NORBIS students

Name	Affiliation	Project	Fields
Abdelnour Alhourani	CORE, University of Stavanger	Metabolic applications of graphene	Cancer metablism, drug delivery, graphene
Achal Dhariwal	Oral Biology, UiO	Born in the twilight of antibiotics	Metagenomics and Microbiome
Adriano Winterton	Norment, Department of Clinical Medicine, UiO	Oxytocin system function in severe mental illness and metabolic syndrome	Medicine, Genetics, Psychiatry, Oxytocin, Neuroimaging
Adnan Gora	Aquaculture, Nord University	Metabolomic characterization of diet induced enteritis in zebrafish	Metabolomics, Transcriptomics
Adnan Muhammad, Niazi	Computational Biology Unit (CBU), Department of Informatics, UiB	Poly(A) tail length profiling and DNA modification detection using Nanopore sequencing	Bioinformatics
Alex Wardale	Faculty of Biosciences and Aquaculture, Nord University	1-methyladenosine (m¹A) and 6-methyladenosine (m⁶A) modifications during early embryonic development in zebrafish	Epigenetics
Alexander Hesselberg Løvestad	Department of Life Sciences and Health, OsloMet	Human papillomavirus genomic events and cancer	Genomics, Sequencing
Aleksandra Szwedo	Department of Chemistry, Bioscience and Environmental Engineering, University of Stavanger	Genetic and epigenetic biomarkers of Parkinson’s disease	Dementia in Parkinson’s disease, genetics, epigenetics
Ann-Elin Wårøy Synnes	University of Agder	Seascape genetics of Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) in Skagerrak waters	Population genetics, Marine Biology, Ecology, Evolution
Anna Patova	Biological department, UIB	Conservation genomics of North Atlantic deep-sea sponge grounds: assessing diversity, connectivity and vulnerability of habitat-forming species	Molecular biology
Anneke ter Schure	Department of Biosciences, UiO	Investigating anthropogenic influences on biodiversity using sedimentary DNA	Metabarcoding, sedimentary DNA
Antal Martinecz	Computational Pharmacology, UiT	Mathematical Models of Optimal Antibiotic Treatment	Mathematical modelling, Antibiotics, Persistence
Amalia Mailli	Faculty of Biosciences and Aquaculture, Nord University	Assessing the functional diversity of benthic eukaryotic communities using metatranscriptomics	Metatranscriptomics, Transcriptomics
Andreas Venizelos	Department of Clinical Science, UiB	Identifying genetic mechanisms of resistance to chemotherapy in human breast cancer	Molecular biology, genetics
Angela Etayo	University of Bergen	Development of the adaptive Immune system in ballan wrasse	Sequencing analyses
Angelica Cuevas Pulido	CEES, Department of Biosciences, UiO	The evolutionary potential of a hybrid species . The case of the Italian sparrow	Bioinformatics, Population genomics, Evolution, Ecology, Methylome
Angelina Sverchkova	Faculty of Medicine, UiO	Bioinformatics identification of mutated HLA sequences to guide Neoantigen-based immunotherapy	Bioinformatics
Anne Heidi Skogholt	Department of Public Health and General Practice, NTNU	Messenger RNA (mRNA) as clinical biomarkers for lung cancer diagnosis, prognosis and prediction of therapeutic response	Genomics
Antonín Klíma	Department of Computer and Information Science and Department of Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine, NTNU	The role of long non-coding RNA and microRNA in Polycomb and Trithorax regulation	Bioinformatics, Genomics
Amna Farooq	Pathology, University of Oslo	Statistical and integrative data analysis of DNA methylation in mammalian genome	Genomics, epigenomics, Tool developement
Amit Bansal	University of Bergen	Safety, immunogenicity and effectiveness of influenza vaccine	Biostatistics, R, RCT, GWAS
Amrinder Singh	Clinical Medicine, UiB	Network based modelling of transcriptomics applied to Inflammatory bowel disease(IBD)	Genomics, ANN, Machine learning, Epigenetics
Amund, Berger	K.G. Jebsen Center for Autoimmune diseases, and the Genomics Group, UIB	Investigating the Transcriptomes of Autoimmune Polyendocrine Syndromes	Molecular biology
Amy Martinsen	Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Oslo	Genetic aspects of chronic back pain and its comorbidities	Population genetics, genomics, mendelian randomisation, polygenic risk scores
Aram Nikolai Andersen	Dep. of Molecular Cell Biology, OUS/Dep. of Biosciences, UiO	Acute myeloid leukemia: Improving the success rate of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation	Mathematical biology, biostatistics and machine learning
Arif Khan	Faculty of Biosciences and Aquaculture, Nord University	Genome Biology of myxomycetes	Genomics and Transcriptomics
Arseny Dubin	Faculty of Biosciences and Aquaculture, Nord University	Immuno-genomic exploration of anglerfish	Genome biology
Aruna Mattanavile Shankregowda	ulty of Biosciences and Aquaculture, Nord University	Genetic and non genetic adaptations in sticklebacks	Genomics
