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GENERAL INFORMATION

GENERAL INFORMATION CONFERENCE VENUE National Museum of Art, Architecture
and Design, present first-rate art
Radisson Blu Plaza Hotel, Oslo
exhibitions and opera, ballet and theatre
Sonja Henies plass 3
performances.
P.O. Box 9206 N-0185
Oslo, Norway
identity, and every year Oslo’s clubs and
DISCOVER OSLO Live music is a big part of the city’s
City website: arenas host thousands of concerts that
http://www.visitoslo.com showcase the talents of everyone from
local bands to international superstars.
Oslo is one of Europe’s fastest-growing Several large pop and rock festivals are
cities, with a population approaching held every summer, and there are annual
700,000 and new neighbourhoods with festivals for genres ranging from chamber
eye-catching architecture are popping up. music to heavy metal.

The largest city in Norway is quickly CLIMATE
transforming into a cosmopolitan Thanks to the Gulf Stream bringing
hub with an abundance of world-class temperate water from the Gulf of Mexico,
museums, restaurants and art, but still Oslo’s climate is milder than what its
maintains the relaxed atmosphere of a latitude would imply.
much smaller town.
Average temperatures in June:
The city is nestled between the Oslofjord 15,2 to 16,4°C
and hundreds of square miles of forested Min. temperature: 6,1°C
hills, and is a green city in more ways Max. temperature: 30,5°C
than one. The compact city centre is
easily explored on foot or by bike, and an LANGUAGE
efficient public transport system makes The official language of the conference is
the whole city accessible without a car. English.

Norway’s capital since 1814, Oslo is NAME BADGES
home to the Norwegian government and All participants are kindly requested to
the Royal Family. wear their name badges throughout the
EASL Monothematic Conference in
The country’s largest cultural institutions, order to be admitted to the lecture halls
which include the Norwegian Opera and other scheduled activities.
& Ballet, the National Theatre and the

10 Programme & Abstracts • Cholangiocytes in health and disease: from basic science to novel treatments