Bjarne Johannessen

  • Project group leader, Researcher; PhD
  • +47 2278 1422

Project leader in cancer informatics

Responsible for cross-group cancer informatics. Implementation of computational infrastructure and bioinformatics pipelines. Researcher in cancer heterogeneity, pan-cancer. Primarily research on prostate, colorectal, and ovarian cancers.


Education

2000: MSc in Mathematical modeling, Dept of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway

2011: MSc in Biochemistry, Dept of Molecular Biosciences, University of Oslo, Norway

2016: PhD in Cancer Genomics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway


Research interests

My current research interests involve analysis of different types of large scale genomic data from high-throughput methodologies:

- Algorithms for identification of mutations in solid cancers

- DNA/RNA sequencing analysis

- Cancer biomarker detection


Projects

The Norwegian Cancer Genomics Consortium (www.kreftgenomikk.no)

Recent collaborative projects I have been co-authoring:

Sveen*, Johannessen*, Tengs* et al., Multilevel genomics of colorectal cancers with microsatellite instability-clinical impact of JAK1 mutations and consensus molecular subtype 1, Genome Medicine (2017)

Løvf et al., Multifocal Primary Prostate Cancer Exhibits High Degree of Genomic Heterogeneity, European Urology (2018)

Wise et al., Mutational dynamics and immune evasion in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma explored in a relapse-enriched patient series, Blood Advances (2020)

Sveen, Johannessen et al., The expressed mutational landscape of microsatellite stable colorectal cancers, Genome Med (2021)



Popular scientific communication

Johannessen, Strømme, Skotheim, The quest for biomarkers in prostate cancer: Multi-sample transcriptomics overcomes heterogeneity and reveals genes with prognostic biomarker potential, Nature Portfolio Communities (2022)

Johannessen, Berg, Bruk av udødelige cellelinjer på tarmkreft, Best Practice (2017)

Johannessen, Skotheim, From numbers and sequences to personalized cancer treatment: Challenges and opportunities as medicine enters the era of big data, Meta Magazine (2015)

 

 

Publications 2024

Bogaard M, Strømme JM, Kidd SG, Johannessen B, Bakken AC, Lothe RA, Axcrona K, Skotheim RI, Axcrona U (2024)
GRIN3A: A biomarker associated with a cribriform pattern and poor prognosis in prostate cancer
Neoplasia, 55, 101023
DOI 10.1016/j.neo.2024.101023, PubMed 38944914

Sveen A, Johannessen B, Klokkerud SM, Kraggerud SM, Meza-Zepeda LA, Bjørnslett M, Bischof K, Myklebost O, Taskén K, Skotheim RI, Dørum A, Davidson B, Lothe RA (2024)
Evolutionary mode and timing of dissemination of high-grade serous carcinomas
JCI Insight, 9 (3)
DOI 10.1172/jci.insight.170423, PubMed 38175731

Publications 2023

Meier Strømme J, Johannessen B, Skotheim RI (2023)
Deviating Alternative Splicing as a Molecular Subtype of Microsatellite Stable Colorectal Cancer
JCO Clin Cancer Inform, 7, e2200159
DOI 10.1200/CCI.22.00159, PubMed 36821799

Publications 2022

Carm KT, Johannessen B, Bogaard M, Bakken AC, Maltau AV, Hoff AM, Axcrona U, Axcrona K, Lothe RA, Skotheim RI (2022)
Somatic mutations reveal complex metastatic seeding from multifocal primary prostate cancer
Int J Cancer, 152 (5), 945-951
DOI 10.1002/ijc.34226, PubMed 35880692

Fontugne J, Cai PY, Alnajar H, Bhinder B, Park K, Ye H, Beg S, Sailer V, Siddiqui J, Blattner-Johnson M, Croyle JA, Noorzad Z, Calagua C, MacDonald TY, Axcrona U, Bogaard M, Axcrona K, Scherr DS, Sanda MG, Johannessen B, Chinnaiyan AM, Elemento O, Skotheim RI, Rubin MA, Barbieri CE et al. (2022)
Collision tumors revealed by prospectively assessing subtype-defining molecular alterations in 904 individual prostate cancer foci
JCI Insight, 7 (4)
DOI 10.1172/jci.insight.155309, PubMed 35050902

