Margarethe Bittins

Senior Executive Officer, Research and PhD-coordinator

Coordination of the Ph.D.-programme

Administrative support for PhD-candidates

Research coordination

Editor of the newsletter and website

Bittins, Margarethe; Wang, Xiang. 2017. TNT-Induced Phagocytosis: Tunneling Nanotubes Mediate the Transfer of Pro-Phagocytic Signals From Apoptotic to Viable Cells. Journal of Cellular Physiology. 232: 2271-2279. doi: 10.1002/jcp.25584
Myrum, Craig; Soule, Jonathan; Bittins, Margarethe; Cavagnini, Kyle; Goff, Kevin; Ziemek, Silje Karina; Eriksen, Maria Steene; Patil, Sudarshan; Szum, Adrian; Nair Raveendran, Rajeevkumar; Bramham, Clive R. 2017. Arc interacts with the integral endoplasmic reticulum protein, calnexin. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience. 11:294: 1-12. doi: 10.3389/fncel.2017.00294

Bojovic, Ognjen; Panja, Debabrata; Bittins, Margarethe; Bramham, Clive R.; Tjølsen, Arne. 2015. Time course of immediate early gene protein expression in the spinal cord following conditioning stimulation of the sciatic nerve in rats. PLoS ONE. 10:e0123604. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0123604

Wibrand, Karin; Sreenivasa, Pai Balagopal; Siripornmongcolchai, Taweeporn; Bittins, Margarethe; Berentsen, Birgitte; Ofte, May Lillian; Weigel, Arwed; Skaftnesmo, Kai Ove; Bramham, Clive R. 2012. MicroRNA regulation of the synaptic plasticity-related gene arc. PLoS ONE. 7. 15 pages. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041688

Rudolf, Rüdiger; Bittins, Margarethe; Gerdes, Hans-Herman. 2011. The role of myosin V in exocytosis and synaptic plasticity. Journal of Neurochemistry. 116: 177-191. doi: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.2010.07110.x

Bittins, Margarethe; Eichler, Tilo Wolf; Hammer, John A. III; Gerdes, Hans-Herman. 2010. Dominant-negative myosin Va impairs retrograde but not anterograde axonal transport of large dense core vesicles. Cellular and molecular neurobiology. 30: 369-379. doi: 10.1007/s10571-009-9459-2
Bramham, Clive R. Evjen; Alme, Maria Nordheim; Bittins, Margarethe; Kuipers, Sjoukje; Nair, Rajeevkumar R; Pai, Balagopal Sreenivasa; Panja, Debabrata; Schubert, Manja; Soule, Jonathan; Tiron, Adrian; Wibrand, Karin. 2010. The Arc of synaptic memory. Experimental Brain Research. 200: 125-140. doi: 10.1007/s00221-009-1959-2
Kögel, Tanja; Bittins, Margarethe; Rudolf, Rüdiger; Gerdes, Hans-Herman. 2010. Versatile roles for myosin Va in dense core vesicle biogenesis and function. Biochemical Society Transactions. 38: 199-204. doi: 10.1042/BST0380199

Bittins, Margarethe; Eichler, Tilo Wolf; Gerdes, Hans-Herman. 2009. Expression of the Dominant-Negative Tail of Myosin Va Enhances Exocytosis of Large Dense Core Vesicles in Neurons. Cellular and molecular neurobiology. 29: 597-608. doi: 10.1007/s10571-009-9352-z

Bittins, Margarethe; Eichler, Tilo Wolf. 2008. Large Dense Core Vesicles and Their Regulation by Myosin Va - on the role of myosin Va in maturation, intracellular transport, and exocytosis of large dense core vesicles in cultured hippocampal neurons. Universitetet i Bergen, Bergen.

• Post Doc and researcher in neurobiology, Department of Biomedicine, University of Bergen

• PhD in neuronal cell biology, 2008, Department of Biomedicine, University of Bergen

• Masters degree in cell biology, 2002, Center for Molecular Biology, University of Heidelberg, Germany

• Sudied physics, chemisty, biology, University of Heidelberg, Germany

Fields of competence