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Helene Knævelsrud

@helene-knavelsrud.bsky.social

Celebration of scientific achievements with the Anders Jahre Awards for Medical Research today! Of special interest for the field: Thomas McWilliams - mitophagy in the aging brain! Congratulations!
#autophagy
@uio.no

November 6, 2025 at 10:24 PM

Helene Knævelsrud

@helene-knavelsrud.bsky.social

Hope to see you at the 2026 GRC autophagy meeting!
@womeninautophagy.bsky.social
@cancelluio.bsky.social
@arcticautophagy.bsky.social

Rushika M. Perera @rushika-perera.bsky.social · 28d

Join us in sunny California for the 2026 GRC Autophagy meeting! Excited to co-chair with Oliver Florey and vice chairs Helene Knaevelsrud and @robzonculab.bsky.social
Keynote speakers incl. Eileen White, @idikic.bsky.social and Sharon Tooze- Registration is open: link⬇️ www.grc.org/autophagy-in...

2026 Autophagy in Stress, Development and Disease Conference GRC

The 2026 Gordon Research Conference on Autophagy in Stress, Development and Disease will be held in Ventura, California. Apply today to reserve your spot.

www.grc.org

November 4, 2025 at 9:03 PM

Helene Knævelsrud

@helene-knavelsrud.bsky.social

Such a pleasure to follow the digital #WIA2025meeting! Thanks to the organizers for your great work!
@womeninautophagy.bsky.social

November 4, 2025 at 6:08 PM

Helene Knævelsrud

@helene-knavelsrud.bsky.social

Celebrated 10 years of the Young Academy of Norway yesterday - an important voice for the situation of young researchers and a great meeting place for discussions!
@uio.no

October 30, 2025 at 6:59 AM

Helene Knævelsrud

@helene-knavelsrud.bsky.social

Interactive CanCell retreat at Gjøvik including CanCell «on the ice», a highly competitive group activity to make a parachute for an egg (how many PhDs do you need to…) and great discussions at the poster session!

@cancelluio.bsky.social
@womeninautophagy.bsky.social
@arcticautophagy.bsky.social

October 10, 2025 at 7:13 AM

Helene Knævelsrud

@helene-knavelsrud.bsky.social

Enjoying the Nordic Autophagy Society meeting in Sånga Säby! Great community and with impressive science and good discussions! @arcticautophagy.bsky.social @cancelluio.bsky.social @womeninautophagy.bsky.social

September 18, 2025 at 10:40 AM

Helene Knævelsrud

@helene-knavelsrud.bsky.social

Successful AUTORHYTHM retreat earlier this week with Malene Hansen from the Buck Institute for Research on Aging. Insightful day with project presentations and discussions!
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@arcticautophagy.bsky.social
@womeninautophagy.bsky.social

September 7, 2025 at 6:03 AM

Helene Knævelsrud

@helene-knavelsrud.bsky.social

EMBO Forum organized by @cancelluio.bsky.social: A day to reflect on responsible research and the importance of training, supervision and mentoring.
@embo.org @arcticautophagy.bsky.social

September 4, 2025 at 10:26 AM

Helene Knævelsrud

@helene-knavelsrud.bsky.social

Great day at the Biochemistry Autumn meeting yesterday!
Including talks from PhDs and postdocs and invited talk from Michael Riegler from Simula.
@uio.no @womeninautophagy.bsky.social @arcticautophagy.bsky.social

September 4, 2025 at 10:21 AM

Helene Knævelsrud

@helene-knavelsrud.bsky.social

Registration for the 8th Nordic Autophagy Society meeting outside Stockholm is still open until Aug 17th!

