Unit for Gastroenterology

The Unit lectures on the following topics (contact persons given):

• Gastrointestinal physiology and pathophysiology (professor Arne Sandvik )
• Molecular physiology (Associate Professor Ingunn Bakke )
• Molecular cell biology (professor Liv Thommesen )
• Functional genomics (professor Astrid Lægreid )
• Clinical gastroenterology (professor Helge Waldum )
• Gastrointestinal surgery (professor Jon Erik Grønbech )
• Endocrinology (professors Valdemar Grill and Unni Syversen )

Teaching

The Unit for Gastroenterology is responsible for the following courses:

Microarray Technology MOL8003/8004 (professor Arne Sandvik ), Automation and Instrumation MOL3008 (professor Liv Thommesen ) and Important Methods in Functional Genomics MOL3007 (professors Astrid Lægreid and Liv Thommesen ).

Members of the Unit take part in teaching within these courses:

Medicine for Non-Medical Students MFEL1010, Molecular Biology for Technologists MOL4010,Molecular Cell Biology BI3016 and Introduction for Molecular Medicine MOL3000.

 

Services offered through the Unit for Gastroenterology:

The Unit administers the NTNU node of The Norwegian Microarray Consortium, and offers gene expression analyses in microarray format using a variety of technologies (please see http://www.microarray.ntnu.no ).

 

Research:

Secretory biology, regulation of growth, pathophysiology and carcinogeneses
Contact: Professors Arne Sandvik and Helge Waldum

Molecular physiology
Contact: Professor Arne Sandvik and Associate Professor Ingunn Bakke

Functional genomics
Contact: Professor Astrid Lægreid

Molecular cell biology
Contact: Professor Liv Thommesen

Clinical gastroenterology
Contact: Professor Helge Waldum

Gastrointestinal surgery
Contact: Professor Jon Erik Grønbech

Endocrinology - bone metabolism
Contact: Professor Unni Syversen

Endocrinology - diabetes
Contact: Professor Valdemar Grill

 

 

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