Strømme JM, Johannessen B, Kidd SG, Bogaard M, Carm KT, Zhang X, Sveen A, Mathelier A, Lothe RA, Axcrona U, Axcrona K, Skotheim RI (2022)
Expressed prognostic biomarkers for primary prostate cancer independent of multifocality and transcriptome heterogeneity
Cancer Gene Ther, 29 (8-9), 1276-1284
DOI 10.1038/s41417-022-00444-7, PubMed 35194199

Wolowczyk C, Neckmann U, Aure MR, Hall M, Johannessen B, Zhao S, Skotheim RI, Andersen SB, Zwiggelaar R, Steigedal TS, Lingjærde OC, Sahlberg KK, Almaas E, Bjørkøy G (2022)
NRF2 drives an oxidative stress response predictive of breast cancer
Free Radic Biol Med, 184, 170-184
DOI 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2022.03.029, PubMed 35381325

Publications 2021

Sveen A, Johannessen B, Eilertsen IA, Røsok BI, Gulla M, Eide PW, Bruun J, Kryeziu K, Meza-Zepeda LA, Myklebost O, Bjørnbeth BA, Skotheim RI, Nesbakken A, Lothe RA (2021)
The expressed mutational landscape of microsatellite stable colorectal cancers
Genome Med, 13 (1), 142
DOI 10.1186/s13073-021-00955-2, PubMed 34470667

Publications 2020

Hoff AM, Kraggerud SM, Alagaratnam S, Berg KCG, Johannessen B, Høland M, Nilsen G, Lingjærde OC, Andrews PW, Lothe RA, Skotheim RI (2020)
Frequent copy number gains of SLC2A3 and ETV1 in testicular embryonal carcinomas
Endocr Relat Cancer, 27 (9), 457-468
DOI 10.1530/ERC-20-0064, PubMed 32580154

Smeby J, Kryeziu K, Berg KCG, Eilertsen IA, Eide PW, Johannessen B, Guren MG, Nesbakken A, Bruun J, Lothe RA, Sveen A (2020)
Molecular correlates of sensitivity to PARP inhibition beyond homologous recombination deficiency in pre-clinical models of colorectal cancer point to wild-type TP53 activity
EBioMedicine, 59, 102923
DOI 10.1016/j.ebiom.2020.102923, PubMed 32799124

Wise JF, Nakken S, Steen CB, Vodák D, Trøen G, Johannessen B, Lingjærde OC, Hilden V, Blaker YN, Bai B, Aasheim LB, Pasanen A, Lorenz S, Sveen A, Lothe RA, Myklebost O, Leppä S, Meza-Zepeda LA, Beiske K, Lawrence MS, Hovig E, Myklebust JH, Smeland EB, Holte H (2020)
Mutational dynamics and immune evasion in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma explored in a relapse-enriched patient series
Blood Adv, 4 (9), 1859-1866
DOI 10.1182/bloodadvances.2019001325, PubMed 32374878

Publications 2019

Brunsell TH, Sveen A, Bjørnbeth BA, Røsok BI, Danielsen SA, Brudvik KW, Berg KCG, Johannessen B, Cengija V, Abildgaard A, Guren MG, Nesbakken A, Lothe RA (2019)
High Concordance and Negative Prognostic Impact of RAS/BRAF/PIK3CA Mutations in Multiple Resected Colorectal Liver Metastases
Clin Colorectal Cancer, 19 (1), e26-e47
DOI 10.1016/j.clcc.2019.09.003, PubMed 31982351

Eilertsen IA, Moosavi SH, Strømme JM, Nesbakken A, Johannessen B, Lothe RA, Sveen A (2019)
Technical differences between sequencing and microarray platforms impact transcriptomic subtyping of colorectal cancer
Cancer Lett, 469, 246-255
DOI 10.1016/j.canlet.2019.10.040, PubMed 31678167

Neckmann U, Wolowczyk C, Hall M, Almaas E, Ren J, Zhao S, Johannessen B, Skotheim RI, Bjørkøy G, Ten Dijke P, Holien T (2019)
GREM1 is associated with metastasis and predicts poor prognosis in ER-negative breast cancer patients
Cell Commun Signal, 17 (1), 140
DOI 10.1186/s12964-019-0467-7, PubMed 31694641

