• Lecture and exam questions, CCBIO905 Methods in Cancer Biomarker Research course, University of Bergen
• Midway evaluation, medical student research track programme, University of Bergen

Research articles:

1) Anna S. Gorbunova, Alexey V. Zamaraev, Maria A. Yapryntseva, Olga V. Kovaleva, Elena M. Tchevkina, Maria V. Turkina, Boris Zhivotovsky, Gelina S. Kopeina. Prognostic signature based on mitochondria quality control proteins for the prediction of lung adenocarcinoma patients survival. Cell Death Discov. 9, 352, (2023); 

2) Anna S. Gorbunova, Gelina S. Kopeina, and Boris Zhivotovsky. A balance between autophagy and other cell death modalities in cancer. Methods in Molecular Biology, v. 2445 Autophagy and Cancer, p. 3–24, (2022); 

3) Anna A. Shmakova, Polina S. Klimovich, Karina D. Rysenkova, Vladimir S. Popov, Anna S. Gorbunova, Anna A. Karpukhina, Maxim N. Karagyaur, Kseniya A. Rubina, Vsevolod A. Tkachuk, and Ekaterina V. Semina. Urokinase receptor uPAR downregulation in neuroblastoma leads to dormancy, chemoresistance and metastasis. Cancers, 14(4):994, (2022); 

4) Galina Yakovleva, William Kurdy, Anna Gorbunova, Irina Khilyas, Guenter Lochnit, and Olga Ilinskaya. Bacillus pumilus proteome changes in response to 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene-induced stress. Biodegradation, (2022); 

5) A. S. Gorbunova, T. V. Denisenko, M. A. Yapryntseva, A. D. Pivnyuk, T. A. Prikazchikova, V. G. Gogvadze, and B. Zhivotovsky. BNIP3 as a regulator of cisplatin-induced apoptosis. Biochemistry (Moscow), 85(10):1245–1253, (2020); 

6) Anna S. Gorbunova, Maria A. Yapryntseva, Tatiana V. Denisenko, and Boris Zhivotovsky. BNIP3 in lung cancer: To kill or rescue? Cancers, 12(11):3390, (2020); 

7) Alexey V. Zamaraev, Pavel I. Volik, Dmitry K. Nilov, Maria V. Turkina, Aleksandra Yu. Egorshina, Anna S. Gorbunova, Svetlana Iu. Iarovenko, Boris Zhivotovsky, and Gelina S. Kopeina. Requirement for serine-384 in caspase-2 processing and activity. Cell death & disease, 11(10):825, (2020); 

8) V. V. Senichkin, A. Y. Streletskaia, A. S. Gorbunova, B. Zhivotovsky, and G. S. Kopeina. Saga of Mcl-1: regulation from transcription to degradation. Cell Death and Differentiation, 27(2):405–419, (2020); 

9) Pervushin, N.V., Senichkin, V.V., Kapusta, A.A., Gorbunova, A. S., Kaminsky, O. V., Zhivotovsky, B., Kopeina, G.S. Nutrient deprivation promotes Mcl-1 degradation in an autophagy-independent manner. Biochemistry (Moscow), 85(10):1235–1244, (2020); 

10) TV Denisenko, AS Gorbunova, and B. Zhivotovsky. Mitochondrial involvement in migration, invasion and metastasis. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 7:e355, (2019)

Conference abstracts:

Spatial mapping of PD1-PD-L2 interactions suggests an additional checkpoint axis in non-small cell lung cancer. Anna Gorbunova, Amanda Lindberg, Lars Muhl, Ghazal Lessan Toussi, Hui Yu, Patrick Micke, Carina Strell. Cancer Res (2026) 86 (7_Supplement): 2820.

• Funding from the Lilly Constance and Karl Ingolf Larsson Foundation (2026)
• Funding from the Scandinavia-Japan Sasakawa Foundation for a one-month research stay (2026)
• Familien Blix' Fund for the Advancement of Medical Research (2025)

• Gøril Lima Horpestad, MSc student, Department of Biomedicine, University of Bergen (2026 – 2027);
• Johanna Ziegler, ERASMUS+ program MSc student, University of Regensburg, Germany (Sept. 2025 – Nov. 2025);
• Helia Hashemi, MSc student, Department of Biomedicine, University of Bergen (2024 – 2025).

• Beatson International Cancer Conference Poster Award, sponsored by Cancer Research UK Scotland Institute (2026) (ekstern lenke)
• Member of the European Association for Cancer Research (ekstern lenke) (2025–present)
• Participant, MED Postdoctoral Development Program, University of Bergen (2024–2025)
• Peer Review for Frontiers in Oncology (2023–present); Apoptosis, Discover Oncology, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, Springer Nature Group (2022–present)