MicroPath attend the ISEV conference, the annual meeting of Society of extracellular vesicles 2024. MicroPath PI Hanne C. Winther-Larsen presented a poster entitled "Recombinant extracellular vesicles as vaccines within animal health". This years meeting was hosted in Melbourne, Australia by the Australian and New Zealand Societies of extracellular vesicles.
https://www.isev.org/isev-annual-meeting
MicroPath PhD student Rebecca Rolfsnes Hovd spent 3 months at Department of Pharmacy and Department of Chemistry, UiT: The Norwegian Arctic University. Here she conducted mechanistic studies of newly developed antimicrobial resistance breakers discovered by the biotech company AdjuTec Pharma. The research stay was sponsored by the Nordic POP research exchange program:
https://www.mn.uio.no/farmasi/forskning/nettverk/nordic-pop/
Both PhD student Rebecca Rolfsnes Hovd and PI Hanne C. Winther-Larsen attended the Nordic AMR research centre meeting in Tromsø 13th - 15th March 2024. The meeting was organized by CANS and the Network of Nordic AMR Centers. Some of the participants were lucky to observe the Northern Light after dinner events. You can check our the program at:
https://en.uit.no/tavla/artikkel/829124/nordic_amr_research_centre_meeting
Through the Norway SPARK program MicroPath PI Hanne Winther-Larsen pitched the project Novel vaccine platform for animal health at the Norway Life Science conference 2024.
Norway Life Science 2024: Unlocking the Potential of Health Data - UiO:Life Science
We are proud and wish to congratulate Verena Mertes with her PhD. She held a fantastic trial lecture before defending her thesis in an excellent manner.
Kasper Rømer Villumsen, Reidun Øvstebø and Rigmor Solberg acted as opponents.
Her supervisor team was: Hanne Cecilie Winther-Larsen, Dirk Linke, Duncan Colquhoun, Elia Ciani and Athanasios Saragliadis.
Please check: Disputation: Verena Mertes - Department of Pharmacy (uio.no)
We welcome ERASMUS+ student Rebecca Kronseder, pharmacy student from University of Regensburg, Germany, to the MicroPath group. Rebecca will stay with us from December 2023 - May 2024 working on the SPARK project designing vaccines for livestock based on recombinant extracellular vesicles. She will be co-supervised by Saranya Subramani during her time at Department of Pharmacy, UiO.
MicroPath has published an article on expressing outer membrane proteins OmpA and OmpF from the fish pathogen Yersinia ruckeri in extracellular vesicles secreted from outer membrane protein mutants in E. coli. MicroPath PhD student Verena Mertes is first author and the article was co-authors by Athanasios Saragliadis, Elisa Mascherin, Ellen-Beate Tysvær, Norbert Roos, Dirk Linke and Hanne C. Winther-Larsen.
check it out on: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pep.2023.106409
We have co-published with MicroPath associated NMBU PhD student Gabriela Garril in Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology on the response of growth, biofilm formation and virulence of co-culturing of P. salmonis LF89 and EM90 genomtypes.
Read all about the study here.
This autumn MicroPath host two ERASMUS+ students from Tübingen University, Germany. Theresa Schneider (left) and Lara-Kristin Kuhnert (right) work on the SPARK Norway funded project investigating use of recombinant bacterial extracellular vesicles as vaccines for livestock and aquaculture.
Verena Mertes, a PhD student with the MicroPath group, presented her work at the The National Graduate School in Infection Biology and Antimicrobials (IBA) annual meeting with a poster entitled "Characterization of bacterial extracellular vesicles: A versatile tool for potential vaccine application in aquaculture".
Read more about IBA here: ibaschool.no
MicroPath innovation PhD student Rebekka Rolfsnes Hovd participated with a poster entitled "Investigating the mechanism of action of a novel dual B-lactamase inhibitor" at the annual conference of The National Graduate School in Infection Biology and Antimicrobials (IBA).
MicroPath gratulate Gezime Seferi with her PhD defended on Friday 6th October 2023. We are proud and happy to have collaborated with Dr. Seferi and her supervisor Cecilie Morland on the second manuscript in the thesis investigation the effect of exercise on the gut microbiome composition in diabetic mice.
MicroPath join SPARK Norway together with four other SPARKEES at Nordic Innovation Fair in Copenhagen. We also met with SPARK Denmark and SPARK Finland in a joint pitching seminar and a talk from the Novo Nordisk funded BII program.
Read more about the event at SPARK Norway: https://www.uio.no/english/research/strategic-research-areas/life-science/news-and-events/news/2023/spark-nordic-nordic-innovation-fair.html
Verena Mertes, Hanne C. Winther-Larsen and Saranya Subramani from the MicroPath group attended the Research Council of Norway funded INPART MISC meeting in Nagoya Japan, September 2023. The meeting gathered scientist from master level students til distinguished professors from Norway, Japan and China. Professor Katsutoshi Hori of Nagoya University hosted the meeting. MicroPath participated with an invited speaker talk and two posters.
Titan.uio.no comments on a collaborative publication with MicroPath previous post-doc Katrine Lekang as first author:
Lengre antibiotikabehandling gav meir utslag i tarmfloraen hjå mus - Titan.uio.no
Photo: Jonas Bendiksen.
MicroPath PhD students Verena Mertes presents her work on bacterial extracellular vesicles from the fish pathogen Yersinia ruckeri at Department of Medical Biochemistry at Oslo University Hospital.
MicroPath hosted a seminar 4th July 2023 on Antimicrobial resistance and vaccine development in fish health. Participants in from of the Royal Castle in Oslo. From left: Hanne Winther-Larsen (Pharmacy, UiO), Javiera Ortiz (University of Chile, Santiago), Elisa Mascherin (University of Trieste, Italy), Pamela Aravena (University of Chile, Santiago), Verena Mertes (Pharmacy, UiO) and Gabriela Garril (NMBU). Saranya Subramani and Benedikte Bøe (both Pharmacy, UiO) could not join the photo session.
The ISEV meeting 2023 was held in Seattle, Washington state, US. MicroPath gave an oral presentation at the annual meeting of the International Society of Extracellular Vesicles (ISEV), and acted as a chair at the session "Check this stuff out".
New publication out with our collaborative partners Cristian Oliver and Alex Romero, at Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile. The work explore the immune response of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) towards extracellular vesicles isolated from the fish pathogen P. salmonis. Check it out:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fsi.2023.108887
Through the MISC microbial exchange program, PhD student Zhe Wang spend four weeks with the MicroPath group in June 2023. With us she learned how to work with bacterial extracellular vesicles. She is a Ph.D. student at Peking Union Medical College/Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, with Professor Enguo Fan as her main supervisor.
