Daily Archives: Wednesday December 9th, 2015

Public PhD Defense, Week 51

Marie KarlsenMarie Karlsen will defend her PhD thesis on Friday December 18, 2015
Trial lecture: Thursday December 17, 2015, 14:15
Topic: “The TLR system, connecting the innate and adaptive immune system in physiological and autoimmune conditions”
Place: Auditorium 2, BB-bygget, Jonas Lies vei 91
Public defense: Friday December 18 2015, 09:15
Place: Auditorium 2, BB-bygget, Jonas Lies vei 91
Title of dissertation: “Toll like receptors in primary Sjögren’s syndrome – special emphasis on B cells”
1st opponent Ph.d. Chiara Baldini, Universitetet i Pisa, Italia
2nd opponent: Ph.d. Peter Szodoray, Universitetet i Oslo

Press release (in Norwegian)

Public PhD Defense, Week 51

madsen_andreAndré Greger Madsen   will defend his PhD thesis on Friday December 18, 2015
Trial lecture: Friday December 18, 2015, 09:15
Topic: “Brown and Beige Fat: Physiological Roles beyond Heat    Generation”
Place: Auditorium 1, BB-bygget, Jonas Lies vei 91
Public defense: Friday December 18 2015, 11:15
Place: Auditorium 1, BB-bygget, Jonas Lies vei 91
Title of dissertation:“Function and regulation of Steroid Receptor Coactivator 2 Transcriptional regulation of cellular metabolism”
1st opponent: Førsteamanuensis Lars-Arne Haldosen, Karolinska Institutet, Sverige
2nd opponent: Professor Jens Petter Berg, Universitetet i Oslo

Press release (in Norwegian)

New Publications

Based on last week’s search for “Department of Clinical Science AND Bergen”. If you have publications which are not covered by this search, send the reference to elin.opheim@uib.no.

Infant Growth and Risk of Childhood-Onset Type 1 Diabetes in Children From 2 Scandinavian Birth
Magnus MC, Olsen SF, Granström C, Joner G, Skrivarhaug T, Svensson J, Johannesen J, Njølstad P, Magnus P, Størdal K, Stene LC.
JAMA Pediatr. 2015 Dec 7;169(12):e153759.

Children Born Preterm at the Turn of the Millennium Had Better Lung Function Than Children Born Similarly Preterm in the Early 1990s.
Vollsæter M, Skromme K, Satrell E, Clemm H, Røksund O, Øymar K, Markestad T, Halvorsen T.
PLoS One. 2015 Dec 7;10(12):e0144243.

Long-term prognostic utility of pentraxin 3 and D-dimer as compared to high-sensitivity C-reactive protein and B-type natriuretic peptide in suspected acute coronary syndrome.
Mjelva ØR, Pönitz V, Brügger-Andersen T, Grundt H, Staines H, Nilsen DW.
Eur J Prev Cardiol. 2015 Dec 3.

Sleep in octogenarians during the postoperative phase after transcatheter or surgical aortic valve replacement.
Amofah HA, Broström A, Fridlund B, Bjorvatn B, Haaverstad R, Hufthammer KO, Kuiper KK, Ranhoff AH, Norekvål TM; CARDELIR Investigators.
Eur J Cardiovasc Nurs. 2015 Dec 3.

A genome-wide association study identifies risk loci for spirometric measures among smokers of European and African ancestry.
Lutz SM, Cho MH, Young K, Hersh CP, Castaldi PJ, McDonald ML, Regan E, Mattheisen M, DeMeo DL, Parker M, Foreman M, Make BJ, Jensen RL, Casaburi R, Lomas DA, Bhatt SP, Bakke P, Gulsvik A, Crapo JD, Beaty TH, Laird NM, Lange C, Hokanson JE, Silverman EK; ECLIPSE Investigators, and COPDGene Investigators.
BMC Genet. 2015 Dec 3;16(1):138.

The prevalence of anemia and iron deficiency is more common in breastfed infants than their mothers in Bhaktapur, Nepal.
Chandyo RK, Henjum S, Ulak M, Thorne-Lyman AL, Ulvik RJ, Shrestha PS, Locks L, Fawzi W, Strand TA.
Eur J Clin Nutr. 2015 Dec 2.

Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies identifies common susceptibility polymorphisms for colorectal and endometrial cancer near SH2B3 and TSHZ1.
Cheng TH, Thompson D, Painter J, O’Mara T, Gorman M, Martin L, Palles C, Jones A, Buchanan DD, Ko Win A, Hopper J, Jenkins M, Lindor NM, Newcomb PA, Gallinger S, Conti D, Schumacher F, Casey G, Giles GG, Pharoah P, Peto J, Cox A, Swerdlow A, Couch F, Cunningham JM, Goode EL, Winham SJ, Lambrechts D, Fasching P, Burwinkel B, Brenner H, Brauch H, Chang-Claude J, Salvesen HB, Kristensen V, Darabi H, Li J, Liu T, Lindblom A, Hall P, de Polanco ME, Sans M, Carracedo A, Castellvi-Bel S, Rojas-Martinez A, Aguiar Jnr S, Teixeira MR, Dunning AM, Dennis J, Otton G, Proietto T, Holliday E, Attia J, Ashton K, Scott RJ, McEvoy M, Dowdy SC, Fridley BL, Werner HM, Trovik J, Njolstad TS, Tham E, Mints M, Runnebaum I, Hillemanns P, Dörk T, Amant F, Schrauwen S, Hein A, Beckmann MW, Ekici A, Czene K, Meindl A, Bolla MK, Michailidou K, Tyrer JP, Wang Q, Ahmed S, Healey CS, Shah M, Annibali D, Depreeuw J, Al-Tassan NA, Harris R, Meyer BF, Whiffin N, Hosking FJ, Kinnersley B, Farrington SM, Timofeeva M, Tenesa A, Campbell H, Haile RW, Hodgson S, Carvajal-Carmona L, Cheadle JP, Easton D, Dunlop M, Houlston R, Spurdle A, Tomlinson I.
Sci Rep. 2015 Dec 1;5:17369.

Kardiologi, Klinisk veileder, Kapittel 11 Hypertensjon
Lund-Johansen P, Kjeldsen SE.
Oslo, Gyldendal Norsk Forlag (2015): 152-164.