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Welcome to Lucrezia!

In April, we welcomed Lucrezia Calamo from the University of Bari to our team!

She will be with us for six months, working on research that explores how both circular and linear forms of PVT1 contribute to cancer development through translation and microRNA interactions.

Welcome, Lucrezia!

Welcome to Simon!

Welcome, Simon Lund Vendelo!

Simon joined us in February and will be writing his pre-master project with us. His research will focus on the early interactions between cancer cells and fibroblasts in metastasis.

We’re glad to have you on the team, Simon!

01.09.2024

Theresa has received a grant of 50.000,00 DKK from Eva og Henry Frænkels mindefond for her project on multiple myeloma. Congratulations Theresa!

03.05.2024

Half the lab attended the 4th Danish Single-Cell Symposium: Technology towards Cell Biology and Medicine in Odense, Denmark - two days filled with inspiration for our next experiments, and a chance for Juan to present some crisp spatial data!

03.05.2024

Ulrik has published a paper on the transcriptional landscape in colon cancer in The American Journal of Pathology.

15.04.2024

Welcome to Mostafa Khairy! Mostafa joins the lab as a research assistant and will apply to start his PhD project this summer.

01.04.2024

A big welcome to Mariana Semenova! Mariana joins the lab as a biomedical laboratory scientist.

15.03.2024

Lasse has received 2.215.000 DKK from the Danish Cancer Society to study the diagnostic potential of spatial molecular transcriptomics analyses of the tumor microenvironment of colon cancer.

05.02.2024

Welcome to Sara Simone Jensen and Terese Krogh Pedersen! Sara and Terese are both studying molecular medicine and will do their bachelor projects in the lab.

01.01.2024

A big welcome to Gro Grunnet Pløen! Gro joins the lab as a postdoc.

13.10.2023

Juan, Ulrik, Ulvi, Morten, Stine and Lasse (so half the lab - team effort!) have published a paper on spatial profiling of circRNAs in normal tissue versus cancer cells in Cancer Research.

28.06.2023

Lasse has received 400.000 DKK from Edit Ingeborg Sørensen og Jens Aage Sørensens mindefond to study non-coding RNAs in colon cancer using single-cell spatial transcriptomics.

26.06.2023

Charlotte Weilgaard Udengaard has succesfully defended her Master thesis focussing on the functional role of circRMST in ependymoma.

23.06.2023

Stine Mary Vissing has succesfully defended her Master thesis focussing on the gene expression changes that take place in different cell types at the invasive front of colon adenocarcinomas. Congratulations!

21.06.2023

Morten has received 4.000.000 DKK from the Novo Nordisk Foundation to explore a new strategy for the treatment of solid tumors. This very exciting project will start by the end of the year and take place at Karolinska Institutet, Imperial College London, and Aarhus University.

01.06.2023

Lasse has received 2.880.000 DKK from the Independent Research Fund Denmark to uncover the molecular functions of circular RNAs within the tumor microenvironment of colon cancer.

13.04.2023

Today a new instrument for single cell spatial transcriptomics arrived. The CosMx Spatial Molecular Imager. We can't wait for all the new interesting discoveries this may lead to.

15.03.2023

Eileen, Ulvi and Lasse have published an article describing how U2AF1 mutations impact circular RNA expression in myelodysplastic neoplasms in Leukemia, together with excellent collaborators.

25.02.2023

Sabine and Lasse have, together with excellent collaborators, published an article showing that a circular RNA expressed from the FAT3 locus regulates neural development in Molecular Neurobiology.

01.02.2023

Welcome back to Thea Petersen Paasch! Thea has joined us as a Research Assistant and will focus on the epigenetic regulation of ciRS-7 across different types of adenocarcinomas.

01.02.2023

Welcome to Silke Dahlbom Nielsen! Silke has joined us as a Research Assistant with the aim of doing a PhD focussing on non-coding RNAs in the tumor microenvironment of Mantle Cell Lymphoma.

