Tuesday, 24th of February 2026, Lucas will defend his work on the PhD thesis! The defense will take place at Auditorium 2, BB-bygget, Jonas Lies vei 91. Trial Lecture: Tuesday 24. February 2026 h 10.15 “Transcriptional regulation in the developing…
by Kaykobad Hossain
This week’s journal club focuses on a study from PNAS (2025) proposing that coordinated multi-node inhibition can achieve deep and durable pancreatic tumor regression.
by Olena Kondratska
This week’s journal club focuses on a study from Transl Psychiatry (2026) reporting on astrocytic dysfunction within the cerebellum suggesting a widespread disruption of astrocyte-mediated communication across the brain in depression.
by Ulrik: This week’s journal club focuses on a study from Nature (2026) proposing that Parkinson’s disease (PD) may involve early pathology in the enteric nervous system (ENS).
Congratulations to Kayko who won the poster prize at the 61st Contact Meeting of the Norwegian Bioscience Society!
by Lucas Unger This week’s journal club focuses on a study from Science Advances (2022) describing how predator-prey evolution has generated several somatostatin analogs used in venoms.
It’s hard to believe that Thomas is leaving us! While we will miss your presence here, we know you will achieve great things in your new adventure.
by Agnes Sandvik: This week’s journal club focuses on a study from BMC Genomics (2024) using single-cell sequencing datasets to characterize the transcriptional identity of islets from in vitro differentiation, fetal islets, and adult islets
Our institute is organising the 10th Meeting of the Study Group on Genetics of Diabetes (SGGD) which will take place in Solstrand, near Bergen between 6th – 8th of May, 2026. Abstract submissions Abstract submission are opened until 2nd of…
Absolutely thrilled to announce that we have been awarded funding from @Kreftforeningen to continue our work on bladder tumor biology! Many plans and experiments are now possible and we are delighted to continue our work on the research project Mapping the…
Luiza will give a talk about new developments in the lab and work on bladders at the next CCBIO Seminar (11th of December 2025, 14:30).
by Fatemeh Rahmatabadi: This week’s journal club focuses on a study from Cancer Chemother. Pharmacol. (2017) promoting Cantrixil as a promising anti-cancer agent targeting resilient cancer-stem–cell populations.
This study proposes hiPSCs derived SC-islet differentiation as model to study development impact of EDCs on human pancreatic endocrine cell development and maturation. Using a cocktail of BPA, BPS and trans-nonachlor provided comparable results with in vivo studies of fetus exposure to BPA. Congratulations June, Thomas and Lucas!