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	Brain repair and metabolism 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

Ølnes ÅS, Teigen M, Laerdahl JK, Leren TP, Strøm TB, Bjune K (2025)
Correction: Variants in the CETP gene affect levels of HDL cholesterol by reducing the amount, and not the specific lipid transfer activity, of secreted CETP
PLoS One, 20 (9), e0332400
DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0332400, PubMed 40938802

Alfsnes K, Osnes MN, Gilboe HM, Eldholm V, Caugant DA (2025)
Genome analysis of Neisseria gonorrhoeae in Norway, 2016-2023, reveals shifting epidemiology in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic
Microb Genom, 11 (9)
DOI 10.1099/mgen.0.001479, PubMed 40932475

Zhang J, Wang HL, Lautrup S, Nilsen HL, Treebak JT, Watne LO, Selbæk G, Wu LE, Omland T, Pirinen E, Cheung TC, Wang J, Ziegler M, Tysnes OB, Zapata-Pérez R, Bruzzone S, Canto C, Deleidi M, Janssens GE, Houtkooper RH, Scheibye-Knudsen M, Koshizaka M, Yokote K, Verdin E, Bohr VA et al. (2025)
Emerging strategies, applications and challenges of targeting NAD⁺ in the clinic
Nat Aging (in press)
DOI 10.1038/s43587-025-00947-6, PubMed 40926126

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