Research groups
Short info
Work
My current research focus is on neurodegeneration and neuroinflammation, focusing on translational and clinical studies of Parkinson's disease, Multiple Sclerosis, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and dementia.
Publications
2025
- Kverneng, Simon Ulvenes; Mostafavi, Sepideh; Mikhaleva, Yana et al. (2025). Platelet mitochondrial complex I and IV activities are not reliable stratification biomarkers in Parkinson's disease. (external link)
- Kverneng, Simon Ulvenes; Stige, Kjersti Eline; Berven, Haakon et al. (2025). Mitochondrial complex I deficiency occurs in skeletal muscle of a subgroup of individuals with Parkinson’s disease. (external link)
2021
- Tjeldnes, Håkon; Labun, Kornel; Cleuren, Yamila Nicole Torres et al. (2021). ORFik: a comprehensive R toolkit for the analysis of translation. (external link)
- Labun, Kornel; Krause, Maximilian; Cleuren, Yamila Nicole Torres et al. (2021). CRISPR Genome Editing Made Easy Through the CHOPCHOP Website. (external link)
2020
- Ewe, Chee Kiang; Cleuren, Yamila Nicole Torres; Rothman, Joel H (2020). Evolution and developmental system drift in the endoderm gene regulatory network of Caenorhabditis and other nematodes. (external link)
- Ewe, Chee Kiang; Cleuren, Yamila Nicole Torres; Flowers, Sagen E. et al. (2020). Natural cryptic variation in epigenetic modulation of an embryonic gene regulatory network. (external link)
- Giess, Adam; Cleuren, Yamila Nicole Torres; Tjeldnes, Håkon et al. (2020). Profiling of Small Ribosomal Subunits Reveals Modes and Regulation of Translation Initiation. (external link)
2019
- Danks, Gemma Barbara; Galbiati, Heloisa; Raasholm, Martina et al. (2019). Trans-splicing of mRNAs links gene transcription to translational control regulated by mTOR. (external link)
- Krause, Maximilian; Niazi, Adnan Muhammad; Labun, Kornel et al. (2019). tailfindr: Alignment-free poly(A) length measurement for Oxford Nanopore RNA and DNA sequencing. (external link)
- Labun, Kornel; Montague, Tessa G.; Krause, Maximilian et al. (2019). CHOPCHOP v3: expanding the CRISPR web toolbox beyond genome editing. (external link)
- Cleuren, Yamila Nicole Torres; Ewe, Chee Kiang; Alok, Geneva et al. (2019). ICD-1/BTF3 antagonizes SKN-1-mediated endoderm specification in Caenorhabditis elegans. (external link)
- Cleuren, Yamila Nicole Torres; Ewe, Chee Kiang; Chipman, Kyle C. et al. (2019). Extensive intraspecies cryptic variation in an ancient embryonic gene regulatory network. (external link)
Projects
I currently manage a large portfolio of research and innovation projects based at the University of Bergen and Haukeland University Hospital, funded from the Norwegian Research Council, Horizon Europe, Michael J Fox foundation, ERA4HEALTH, Regional Health trusts, patient organizations and private foundations. My role is to continously update our research and innovation strategy and to lay the foundation for the next generation of projects. This includes two Research Centers:
2022- ongoing: Head of Research & Innovation Strategy – K.G. Jebsen Center for Parkinson’s Disease, University of Bergen - Norway
2020- ongoing: Head of Research & Innovation Strategy – Neuro-SysMed Center, Haukeland University Hospital - Norway
Major Research and Innovation projects:
2025: "GameON: Gamified Activity and Monitoring for Early Onset of Neurological Decline" - Project Leader - Norwegian Research Council (Pilot Helse program)
2025-2028: "NADage - Boosting NAD metabolism to prevent pathological brain aging" - Scientific project manager & WP leader - ERA4Health (NutriBrain program)
2024-2025: "Development of novel NAD-therapies for neurodegeneration" – Project co-leader – Digital Life Norway Innovation Roadmap
2023-2028: “EBV-MS” – WP leader and scientific project manager – Horizon Europe (RIA project, 15 partners, €7 M)