Asan Meera Sahib Haja Mohideen	Faculty of Biosciences and Aquaculture, Nord University	Characterization of skin immune and stress factors of lumpsucker, Cyclopterus lumpus	Computational biology, Transcriptomics, Developmental biology
Asbjørn Holmgren	Medical Genetics, UiO	Molecular mechanisms in the etiology of bipolar disorder	Transcriptomics, genomics, computational biology
Ashish Kumar Singh	hereditary cancer group (St. Olavs HF) & Bioinformatics and Gene regulation (BiGR), NTNU	Next Generation Sequencing based methods in genetic disease diagnostics	Bioinformatics
Barbara Niederdorfer	Department of Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine, NTNU	Prediction of Drug Synergies using Systems Biology and Network Modeling	Systems biology, Cancer Signaling, Modelling
Betty Furulund	The Faculty of Biosciences and Aquacultur, NU	Non-coding RNA as drug target	Molecular biology
Bojan Krtenic	Computational Biology Unit (CBU), Department of Biology, UiB	Structure-based enzyme specificity prediction in the N-terminal acetyltransferase family	Computational biology
Bishnu Joshi	Institute of Medical Biology, UiT	Characterization of Bacterial Membrane Vesicles: Future Target for Intervention	Host-Microbe Interaction
Bram Burger	Computational Biology Unit (CBU), Department of Informatics, UiB	Statistical Analysis of Proteomics Data	Bioinformatics, Proteomics, Statistics, Statistical Bioinformaics, Pathway Analysis, Biomarkers
Caroline Øien Guldvog	Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES), Department of Biosciences, UiO	The repeatability of the genomic architecture in a homoploid hybrid species	Genetics, Genomics
Cecilie Bækkedal	Molecular Biosystems Research Group, Department of Chemistry, UiT	Marine bacterial communities: genomics and their potential use as biotechnological tools in processing of marine biomass	Genomics
Chandini Murarilal Ratnadevi	Department of Biological Sciences, University of Bergen	Methane oxidation by extremophilic Verrucomicrobia adapted to geothermal environments	Genomics, Metabolic pathways, proteomics
Cheshtaa Chitkara	University of Agder/UNIS	Protist diversity in the arctic with respect to climate change	Transcriptomics, genomics, metagenomics
Chloe Rixon	University of Oslo	The role of lumican in fibrosis and cardiac remodelling	Genetics, proteomics, statistics
Christian Schulz	Department of Biotechnology and Food Science, NTNU	Metabolic and Flux analysis of Bacteria to design a flow optimization for nylon production	Systems biology, modelling, flux balance analysis, metabolic network analysis
Christina Johannsen	Department of biosciences, University of Oslo	Characterization and quantification of therapeutic protein species	Proteomics
Christina Clausen	Medisinsk fakultet, K2, University of Bergen	Genomic aberrations directing neoadjuvant treatment of hormone receptor positive breast cancer	Genomic aberrations in breast cancer
Dana Kristjansson	FHI, University of Bergen	The intrauterine redox state and telomere length in the newborn	Genomics
Dani Beck	Department of Psychology, UiO	Cardiovascular risk and brain network function	Neuroscience
Daniel Roelfs	Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo	Brain Network Connectivity and Genetics in Schizophrenia	Neuroscience, genetics, psychiatry
Daniela Bragantini	Department of Neuroscience, NTNU	Genetics of Insomnia; towards developing a genetic risk score	Moleular medicine, Neuroscience, Genomics
Deepak B. Poduval	Mohn Cancer Research Laboratory, Department of Clinical Science, UiB	Investigation of genetic mechanisms of resistance to chemotherapy in breast cancer and malignant melanoma	Bioinformatics
Deng Wei Hai	Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo	The effect of physical activity on fatigue and quality of life in adult survivors of childhood cancer	Epidemiology, childhood cancer survivors, physical activity, quality of life, fatigue, psychological distress
Diana Karina Diaz Cánova	Molecular Inflammation Research Group, Medical Biology, UiT	Hazard characterization of modified vaccinia virus ankara vector: improving vaccine vector safety through empirical investigation of knowledge gaps	Bioinformatics
Dina Jørgensen	Basalfag og akvamedisin, Seksjon for genetikk, NMBU	The genetic background for Pulverulent nuclear cataract in Norwegian Buhund	Genomics
Dinka Smajlagic	Department of Clinical Science, UiB	Parental and perinatal effects in ADHD and related neuropsychiatric traits	Biostatistics, Genetics
Dhurba Adhikari	Faculty of Bioscience and Aquaculture, Nord University	Evolutionary genomics approach to study pelvic spine reduction in a Norwegian population of three-spine sticklebacks	Genomics
