Ongoing projects
Finished projects
2026
Aleksandra Drazic – Association between antidepressant use and the gut microbiome in a FIT-positive cohort – completed 2026
Tatiana Shulunova – Quality assessment of the CoCa-biobank – completed 2026
2025
Tijana Kosovac – Antidepressant use and colorectal lesions in a FIT-positive cohort – completed 2025
Ines Danilovic – Analysis of Antacid use in the CRCbiome study – completed 2025
Linn Victoria Tande – Body Mass Index, Energy Intake, Colorectal Lesions, and Gut Bacteria – A Cross-Sectional Study in the CRCbiome Project – completed 2025
Signe Lohne – Proton Pump Inhibitor use in CRCbiome and colorectal cancer screening participants – completed 2025
Linn Jeanette Folkenborg – Associations between coffee consumption, the gut microbiome and high-risk colorectal lesions in a FIT-positive screening population – completed 2025
Judy Ismail Alabdullah – Fish and Fish Oil Intake and Their Associations with Colorectal Lesions: A Cross-Sectional Analysis from the CRCbiome Study – completed 2025
2024
Wiktor Babis – Identification of antibiotic resistant genes from shotgun metagenome data – completed 2024
Lisi Zhan – Identification of NRPS and PKS gene clusters, including the pks island, in bacterial metagenome from CRCbiome (link to github) – completed 2024
Vladimir Zarić – Comparison of NSAID and ASA usage across the colorectal screening study groups – completed 2024
Cassandra Hjortdahl – Simulation and dimension reduction of shotgun metagenome data (link to github) – completed 2024
Sandra Therese Olsen Bratlie – Antimicrobial use in colorectal cancer screening participants – completed 2024
Malin Nesheim – Prevalence of type 2 diabetes among colorectal cancer screening participants with a positive FIT test. Impact of diabetes medication for the severity of colorectal lesions – completed 2024
2023
Arfa Irej Qureshi – Exploring the landscape of bioinformatic tools for fungal identification in shotgun metagenomic sequencing data -
For potential applications in colorectal cancer biomarker discovery – completed 2023
Simon Nordvold Barak – VirMake: a Snakemake pipeline for viral metagenomic data analysis (https://github.com/uio-bmi/VirMake) – completed 2023
Frøya Berg Grønvik – Associations between intake of dairy products and colorectal lesions in the Norwegian CRCbiome study: a cross-sectional study – completed 2023
Jenny Helene Mary Storvik Fjørtoft – Place of Residence and the Gut Microbiome – completed 2023
2022
Ignas Rumbavicius – Tool to remove specific organisms from microbiome sequencing data: Host Contamination Removal Tool (HoCoRT) (https://github.com/ignasrum/hocort/) – completed 2022
Monica Linnea Dahlgren – Intake of NOVA classified processed foods at different stages of colorectal carcinogenesis: A cross-sectional investigation among Norwegian adults - completed 2022
Emilie Syse Jalland – Identification of participants in need of colonoscopy in a FIT-positive screening population with the use of diet and lifestyle factors - completed 2022
2021
Henrik Olsvik – Developing a pipeline for deep analysis of cancer causing genes in the gut microbiome – completed 2021
Astrid Riseth Andersen - Associations of the WCRF/AICR recommendations with stages of colorectal carcinogenesis: A cross-sectional investigation among Norwegian adults – completed 2021
2020
Jonas Evensen Thy - Association Between Dietary Fibre Intake, Faecal Microbiome Alpha-Diversity and Colorectal Neoplasia – completed 2020