The King's Gold Medal to Marina Vietri
Marina Vietri receives H.M. the King's gold medal for best PhD thesis. Read more
Marina Vietri receives H.M. the King's gold medal for best PhD thesis. Read more
In a recent issue of Journal of Cell Biology, PhD student Liliane Christ provides new insight into how daughter cells are separated during the end of cell division. In the same issue, a “Biobytes” podcast with group leader Harald Stenmark and co-corresponding author Coen Campsteijn explains the importance of this work, as does a commentary article by two external experts in the field. Read more
On November 6th 2015 Marina Vietri successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled "Closing the gap: ESCRT-III orchestrates nuclear envelope sealing". Read more
Harald Stenmark receives the "Møbius" prize in 2015 from the Research Council of Norway for outstanding research. Read more
Kaisa Haglund at Institute for Cancer Research receives the prestigious Anders Jahre's Prize in Medicine for Young Researchers for 2015. The prize is shared with Pernilla Lagergren at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm. Read more
On 24 April 2015, Åsmund Husabø Eikenes in Kaisa Haglund's project group successfully defended his PhD thesis ""Novel regulators of cytokinesis in vivo". Read more
In a recent article in Nature, PhD student Marina Vietri and her co-workers reveal how disassembly of the mitotic spindle is coordinated wiith sealing of the newly reformed nuclear envelope during mitotic exit and show the importance of this mechanism for genome integrity. Read more
In a recent paper in Nature, Camilla Raiborg and her coworkers describe a novel mechanism for formation of cellular protrusions. Read more.
In an Article in Nature Cell Biology, PhD student Sigrid Bratlie Thoresen and her co-workers have identified a novel regulator of the abscission checkpoint in cell division, which prevents aneuploidy. This paper is part of the PhD thesis of Sigrid Bratlie Thoresen. Read more
On 09 May 2014, Sigrid Bratlie Thoresen successfully defended her PhD thesis "novel regulators of the cell division cycle". Read more
Catherine Sem Wegner successfully defended her PhD thesis "Regulation of the endocytic pathway and receptor sorting by phosphoinositides and ESCRTs" on 18th October 2013. Read more
In a recent paper in PLoS Biology, postdoc Fergal O'Farrell and his co-workers in Tor Erik Rustens project group demonstrate how the Drosophila homologue of the human Ret receptor tyrosine kinase controls growth and autophagy in epithelia. Read more
Harald Stenmark received the first "Excellent Researcher Award" from the Director of Oslo University Hospital on April 26th 2013. Read more
Viola Lobert successfully defended her PhD thesis on 19 October 2012. More
Antonia Sagona successfully defended her PhD thesis on 22 March 2012. More
In December 2011, project leader Kaisa Haglund in Harald Stenmark´s group was awarded a prestigious career grant ("utvidet forskerstipend") from Helse Sør-Øst for the proposal "Mechanisms of cytokinesis in development and carcinogenesis". The grant amounts to NOK 2 million per year and runs from April 2012 to March 2016.
In a recent issue of Nature Cell Biology, Tor Erik Rusten, Thomas Vaccari and Harald Stenmark discuss the role of ESCRT proteins in developmental processes. Read more
Camilla Raiborg receives the Mørk Legacy Prize 2011 for her outstanding research on mechanisms of downregulation of growth factor receptors. Read more
In the Nov 4 2011 issue of Science, Hilde Abrahamsen and Harald Stenmark discuss recent progress in our understanding of how amino acids are sensed by a cellular machinery that promotes growth. Read more
Lene Malerød and Nina Marie Pedersen have recently published an article about ESCRT proteins that has been dedicated the cover in the September 2011 issue of Traffic. Read more
An illustration from the review article ""Cell polarity and migration: Emerging role of the endosomal sorting machinery", by Viola H. Lobert and Harald Stenmark, was chosen for the cover of the June 2011 issue of "Physiology". Read more
Guro E.Lind has identified a novel biomarker for early detection of colorectal cancer, and Camilla Raiborg has shown that the gene product is a regulator of cytokinesis. Read more.
Camilla Raiborg and Harald Stenmark have recently contributed a Perspective in Science about recent developments in our understanding of how the final stage of cell division - cytokinesis - is regulated. Read more
A recent Nature Cell Biology paper by PhD student Antonia Sagona and co-workers was recently discussed in the Norwegian research web portal forskning.no.
PhD student Antonia Sagona and her co-workers in Harald Stenmark's group have uncovered a new functional mechanism for a known tumour suppressor, class III phosphoinositide 3-kinase. The article was published in the April 2010 issue of Nature Cell Biology.
Catherine Sem Wegner and her colleagues in Andreas Brech´s project group have published a paper that was chosen for the cover of "Histochemistry and Cell Biology". Read more
Sigrid Bratlie Thoresen received the 2nd prize for best poster at the Winter Meeting of the Norwegian Biochemical Society in January 2010. Read more
Ingrid Roxrud defended her PhD thesis entitled Endocytic trafficking of membrane proteins. Mechanisms in human disease on November 6th 2009. Read more
Harald Stenmark has recently published a review about Rab GTPases in Nature Reviews in Molecular Cell Biology (impact factor 35.4). The review covers the functions of Rab GTPases in vesicle traffic, and their roles in preventing diseases, including cancer. Link to the article.
The Stenmark group participates in the European Science Foundation (ESF) project on "Tracking of phosphoinositide pools", which recently was approved for funding. This is a project under the EuroMEMBRANE programme under the EUROCORES scheme of ESF. The focus of this project is the elucidation of dynamic processes in phosphoinositide signalling during cell migration and changes in cell-cell contacts. The other principal investigators of this project are Matthias Wymann (Basel, coordinator), Carsten Schultz (Heidelberg), Dorus Gadella (Amsterdam) and Karl-Eric Magnusson (Linköping). The project will last from September 2009 to December 2012.
An electron micrograph from an article by Sanne Stuffers and co-workers in Andreas Brech's project group was chosen for the cover of the July 2009 issue of Traffic. Read more
Harald Stenmark has received a grant of 2.27 million EURO from the European Research Council for the project "The PI3K-III complex: Function in cell regulation and tumour suppression". Read more
Camilla Raiborg and Harald Stenmark have published a review about ESCRT proteins in endosomal protein sorting in the journal Nature. Read more
PhD student Ingrid Roxrud received prize for best poster at the 2009 Winter meeting of the Norwegian Biochemical Society.
Lene Malerød and Harald Stenmark have written a Comment about recent developments in our understanding of how ESCRT proteins mediate membrane deformation. The Comment was published in Cell.
A figure from the paper "Differential functions of Hrs and ESCRT proteins in endocytic membrane trafficking" by Camilla Raiborg and co-workers, published in March 2008, has been selected for the cover of the whole 2009 edition of Experimental Cell Research.
Tor Erik Rusten, leader of the project "phosphatidylinositol signalling & disease" received Dr. Ragnar Mørk's prize for outstanding cancer research. Read more
In a recent paper in Traffic, Lene Malerød, a postdoc in Stenmarks lab, shows that the ESCRT-II complex is required for degradation of ubiquitinated epidermal growth factor receptor and chemokine receptors. This provides new insight into how growth factor and chemokine receptors are transported intracellularly and identifies a novel potential tumour suppressor complex.
Tor Erik Rusten and co-workers in Harald Stenmark's group has recently provided new insights into how autophagy is regulated in the cell. Their findings - published in the August edition Developmental Cell - has stirred considerable attention, and two commentary articles has been written in "News and view" in Nature, and in "Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology".
Click on the links below to read the commentaries.