Einar Marius Hjellestad Martinsen	Department of Clinical Science, University of Bergen	The mycobiome in COPD: Inflammation markers, acute exacerbations, and participation in research bronchoscopy studies	Mycobiome, obstructive lung disease
Eirik Høye	Dept. Tumor Biology, Oslo Institute for Cancer Research, UiO	Tissue T-cells as Biomarkers of Anti-Tumor Immunity – an Ancillary Study to the METIMMOX Trial	Cancer Research, Immune Sequencing, microRNAs, Immunotherapy, Colorectal Cancer, Gene Expression, RNAseq
Eirini Tsirvouli	Department of Biology, NTNU	Logical modelling of signal transduction systems	Modelling
Elsa du Plessis	Diabetes Group, Clinical Science 2, UiB	Insights into micro-and macrovascular complications in type 1 diabetes	Biostatistics
Emil Karlsen	Department of Biotechnology and Food Science, NTNU	Modeling a microorganism for the production of sustainable bio-cement	Systems biology, modelling, metabolism, networks
Emilie Eliseussen Ødegaard	Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Oslo	Scalable Rank-based Bayesian Methods for Cancer Subtyping and Molecular Signature Discovery via Genomic Data Integration	Bayesian statistics, rankings, MCMC, genomics data integration
Emilie Willoch Olstad	Institute of Pharmacy, University of Oslo	Prenatal Medication Exposure and Neurodevelopmental Disorders in Children – a Pharmacoepigenetic Approach	Pharmacoepigenetics, Epidemiology, Drug Safety in Pregnancy
Emily Enevoldsen	Institutt for biovitenskap, University of Oslo	Using graph-based genomes to elucidate genetic variation in Atlantic cod and their relatives	Genomics
Emmanuel Moutoussamy	Computational Biology Unit (CBU), Department of Molecular Biology, UiB	Dissecting Peripheral Membrane Binding Mechanisms: The role of Electrostatic Interactions.	Computational biology, molecular modelling
Endre Bakken Stovner	Department of Computer and Information Science and Department of Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine, NTNU	Programmable epigenetics	Bioinformatics, Epigenetics
Eva Lena F. Estensmo	Department of Biosciences, UiO	Applied DNA metabarcoding: Towards a streamlined approach for DNA-based profiling of indoor mycobiomes	Microbiology, Mycology, DNA metabarcoding, High throughput sequencing
Fabian Kellner	Department of Natural History, NTNU	Climate change, ancient DNA, morphology, and population dynamics of Eurasian reindeer (Rangifer tarandus tarandus)	Genomics, aDNA
Fábio Oliveira	Department of Biomedicine, University of Bergen	Computational methods for drug-target affinity prediction	Computational Biology, Machine Learning
Fatima Heinicke	Department of Medical Genetics, UiO	miRNAs as biomarkers for treatment response in rheumatoid arthritis	Molecular biology, Bioinformatics, Epigenetics
Ferenc Tibor Kagan	Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology, UiB	Comparative and functional genomics of oogenesis and animal-vegetal axis specification of animals	Genomics, Transcriptomics
Francesco Delogu	Department of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science, NMBU	Back to basics: simplifying microbial communities to decrypt complex interactions	Bioinformatics, Metagenomics, Metatrancriptomics, System biology
Giovanna Monticelli	Department of Chemistry, Bioscience and Environmental Engineering, University of Stavanger	Fish associated microbiota	Omics, Statistics, Microbiota, Metabolomics
Md Golam Rbbani	Faculty of bioscience and aquaculture, Nord University	Characterization of circular RNAs and their expression changes during Nile tilapia domestication	Genomics
Gunhild Fjeld	University of Stavanger	Reorganizing metabolic flux: cancer and the Warburg effect	Systems biology
Gunnar Schulze	Computational Biology Unit (CBU), Department of Informatics, UiB	Evolutionary analysis of cis-regulatory repertoires and post-transcriptional control at the brink of emerging multicellularity and complex development	Bioinformatics
Haakon Egdetveit Nustad	PharmaTox, Department of Medical Genetics, UiO	The effect of pharmaceutical usage on the epigenetics	Biostatistics, Epigenetics, Modelling
Helge Bjerck	Faculty of Biosciences and Aquaculture, NU	The Genetic Basis, Causes, And Consequences Of Variation In Smolt Migration Timing In Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar)	Molecular biology
Hera Kim	Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, NTNU	Decoding the metabolomic reprogramming underlying Toll-like receptor signaling	Molecular biology
Håkon Tjeldnes	Computational Biology Unit (CBU), Department of Informatics, UiB	Regulation of Micro peptides across tissues	Bioinformatics
Håvard Lindholm	Centre of Molecular Inflammation Research (CEMIR), Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, NTNU	Identification of new regulators in intestinal epithelial immune responses in homeostasis, inflammation, and infection	Molecular biology
