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• 2022-08.29 Anisa Ulhusna and Ni Lu , two PhD students from Osaka University, visited our laboratory. They are working in the field of Chemical Biology. Their research topics are ligand induced circular RNA formation and interference of BER process with hSMUG1 and APE1 by DNA binding molecule. Guanglin and Jennifer presented our research to each other and gave them a tour of the lab and CMM!

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• 2022-08.09 “Integrative small and long RNA omics analysis of human healing and nonhealing wounds discovers cooperating microRNAs as therapeutic targets” was published in Elife.

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• 2022-06.27-07.01 Ning co-hosted the EMBO workshop "RNA structure meets Function" (Stockholm, Sweden. Letian gave a talk about his work on HOXC13-AS at this workshop on June 27th. Well done, Letian!

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• 2022-06-03 After a successful PhD thesis, Maria left our group and moved forward to a new chapter in life. Good luck! 

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• 2022-05-30 Jennifer, Guanglin and Monica participated in the 11th Strategic Research Program (SRP) Diabetes - EndoMet - MetEndo retreat at Scandic Foresta Hotel. Jennifer and Guanglin presented their project titled "Elucidating the role of mitochondria encoded circular RNA Circ1690-2254 in Diabetic Foot Ulcer (DFU)" as a poster.

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• 2022-05-12 Ning was invited to give a talk at the Symposium ‘Five Decades of Virus Research’  at Uppsala University on May 12th 2022. This symposium was arranged to celebrate the contributions of Prof. Göran Akusjärvi and Prof. Ulf Pettersson and the advances in this field.

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• 2022-05-06 Minna completed her Postdoc and we had a farewell fika for Minna on May 6th.

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• 2022-04.25~04.27 Ning and Maria attended the second summer school organized by the LEO Foundation Skin Immunology Research Center, in Hornbaek, Danmark 2022 April 25th to 27th. Ning was invited to give a talk about ‘Decoding the RNA regulome behind the wound inflammation’ and lead a discussion session with junior researchers about ‘how to make the leap from postdoc to PI’. Maria presented her project about circular RNAs in wound healing as a poster that was highly valued.

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• 2022-04-08 Congratulations to Maria A. Toma! She defended her PhD thesis successfully!

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• 2022-03.08 Congratulations! Letian has been awarded the KI travel grant 2022 for actively participating in a conference.

 

• 2022-03.07 Welcome Monica Maselli to join our lab as a visiting master student.

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• 2022-03.01 Welcome Jennifer Geara to join our lab as a PhD student.

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• 2022-02 Congratulation to Xiaowei Bian for winning ImmunoTools Special Award 2022. ImmunoTools special AWARD applied 10 recombinant human cytokines reagents. Many thanks for the support from ImmunoTools! http://www.immunotools.de/html/award/XiaoweiBian.pdf 

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• 2021-12.21 Maria is interviewed by a gymnasium student Amna, from Young Business Creatives School in Nacka. Amna is doing a scientific project together with other colleagues about the role of vitamin C in the skin. She reached out to Maria to learn about the human skin structure and wound healing, collagen synthesis and vitamin C role. She’s also aspiring to become a medical doctor, and was very happy to be visiting Karolinska. They had a nice discussion and fika.

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• 2021-09.22~09.25 Strong presence at the ESDR 2021 meeting
  Letian, Maria, and Zhuang were selected to present their work orally, and Ning leaded the Poster Walk session 'Wound healing and Tissue Remodeling'.
  Maria presented her PhD work about 'The circular RNA circGLIS3 activates dermal fibroblasts and increases ECM production to improve wound healing' at the session 'Wound Healing and Tissue Remodelling' on Sep. 23rd.
  Zhuang presented his work about 'The landscape of microRNA-mediated gene regulation in human skin wound healing and venous ulcers' at the Poster Walk session ''Wound healing and Tissue Remodeling' on Sep 24th.
  Letian presented his PhD work about 'Identification of a novel skin-specific long non-coding RNA regulating keratinocyte differentiation' at the plenary session on Sep. 25th.

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• Ning will talk about our research at the webinar 'MicroRNA and Wound Healing: Recent Insights and Translational Challenges' organized by the Physiological Society of UK (2021 June 14th)

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• We are awarded a postdoc fellowship by KI SRP Diabetes to study mitochondria-encoded circular RNAs in diabetic foot ulcers. The recruitment is ongoing. https://ki.se/en/srp-diabetes/srp-diabetes-postdoc-fellowships-project-4​

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• 2021-05.12 Ning and Dongqing presented our results about single-cell analysis of human acute wounds and pressure ulcers at the Virtual Symposium on Advanced Wound Care (SAWC) Spring organized by the Wound Healing Society USA on May 12th.

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• 2021-05.07 Dongqing's farewell fika. We wish Dingqing best luck in his future career.

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• 2021-05.06 Ning gave a talk at the BioNut seminar series with a title 'Beyond the Code: regulatory RNAs in human skin wound healing'.

