Ilona H. Urbarova
Postdoctor
Job description
Ilona H. Urbarova is a postdoctor in molecular biology and bioinformatics at the Faculty of Health Sciences at UiT. Her research is targeted at analyses of omics data in blood samples of lung cancer patients, both at and prior to diagnosis, and how they correlate with changes in immune cells in blood and in tumour. She has a long experience (over 10 years) with analyses of different omics data at genome, transcriptome and proteome level (including epigenomics, miRNA expression and de novo genomics and transcriptomics). She is currently also part of other studies that are looking at inflammatory blood markers and their association with colorectal cancer, periodontitis or human social exposome, or that are studying environmental contaminants in human blood samples. Recently, she got also involved in EU-funded DISCERN project that tries to identify the causes of three poorly understood cancers in Europe – renal, pancreatic, and colorectal cancer.
Ilona H. Urbarova is a postdoctor in Systems Epidemiology group at the Department of Community Medicine (ISM).
Sebastian Löding,
Ulrika Andersson,
Rudolf Kaaks,
Matthias B. Schulze,
Valeria Pala,
Ilona Halva Urbarova
et al.:
Altered plasma metabolite levels can be detected years before a glioma diagnosis
Ana Carolina Miranda Fernandes Coelho,
Lara Cioni,
Wendy van Dreunen,
Vivian Berg,
Karin Charlotta Maria Rylander,
Ilona Halva Urbarova
et al.:
Legacy perfluoroalkyl acids and their oxidizable precursors in plasma samples of Norwegian women
Ilona Halva Urbarova,
Anne Heidi Skogholt,
Yi-Qian Sun,
Xiao-Mei Mai,
Bjørn Henning Grønberg,
Torkjel Manning Sandanger
et al.:
Increased expression of individual genes in whole blood is associated with late-stage lung cancer at and close to diagnosis
Ruomei Li,
Sabin Bhandari,
Inigo Zubiavrre Martinez,
Jack-Ansgar Bruun,
Ilona Halva Urbarova,
Bård Smedsrød
et al.:
Changes in the proteome and secretome of rat liver sinusoidal endothelial cells during early primary culture and effects of dexamethasone
Therese Haugdahl Nøst,
Anne Heidi Skogholt,
Ilona Halva Urbarova,
Robin Mjelle,
Erna-Elise Paulsen,
Tom Dønnem
et al.:
Increased levels of microRNA-320 in blood serum and plasma is associated with imminent and advanced lung cancer
Therese Haugdahl Nøst,
Karine Alcala,
Ilona Urbarova,
Karl Smith Byrne,
Florence Guida,
Torkjel M Sandanger
et al.:
Systemic inflammation markers and cancer incidence in the UK Biobank
Vivian Viallon,
Mathilde His,
Sabina Rinaldi,
Marie Breeur,
Audrey Gicquiau,
Bertrand Hémon
et al.:
A new pipeline for the normalization and pooling of metabolomics data
Jorunn Pauline Cavanagh,
Fatemeh Askarian,
Maria Pain,
Jack-Ansgar Bruun,
Ilona Urbarova,
Sun Nyunt Wai
et al.:
Proteome profiling of secreted and membrane vesicle associated proteins of an invasive and a commensal Staphylococcus haemolyticus isolate.