21.12.2022

Lasse has received 5.000.000 DKK from Sygeforsikring "Danmark" to get a better understanding of therapy resistance in multiple myeloma.

25.11.2022

Thea successfully defended her Master's Thesis entitled Elucidating cell-type specific expression and function of the circular RNA ciRS-7 in the tumor microenvironment of colon cancers. Congratulations!

03.11.2022

Sabine won a "Distinguished poster presenter" prize at the NeuroRNA - RNA regulation in brain function and disease conference.

11.10.22

Theresa won first prize in the poster competition at the Danish RNA Society’s 7th Annual Meeting on RNA – from basic research to industrial applications.

11.10.2022

We are looking for new PhD students to join our lab - read more and apply here!

29.09.2022

Sabine, Liviu, and Lasse have, together with excellent collaborators, published an article on the dynamics of circRNA and microRNA expression patterns during treatment of psoriasis with Secukinumab in PLoS One.

17.09.22

Lasse and Juan have, together with colleagues from Iran and Germany, published a review paper describing the many roles of non-coding RNAs in cancer and EMT.

24.08.22

We went on the first lab retreat to Fuglsøcenteret on Mols and it was a great success!

16.06.22

Sabine has received a poster prize at the 4th International Conference on the Long and the Short of Non-Coding RNAs in Rhodes, Greece, which came with 500 USD.

01.06.22

Ulrik has received a grant of 221.041,67 DKK from Dansk Kræftforskningsfond for his PhD project on circRNAs in stage II colon cancer.

26.05.22

Lasse and Morten have, together with Anne Færch Nielsen, Jørgen Kjems and many international collaborators, published a paper on best practice standards for circular RNA research in Nature Methods.

01.05.22

Welcome to Stine Eg Asmussen! Stine will be working as a research assistant and later start her PhD in the group.

12.01.22

Welcome to Kim-Gwendolyn Dietrich! Kim is joining the lab as a technician and she previously worked as leading technician at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

01.01.22

Welcome to visiting PhD student Ulrik! Ulrik will be working on circular RNAs in stage 2 colon cancer.

21.12.21

Theresa has received 100.000,00 DKK from Dagmar Marshalls Foundation for her PhD project on non-coding RNAs in multiple myeloma.

16.12.21

Lasse has received 2.646.098,00 DKK from The Novo Nordisk Foundation to study non-coding RNAs in pediatric intracranial ependymomas.

15.12.21

Lasse and Theresa have published a review in Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology on the emerging roles of circRNAs in cancer and oncology.

08.12.21

Lasse has received 544.680,00 DKK from Børnecancerfonden to study pediatric brain tumors.

12.11.21

Ulvi has received a "young talented cancer researcher" grant of 1.550.000,00 DKK from the the Danish Cancer Society.

19.10.21

We are looking for a Laboratory Technologist to join our lab - read more and apply here!

23.09.21

Sabine has successfully defended her very impressive PhD thesis focussing on circRNAs in neurodevelopment and degeneration.

27.08.21

Lasse has received the prestigious research award, Danish Cancer Society - Junior Researcher Award, for his work on epigenetics in cancer. The award comes with 100.000 DKK.

01.08.21

Welcome to Sabine! Sabine Seeler is joining the lab as a Postdoc. Sabine is already a close collaborator from the Molecular Biology and Genetics department at AU.

09.07.21

Lasse has, together with his former PhD student and close collaborator Mette Dahl, published an article on expression patterns and prognostic potential of circRNAs in mantle cell lymphoma in Leukemia.

15.06.21

Juan has received a grant of 524.297,28 DKK from the private foundation "Købmand i Odense Johann og Hanne Weimann, f. Seedorffs Legat".

25.05.21

Morten & Lasse just published an article on circular RNAs as microRNA sponges and how to infer sponging property of a circRNA.

11.02.21

Lasse just published a review in Methods on how to profile circRNAs with an enzyme-free digital counting method.

01.02.21

Welcome to Stine and Juan! Stine is joining the lab as a bachelor student (molecular medicine), and Juan is joining the lab as a Postdoc.