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• 2021-05.03 Maria gave a talk at the GOSSIPER seminar series about 'The circular RNA circGLIS3 activates dermal fibroblasts and increases extracellular matrix production to improve wound healing".

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• 2021-04.28 Welcome Guanglin Niu to join our lab as a Postdoc fellow.

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• 2021-03.18 Congratulations to Yuen Ting Cheung for finishing her master degree project. Thanks YT.

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• 2021-01.25 Congratulations to Letian for completing his half time review! Thanks to the committee members Kilian Eyerich, Markus Kretz, and Marc Friedländer for many kind and insightful advice.

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• 2020-12.11-13 Maria, Letian, and Dongqing presented their work at the 7th virtual meeting ‘Innovations in Wound Healing’ (Dec 11-13) (https://whinnovations.com/). At the session ‘Rising Stars in Wound Healing Research’, Maria gave a talk about Circular RNA cMATRIX in wound fibroblasts, and Dongqing talked about our data of single-cell RNA sequencing analysis of human normal wounds and pressure ulcers. Letian presented his work about lncRNA in wound healing as a poster. All our presentations received very positive feedback and helpful suggestions. Congratulations to Maria, Letian, and Dongqing!

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• 2020-12 Welcome Qizhang Wang to join our lab as a visiting PhD student.

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• 2020-11-09 Welcome Xiaowei Bian to join our lab as a PhD student.

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• 2020-10-26 Welcome Yuen Ting Cheung to join our lab for her Master project! Yuen Ting's  lab mentor is Zhuang Liu.  Yuen Ting will perform a bioinormatics analysis for our RNA-sequencing data of human wound tissue.

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• 2020-09-22 Congratulations to Kim Pham for her undergraduate work entering the ‘highly commended’  list of the Global Undergraduate Awards (GUA). The Global Undergraduate Awards is the world’s leading undergraduate awards programme which recognizes top undergraduate work, shares this work with a global audience and connects students across cultures and disciplines. This year KI has achieved great results. Seven KI students made it to the ”Highly Commended” list. We are very happy that Kim Pham is one of them. Kim performed her degree project with us in 2019 autumn and her lab mentor is PhD student Maria Toma. Congratulations, Kim! Well-done, Maria!

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• 2020-09-09 Ning has been awarded the LEO Foundation Award -Region EMEA for her contribution to unravel the roles of regulatory RNAs in wound healing. Many thanks to LEO Foundation for your great support to our research!

 

• 2020-07-06 Congratulations to Medical student Darco Zindrou for completing his summer research project with us. His lab mentor was Minna.

 

• 2020-06-17 Dongqing received a grant of 100K from Loo and Hans Osterman Foundation for his study ‘Long non-coding RNAs in Leg Ulcers’.

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• 2020-06-04 Congratulations to Medical student Milja Miettinen for completing her degree project successfully. Milja has been mainly working with Letian in the lab.

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• 2020-05-12~15 Letian presented his work on ‘Identification of a novel skin-specific long non-coding RNA controlling epithelial differentiation’ with a poster at the REGULATORY & NON-CODING RNAs meeting hosted by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

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• 2020-01-28 Medical student Kim Pham has completed her degree project with us. Kim’s lab mentor is Maria. Congratulations, Kim!

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• 2020-01-07 Welcome Minna to join our lab as a Postdoc fellow.

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• 2019-12-06 Ning presented our work with a title ‘Beyond the code: miRNAs and non-coding RNAs in wound healing’ at the innovations in wound healing conference, Key West, U.S.A.

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• 2019-11-18 Congratulations to Maria. She passed her half-time control of PhD study successfully.

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• 2019-09-19 Ning presented our work with a title ‘Long non-coding RNA WAKMAR1 regulates wound healing by enhancing keratinocyte migration’ at the 3rd Meeting of the RNA Society of Sweden, Lycksele, Sweden.

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• 2019-08-10 Manika gave a talk with a title ‘Investigation of the Role of Tripartite Motif Containing Protein 33 (TRIM33) in Skin Wound Healing’ at Gordon Research Seminar ‘Emerging Mechanistic and Experimental Insights into Mammalian Skin Barrier’ at Waterville Valley, USA.

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• 2019-08-01 We welcome Zhuang Liu as a Postdoc fellow in our lab.

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• 2019-02-24 ~ 28 Maria attended the Keystone symposium… and presented her work about circular RNA in skin wound healing as a poster.

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• 2019-02-08 Congratulations to Xi Li! She defended her PhD thesis successfully!

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• 2019-02-07 Prof. Marjana Tomic-Canic from University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine visited our lab, and she gave a fantastic lecture about ‘Genomics at the Bedside: Molecular Hallmarks of Wound Healing and its Pathophysiology’ at CMM.

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• 2018-10-22 We welcome Letian Zhang as a PhD student in our lab.

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• 2018-10 Congratulations Dongqing Li is selected as a new member of Academy for Future Leaders in Dermatology, European Society for Dermatological Research (ESDR).