Sciforum.net/event/8ANASC

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August 13, 2025 at 9:31 AM

Helene Knævelsrud

@helene-knavelsrud.bsky.social

Registration open for the 8th Nordic Autophagy Society meeting outside Stockholm Sept 17th-19th - will I see you there? 😀

Sciforum.net/event/8ANASC

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@cancelluio.bsky.social

Sciforum.net

August 5, 2025 at 1:34 PM

Helene Knævelsrud

@helene-knavelsrud.bsky.social

In search for some autophagy summer reading?
Check out the full Journal of Molecular Biology special issue «Autophagy accross scales - from molecules to physiology» edited by Sharon Tooze and myself:
www.sciencedirect.com/journal/jour...
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@womeninautophagy.bsky.social

Journal of Molecular Biology | Autophagy across scales - from molecules to physiology | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier

Read the latest articles of Journal of Molecular Biology at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature

www.sciencedirect.com

July 12, 2025 at 11:31 PM

Helene Knævelsrud

@helene-knavelsrud.bsky.social

Basic sleep research workshop at UiO kicked off by Charlotte!

@charlotteboccara.bsky.social

June 20, 2025 at 7:17 AM

Helene Knævelsrud

@helene-knavelsrud.bsky.social

And for an update on autophagy and sleep, check out our review here:

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

@charlotteboccara.bsky.social @arcticautophagy.bsky.social @cancelluio.bsky.social

Rest, Repair, Repeat: The Complex Relationship of Autophagy and Sleep

Autophagy and sleep are two evolutionary conserved mechanisms across the animal kingdom. Autophagy is a pathway for the degradation of cytoplasmic mat…

www.sciencedirect.com

June 18, 2025 at 6:19 PM

Helene Knævelsrud

@helene-knavelsrud.bsky.social

Getting ready for the basic sleep research satellitte workshop this Friday in Oslo!
Register 👇

Charlotte Boccara @charlotteboccara.bsky.social · Jun 18

There is still time to register to the Basic sleep research satellite workshop – due to popular demand, we have now open an online registration for a live stream for those that cannot attend in person in Oslo :
nettskjema.no/a/521323#/pa...

Integrative Sleep Research Workshop - FRM 2025 - Nettskjema

nettskjema.no

June 18, 2025 at 6:14 PM

Helene Knævelsrud

@helene-knavelsrud.bsky.social

Akademiet for yngre forskere leter etter nye medlemmer!

AYF samler fantastiske forskere i tidlig karriere der brenner for forskningspolitikk, forskningsformidling og vitenskapelig debatt.

Det er fortsatt noen dager til søknadsfristen 15. juni

Mer info ⤵

akademietforyngreforskere.no/soknad/

Vil du bli medlem av Akademiet for yngre forskere? Inntaksprosessen starter 1. juni - Akademiet for yngre forskere

Akademiet søker nye medlemmer!

akademietforyngreforskere.no

June 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM

Helene Knævelsrud

@helene-knavelsrud.bsky.social

Enjoying excellent talks from JEDIs at the Château where birds are singing outside the lecture hall (more like a tent) and we got visited by a dog and a fox plus many bumblebees!

#flyJEDI2025
@fly-jedi.bsky.social
@arcticautophagy.bsky.social @cancelluio.bsky.social

June 4, 2025 at 6:26 PM

Helene Knævelsrud

@helene-knavelsrud.bsky.social

Traveling to meet fellow drosophilists! #flyJEDI2025
@fly-jedi.bsky.social
@arcticautophagy.bsky.social @cancelluio.bsky.social

June 3, 2025 at 10:05 AM

Helene Knævelsrud

@helene-knavelsrud.bsky.social

Enjoying the annual ARCTiC meeting! PhD student Julie Aarmo Johannessen from the lab beatifully presented part of her work. Thanks for excellent talks from invited speakers Jim Hurley and Ivan Dikic!

@arcticautophagy.bsky.social @cancelluio.bsky.social
@jimhurley.bsky.social @idikic.bsky.social

June 2, 2025 at 12:14 PM

Helene Knævelsrud

@helene-knavelsrud.bsky.social

Thanks to the organisers for a great #IKSEU25
Enjoyable poster presentations and good discussions. Hope to see you at #IKCSEU26 in Paris!

@kidney-cancer.bsky.social @arcticautophagy.bsky.social @cancelluio.bsky.social

May 3, 2025 at 7:01 PM

Helene Knævelsrud

@helene-knavelsrud.bsky.social

Second day at #IKCS2025 with kidney cancer discussed from different perspectives. Will we find a biomarker for stratification? And how to approch the tumor heterogeneity in functional studies?

@kidney-cancer.bsky.social @cancelluio.bsky.social