OUH - Dept. of Microbiology

Welcome to the Department of Microbiology

Head of department: Fredrik Müller
Head of research section: Hilde Loge Nilsen

Research groups:

RNA/DNA base modifications Ingrun Alseth	Stem Cells, Ageing and Cancer Lorena Arranz	Fungal and Bacterial Infections Research Group Jørgen V. Bjørnholt
Cellular Responses to DNA Damage Magnar Bjørås	Cell and tissue dynamics Stig Ove Bøe	Genome and Epigenome Regulation in Embryo Development, Ageing and Disease John Arne Dahl
Structural Biology and DNA repair Bjørn Dalhus	Clinical Virology Research Group Susanne G. Dudman	Stem Cell Dynamics and RNA Regulation Adam A. Filipczyk
Laboratory for Dynamic Gene Regulation Arne Klungland	Virology Research Group Mari Kaarbø	Genome Instability in Ageing and Disease Hilde L. Nilsen
Targeting tumors of central nervous system Deo Prakash Pandey	Genome Dynamics Tone Tønjum	Bacterial Defense Systems and Antimicrobial Resistance Group James Booth and Emily Helgesen

Department of Microbiology Project groups

Matussek project group Andreas Matussek	Autophagy regulation in development and disease Helene Knævelsrud	Oligodendrocytes in health and disease Johanne Egge Rinholm
Mitonuclear DNA Maintenance and Transcriptional Control: Repair to Transcribe or Transcribe to Repair? Nicola Pietro Montaldo

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Recent publications

Drigeard Desgarnier MC, Monshaugen I, Ougland R, Klungland A (2025)
The 6-methyladenine erasers ALKBH5 and FTO influence chemotherapy efficiency in bladder cancer cell lines
Ann Transl Med, 13 (3), 26
DOI 10.21037/atm-25-7, PubMed 40689068

Holten AR, Bjerkhaug AW, Maharjan U, Rykkvin R, Hagen T, Fevang B, Quist-Paulsen E, Hesstvedt L, Hognestad HR, Alfsnes K, Andreassen ÅK, Dunlop O (2025)
A case of fatal haemorrhagic fever associated with tick-borne encephalitis virus infection
Int J Infect Dis, 107989 (in press)
DOI 10.1016/j.ijid.2025.107989, PubMed 40681091

Ianevski A, Cámara-Quílez M, Wang W, Suganthan R, Hildrestrand G, Grini JV, Døskeland DS, Ye J, Bjørås M (2025)
Early transcriptional responses reveal cell type-specific vulnerability and neuroprotective mechanisms in the neonatal ischemic hippocampus
Acta Neuropathol Commun, 13 (1), 147
DOI 10.1186/s40478-025-02062-4, PubMed 40618091

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