About us

Principal Investigator and Head of Group

Philippe Collas, PhD, Professor

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

 Sumithra Taraldsen - Administrative Assistant

 Kristin Vekterud, BSc - Principal Engineer

 Mohamed Abdelhalim, PhD - Bioinformatician

Tasmia Jinnurine, MSc - Engineer

 Natalia Galigniana, PhD - Postdoc

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...