Digital Life Norway welcomes four new projects!

The Centre for Digital Life Norway is pleased to welcome four new collaborative projects working on improving epoxies, mapping marine biodiversity, understanding lipid systems and investigating the impact of oil spills on future fish generations. The projects are  from SINTEF, University of Bergen, and UiT - The Arctic University of Norway. 

 Illustrations of the projects: the research vessel Hugin, depictions of lipids, a fish in ice, and new epoxies

Clockwise: The research vessel Hugin, depictions of lipids, a fish in ice, and new epoxies

 AMBIOS

The collaborative project AMBIOS aims to map biodiversity in the sea. It will develop the world's first fully autonomous platform for multi-layer mapping of biodiversity in marine waters. This will provide key contributions to sustainable bioresource management and value creation in the Norwegian blue bioeconomy.

 

NMRlipids

The NMRlipids project is an open collaboration focused on understanding lipid systems at an atomistic level. The project uses all-atom Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations, using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) and other high-fidelity experimental data as a benchmark, and aims to enhance the understanding of lipid behavior in biological systems, contributing significantly to the fields of biochemistry and molecular biology.

 

NordiCoats

The project NordiCoats aims to contribute to the green transition by developing new bio-based epoxy compounds for high-performance applications, with a focus on sustainability and environmental friendliness. Wouldn’t it be great to use a biotechnological and chemo-synthetic approach to create safer epoxy solutions that reduce our reliance on fossil resources?

 

ToxiGen

While we know that fish embryos and young fish are highly sensitive to oil spills when they are directly exposed, we know far less about how adult fish are affected, especially during critical life phases like reproduction. It is not always the youngest and most sensitive members of a species that make the population most vulnerable; the health of adult fish during reproduction can have a profound impact on the entire population too.

ToxiGen aims to investigate the impact that spilled oil can have on the immediate fish populations and on future generations.

 

Published Apr. 23, 2024 3:45 PM - Last modified Apr. 23, 2024 3:45 PM