About us

Research group leadership

Philippe Collas, PhD, Professor - Principal Investigator and Head of Group

philc@medisin.uio.no

Thomas Sæther, PhD, Associate Professor - Administrative Head of Group -

thomas.sather@medisin.uio.no

Project leaders

Nolwenn Briand, PhD, Researcher - Adipose tissue biology

 nolwenn.briand@medisin.uio.no

Aurélie Bellanger, PhD, Researcher - Nuclear lamins and EMT

aurelie.bellanger@medisin.uio.no

Julia Madsen-Østerbye, PhD, Researcher - Laminopathies

j.k.madsen-osterbye@medisin.uio.no

Marie Rogne, PhD, Researcher - Microproteins and cancer metastasis

marie.rogne@medisin.uio.no

The rest of the team

 Natalia M. Galigniana, PhD - Postdoc

Sandra Bryne, MSc - PhD student

 Sumithra Taraldsen - Administrative Assistant

 Kristin Vekterud, BSc - Principal Engineer

 Mohamed Abdelhalim, PhD - Bioinformatician

Tasmia Jinnurine, MSc - Engineer

Emily Martinsen, MSc - Guest researcher

... and 48 alumni

Our lab retreats

Every two years we go on a retreat somewhere in Europe where one us is from or has family, mixing science, outdoors activities, and good food...

Where have we been? Croatia, Denmark, France (4 times), Germany, Norway, Slovakia, Spain