Ongoing projects
Linn Jeanette Folkenborg – Intake of coffee and its association to colorectal lesions and intestinal bacteria - a cross-sectional study – starting August 2024
Judy Ismail Alabdullah – Intake of fish and fish oils, and its association to colorectal lesions - a cross-sectional study in the CRCbiome project – starting August 2024
Tatiana Shulunova – Screening for endospores as a potential colorectal cancer marker – starting August 2024
Tijana Kosovac – Prescription drug use and the gut microbiome in colorectal cancer screening participants – starting August 2024
Signe Lohne – Prescription drug use and the gut microbiome in colorectal cancer screening participants – starting August 2024
Ines Danilovic – Prescription drug use and the gut microbiome in colorectal cancer screening participants – starting August 2024
Wiktor Babis – Identification of antibiotic resistant genes from shotgun metagenome data – starting September 2024
Linn Victoria Tande – Body Mass Index, Energy Intake, Colorectal Lesions, and Gut Bacteria – A Cross-Sectional Study in the CRCbiome Project – starting January 2025
Finished projects
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 (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