Group Leader

 Eivind Valen

Professor

eivind.valen@uib.no

Eivind Valen did his PhD in Bioinformatics at the University of Copenhagen under Albin Sandelin and Anders Krogh. He later moved to Harvard University and The Broad Institute where he did his postdoc in the lab of Alex Schier.

Researchers and Postdocs

Håkon Tjeldnes

Postdoc

hakon.tjeldnes@uib.no

Håkon Tjeldnes holds a bachelor degree in both molecular biology and bioinformatics and masters degree in bioinformatics from the University of Bergen. After a PhD working on the identification of upstream open reading frames and their downstream effects in a variety of human cell-types and tissues, he is now a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oslo, but still spends most of his time collaborating with the CBU.

Kornel Labun

Researcher

kornel.labun@uib.no

Kornel has finished his PhD titled “In silico design and analysis of targeted genome editing with CRISPR” in 2020 at the ValenLab, University of Bergen. Currently working as a postdoctoral fellow focused on translation in metastasis. His research interests include Nanopore long-read sequencing and CRISPR.

Preeti Kute

Researcher

Preeti has obtained her Master’s Degree in Bioinformatics and Biotechnology from the University of Pune, India. Further, she did her PhD in molecular neuroscience from the Institute for Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine, Bangalore, India. During her PhD, she worked at understanding the paradoxical translation occurring downstream of NMDAR receptors at neuronal synapses. As a postdoctoral researcher, she continues her work on translation regulation, especially from the perspective of 5’UTRs.

PhD candidates

There are no PhD candidates in this group at the moment.

MSc students

There are no MSc students in this group at the moment.

Previous members

Adnan Niazi
PhD candidate graduated in 2022
Postdoc in 2022-2024

Jan Inge Øvrebø
Postdoc, 2021-2023

Teshome Tilahun Bizuayehu
Researcher, 2017-2023

Nadezhda Todorova
BSc Intern, 2021

Maximilian Krause
Postdoc, 2018-2021

Roos Nouwens
BSc Intern, 2020

Karoline Rutle
BSc Intern, 2020

Yamila Torres Cleuren
Postdoc, 2016-2020

Senna Hiensch
BSc Intern, 2019

Diego Montero Solano
BSc Intern, 2019

Katarzyna “Kasia” Chyżyńska
PhD candidate, 2014-2019

Adam Giess
PhD candidate, 2014-2019

Kornel Labun
PhD candidate, 2015-2019

Gunnar Schulze
PhD candidate, 2014-2019

Lena Lanner
BSc Intern, 2018

Kirill Jefimov
Research assistant, 2017-2018

Florian Müller
MSc Student, 2017-2018

Håkon Tjeldnes
MSc Student, 2016-2018

Puja Thiel
Researcher, 2015-2017

Rafael Cañadas
Research assistant, 2015