Competence
I belong to the focus area ‘Food safety and quality’ at Nofima Mat, and I am working as a post doc. in a project entitled ‘Comparative systems biology of lactic acid bacteria’ or ‘SysMO-LAB2’, which focuses on four different microorganisms: Lactococcus lactis, Enterococcus faecalis, Streptococcus pyogenes, Lactobacillus plantarum. The goal of the project is to develop understandable models of the metabolism of these species, and the so-called ”omics”-techniques (”genomics”, ”proteomics”, ”transcriptomics”, ”metabolomics”) and mathematical and statistical methods are of crucial importance. In addition to the comparative analyses between the four species, the project also focuses on diversity and differences within each of the species at the strain level. I am involved in the work with L. plantarum, which is a commercially important lactic acid bacterium. This species is found in various environments including vegetal and meat fermentations, and in the human intestinal tract. It is associated with positiv health effects (probiotic).
Education
Ph.D. in molecular microbiology (2010) from Nofima and the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway.
Title: ’Lactobacillus sakei – metabolism and diversity’.
M.Sc. in biotechnology (2004) from Akvaforsk (which today is part of Nofima) and the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway.
Title: ‘Cloning and characterization of caspase 3, 6 and 7 in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) embryos, and their role in stress-induced apoptosis’.
M.Sc. (2004) in biotechnology from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB). For the moment, I am a Ph.D. student at Nofima Food and the UMB.