Ina Skaara Brorson	Department of Neurology, UiO	Molecular pathways in multiple sclerosis	Genomics
Ioannis Konstantinidis	Faculty of Biosciences and Aquaculture, Nord University	Hydroxymethylation profiling of protein coding genes and miRNAs related to growth of Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) during domestication.	Marine genomics
Irantzu Anzar	University of Oslo	A bioinformatics framework to predict signatures of combined neoantigens & transcriptional immune-escape	Bioinformatics
Isabel Sofía Abihssira García	Nord University	Potential impact of microplastics on the environmental footprint of Atlantic salmon farming	Aquaculture, ecotoxicology, immunity, metabolomics
Ivana Mikocziova	Institute of Clinical Medicine, UiO	Germline polymorphisms in immunoglobulin genes	Immunogenetics
Johannes Jernqvist Gaare	Department of Clinical Medicine, UiB	Elucidating the missing heritability of Parkinson`s disease: identification of novel molecular pathways for development of specific biomarkers of disease	Medicine, Neurodegeneration, Genetics
Jonas Christoffer Lindstrøm	Institute of Clinical Medicine, UiO	Methods for intergrative genomics	Bioinformatics
Jonelle Villar	Department of Clinical Sciences (K2), University of Bergen	Identification of Environmental and Treatment Effects on DNA methylation in Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder and Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)	DNA methylation, epigenetics, schizophrenia, ADHD
Jörn Lukas Franz Dietze	Department of Arctic and Marine Biology, UiT	Modeling the human mitochondrial NAD⁺ metabolism	Systems Biology
José Cerca de Oliveira	Natural History Museum, UiO	On the origins of cryptic species: Insights from the Stygocapitella subterranea species complex	Genomics, Evolutionary Biology
Joseph Diab	Department of pharmacy, UiT	The role of mucosal metabolism in inflammatory and repairing processes in Inflammatory Bowel Disease – Targeted Metabolite Identification and Quantification	Metabolomics
Joshua Burton	Department of Life Sciences and Health, HiOA	Genetic susceptibility to testicular cancer	Bioinformatics, machine learning, genomics
Karsten Øvretveit	Department of Public Health and Nursing, NTNU	Phenotypic plasticity in hypertension	Physiology, Genomics
Katinka Bleeker	University of Agder	Population genomics, ecology and behaviour in sea trout	Bioinformatics
Khadeeja Siidique	Department of Basic Sciences and Aquatic Medicine, NMBU	Characterization of pituitary cell types based on single-cell transcriptomics	Bioinformatics, genomics
Kjersti Rise	Department of Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine, NTNU	MALDI Imaging for the virtual prostate	Bioinformatics, Genomics, Systems biology
Kornel Labun	Computational Biology Unit (CBU), Department of Informatics, UiB		Bioinformatics
Kristina Stenløkk	IHA, NMBU	Cataloging structural variance in salmonid fishes	Genomics, evolutionary biology, structural variation
Kristine Løkås Jacobsen	Institute for Health and Society, University of Oslo	Using DNA methylation for estimating biological age, and its applications to pregnancy	Epigenomics, Epidemiology, Prediction, Genomics
Kristine Olaussen	Department of Natural Scienc, University of Agder	Seasonality of microbial diversity and function in a coastal system	Microbial eucaryotes, metabarcoding
Lane Atmore	Center for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis, Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo	Using ancient DNA and marine historical ecology to trace marine resource exploitation in the Atlantic (herring and tuna)	Archaeogenomics
Laxmi Bhatta	Department of Public Health and Nursing, NTNU	Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in Norway; prevalence, classification, hospitalisation, and mortality	Medicine
Lene Maria Sundbakk	PharmaSafe and PharmaTox, Department of Pharmacy, UiO	Causal inference in pharmacoepidemiology – with special focus on medicaiton safety in pregnancy	Biostatistics
Leona Milec	Faculty of Biosciences and Aquaculture, Nord University	Population genomics and phylogenomics of freshwater sardines in East-African lakes	Population genomics, phylogenomics, modelling
Leiv Rønneberg	Statistical learning for personalised cancer treatments, Department of Biostatistics, UiO	Predicting synergistic drug effects in ex-vivo combination experiments for applications in personalised cancer therapies	Biostatistics
Lin Jiang	Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, Samfunn medisin og sykepleie, NTNU	Risk factors other than smoking for lung cancer	Biostatistics
Liv Østevik	Department of Basic Science and Aquatic Medicine, School of Veterinary Medicine, NMBU	Identification of genetic markers for joint diseases in horse	Genetics