Smeby J, Sveen A, Eilertsen IA, Danielsen SA, Hoff AM, Eide PW, Johannessen B, Hektoen M, Skotheim RI, Guren MG, Nesbakken A, Lothe RA (2019)
Transcriptional and functional consequences of TP53 splice mutations in colorectal cancer
Oncogenesis, 8 (6), 35
DOI 10.1038/s41389-019-0141-3, PubMed 31092812

Publications 2018

Løvf M, Zhao S, Axcrona U, Johannessen B, Bakken AC, Carm KT, Hoff AM, Myklebost O, Meza-Zepeda LA, Lie AK, Axcrona K, Lothe RA, Skotheim RI (2018)
Multifocal Primary Prostate Cancer Exhibits High Degree of Genomic Heterogeneity
Eur Urol, 75 (3), 498-505
DOI 10.1016/j.eururo.2018.08.009, PubMed 30181068

Publications 2017

Berg KCG, Eide PW, Eilertsen IA, Johannessen B, Bruun J, Danielsen SA, Bjørnslett M, Meza-Zepeda LA, Eknæs M, Lind GE, Myklebost O, Skotheim RI, Sveen A, Lothe RA (2017)
Multi-omics of 34 colorectal cancer cell lines - a resource for biomedical studies
Mol Cancer, 16 (1), 116
DOI 10.1186/s12943-017-0691-y, PubMed 28683746

Lågstad S, Zhao S, Hoff AM, Johannessen B, Lingjærde OC, Skotheim RI (2017)
chimeraviz: a tool for visualizing chimeric RNA
Bioinformatics, 33 (18), 2954-2956
DOI 10.1093/bioinformatics/btx329, PubMed 28525538

Smebye ML, Agostini A, Johannessen B, Thorsen J, Davidson B, Tropé CG, Heim S, Skotheim RI, Micci F (2017)
Involvement of DPP9 in gene fusions in serous ovarian carcinoma
BMC Cancer, 17 (1), 642
DOI 10.1186/s12885-017-3625-6, PubMed 28893231

Sveen A, Johannessen B, Tengs T, Danielsen SA, Eilertsen IA, Lind GE, Berg KCG, Leithe E, Meza-Zepeda LA, Domingo E, Myklebost O, Kerr D, Tomlinson I, Nesbakken A, Skotheim RI, Lothe RA (2017)
Multilevel genomics of colorectal cancers with microsatellite instability-clinical impact of JAK1 mutations and consensus molecular subtype 1
Genome Med, 9 (1), 46
DOI 10.1186/s13073-017-0434-0, PubMed 28539123

Publications 2015

Brabrand S, Johannessen B, Axcrona U, Kraggerud SM, Berg KG, Bakken AC, Bruun J, Fosså SD, Lothe RA, Lehne G, Skotheim RI (2015)
Exome sequencing of bilateral testicular germ cell tumors suggests independent development lineages
Neoplasia, 17 (2), 167-74
DOI 10.1016/j.neo.2014.12.005, PubMed 25748235

Hoff AM, Johannessen B, Alagaratnam S, Zhao S, Nome T, Løvf M, Bakken AC, Hektoen M, Sveen A, Lothe RA, Skotheim RI (2015)
Novel RNA variants in colorectal cancers
Oncotarget, 6 (34), 36587-602
DOI 10.18632/oncotarget.5500, PubMed 26474385

Johannessen B, Sveen A, Skotheim RI (2015)
TIN: An R Package for Transcriptome Instability Analysis
Cancer Inform, 14, 109-12
DOI 10.4137/CIN.S31363, PubMed 26448683

Munkley J, Oltean S, Vodák D, Wilson BT, Livermore KE, Zhou Y, Star E, Floros VI, Johannessen B, Knight B, McCullagh P, McGrath J, Crundwell M, Skotheim RI, Robson CN, Leung HY, Harries LW, Rajan P, Mills IG, Elliott DJ (2015)
The androgen receptor controls expression of the cancer-associated sTn antigen and cell adhesion through induction of ST6GalNAc1 in prostate cancer
Oncotarget, 6 (33), 34358-74
DOI 10.18632/oncotarget.6024, PubMed 26452038

Publications 2014

Sveen A, Johannessen B, Teixeira MR, Lothe RA, Skotheim RI (2014)
Transcriptome instability as a molecular pan-cancer characteristic of carcinomas
BMC Genomics, 15 (1), 672
DOI 10.1186/1471-2164-15-672, PubMed 25109687

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