Kristil SundsaasenSundsaasen, Kristil

Lab engineer

E-mail: kristil.sundsaasen@umb.no

Phone: +47-6496-5299

Present position: Lab engineer (Centre for Integrative Genetics, CIGENE, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, UMB).

Degree: Cand. Scient. in biotechnology/population genetics, Agricultural University of Norway (NLH), 2001.

Professional background: Lab technician, Norwegian Crop Research Institute (2001); Lab technician, Department of Radiation Biology, Institute for Cancer Research, The Norwegian Radium Hospital (2002-2003); Research assistant, Centre for Integrative Genetics, CIGENE , Norwegian University of Life Sciences, UMB (2003-2006); Lab engineer, Centre for Integrative Genetics, CIGENE, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, UMB (2007-present)

Research experience: AFLP (amplified fragment length polymorphism) analysis, differential display analysis, DNA microarray analysis, cell cultures, experiments with athymic mice, DNA/RNA extraction, DNA/RNA quantification, cDNA synthesis, quantitative gene expression using MassARRAY technology (Sequenom), DNA sequencing, SNP detection, SNP verification, SNP typing using MassARRAY technology (Sequenom), Affymetrix technology and Golden Gate technology (Illumina).

Current research activity: Different projects of SNP genotyping using MassArray (Sequenom) and Golden Gate (Illumina) technology, quantitative gene expression using MassArray technology (Sequenom) and DNA extraction.

Selected publications:
  • Rofstad, E. K.  Mathiesen, B.  Henriksen, K.  Kindem, K.  Galappathi, K. (2005). The tumor bed effect: increased metastatic dissemination from hypoxia-induced up-regulation of metastasis-promoting gene products. Cancer Res 65:2387-96
  • Olsen, H.G., Lien, S., Gautier, M., Nilsen, H., Roseth, A., Berg, P.R., Sundsaasen, K.K., Svendsen, M., Meuwissen, T.H.E. (2005). Mapping of a milk production quantitative trait locus to a 420-kb region on bovine chromosome 6. Genetics 169 (1):275–83.
  • Rofstad, E. K.  Mathiesen, B.  Kindem, K.  Galappathi, K. (2006). Acidic extracellular pH promotes experimental metastasis of human melanoma cells in athymic nude mice. Cancer Res 66:6699-707.
  • Nilsen, H; Hayes, B; Berg, P R; Roseth, A; Sundsaasen, K K; Nilsen, K; Lien, S. (2008). Construction of a dense SNP map for bovine chromosome 6 to assist the assembly of the bovine genome sequence. Anim Genet 39 (2):97–104.