Lonneke Scheffer	Department of Informatics, UiO	Quantifying the impact of germline gene variation on immune repertoire architecture	Machine learning, immunology, bioinformatics
Lucas Elliott	Department of Biosciences, Fisheries and Economics, UiT The Arctic University of Norway	Reconstructing vegetation communities using time-series, within-species genetic diversity	Genetics, Ecology, Metabarcoding, sedaDNA, Bioinformatics
Luis Francisco Hernández Sánchez	Department of Clinical Science, UiB	Bioinformatics solutions for functional analyses in biomedical and clinical projects	Bioinformatics, genomics, proteomics, pathway analysis
Mahsa Jalili	Department of Biology, NTNU	Obesity, inflammation and appetite	Molecular biology, Medicine, Genomics, Proteomics
Margrete Langmyhr	Movement disorders group, Department of Clinical Medicine, UiO	Parkinson’s disease – from genetic risk factors to molecular mechanisms and clinical phenotypes	Molecular biology, Genomics, Bioinformatics
Maria Dehli Vigeland	Department of Medical Genetics, Oslo University Hospital	AIM – Antibiotic treatment in patients with chronic low back pain and Modic changes	Genetics, Genomics
Maria Chernigovskaya	Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo	Development of machine learning approaches for the analysis of adaptive immune repertoires	Immunoinformatics, BCR, TCR
Maria Martin Agudo	Dept Forensic Sciences – UOS, University of Oslo	New methods to interpret forensic DNA profiles using advanced computer modelling techniques	Forensic Genetics Statistics
Marianne Nilsen Haugen	Natural History Museum, University of Oslo	How to disperse without a dispersal stage? A case study using intertidal beetles	Systematics, Genomics, Population genetics, Bioinformatics
Marie Klevjer	Institutt for sirkulasjon og bildediagnostikk (ISB), NTNU	Improving cardiovascular disease risk prediction algorithms by incorporating genetic markers (COPING)	Genomoics
Marius André Strand	IHA, NMBU	Consequences of WGD on evolution of alternative splicing	Whole genome duplication (WGD), Alternative splicing (AS), Genome regulation
Marta Riise Moksnes	K.G.Jebsen Center for Genetic Epidemiology, Department of public health and nursing, NTNU	Studies of genetic variation in human cardiac troponin levels and H.Pylori seroprevalence in population-based biobanks	Population genomics, genetic epidemiology
Martin Falck	Department of Biosciences, UiO	Epigenetic studies using human embryonic stem cells after exposure to paracetamol and other common drugs	Molecular biology, Genomics, Neurodevelopment, Pharmacology, Toxicology, Transposons
Martin Paliocha	Faculty of Biosciences, NMBU	Evolution of photoperiodic flowering in temperate grasses	Transcriptomics, Gene Regulation, Evolutionary Genomics, Genome Evolution
Martin Wohlwend	Department of Circulation and Medical Imaging, NTNU	An exercise-based concept for drug target discovery	Molecular biology, Long-noncoding RNA, Genomics
Martina Hall	Department of Biotechnology and Food Science, NTNU	Detecting relationships between genome and disease states in the HUNT sample population using computational modeling	Systems biology, biological networks
Matilde Mengkrog Holen	Norwegian University of Life Science (NMBU)	From genome to function: characterization of chitinase function in salmon	Functional genomics
Md Abdul Latif	Department of Biomedicine, UiB	High throughput screening of a miRNA library to boost the bystander effect of suicide gene therapy for brain tumours	Molecular biology, RNA-seq data analysis, microRNA
Melissa Brandner	Faculty of Biosciences and Aquaculture, Nord University	Next generation biodiversity assessment and environmental monitoring of benthic communities using high-throughput DNA metabarcoding	Molecular biology, Metagenomics
Milena Pavlovic	Biomedical Informatics, UiO	Using machine learning to decipher adaptive immune repertoires	Immunology, machine learning
Miriam Gjerdevik	Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, UiB	Genetic association methods for interactions between genetic, epigenetic and environmental factors in family-based biobank data	Biostatistics, Programming
Miroslav Bobrik	IFA, UiT The Arctic University of Norway	Optimization of CRISPR-Cas protocols for precise genome editing in salmon cell lines and whole organism	Gene editing, immunology
Muhammad Ammar Malik	Department of Informatics, UiB	Restricted maximum-likelihood method for learning latent variance components in gene expression data with known confounders	Imaging genetics, Deep learning
Mushtaq AL-Rubaye	Medical biology, UiT	The Norwegian vancomycin resistant enterococci study	Genomics
Naz Karadag	Norwegian Centre for Mental Disorders Research (NORMENT), Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo	Identifying shared genetic architecture between psychiatric disorders and epilepsy applying big data approaches and novel analytical tools	Genetics, GWAS, Biostatistics, Psychiatry
