Today, Anne Simonsen, co-director of CanCell and professor at Institute for Basic Medical Sciences was bestowed the lifetime honour of EMBO Membership . She and 62 other leading scientists was awarded this in recognition of their remarkable achievements in the life sciences. We extend our congratulations!
The grant application "Understanding Membrane Dynamics and their Implications for Cancer with Correlative Optical Nanoscopy and Artificial Intelligence" (MEDYCONAI), with Stefan Stanciu at the University of Bucharest as coordinator and Harald Stenmark at CanCell as project partner has been awarded support from the Romania-Norway EEA research programme.
In a recent paper in Nature Cell Biology, an international team led by scientists at CanCell and the Institute of Basic Medical Sciences shows that uncontrolled repair of micronuclear membranes causes chromosome shattering associated with cancer.
Anette Christensen Lie-Jensen completed an outstanding digital disputation through Zoom on Friday June 12th to defend her thesis: "ALIX in cell division in vivo".
Andreas Brech started as a Professor II at Institute for Biosciences (IBV), Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at the University of Oslo on June 1st.
In a recent article in Journal of Cell Biology, published online on the 1st of June, 2020, scientist Nina Marie Pedersen and her coworkers in Camilla Raiborg’s project group at Institute for Cancer Research and Centre for Cancer Cell Reprogramming (CanCell), identify a new mechanism of how cancer cells grow invadopodia.
We were once again fortunate to have our user panel to give feedback on our research grants proposals, this time on Zoom.
We are delighted to share that Antoni Wiedlocha, senior scientist in Harald Stenmark's group, is receiving a European research grant to investigate FGFR-targeted cancer therapy.
Martine Mesel Isom and Ragnhild Eskeland are featured in "Viten" in the National newspaper Aftenposten with their article on CRISPR/Cas9.
CanCell scientists from the Stenmark Lab participated in the exhibition "Nanocosmos" at Kunstplass Akersgata, as a part of the UiO:Life Science Programmable Cell-like Compartments convergence environment.
The PIs at CanCell have embellished on the research strategies of CanCell for future improvement in cancer treatment in a blog entry at the Medical Faculty.
The CanCell user panel was invited to Institute of Cancer Research on Tuesday December 17th for a site visit.
The article in Nature Communication where Marte Sneeggen is first author was awarded Oslo University Hospital's semiannual prize for outstanding papers at a ceremony on Friday November 22nd.
In a recent issue of Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, Marina Vietri, Maja Radulovic and Harald Stenmark at CanCell review the many functions of a protein machinery specialized for membrane scission and sealing.
Their Report "Centralspindlin Recruits ALIX to the Midbody during Cytokinetic Abscission in Drosophila via a Mechanism Analogous to Virus Budding" uncovers parallels between ALIX recruitment during cytokinetic abscission in flies and virus budding in human cells and investigates the fine-tuned process involved in abscission, demonstrating that the centralspindlin complex emerges to play an ancestral role in recruiting the abscission machinery to the midbody
Ragnhild Eskeland from CanCell will take part in a popular science seminar coined "The Secrets of the Cells" in conjunction with "Science Days" at the University today (19/9, Litteraturhuset a 17.00), where she will present research on epigenetics and discuss why this gives us vital information about who we are, and what this may be used for. CanCell associate member Philippe Collas will also be presenting.
If you want to attend there is still a few spaces available, please sign up here.
A graphic introduction to epigenetics can be viewed here (facebook).
For those of you that did not make it yesterday, there is a link to the seminar video here
In a recent paper in the journal Autophagy, Dr. Yan Zhen and her co-workers in Harald Stenmark's group show a mechanism for how autophagosomes are sealed, a crucial step in autophagy.
In a recent article in Nature Communications, published online on the 28th of June, 2019, PhD student Marte Sneeggen and her coworkers at the Institute for Cancer Research and the Center for Cancer Cell Reprogramming (CanCell) identify a new mechanism how the tumor suppressor WDFY2 prevents metastasis by controlling recycling of the matrix metalloproteinase MT1-MMP
Harald Stenmark and his colleagues have received a joint grant with French researchers from the group of Philippe Chavrier at the Institut Curie in Paris. The funds were donated by Trond S. Paulsen and allocated by 'Radiumhospitalets Legates' to combat cancer cell invasiveness through the project Invacell.
On May 8th CanCell invited four representative from Cancer Patient Interest groups to present their perspective on cancer and cancer research and to give feedback on the applications proposed by the Centre's scientists.
CanCell co-director and professor Anne Simonsen received the prestigious King Olav V's Prize for Cancer Research at a ceremony at the University of Oslo today.
In a recent paper in Nature Cell Biology, Alf Håkon Lystad and Laura Rodriguez de la Balina in Anne Simonsen's group unveil fundamental mechanisms of autophagy related processes.
CanCell had its first visit by the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) on March 11th- 12th. The SAB consisting of Johanna Ivaska, Marja Jäättelä, Pier Paolo Di Fiore, Stephan Beck and Michael Boutros was introduced to the Centre's activities and strategies.
CanCell associate members Åslaug Helland and Arnoldo Frigessi were featured in both Apollon (UiO) and Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) for their work on developing artificial intelligence to improve cancer therapy.
The Institute of Basic Medical Sciences gives a warm welcome to Ragnhild Eskeland's research group with a interview and focus on epigenetics.