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	Oligodendrocytes in health and disease 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

Luan Y, Zhang H, Liu Y, Zhou J, Li W, Ma K, Zheng X, Huang C, Chen X, Lu H, Yu H, Bjørås M, Klungland A, Zhang Z (2025)
Inverse and dynamic levels of H3K4me3 and H3K27me3 regulate mouse postnatal dental gyrus development
Cell Death Differ (in press)
DOI 10.1038/s41418-025-01563-y, PubMed 40847119

Chen X, Cheng J, Kong L, Shu X, Xu H, Inoue M, Fernández-Berrocal MS, Døskeland DS, Bjørås M, Sivakumar S, Liu Y, Ye J, Song CX (2025)
Direct and bisulfite-free 5-methylcytosine and 5-hydroxymethylcytosine sequencing at single-cell resolution with scTAPS and scCAPS +
Genome Biol, 26 (1), 244
DOI 10.1186/s13059-025-03708-1, PubMed 40826097

Abentung A, Sakshaug T, Dumaru R, Liabakk NB, Yang M, Wang J, Bjørås M, Scheffler K (2025)
DNA glycosylases Ogg1 and Mutyh influence gene expression of PRC2 targets associated with cognition
Cell Mol Life Sci, 82 (1), 307
DOI 10.1007/s00018-025-05730-9, PubMed 40779073

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