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The PEP group at UMB (Norwegian University of Life Sciences) is involved in several research projects, which are mainly related to protein science. We belong to the Department of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science.

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NEWS

30.08.10 The PEP group got a paper accepted for publication in Science!!

Celebration!!
Celebration!!

01.04.10 - Welcome to Tien-Thanh Nguyen, guest researcher from Austria. During his stay in our group Tien-Thanh is going to develop food grade expression systems.


10.03.10 - Welcome to Lakshmi Prasanna, guest researcher from India. Lakshmi is coming to our lab to clone, express and characterize a thermostable chitinase


01.02.10 - Five new Master student started in the lab. Welcome to Stine, Silje, Rannei, Kristina and Cathrine.


27.01. - Gustav was interviewed on the Norwegian National Radio program Verdt å vite (in Norwegian).


20.01.10 - Svein has published his PhD thesis as a book. Title: Production of Biogas and Bioethanol from Brown Macroalgae. Link to Amazon page


7.9.09 - Welcome to Quang D. Nguyen, guest researcher from Corvinius University, Hungary

1.9.09 - Oskar Bengtsson, with a Ph.D. from Lund University started as a Post-doc on the Biomass2Products project. The project is a joint project with Borregaard.

28.7.09 - Vincent speaks at the Gordon Research Conference on Cellulosomes, Cellulases & Other Carbohydrate Modifying Enzymes. Title of the talk: The roles of processivity and accessory proteins during enzymatic degradation of recalcitrant polysaccharides

11.3.09 - Our close collaborator and dear colleague, Morten Sørlie, turned 40. Pictures

9.3.09 - The PEP group welcomes Berit back from her maternity leave.

25.2.09 - Henrik's paper on processivity in Chitinase A was accepted by JBC. [1]

13.2.09 - The PEP group got several projects on Bioenergy funded. We will work on enzyme technology related to production of both biogass and biotehanol

29.1 - 1.2.09 - The PEP group at the Contact Meeting of the Norwegian Biochemical Society at Røros.

8.1.09 - Birth of Cecilia Lea Karlskås - Congratulations to Ingrid

6.1.09 - Vincent was interviewed by NRK østlandssendingen as part of the 150 years anniversary of the University. Video

10.12.08 - The second PEP bowling competition! Gustav became bowlingchampion of the year! Pictures

18.08.08 - The PEP group welcomes Ingrid Lea as a Ph.D student at the project; "Surface- and secreted proteins in lactobacilli and enterococci and their impact on bacterial adaptation and human health".

29.05.08 - The PEP groups publishes an Opinion paper in Trends in Biotechnology. See Trends in Biotechnology, Vol. 26, Pages 228-235 (May 2008).

29.05.08 - Se på foredraget Vincent holdt 22. mai for lærere i videregående skolen i anledning lansering av boken BIOS Biologi 2.[Biologikurs-Cappelen]

28.02.08 - Lasse Fredriksen and Øyvind Busk teaches High school students DNA profiling techniques commonly used in forensic labs. Ås avisand Østlandets Blad.

18.02.08 - Pictures from the lab

17.02.08 - NBS meeting in Lillehammer 2008, pictures from the event Wintermeeting

12.12.07 - Minister of Agricultur and food Terje Riis Johansen and Minister of Reaserch and Higher Education Tora Aasland visited UMB and the PEP group Thursday 29.11.2007- Pictures more information UMB and Østlandets Blad

16.11.07 - Vincent Eijsink and Svein Horn are developing methods to produce bioethanol from biomass - Østlandets Blad for more information UMB

29.10.07 - The PEP group meets Takeshi Watanabe, one of the founding fathers of chitinase research - Picture

29.10.07 - See the group members at the September 2007 EUCHIS meeting in Antalya - Pictures

22.10.07 - Vincent Eijsink was interviewed about biofuel on NRK2 - En kilde klar og ren

01.09.07 - The PEP group welcomes Lasse Fredriksen as a Ph.D student.

24.08.07 - Both Lasse Fredriksen and Øyvind Busk successfully defended their master thesis this week. Congratulations!

12.08.07 - Research pages updated.

03.07.07 - Fra tre til tank via sopp - Vincent i forskning.no.

13.06.07 - Anita Sveen successfully defended her Master thesis. Congratulations!

16.04.07 - The group welcomes Bjørge Westereng to work as a post-doc on the ADDBAR project.

10.04.07 - Torkild Andersen og Ida Evenrød ønskes velkommen som nye masterstudenter i PEP-gruppa.