Bilde av Sellæg, Kjersti
Bilde av Sellæg, Kjersti
Universitetslektor Department of Medical Biology kjersti.sellag@uit.no

Kjersti Sellæg


Job description

PhD candidate in the Tumor Biology Research Group. The project is focused on studying the tumor microenvironment in oral cancer, particularly on the immune response and tumor vasculature

Trained biomedical laboratory scientist with a MSc in Molecular Medicine from NTNU, and have worked as a biomedical laboratory scientist within infectious diseases and research for 3.5 years. 

 


  • Kjersti Sellæg, Ruth Schwienbacher, Mathias Kranz, Anna Engan Aamodt, Anna Maria Wirsing, gerd Berge et al.:
    4-nitroquinoline 1-oxide-induced oral epithelial lesions exhibit time- and stage-dependent changes in the tumor immune microenvironment
    Frontiers in Oncology 2024 ARKIV / DOI
  • Synne Jenum, Kristian Tonby, Corina Silvia Rueegg, Morten Ruhwald, Max Per Kristiansen, Peter Bang et al.:
    A Phase I/II randomized trial of H56:IC31 vaccination and adjunctive cyclooxygenase-2-inhibitor treatment in tuberculosis patients
    Nature Communications 2021 ARKIV / DOI
  • Robin Mjelle, Kjersti Sellæg, Pål Sætrom, Liv Thommesen, Wenche Sjursen, Eva Hofsli :
    Identification of metastasis-associated microRNAs in serum from rectal cancer patients
    OncoTarget 2017 ARKIV / DOI
  • Kjersti Sellæg, Tetyana Voloshyna, Saikat Das Sajib, Tonje Nygård Lillevik, Susannah Beatrice von Hofsten, Karoline Sollid Evensen et al.:
    Urinlaben
    2024
  • Tonje Nygård Lillevik, Stefanie Bobe, Nadine Bauer, Kjersti Sellæg, May-Britt Five, Friedemann Kiefer et al.:
    Foreign antigen uptak by oral mucous glands, draining lymph nodes, and ovaries
    2023
  • Agnhild Johansen, Kjersti Sellæg, Synnøve Norvoll Magnussen, May Wenche Jøraholmen, Ann Mari Holsæter :
    Docetaxel liposomes – Can curcumin be co-entrapped and improve the in vitro cytotoxicity?
    2023
  • May-Britt Five, gerd Berge, Susannah von Hofsten, Kjersti Sellæg :
    Medisiner fra havet
    2023
  • Kjersti Sellæg, Susannah Beatrice von Hofsten, Anne Kristin McLaren Berge, Lennart Maximilian van Ligtenberg, Marcus Moe Mauseth, Athanasios Kournoutis et al.:
    Autofagi: cellenes spareblussmodus
    2023
  • Anne Kristin Mclaren Berge, Kjersti Sellæg, Stine Figenschau, Saikat Das Sajib, Hallvard Lauritz Olsvik, Maria Perander et al.:
    TRIM32 in Head and Neck Cancer
    2023
  • Kjersti Sellæg, Ruth Schwienbacher, Anna Maria Wirsing, Anna Engan Aamodt, Elin Synnøve Hadler-Olsen, Gerd Berge et al.:
    The spatiotemporal immune profile during mouse oral carcinogenesis
    2023
  • Kjersti Sellæg :
    Biomarkører i munnhulekreft - kartlegging av proteiner i svulstvev
    2022
  • Kjersti Sellæg, Susannah von Hofsten, Nikoline Lander Rasmussen, May-Britt Five :
    Fisking etter fremtidens medisiner - Havet er fullt av mysterier, bli med og let etter nyttige stoffer!
    2022
  • Kjersti Sellæg :
    When TiME matters - A vascular network is created during oral carcinogenesis to shape the tumor immune microenvironment (TiME)
    2022

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    Research interests

    Oral cancer

    Tumor biology

    Tumor immunology 

    Tumor vasculature

    Teaching

    Supervision of bachelor- and masterstudents in academic writing and laboratory work


    Member of research group