Neann Mathai	Chemistry Department, Computational Biology Unit, UiB	Validation strategies of target prediction methods	Cheminformatics, Computational chemistry
Nikita Baiju	Institute of Samfunnsmedisin, UiT	The relation between cancer risk factors and gene expression data in the Norwegian Women and Cancer Study (NOWAC)	Genomics, epidemiology
Océane Tourniere	Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology, UiB	Cell type composition and development of the nervous system in Nematostella vectensis	Molecular biology, Evo-Devo
Olena Meleshko	Department of Natural History, NTNU	Speciation-with-gene-flow in peatmoss	Genomics
Ole-Jørgen Bekkevold	K.G. Jebsen Center for Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Nursing, NTNU	Low-grade Inflammation, Mendelian Randomization Studies in HUNT	Genetic epidemiology, Mendelian Randomization, Inflammation
Olena Fedotkina	Faculty of Medicine, Department of Clinical Science, University of Bergen	Genetic factors associated with risk or protection of type 2 diabetes macrovascular and microvascular complications	Medicine
Oliver Kersten	CEES, Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo	(Palaeo-)genomics of Atlantic Puffin populations and implications for conservation	Population Genomics
Paula Berrutti	Faculty of Biosciences and Aquaculture, North University	Environmental modulation of gametes and early embryos, and its epigenetic effects	Genomics, Epigenomics, Epitranscriptomics
Parveen Gartan	Department of Chemistry, University of Bergen	Towards better computational approaches and responsible innovation strategies in early drug discovery: application to antibiotics and COPD	Molecular Dynamic Simulations, Free energy calculations, Molecular Modelling, Molecular Docking
Petra Hribovšek	K. G. Jebsen Centre for Deep Sea Research, Department of Earth Science, UiB	Investigating the ecology, evolution and metabolism of novel deep-sea hydrothermal archaeal lineages	Microbial ecology, Genomics
Petra Kovacikova	Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology, UiB	Evolutionary origin and developmental relationships of germline, gonads and embryonic mesodermal precursors	Genomics, Single cell omics
Ping-Han Hsieh	Centre for Molecular Medicine Norway, University of Oslo	Developing Computational Methods to Improve Gene Regulatory Network Inference	Transcriptomics, Machine Learning, Deep Learning
Pranvera Hiseni	Faculty of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science,	Use of Liquid Array Diagnostics (LAD) as a microbiome testing tool	Molecular biology
Pengfei Lu	Biomedical Sensor Network Research Group, UiO	Molecular channel modelling for heart resynchronization	Cardiac cell excitation, communication
Pernille, Svalastoga	Centre for Diabetes Research, Klinisk Institutt 2, UiB	Precision medicine in childhood beta-cell diseases – The effect of too much or too little insulin on glucose metabolism and brain function	Medicine
Pierre Bedoucha	Computational Biology Unit (CBU), Department of Informatics, UiB	Using normal modes analysis to characterize the flexibility of protein tunnels and channels	Computational biology
Priyanthi Gjerde	Department of Clinical Science, UiB	Metabolic side effects of antipsychotic drugs	Medicine, clinical studies, MRI, RNA
Prashanna Guragain	Institute of Biology, NTNU	Identification of new genetic markers in sea lice and development of a method for genome editing in L. salmonis.	Genomics
Pål Vegard Johnsen	SINTEF, Institutt for matematisk fag (IMF), NTNU	Statistical learning in Genomics	Biostatistics
Pål Røynestad	Department of Biotechnology and Food Science, NTNU	Active Site Network: A New Paradigm for Studying the Evolution of Protein Function	Systems biology, kinetic modelling, metabolism, network systems
Rafael Riudavets Puig	Center for Molecular Medicine Norway, University of Oslo	Deciphering transcriptional regulation and its alteration in cancers	Genomics
Ragnhild Lereim	Department of Biomedicine, UiB	Using meta-analyses of proteomics data to identify novel disease networks in multiple sclerosis	Molecular biology, proteomics
Ramin Hasibi	Department of Informatics, University of Bergen	Graph Representation Learning for UnderstandingGene Regulatory Networks	Graph Representation Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Genomics
Ravi Adusumalli	Section for Physiology and Cell Biology, Department of Biosciences, UiO	Post-translational modifications in the Golgi apparatus, sulfation and methylation	Proteomics, Molecular Biology
Renée Isabel Bakkemo	KBM, NMBU	Ecophysiology of denitrifying bacteria; at the helm of atmospheric N2O	Genomics, Proteomics, Metabolomics
Roland Sauter	Department of Arctic Marine Biology, UiT	Metabolic Modeling of Marine Biomass Conversion	Systems biology, modeling, metabolic engineering, bioinformatics
