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	Stem Cells, Ageing and Cancer	Fungal and Bacterial Infections Research Group
Ingrun Alseth	Lorena Arranz	Jørgen V. Bjørnholt
Cellular Responses to DNA Damage	Cell and tissue dynamics	Genome and Epigenome Regulation in Embryo Development, Ageing and Disease
Magnar Bjørås	Stig Ove Bøe	John Arne Dahl
Structural Biology and DNA repair	Clinical Virology Research Group	Laboratory for Dynamic Gene Regulation
Bjørn Dalhus	Susanne G. Dudman	Arne Klungland
Virology Research Group	Genome Instability in Ageing and Disease	DNA Replication and Chromosome Dynamics
Mari Kaarbø	Hilde L. Nilsen	Kirsten Skarstad
	Genome Dynamics
	Tone Tønjum

Department of Microbiology Project groups

Bacterial type I toxin-antitoxin systems	Stem Cell Dynamics and RNA Regulation	Bacterial DNA repair and nucleoid dynamics
James Booth	Adam Filipczyk	Emily Helgesen
Matussek project group	Targeting tumors of central nervous system	Oligodendrocytes in health and disease
Andreas Matussek	Deo Prakash Pandey	Johanne Egge Rinholm

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Recent publications

Bai X, Rayner S, Skuggen LE, Engseth KK, Bjørnstad PM, Dalland M, Gilfillan GD, Bjørås M, Matussek A (2025)
A preliminary evaluation of a fast, low-cost, and high-throughput nucleic acid extraction method for bacterial microbiota profiling in low-microbial biomass samples
Sci Rep, 15 (1), 2005
DOI 10.1038/s41598-024-84682-9, PubMed 39814772

Khose GM, Vagolu SK, Aesoy R, Stefánsson ÍM, Ríkharðsson SG, Ísleifsdóttir D, Xu M, Homberset H, Tønjum T, Rongved P, Herfindal L, Viktorsson EÖ (2025)
Functionalized regioisomers of the natural product phenazines myxin and iodinin as potent inhibitors of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and human acute myeloid leukemia cells
Eur J Med Chem, 285, 117244 (in press)
DOI 10.1016/j.ejmech.2025.117244, PubMed 39788066

Nersesjan V, Boldingh MI, Paulsen EQ, Argren M, Høgestøl E, Aamodt AH, Popperud TH, Kondziella D, Jørgensen CS, Jensen VVS, Benros ME (2024)
Antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 spike protein in the cerebrospinal fluid of COVID-19 patients and vaccinated controls: a multicentre study
J Neurol, 272 (1), 60
DOI 10.1007/s00415-024-12769-4, PubMed 39680178

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