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• 2018-08-16 Dr. Weiping Wang from the University of Hong Kong (www.wanglab.org) visited our lab and gave a lecture with the title ‘Photoresponsive Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery’ at CMM.

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• 2018-07-01 ~ 14 Ning attended the EMBO workshop: RNA structure to function in Stockholm archipelago. Ning co-chaired the session ‘RNA function II’ with Dr. Gonçalo Castelo-Branco on July 3rd.

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• 2018-05-16 ~ 19 Xi Li attended the 77th annual SID meeting in Orlando, Florida, USA. Xi gave an oral presentation about our work on miR-34 in skin wound healing.

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• 2018-01-17 We welcome Manika Vij as a Postdoc fellow in our lab.

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• 2017-12-15 ~ 17 Eva Herter attended the 42nd annual Japanese Society for Investigative Dermatology (JSID) meeting in Kochi, Japan. Eva gave an oral presentation about our work on long-non-coding RNA in skin wound healing.

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• 2017-10-15 ~ 17 Ning and Maria attended the 33rd Ernst Klenk Symposium in Molecular Medicine at Cologne, Germany. The topic of this year is ‘Tissue regeneration, wound healing and fibrosis: translating basic concepts into regenerative therapy’. Maria presented our work with a poster. Ning was invited to give a talk at the post Klenk Minisymposium ‘Next generation female leaders pushing epidermal-dermal crosstalk’ on Oct. 17th.

 

• 2017-10-12 ~ 13 Ning and Dongqing attended the 3rd Basle-Manchester Forum (BMF) on Skin Repair and Regenerative Plastic Surgery in Basel, Switzerland. Ning was invited to give a talk about our research at the forum. Dongqing presented our work with a poster.

  The BMF provides a discussion forum and networking platform that aims at inspiring and spear-heading international plastic surgery-dermatology collaboration and at bridging the growing divide between basic scientists and clinical investigators in this area. The BMF is a strictly by-invitation-only event so as to meet its main mission: to create an international forum for networking in the field (incl. industry-academia contacts), and strives to generate a friendly, relaxed, and club-like atmosphere that is expected to forge new collaborations and friendships across disciplines. 

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• 2017-09-27 ~ 30 Ning, Dongqing and Jianmin attended the 47th annual ESDR meeting in Salzburg, Austria. Ning and Dongqing gave oral presentations about our work, which attracted broad interest.

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• 2017-09-27 ~ 29 Eva and Xi attended the 2nd meeting of the RNA Society of Sweden at Örenäs Castle, Skåne, Sweden and presented our work with posters among the leading researches in RNA field. 

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• 2017-09-05 Ning gave a talk about ‘regulatory RNA and skin wound healing ’at a leading beauty company Oriflame.

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• 2017-08 Ning is now presented at AcademiaNet. More information about AcademiaNet here.

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• 2017-08-19 ~ 26 Our Chinese collaborators, Prof. Aoxue Wang, Prof. Caixia Tu, Prof. Tongbin Chu, Prof. Jingxin Ma from Dalian Medical University visited us from August 19th to 26th.  They visited CMM, dermatology clinic, KI campus and Hagströmer Library. We had a China-Sweden dermatology joint meeting at Karolinska University Hospital Solna on August 24th. We had several meetings to discuss the on-going projects and future plans.​

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• 2017-08-01 Congratulations Xi Li and Dongqing Li’s paper ‘MicroRNA-132 with therapeutic potential in chronic wounds’ is accepted by the Journal of Investigative Dermatology.​

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• 2017-07-08 We visited Dalian Medical university (China) with the support of VR-NSFC Network grant. Ning Xu Landén and Dongqing Li together with Profs. Mona Ståhle, Enikö Sonkoly and Andor Pivarcsi from the Dermatology Unit, Karolinska Institute gave presentations at the Sweden-China Dermatology Symposium.

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• 2017-06-27 Congratulations Xi Li’s paper ‘MicroRNA-132 promotes fibroblast migration via regulating RAS p21 protein activator 1 in skin wound healing’ is accepted by Scientific Reports.

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• 2017-06-07 We welcome Maria Toma as a research student in our lab.​

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• 2017-04-26 ~ 29 Xi Li attended the 76th annual SID meeting in Portland, Oregon, USA. Xi gave an oral presentation about our work in Mini-symposium "Tissue Regeneration and Wound Healing" on April 28th.

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• 2017-03-13 Ning Xu Landén is appointed as a group leader at Centre of Molecular Medicine (CMM). (http://www.cmm.ki.se/news/ning-xu-landen-ny-gruppledare-pa-cmm/)

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• 2017-02-01 We welcome Dani Visscher as a master student in our lab.

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• ​2017-01-01 We welcome Jianmin Wu and Jingxin Ma as visiting researchers in our lab.​

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• 2016-09-07 ~ 10 Dongqing, Xi and Aoxue attended the 46th ESDR annual meeting in Munich, Germany. Dongqing gave an oral presentation about our work in plenary session and Xi gave an oral presentation in Mini-symposium "Wound Healing and Tissue Remodeling".​​​​​​​​