2021

Published Aug. 30, 2021 8:35 AM

Senior scientist Marina Vietri in Harald Stenmark’s group received the “Early Career Award” of NOK 150.000 from Oslo University Hospital for her ground-breaking work on molecular mechanisms that govern sealing of the nuclear envelope to prevent cancer-promoting chromosome aberrations. Her work has been internationally recognized and has been dedicated commentary articles in leading journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology.

Published July 2, 2021 1:10 PM

Gender and diversity equality in academia – how can we achieve this? This was the topic of our very first CanCell Equality lunch seminar held by zoom on the 9th of June 2021. Chara Charsou, a postdoc and member of the CanCell Equality Forum introduced the keynote speaker Mari Teigen. 

Published June 22, 2021 7:56 PM

Did you miss the symposium and want to know who the new CanCell Junior grant receivers are? Do not despair; we give you all the updates here!

16th of June we hosted the CanCell Semiannual 2021 symposium. It was a success with over 100 particcipants tuning in via Zoom and featured lectures from invited speakers Pier Paolo Di Fiore from Milano and Eivind Hovig from Oslo. New to this year the event were held as a hybrid event between “on site” talks and zoominars.

 

Published June 1, 2021 3:13 PM

Pint of Science is a global science festival that brings together scientists from all over the world to discuss their science. This year Pint of Science Oslo features Helene Knævelsrud which talks about Fruit fly sex in cancer research. See it here!  

Published May 3, 2021 2:12 PM

Helene Knævelsrud makes an appearance in the popular Norwegian podcast "Mum is working" aka @mammajobber on Facebook.

With almost 14k followers on Facebook the podcast has gained a special place in our hearts. In the podcast "En dag skal jeg gjøre alt perfekt, men ikke i dag" Helene is talking about her life as a cancer researcher and a mum. How is the life of a project manager, mum and scientist?  And how do you overcome broken expectations? Listen to the podcast here to know more!

 

 

Published Jan. 28, 2021 3:29 PM

Late in December Anne Simonsen and several other CanCell researchers got the great news from the Norwegian Research council that they support their research with several millions. You can read about it in this CanCell news article. In this brand new video (Norwegian) posted by the Norwegian Ministry of Education on their Facebook pages we are invited into the lab of Anne Simonsen where she do research on Autophagy, a process that is implicated that when it is malfunctioning it have a role in both development of diseases like Cancer and Alzheimers. Anne is working to understand what this role is and how this happens.

 

Published Jan. 21, 2021 9:44 AM

Autophagy, ‘self-eating’, is the process by which cells capture and degrade components in their own interior that are harmful or superfluous, in order to recycle, detoxify and reuse them. In recent years, it was discovered that an important player in cells are fluid droplets -- like drops of oil in water -- that are enriched with proteins to perform various functions. Now, in a new paper published in Nature, CanCell scientists have collaborated with an international team to unravel how autophagy can capture droplets of “fluid” proteins inside the cell. The research team has uncovered the physics behind droplet autophagy, and how droplets also can serve as platform to enable autophagy of other cellular components.

Published Jan. 19, 2021 5:55 PM

Since its beginning in 2010, Tekna’s Master stipend has been awarded to several candidates and helped them create extraordinary master projects. For the first time ever it has been awarded to a master project in the life sciences.

Published Jan. 14, 2021 4:25 PM

The Norwegian Centre for Molecular Medicine (NCMM) is working internationally to promote young and talented researchers to grow. The centre focus on molecular medicine, translational research and biotechnology and it is part of a big commitment to life sciences done by UiO. CanCell researcher Helene Knævelsrud has been appointed as a young associate investigator and Anne Simonsen has been re- elected as an associate investigator in the centre for the second time.