Jorrit M. Enserink

  • Group leader
  • +47 22 78 19 82

Jorrit is involved in all projects.

Yngvar Fløisand

  • Consultant; PhD
  • +47 23 07 24 62

Helene Knævelsrud

  • Visiting scientist
  • +47 22 78 19 65

Helene leads a project group centered around two main goals 1) to understand how autophagy is turned off - and how this impacts physiology and cancer 2) to identify novel therapies for MLL-rearranged leukemia with the help of a fruit fly model of leukemia.

Pilar Ayuda-Durán

  • Postdoc
  • +47 22 78 19 70

Pilar joined the Enserink group as a post-doctoral researcher in January 2014 with a 2-years grant funded by the Fundación Alfonso Martín Escudero. She works in a personalized-medicine platform for leukemia patients, testing the sensitivity of primary cells from patients or healthy donors to a panel of anticancer drugs.

Robert Hanes

  • Postdoc
  • +47 22 78 18 46
Robert joined the Enserink group in October 2017. He is working on the identification and development of novel and personalized treatment strategies for leukemia through computational analysis of high-throughput data from drug sensitivity screens and various omics-based technologies.

Nathalia Chica

  • Researcher
  • +47 22 78 19 66

Nathalia's work is to develop and establish a genome-wide study in autophagy using budding yeast to further understand autophagy dynamic response in higher eukaryotes.

Benjamin Caulier

  • Postdoc
  • +47 22 78 23 16

Benjamin project is focused on cancer immunotherapy, molecular engineering, cell-based immunotherapy, and cell fate reprogramming.

Mary-Ann Jallad

  • Postdoc
  • +47 22 78 19 60

Mary-Ann joined the group in June 2021 and is working on identifying synergizing drug combinations for the treatment of breast cancer using a high-throughput drug screening platform and validating them on patient derived xenografts.

Karolina Spustova

  • Postdoc
  • +47 22 78 19 65

Karolina joined the group in September 2022.

Niveditha Umesh Katyayini

  • Postdoc
  • +47 22 78 19 61

Niveditha joined the group in May 2021 as Research assistant. She supports the project for the development of new immunotherapies for cancer patients.

Aram Nikolai Andersen

  • Ph.D. student
  • +47 22 78 19 72

Aram is combining mathematical modeling with various unsupervised and semi-supervised machine learning strategies to perform guided exploration in high-dimensional genetic perturbation screens; with primary focuses on characterizing fitness landscapes in cancer and system-control of autophagy dynamics in yeast.

Jeanne G. Corrales

  • Ph.D. student
  • +47 22 78 19 73

Jeanne is working on the development of new antimycotics to treat drug-resistant fungal infections. She started her PhD. project with Nacho Garcia in 2019.

Andrea Moen Brodersen

  • Ph.D. student
  • +47 22 78 19 59

Andrea is looking into improving systems for personalized medicine in lung cancer through the use of 3D cell cultures and machine learning strategies.

Yann Abboud

  • Master student
  • +47 22 78 19 65

Yann started his internship in February 2024. His work is on identifying novel antifungal drug combinations that bypass drug resistance in pathogenic fungi.

Tom ten Heuw

  • Bachelor intern student
  • +47 22 78 19 65

Tom is working on...

Guri Marie Svenberg

  • Bachelor student
  • +47 22 78 19 66

Guri Marie will study the role of cellular memory in autophagy.