Romain Guitton	Department of Clinical Medicine, UiB	Epigenetics and Parkinson disease	Epigenetics
Sabin Bhandari	Institute of Medical Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, UiT	“Tracking down the SEC factor” – A comparative study of specialized scavenger endothelial cells (SEC) of liver and bone marrow sinusoids	Medicine
Saima Rehman	Faculty of Bioscience and Aquaculture, North University	Elucidating the effects of dietary β- glucans on the gut microbiota and the immune system of zebrafish	Transcripttomics
Salim, Ghannoum	Molecular Medicine at Institute of basic medical sciences, UiO	Role of the Golgi apparatus in breast cancer cell migration	Systems biology
Samaneh Abolpour Mofrad	Department of Computing, Mathematics and Physics, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences	Biomedical data analysis	Mathematics, biomedical data analysis, machine learning
Samah Elsaadi	Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, NTNU	CD39 and CD73, new targets for treatment of cancer immune evasion in multiple myeloma	Proteomics
Shahin Sarowar	Institute of Biomedicine, University of Bergen	Styrylbenzoic acid derivatives to overcome radioresistance in cancer	Molecular biology
Sigrid Børte	Department of Medicine, Institute of clinical medicine, University of Oslo	Genetic and environmental causes of migraine, a large-scale family-based analysis	Medicine
Simon Lergenmuller	Institute of basic medical sciences, department of biostatistics, UiO	Sun exposure, sunscreen and solarium as risk factors for squamous cell carcinoma: Better understanding for better prevention	Biostatistics
Silje Madeleine Kalstø	University of Oslo	Epidemiologic and genetic factors in early-onset atrial fibrillation in Norway	Medicine
Snorre Sulheim	Biotechnology and Nanomedicine, SINTEF Materials and Chemistry and Department of Biotechnology, NTNU	Systems biology of Streptomyces coelicolor for its development into an optimized expression host	Systems biology, Modelling
Sophie Fischer	CBU, Institut of Informatics, University of Bergen	Addressing regulatory networks in systems biology with mathematical modelling	Mathematical modelling, systems biology
Stanislav, Iakhno	Norwegian University of Life Science (NMBU)	Diet intervention, gut health, and microbiome in lifestock	Biostatistics
Stefanie Lackner	University of Stavanger	Characterization of functional protein complexes in the photosynthetic electron transport chain
Sumana Kalyanasundaram	Institute of informatics, University of Oslo	A computational framework for understanding mutational forces at work on the genome in cancer precision medicine	Mutational Signatures
Terje Klemetsen	Department of Chemistry, UiT	Perceiving the involvement of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) as a host for prokaryotic microbial interactions.	Bioinformatics, genomics, metagenomics, comparative genomics, phylogenetics
Thea Os Andersen	IHA, BIOVI, NMBU	Ruminant host-microbiome interactions	Metaomics, Genomics, Proteomics
Thilini Gamage	Department of Medical Genetics, UiO	Charaterization of Sim1 KI mouse model	Molecular biology
Thomas Aga Legøy	Department of Clinical Research, UiB	Characterizing and modulating the insulin-producing beta-cell fate in monogenic diabetes by using novel genetic setups	Molecular biology
Thomas Stevenson	Department of Informatics/ Department of Molecular Biology, University of Bergen	Translational Control in Stress and Senescence	Genomics, Splicing, Phase Seperation, Stress
Tingting Feng	Department of Public Health and Nursing, NTNU	Weight over the life course, weight change and cycling, and interplay between obesity and metabolic factors and risk for atrial fibrillation	Medicine, statistics, epidemiology, modelling
Tobias Reiner Vonnahme	Arctic Marine System Ecology, UiT	Microbial food webs in the seasonal ice zone	Systems biology, metatranscriptomics, modelling
Tor Einar Møller	Department of Earth Science. UiB	Quantifying associations between microbial and geochemical processes in the deep biosphere	Genomics, environmental microbiology, deep-sea sediments, geo-micro interactions
Teshome Dagne Mulugeta	CIGENE/ELIXIR, Department of Animal and Aquacultural Sciences, NMBU	Identification of regulatory DNA-motifs in the Atlantic salmon genome and analyses of their association with regulatory sub-functionalization between duplicated genes	Bioinformatics
Tjasa Kumelj	Institute for Biotechnology and food science, NTNU	Genome-scale network modelling and simulation of Streptomyces coelicolor	Computational biology, Modelling
Torfinn Støve Madssen	Department of Circulation and Medical Imaging, NTNU	Metabolomic response to breast cancer treatment and physical exercise	Metabolomics
