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.
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.
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.
MicroPath congratulate Arfa Irej Qureshi (in the middle) with her M.Sc. in Pharmacy. She defended her M.Sc. thesis entitled "Exploring the landscape of bioinformatic tools for fungal identification in shotgun metagenomic sequencing data: For potential applications in colorectal cancer biomarker discovery". Trine Rounge (back left), Ekaterina Avershina (middle front) and Hanne Winther-Larsen (front left) acted as supervisors. Lars-Gustav Snipen (back right) from NMBU and Ragnhild Paulsen, UiO, were sensors.
MicroPath congratulate Ikram Massoud (in the middle) with MSc in Pharmacy. She defended har thesis entitled (in Norwegian): Isolering og strukturoppklaring av antimikrobielle forbindelser fra gråorbark. Helle Wangensteen (left) acted as main supervisor and Hanne Winther-Larsen (right) as co-supervisor
MicroPath contribute to the story on the effect of Neutral natural deep eutectic solvents as anti-biofilm agents in collaboration with other colleges at the Department of Pharmacy, University of Oslo.
Please read more about the work: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590207523000114
The MicroPath group enjoyed a ski trip at Holmenkollen ski arena. It was Elisas first attempt on cross country skies. The group enjoyed hot chocolate and coconut-buns for after-ski at Frognerseteren restaurant.
Our research project focusing on using bacterial membrane vesicles as vaccines within animal health was presented at the Norwegian Institute for Public Health.
MicroPath attend a collaborative project meeting with professor Miki Bojesen and senior scientist Fabio Antenucci at the Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Copenhagen. MicroPath and the research group of Miki Bojesen are both interested in the use of bacterial extracellular vesicles as vaccines against bacterial infections in One health.
You can read more about Miki Bojesens research here: https://ivh.ku.dk/english/employees/?pure=en/persons/309785
The MicroPath group presents at the MISC conference. MISC is a Norwegian-Chinese-Japanese student and researcher exchange program on the study of microbial surface colonization.
You can read about MISC here: https://www.mn.uio.no/ibv/english/research/projects/misc/
MicroPath PhD student Verena Mertes presenting her work at the poster session at the MISC conference, University of Oslo, February 2023.
Read more about the MISC conference here: https://www.mn.uio.no/ibv/english/research/projects/misc/events/misc-symposium-2023.html
Elisa Mascherin is studying pharmacy at University in Trieste, Italy. She will spend 6 months in our lab working on the outer membrane vesicles as possible vaccine against yersiniosis in fish. She will be supervised by Verena Mertes and Saranya Subramani in the laboratory.
MicroPath is now part of the SPARK program at University of Oslo. We were on of 6 selected projects. The project will continue our work on vaccine development for animal health in close collaboration with INVEN2.
Read more about the SPARK program: https://www.uio.no/english/research/strategic-research-areas/life-science/news-and-events/news/2023/innovation-new-teams-spark-norway.html
Research on vaccination in pigs, where MicroPath has made a contribution, are reported in Titan.no and Forskning.no. Check it out:
Grisane vart sjuke sjølv om dei fekk vaksine (forskning.no)
Slik lurte bakterien ein vaksine mot lungebetennelse hjå gris | Titan.uio.no
Our PhD student Rebekka Rolfsnes is spending 3 months at The Artic University of Norway in Tromsø. She has joined the group of Hanna-Kirsti Leiros at the Department of Chemistry and is studying the enzyme kinetics of an anti-microbial resistance breaker. Rebekka is supervised by Christopher Frøhlich during her stay in Tromsø.
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