Stine Haugstvedt will present and defend her Master's thesis: “Optimizing single-cell and immune profiling of asciminib-treated chronic myeloid leukemia patients using mass cytometry” Date: Thursday, August 21 Time: 10:15 AM Location: Birkhaugsalen, D305, 3rd floor, Central Block, Haukeland University Hospital Supervisors: Assoc. Prof. Morten Beck Rye (NTNU) Prof. Bjørn Tore Gjertsen (UiB) Dr. Stein-Erik Gullaksen (UiB) Internal Examiner: Prof. LES MER

13:00 –Assoc. Prof. Morten Rye, Dept. of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, NTNU: Spatial Transcriptomics Analysis of Prostate Cancer The cancerous prostate gland is a heterogenous mix of different cancer and normal cells and tissue types, which is a major source of confounding when large scale molecular - omics analysis is performed on the prostate gland. LES MER