Nils Halberg, PhD.
Associate Professor NCMM Young Associate Investigator PhD, University of Copenhagen 2009 Email: nils.halberg@uib.no Google Scholar | UiB Website | ORCID |
Cara Wogsland, PhD.
Postdoctoral Fellow PhD. Vanderbilt University 2017 Email: Cara.Wogsland@uib.no Google Scholar |
Xiaozheng Liu, M.Sc.
PhD Candidate M.Sc. University of Bergen 2016 Email: Xiaozheng.Liu@student.uib.no Xiaozheng Liu joined the Halberg lab as a master student in 2016 and started her PhD project in 2017. Her project employs system biology methods to understand at a molecular level the malignant cellular phenotypes that characterize cancer cells selected by an obese environment and how these promote cancer progression in obese breast cancer patients. |
Line Petersen, M.Sc.
PhD Candidate M.Sc. University of Bergen 2015 Email: Line.Petersen@uib.no Line Pedersen joined the Halberg lab in 2015 as a PhD student. Her project focuses on establishing animal models for studying the cancer-obesity connection in vivo. Line also applies metabolic analysis combined with modern molecular biology to understand underlying mechanisms of breast cancer tumorigenesis |
Anastassia Rulina, PhD.
Postdoctoral Fellow PhD. University Grenoble Alpes, 2015 Email: anastasiia.rulina@uib.no Google Scholar My interest lies in the area of cancer development and metastasis. From epidimiological data follows that obese cancer patients have worse prognosis, compared to patients with normal weight. I want to identify molecular drivers of this agressive phenotype of obesity-related cancers. To do so, I perform functional screening using CRISPR-Cas9 technology in obese models. In the future, I hope this work will lead to the improvement of the treatment of obese cancer patients. |
Former Members
Name |
Position |
Currently |
Pahul Hanjra |
Fullbright Scholar (2017-18) |
MD/PhD Student MD Anderson (USA) |
Pouda Panahandeh |
PhD Student (2015-2019) |
Postdoc with Gunnar Mellgren (UiB) |
Synnøve Aamold |
Pharmacy Master Student (2017-18) |
Pharmacist |
Susanne Benjaminsen |
Master Student (2018-2019) |
Lab technician (Kinn Therapeutics) |
Kristine Monsen |
Master Student (2018-2019) |
Pharmaq AS |
Hilde Lien |
Master Student (2018-2019) |
PhD Student with Camilla Krakstad (UiB) |