News and Upcoming Events

August 25-27, 2021 | SoftLab is attending the Molecular Origins of Life Conference. Join if you can for great talks and discussions!

July 24-28, 2021 | SoftLab participates in the 13th European Biophysics Congress in Vienna with 4 posters by Elif, Karolina, Lin and Inga, and a talk by Irep
Elif's virtually receives one of the 12 BPS poster awards!

June 24, 2021 | Irep's  project application "DID SURFACES ENABLE THE ORIGIN OF LIFE? The role of interfaces in the emergence of primitive cells on the early Earth" gets awarded 12 M NOK from the Research Council of Norway

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Our Members

İrep Gözen

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Group Leader
+47-22840596
irep@uio.no

Elİf Köksal

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Postdoctoral Researcher
+47-22840594
​elif.koksal@ncmm.uio.no

Karolina Spustova

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Doctoral Research Fellow
+47-22840593
karolina.spustova@ncmm.uio.no

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Recent Publications

Spustova, K.; Katke, C.; Villalmanzo, E.P.; Ryskulov, R.; Kaplan, C.N.; Gözen, I.:
Colony-like Protocell Superstructures
BioRxiv (2021)
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.09.16.460583v1

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Schanke, I.J.; Xue, L.; Spustova, K.; Gözen, I.:
Transport among protocells via tunneling nanotubes
BioRxiv (2021)
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.09.16.460285v1

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Gözen, I.:
Did solid surfaces enable the origin of life?
Life (2021)
https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/11/8/795

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