UiO UiO:Life Science

Workshop 27 February 2025

List of people who will participate at workshop for convergence environments. Will be updated.

Open life sciences

Name	Research topic(s) of interest and/or competence	Title or short description (2-3 sentences) of initial project idea
Melinka Butenko	Signalling systems, toxins, structural biology, peptide activity, plant pathogen interactions.
Athanasios Chatzitakis	microbial proteins, solar foods, CO2 capture and utilization, green hydrogen production, bio-hybrid energy conversion systems	CO2-containing industrial waste gasses and green hydrogen from water photoelectrolysis are converted to proteins through bioengineered microbial cultures with no additional lands needs. To achieve this goal a socially placed bio-hybrid energy conversion system is proposed. The following disciplines must be converged to ensure the applicability of this groundbreaking system/approach: electrochemistry, semiconductors physics, biochemistry and biotechnology, engineering and social sciences.
Yael Friedman	Philosophy of medicine; Philosophy of science in practice.	Knowledge gaps and epistemic injustice in medical research.
Osman Gani	Computer-aided drug design (CADD). Molecular Modeling
Victor Greiff	Immunology
Ingvild Garmo Nilsson	microbial proteins, solar foods, CO2 capture and utilization, green hydrogen production, bio-hybrid energy conversion systems
John N. Parker	I am a sociologist of science with expertise in how to best create the kinds of organizations, groups, and social interactions that best facilitate creative interdisciplinary research. My interest is in joining a team to help them plan how they might best organize themselves for interdisciplinary success.
Cinzia Progida	Intracellular traffic, organelle homeostasis, cell migration, mechanobiology
Judith Reindl	Radiotherapy, Radiation protection, Radiobiology, Accelerator physics
Biswa Sahu	Cancer epigenetics, gene expression control, enhancer malfunction and epigenome reprogramming by transcription factors, next-generation sequencing and single cell multomics	Understand the role of non-genetic mechanisms such as enhancer and epigenome reprogramming in cancer initiation, progression, metastasis and treatment resistance. Using high resolution enhancer landscapes in accessible chromatin and gene expression data from single cell analysis.

One health

Name	Research topic(s) of interest and/or competence	Title or short description (2-3 sentences) of initial project idea
Camila Esguerra	Disease models, Drug discovery, Tissue xenografting, Toxicology
Yael Friedman	Philosophy of medicine; Philosophy of science in practice.	Knowledge gaps and epistemic injustice in medical research.
Ketil Hylland	Marine ecology, Ecotoxicology	One health in a toxic world: consequences for ecosystems, biodiversity and human health
John N. Parker	I am a sociologist of science with expertise in how to best create the kinds of organizations, groups, and social interactions that best facilitate creative interdisciplinary research. My interest is in joining a team to help them plan how they might best organize themselves for interdisciplinary success.
Fernanda Cristina Petersen	Resistome, microbiome, AMR	This project idea is to focus on harnessing the potential of microbiota modulation to combat antimicrobial resistance (AMR) within the framework of the One Health approach. By leveraging interventions such as probiotics, prebiotics, and microbiome-targeted therapies, we aim to restore microbial balance and reduce the spread of resistant pathogens across humans, animals, and the environment.
Judith Reindl	Radiotherapy, Radiation protection, Radiobiology, Accelerator physics
Biswa Sahu	Cancer epigenetics, gene expression control, enhancer malfunction and epigenome reprogramming by transcription factors, next-generation sequencing and single cell multomics	Understand the role of non-genetic mechanisms such as enhancer and epigenome reprogramming in cancer initiation, progression, metastasis and treatment resistance. Using high resolution enhancer landscapes in accessible chromatin and gene expression data from single cell analysis.
Hanne Winther-Larsen	Molecular microbiology, antimicrobial resistance, vaccine development, One health, animal health.	Antimicrobial resistance is one of the major global health threats. Our research groups is interested in approaching this problem on different ways from to understand basic biological mechanisms to drug use and new antimicrobial strategies.

