Department of Molecular Biology University of Bergen

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Department of Molecular BiologyUniversity of
Bergen
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Department of Molecular Biology

• Established 01.01.1997
• Cair Professor dr. Johan R. Lillehaug
• 12 research groups
• enzymology
• transcripional regulation
• molecular embryology and developmental biology
• protein structure and function
• environmental toxicology
• microbiology and virology
• functional genomics
• Teaching obligations for
• Bachelor-, Master- and PhD degrees

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Department of Molecular Biology

• Employees 85
• Bachelor students 150
• Master students 50
• PhD students 35
• Annual funding
• - University funding NOK 25 mill. ( 4 mill.)
• - Extra mural funding NOK 10 mill. ( 1.5 mill)

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Lab 1

• Professor Arnt J. Raae dr. philos.
• Protein biochemistry
• Enzymology and structural biology
• Psycrophilic enzymes from Atlantic cod
• Comparative study of Isocitrate dehydrogenase
• Structural and functional aspects of a
  minispectrin
• Cellular structure and function of RACK (receptor
  for activated C-kinase)
• Professor Kari Fladmark
• - Functional genomics and proteomics

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Lab 2

• Professor Anders Goksøyr, dr. scient.
• Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology
• Biotransformation enzymes, signal transduction
  and xenobiotic metabolism in aquatic toxicology
• Endocrine disruptors and reproductive toxicology
• Development of biomarkers

• Professor Bernt Th. Walther, PhD
• Reproduction and early development Molecular and
  Evolutionary aspects of zonagenesis, zonalysis
  and catabolism

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Lab 3

• Professor Rein Aasland, dr. scient.
• Chromatin-based gene regulation and Cellular
  memory
• Professor Rune Male, dr. scient.
• Environmental contaminants as hormone mimetics
  Genetic variation in trypsin from fish

• Professor Dag E. Helland, dr. philos.
• The molecular biology of HIV.
• Goal to increase the knowledge of how the virus
  replicates in order to support drug development.
• The work is conducted by strong interactions with
  research groups in Norway and abroad.

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Lab 4

• Professor Harald B. Jensen, cand.real.
• Functional genomics of the methane-oxidising
  bacterium Methylococcus capsulatus (Bath)
  protein expression and functions.
• Professor Johan B. Lillehaug, dr.philos.
• Signal tranduction
• Thyroid cancer

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Lab 5

• Professor Mathias Ziegler, PhD
• Energy and signal transduction by NADSignalling
  pathways and subcellular compartmentation of NAD
  biosynthesis

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Lab 7

• Professor Hee-Chan Seo, PhD
• Gene regulation in CNS development
• Focus on genes that encode homeodomain-containing
  transcription factors that are expressed in the
  CNS (eg, brain and eye)

• Professor Anders Fjose, PhD
• Molecular and genetic analyses of gene
  regulation in embryonic development