Tuva Kristine Thoresen	Biomedical Informatics Group, Department of Informatics, UiO	Improved tools for metagenomics	Bioinformatics, Metagenomics
Vanessa Bieker	Department of Natural History, NTNU University Museum	Using herbarium specimens to elucidate the evolutionary genomics of plant invasion	Genomics
Vasundra Touré	Molecular Systems Biology Group, Department of Biology, NTNU	Integration of Knowledge Management and Logical Modeling: new approaches towards Systems Medicine.	Systems biology, logical modelling, software development, data analysis
Vetle Simensen	Department of Biotechnology and Food Science, NTNU	Combination of operations research and machine learning methods to use metabolomics data with genome-scale metabolic reconstructions	Constraint-based metabolic modeling
Wenjing Zhou	Department of Biomedicine, UiB	Delineating the invasive component of human brain tumors using brain organoids	Modelling, Proteomics, Genomics
William Denault	Departement of digitalisation and bioinformatic, Folkehelseninstituttet	Functional data analysis for high dimensional regression problem applied to the genetics preterm delivery using gestational age as a proxy	Statistics
William Hatchett	Molecular ecology group, Faculty of Biosciences and Aquaculture, NU	Reinforcement in Fucus distichus and Fucus serratus	Molecular biology
William Reinar	Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo	Evolutionary and functional importance of simple repeats in the genome	Bioinformatics
Xiaokang Zhang	Computational Biology Unit (CBU), Department of Informatics, UiB	Feature selection and machine learning towards systems biology	Bioinformatics, modelling
Xiaozheng Liu	Department of Biomedicine, UiB	Malignant Exploitation of the Altered Metabolic Landscape in Obese Hormone Receptor Negative Breast Cancer Patients	Molecular biology, Genomics
Xin Liu	Research Department, Cancer Registry of Norway, University of Oslo	Moving towards the elimination of cervical cancer, improving cervical cancer prevention by assessing HPV genotype specific risks for development of cancer and detecting risk factors for cervical adenocarcinomas	cancer epidemiology
Yaxin Xue	Computational Biology Unit (CBU), Department of Informatics, UiB	Metagenomics	Bioinformatics, Metagenomics
Yin-Chen Hsieh	Biosciences, Fisheries, and Economy: Arctic Marine Biology, UiT The Arctic University of Norway	Eukaryotic protein coevolution: a sequence-based analysis	Eukaryotic protein coevolution, Residue-residue contact prediction, DCA, Computational Structural Biology
Ying Yao	Centre for Immune Regulation, Department of Immunology, UiO	Analysis of single-cell transcriptomics data from immune cells	Bioinformatics, Biostatistics Single cell transcriptomics
Ying Yen	Faculty of Life Sciences and Aquaculture, North University	Application of ensiled macroalgae as a bioactive feed additive	Seaweed, fermentation, functionality
Yousri Abdelhafiz	Nord University	Domestication effect on gut microbiota of tilapia across generations	Bioinformatics
Yu Hong	Department of Clincal Medicine, UiB	Neuromuscular junction, myasthenia gravis and relevant autoantibodies	Neuroscience, transcriptome analysis
Yusuf Khan	Department of Biotechnology, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, UiO	MOLECULAR BACKGROUND OF INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN MUSCLE GROWTH	Genomics, molecular biology
Yunsung Lee	Department of genetic research and bioinformatics, University of Oslo	Telomere length and female fecundity	Biostatistics
Youngjin Park	Faculty of Biosciences and Aquaculture, North University	The influence of dietary components on the intestinal health of Atlantic salmon	Cell biology, Genomics
Zhaoran Zhou	Computational Biology Unit (CBU), Department of Informatics, UiB	Lice Base	Bioinformatics, Genomics
Zhi Zhao	Department of Biostatistics, UiO	A penalized approach and Bayesian hierarchical method for the prediction of drug responses and molecular treatment targets	Biostatistics
Zichao Feng	Department of Biomedicine, UiB	Roles of exosomes derived from lung cancer brain metastatic cells	Genomics
Zonglai Liang	Sars international center for marine molecular biolog, University of Bergen	Explore the function of four members of Anoctamin in Ciona intestinalis	Gene function, genetics, neurobiology
Zuzana Sichmanova	Mohn Cancer Research Laboratory, Department of Clinical Science, UiB	Genetic mechanisms modulating response to therapy in locally advanced breast cancers	Bioinformatics, Genetics
Øyvind Helgeland	Department of Clinical Science, UiB	Identifying Genetic Markers Associated with Growth and Obesity in Children	Bioinformatics, Genetics
Åshild Øksnevad Solvin	HUNT Genes, Institute of Public Health and General Practice, Faculty of Medicine, NTNU	Discovering Genetics behind Psoriasis	Medicine, Gene expression