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

Kaarbø M, Yang M, Meyer-Myklestad MH, Sundaram AYM, de Sousa MML, Sharma A, Medhus AW, Dyrhol-Riise AM, Kvale D, Hov JR, Aukrust P, Bjørås M, Reikvam DH (2025)
Transcriptomic and proteomic profiling reveal immune and metabolic dysregulation in the colonic mucosa of people living with HIV with incomplete immune recovery
Front Immunol, 16, 1635523
DOI 10.3389/fimmu.2025.1635523, PubMed 41041301

Khodeer S, Pasque V (2025)
Ancient viral DNA in the human genome shapes early development
Nature (in press)
DOI 10.1038/d41586-025-02970-4, PubMed 41034658

Fernandez-Berrocal MS, Døskeland DS, Saasen VL, Bugaj AM, Kunath N, Heggedal M, Munir M, Marthinsen RC, Ekeli MD, Scheffler K, Bjørås M, Ye J (2025)
NEIL3 shapes hippocampal network dynamics and fear memory through modulation of PV⁺ interneurons
Prog Neurobiol, 253, 102832 (in press)
DOI 10.1016/j.pneurobio.2025.102832, PubMed 41015225

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