A sustainable life span

Name	Research topic(s) of interest and/or competence	Title or short description (2-3 sentences) of initial project idea
Athanasios Chatzitakis	microbial proteins, solar foods, CO2 capture and utilization, green hydrogen production, bio-hybrid energy conversion systems	CO2-containing industrial waste gasses and green hydrogen from water photoelectrolysis are converted to proteins through bioengineered microbial cultures with no additional lands needs. To achieve this goal a socially placed bio-hybrid energy conversion system is proposed. The following disciplines must be converged to ensure the applicability of this groundbreaking system/approach: electrochemistry, semiconductors physics, biochemistry and biotechnology, engineering and social sciences.
Diana Domanska	Ageing, Machine learning, AI, multi omics, longitudinal data	Healthy ageing �C Prevention is better than cure. Using clinical data and biomaterial we want to define signatures in the general population that characterises ageing driven DNA damage.
Camila Esguerra	Disease models, Drug discovery, Tissue xenografting, Toxicology
Osman Gani	Computer-aided drug design (CADD). Molecular Modeling
Erik Knain	Open schooling collaboration, transformative change, Oslofjorden environmental crisis, knowledge co-creation and adaptation for action	Life science, education and arts for transformative change (LifeArts) aims to create and investigate the conditions and resources necessary for bridging the gaps between knowledge and transformative action towards sustainability through interdisciplinary, inter-sectoral social innovation. LifeArts will build on existing partnerships exploring the use of expressions of art and art processes to explore future thinking, narratives of change, and humans ability to make sense. Shapes of knowledge will be analyzed as representational means across time and settings as traces of learning and emergent knowledge and new practices. The open schooling collaboration is built around the urgent need to address the environmental crises in the Oslofjord.
Hilde Loge Nilsen	Ageing, Machine learnring, AI, Multi-omics data, Longitudinal, Age-related diseases	Age is the primary cause and risk factor for the majority of diseases, slowing down aging has huge personal and societal benefits by minimizing the disease burden that comes with aging process. We aim to develop a framework for personalised healthy aging interventions using machine-learrning to intergrate longitudinal clinical data and multiomic data.
Ingvild Garmo Nilsson	microbial proteins, solar foods, CO2 capture and utilization, green hydrogen production, bio-hybrid energy conversion systems
John N. Parker	I am a sociologist of science with expertise in how to best create the kinds of organizations, groups, and social interactions that best facilitate creative interdisciplinary research. My interest is in joining a team to help them plan how they might best organize themselves for interdisciplinary success.
Judith Reindl	Radiotherapy, Radiation protection, Radiobiology, Accelerator physics
Hanne Winther-Larsen	Molecular microbiology, antimicrobial resistance, vaccine development, One health, animal health.	Antimicrobial resistance is one of the major global health threats. Our research groups is interested in approaching this problem on different ways from to understand basic biological mechanisms to drug use and new antimicrobial strategies.

Biodiversity

Name	Research topic(s) of interest and/or competence	Title or short description (2-3 sentences) of initial project idea
Torbj?rn Ergon	Statistical ecology (hierarchical state-space modelling, spatio-temporal models, causal inference), demography, life-history theory, evolutionary responses, quantitative genetics, species interactions, population dynamics, epidemiology, biodiversity, monitoring, management, decision theory.	Statistical ecology; biodiversity monitoring and management
Camila Esguerra	Disease models, Drug discovery, Tissue xenografting, Toxicology
Ketil Hylland	Marine ecology, Ecotoxicology	One health in a toxic world: consequences for ecosystems, biodiversity and human health
Erik Knain	Open schooling collaboration, transformative change, Oslofjorden environmental crisis, knowledge co-creation and adaptation for action	Life science, education and arts for transformative change (LifeArts) aims to create and investigate the conditions and resources necessary for bridging the gaps between knowledge and transformative action towards sustainability through interdisciplinary, inter-sectoral social innovation. LifeArts will build on existing partnerships exploring the use of expressions of art and art processes to explore future thinking, narratives of change, and humans ability to make sense. Shapes of knowledge will be analyzed as representational means across time and settings as traces of learning and emergent knowledge and new practices. The open schooling collaboration is built around the urgent need to address the environmental crises in the Oslofjord.
John N. Parker	I am a sociologist of science with expertise in how to best create the kinds of organizations, groups, and social interactions that best facilitate creative interdisciplinary research. My interest is in joining a team to help them plan how they might best organize themselves for interdisciplinary success.

No topic specified

Name	Research topic(s) of interest and/or competence	Title or short description (2-3 sentences) of initial project idea
J?rgen Sugar	Neuroscience, Memory	Attention is important for memory. How is attention formed in the brain and how is it used to successfully form memories? My idea is to record neural data in humans while they perform a memory task that is highly dependent on attention.