Background and experience
Areas of responsibility
I'm an EU Adviser in the Division of Research and Innovation, with a particular focus on supporting the School of Business and Law. My background combines research expertise in molecular biology and biotechnology with additional qualifications in project management. Throughout my career, I have gained extensive experience at research institutions in Norway and abroad, participating in and supporting a wide range of interdisciplinary, externally funded research projects, including initiatives under Horizon 2020 and the Research Council of Norway (RCN)
I am happy to assist with inquiries related to:
- Research collaboration within Horizon Europe Cluster 6 (Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment)
- European research and innovation networking through COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology)
- Research collaboration with KSF – Kommunenes samarbeidsarena for forskning
Professional and academic experience
2025- d.d.: Senior adviser - UiA
2022-2025: Project manager - UiA
2021-2024: Associate professor - Universitety of Bergen
2019, 2020: Visiting scholar - CSIC (Madrid, Spain)
2018-2022: Post doc. - NORCE (Bergen)
2016-2017: Visiting scholar - University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, USA)
2014-2017: PhD candidate - Universitetet i Bergen
Publications
Goris M., Jacobsen RG*., Lewis AE. (2024) Presence of active AKT in the nucleus upon adipocyte differentiation of 3T3-L1 cells. MicroPubl Biology doi:10.179127micropub.biology.001140
Goris M., Cea-Rama I., Puntervoll P., Almendral D., Sanz-Aparicio J., Ferrer M. and Bjerga GEK. (2023) Increased thermostability of an engineered flavin-containing monooxygenase to remediate trimethylamine in fish protein hydrolysate. Applied and Environmental Microbiology (AEM) 28;89(6):e0039023 doi:10.1128/AEM.00390-23.
Goris M., Puntervoll P., Rojo D., Claussen J., Larsen Ø., Garcia-Moyano A., Almendral D., Barbas C., Ferrer M. and Bjerga GEK. (2020) Flavin containing monooxygenases for conversion of TMA to TMAO in salmon protein hydrolysates. Applied and Environmental Microbiology (AEM) 24;86(24):e02105-20.doi: 10.1128/AEM.02105-20
Rebowski G*., Boczkowska M*., Drazic A., Ree R., Goris M., Arnesen T. and Dominguez R. (2020) Mechanism of actin N-terminal acetylation. Science Advances 6, eaay8793
Aareskjold E., Grindheim AK., Hollås H., Goris M., Lillehaug JR and Vedeler A. (2019) Two tales of Annexin A2 knock-down: One of compensatory effects by antisense RNA and another of a highly active hairpin ribozyme. Biochemical Pharmacology 166, 253-263
Jacobsen R., Gavgani F., Edson A., Goris M., Altankhuyag A. and Lewis AE. (2019) Polyphosphoinositides in the nucleus: Roadmap of their effectors and mechanisms of interaction. Advances in Biological Regulation 72, 7-21 (Siteringer: 31)
Goris M., Magin R*., Foyn H*., Myklebust L., Varland S., Ree R., Drazic A., Bhambra P., Støve S., Baumann M., Haug BE., Marmorstein R. and Arnesen T. (2018) Structural determinants and cellular environment define processed actin as the sole substrate of the N-terminal actetyltransferase NAA80. Proc Nat Aca Sci (PNAS) USA 115(17) 4405-4410
Aksnes H., Goris M., Strømland Ø., Drazic A., Waheed Q., Reuter N., Arnesen T. (2017) Molecular determinants of the N-terminal acetyltransferase Naa60 anchoring to the Golgi membrane. Journal of Biological Chemistry (JBC) 292(16) 6821-6837
Aksnes H., Van Damme P., Goris M., Starheim K., Marie M., Støve S., Hoel C., Kalvik T., Hole K., Glomnes N., Furnes C., Ljostveit S., Ziegler M., Niere M., Gevaert K. and Arnesen T. (2015) An organellarn a-acetyltransferase, naa60, acetylates cytosolic N termini of transmembrane proteins and maintaines Golgi integrity. Cell Reports 10, 1362-1374