Md Ashraful Islam,
Vegard Fossum,
Ann Kristin Hansen,
Ilona Urbarova,
Gunnar Knutsen,
Inigo Zubiavrre Martinez
:
In vitro chondrogenic potency of
surplus chondrocytes from autologous
transplantation procedures does not
predict short-term clinical outcomes
Md Ashraful Islam,
Ilona Urbarova,
Jack-Ansgar Bruun,
Inigo Zubiavrre Martinez
:
LARGE-SCALE SECRETOME ANALYSES UNVEIL THE SUPERIOR
IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE PHENOTYPE OF UMBILICAL CORD
STROMAL CELLS AS COMPARED TO OTHER ADULT
MESENCHYMAL STROMAL CELLS
Ilona Urbarova,
Sylvain Forêt,
Per Mikael Dahl,
Åse Emblem,
Marco Milazzo,
Jason M. Hall-Spencer
et al.:
Ocean acidification at a coastal CO2 vent induces expression of stress-related transcripts and transposable elements in the sea anemone Anemonia viridis
Jorunn Pauline Cavanagh,
Maria Pain,
Fatemeh Askarian,
Jack-Ansgar Bruun,
Ilona Urbarova,
Sun Nyunt Wai
et al.:
Comparative exoproteome profiling of an invasive and a commensal Staphylococcus haemolyticus isolate
Ilona Urbarova,
Hardip Patel,
Sylvain Forêt,
Bård Ove Karlsen,
Tor Erik Jørgensen,
Jason M. Hall-Spencer
et al.:
Elucidating the Small Regulatory RNA Repertoire of the Sea Anemone Anemonia viridis Based on Whole Genome and Small RNA Sequencing
Stine Figenschau,
Erik Knutsen,
Ilona Urbarova,
Christopher Graham Fenton,
Bryan Elston,
Maria Perander
et al.:
ICAM1 expression is induced by proinflammatory cytokines and associated with TLS formation in aggressive breast cancer subtypes
Sylvia Ighem Chi,
Ilona Urbarova,
Steinar Daae Johansen
:
Expression of homing endonuclease gene and insertion-like element in sea anemone mitochondrial genomes: Lesson learned from Anemonia viridis
Gene 2018 DOI
Ilona Urbarova,
Bård Ove Karlsen,
Siri Okkenhaug,
Ole Morten Seternes,
Steinar Johansen,
Åse Emblem
:
Digital Marine Bioprospecting: Mining New Neurotoxin Drug Candidates from the Transcriptomes of Cold-Water Sea Anemones
Therese Haugdahl Nøst,
Ilona Halva Urbarova,
Anne Heidi Skogholt,
Robin Mjelle,
Erna Elise Paulsen,
Tom Dønnem
et al.:
Increased levels of mRNAs and miRNAs associated with imminent and advanced lung cancer
2022
Sabin Bhandari,
Ruomei Li,
Ingelin Kyrrestad,
Jack-Ansgar Bruun,
Ilona Urbarova,
Bård Smedsrød
et al.:
Effect of glucocorticoids on liver sinusoidal endothelial cells in vitro
2019
Ilona Urbarova
:
Climate Change Causes Molecular-Level Stress Responses
Ashraful Islam,
Vegard Fossum,
Ann Kristin Hansen,
Ilona Urbarova,
Gunnar Knutsen,
Inigo Zubiavrre Martinez
:
In vitro chondrogenic potency of surplus chondrocytes from ACI does not predict short-term clinical outcomes.
2018
Ruomei Li,
Jaione Simon-Santamaria,
Sabin Bhandari,
Jack-Ansgar Bruun,
Ilona Urbarova,
Bård Smedsrød
et al.:
Phenotypic changes in rat liver sinusoidal endothelial cells during early stages of in vitro culture
2017
Ilona Urbarova
:
Exploring genomes and transcriptomes of cold-adapted anthozoans
2013
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CV
EDUCATION
- 2012-2016: PhD in Biology, Norway (Tromsø): Specialization in Molecular Biology, Genomics and Bioinformatics - THE ARCTIC UNIVERSITY OF NORWAY, The Faculty of Health Sciences
- 2008-2010: International Master in Biology, Sweden (Uppsala): Specialization in Cell and Molecular Biology - UPPSALA UNIVERSITY, Biology Education Centre
- 2005-2008: Bachelor in Biology, Czech Republic (Prague): Specialization in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry of Microorganisms - CHARLES UNIVERSITY, The Faculty of Science
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
- 2019-present: Postdoctor/ Researcher at Systemepidemiology research group, Norway (Tromsø): THE ARCTIC UNIVERSITY OF NORWAY, The Faculty of Health Sciences (prof. Torkjel Sandanger)
Earlier experience both as a wet-lab molecular biologist and dry-lab bioinformatician:
- Tromsø, Norway: Chief technician/ bioinformatician at Tromsø University Proteomic platform (TUPP), PhD student in RNA and molecular pathology group
- Canberra, Australia: Research exchange in Bioinformatics, genomics and epigenomics group
- Bodø, Norway: Research exchange in Marine Genomics group
- Uppsala, Sweden: Master thesis work in RNA biology in Dictyostelium
- Gothenburg, Sweden: Master thesis work in Genetic group
- Prague, Czech Republic: Researcher in Laboratory of Epigenetic Regulations, Bachelor thesis work in Laboratory of Mouse Molecular Genetics, Bachelor student work in Yeast colony group