Eva Sjøttem
Job description
Job description
Eva Sjøttem is Head of Department, Department of Medical Biology, Faculty of Health Science. She is a professor in molecular cell biology at the Autophagy Research Group. Her research is within basic biomedical research. It involves identification of molecular mechanisms regulating the cellular renovation system autophagy, with main focus on the selectivity in this process. Dysregulation of selectiv autophagy is implicated in major human diseases such as neurodegeneration, cancer, cardiac diseases and inflammation, and contributes also to aging.
Professor at the https://uit.no/research/autophagy
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Research interests
Research interests:
Characterisation of molecular mechanisms involved in selectivity and regulation of the intracellular process autophagy. Autophagy is a crucial process for cellular homeostasis. It selectively degrades intracellular destroyed or dangerous components, infectious agents or excess components. Autophagy is important for cell survival during various cellular stresses like starvation, infection and oxygen deprivation. Disregulated autophagy is implicated in various diseases like neurodegenerative diseases, Cardiac diseases, and cancer. Furthermore, autophagy has impact on iflammation ang ageing. Our Research Group has a specific focus on understanding the functional mechanisms of selective autophagy receptors, and how their expression and biological activities are regulated upon stress.
Member of research group / centre
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EDUCATION
1997 PhD: Disputation date: 07.03.1997
The Medical Faculty, University of Tromsø, Norway
1992 Civil engineer in Biotechnology
The Medical Faculty, University of Tromsø, Norway
1981 Bachelor in Computer Science
The Engineering College of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
CURRENT AND PREVIOUS POSITIONS
2022 - Head of Department, Department of Medical Biology, Faculty of Health Science,
UiT The Arctic University of Norway
2019 – 2022 Professor, Department of Medical Biology, Faculty of Health Science,
UiT The Arctic University of Norway
2000-2019 Associate Professor, Department of Medical Biology, Faculty of Health Science,
UiT The Arctic University of Norway
2008 – 2014 Head of Tromsø BioImaging Platform,
The University Hospital of Northern Norway (20%)
1998-2000 Postdoc Fellow
The Medical Faculty, University of Tromsø, Norway
1994-1997 PhD Fellow
The Medical Faculty, University of Tromsø, Norway
1993 Scientific Assistant
The Medical Faculty, University of Tromsø, Norway
1981-1989 Software engineer
Department of Software Development, Norsk Data A.S., Bergen, Norway.
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
2008-2022 Course director for the two Nordic PhD courses “Molecular and Clinical and Aspects of Cancer I and II”, Faculty of Health Science, University of Tromsø, Norway.
2000-2010 Course director and lecturer; Molecular Cell Biology for medical (MED100) and odontology (ODO1001) students, The Medical Faculty, University of Tromsø, Norway
2010-2014 Establishment, course director and lecturer; “MBI-2003: Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics”, Faculty of Health Science, University of Tromsø. Norway
2015-2022 Establishment, course director and lecturer; “MBI-2011: Molecular Cell Biology I”, Faculty of Health Science, University of Tromsø, Norway
1997-2022 Bachelor courses in “Biochemistry” and “Molecular Cell Biology”.
Master courses on “Eukaryotic transcription factors” and “RNA biology”
PhD courses “Molecular and Clinical Aspects of Cancer” and “Frontiers in Molecular and Structural Biology”.
Faculty of Health Science, University of Tromsø, Norway