Science and the public’). Researchers now have the opportunity to come out and tell schoolchildren and the general public about your research! Note that you do not need to be a fully qualified researcher. PhD students can also participate. Read more on the Staff Portal (Swedish).

Måndag 29 maj genomförs en posterutställning för läkarstudenternas examensarbeten termin 10. Välkommen att besöka den! Utställningen finns i Konferenscentrum  Wallenberg, Medicinaregatan 20A.

Program
kl. 09.30 – 14.45 Posterutställning i foajén
kl. 14.00 – 14.45 Studenterna står vid sin poster
kl. 15.15 Göteborgs Läkaresällskap, kursledningen och studenterna utser bästa poster i fyra kategorier.
kl. 15:30 Dagen avslutas

The autumn semester is getting closer! The biomedical library needs to know which course literature will apply to the autumn semester’s courses. Course literature lists for HT 2023 or links to these are sent to gmkurs@ub.gu.se

Please also specify:

• Course code and training program
• Course start date
• Number of students taking the course
• Semester/s the course is given