Stefan Jansson is celebrated with the Bo and Barbro Hammarström Award.
Mareike Gutensohn's thesis provides insight into how mercury is transformed into its more toxic form.
Eco-friendly light sources and climate-smart buildings recognized by Swedish academy.
New (old) plant wall on the Art campus provides opportunities for design and molecular biology students.
Kempestiftelserna, Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation and Umeå University invest SEK 67.5 million in MIMS.
Li Zhao has studied marine microorganisms to find out how they react to climate change.
Umeå researchers developed a sensitive corona antibody test and a kit for sampling at home.
A Ferrybox enables water measurements every minute on research vessel KBV 181.
Researchers in Umeå work in an international project about treating cancer while sparing healthy tissue.
Elderly with a low antibody response after vaccination are at increased risk of dying from omicron variants.
Virus and other exciting things at popular science Pint of Science 22-24 May. Umeå Postdoc Society arranges.
Nicolò Maccaferri builds bridges between physics, biochemistry and medicine to explore new intersection areas.
International expert panel highlights research at Umeå University in new report.
Learn more about the flora and fauna around you with guided excursions on campus.
Fouzia Bano makes atomic force microscopy available to other researchers at Umeå University.
TBE-virus infects different types of brain cells in the brain, if the person's immune system is activated,
A possible role for the defensins is to prevent elevated blood sugar levels in high-calorie "western diet".
Six postdocs are financed by Kempe Foundation, of which two projects have applicants affiliated to UCMR.
Express your interest now and join the fun at Curiosum in September.
The faculty boards grant grants to Ronnie Berntsson, Felipe Cava, Gerhard Gröbner and Nicolò Maccaferri.
As a group leader, you have access to a strong network within life science and tailored activities.
Magnus Wolf-Watz researches the linkages between protein structure and dynamics and bacterial infectivity.
Symposium gathered researchers from different fields to talk about digitalisation and clime change.
Umeå University has a leading role in an international project to reduce the risk of pandemics.
Kemal Avican researches the adaptation mechanisms of bacteria to find new strategies to fight infections.
High-tech equipment and huge data collections in focus during the well-attended infrastructure day.
SciLifeLab Umeå has advanced equipment and other resources that help researchers, hospitals and companies.
New UCMR PI Lena Svensson is an excellent teacher, and researcher - with a focus on the body's T-cell defense.
"CU4 a Life Science Shake-Up" meeting took place on 7-8 February 2023 in Sollefteå
Dangerous bacterial toxins act as negotiators to create long-term infections, new research shows.
Most rewarding about being a molecule maker is when a compound with potential can be used clinically.
Aftab Nadeem researches host-pathogen interactions and looks forward to creating new good collaborations.
Stanford Professor Christine Jacobs-Wagner lectures on the unusual biology of the Lyme disease agent.
Professor Herbert Waldmann lectures on pseudonatural products.
Professor Bernt Eric Uhlin receives a medal for contributions to the development of microbiological research.
Caroline Blomquist receives the Faculty of Science and Technology's pedagogical prize.
CASP receives SEK 1,8 million to support life scientists in data analytics.
Hermann Opgenoorth has been doing space research for 50 years.
Olivia from Kenya studies mosquito-borne viruses and looks forward to new collaborations within UCMR.
Research leaders Anne-Marie Fors Connolly and Clas Ahlm receive grants for research about covid-19.
New UCMR PI Irfan Ahmad conducts research in the area of antibiotic resistance.
UCMR PI Laura Carroll starts her own research group and is getting acclimated to the Swedish academic system.
Researchers at Umeå University have discovered how a certain type of protein moves for DNA to be copied.
Postcovid is a growing social problem, and we still know very little about it.
The Industrial Doctoral School projects provide important knowledge for the future.
A transporter which some bacteria use to recycle fragments of their cell wall has been discovered in Umeå,
Interdisciplinary project brings together research groups from all over Europe.
The conference encourages researchers to network and initiate interdisciplinary collaborations.
A previously unknown cellular component, an organelle, inside neurons to perceive smell has been discovered.
Magnus works on a chlamydia project that lets him develop his skills in drug discovery and machine learning.
Sonja Stenmark, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, is the 2022 Best Lab Manager Award winner!
Martí Quevedo will soon start his own postdoctoral project on chromatin architecture at CRAG in Barcelona
What has the Nobel Prize meant and recent developments in CRISPR-Cas9. Watch an exclusive interview.
Göran Ericsson and Mikael Elofsson inaugurate the new growth facility at Umeå Plant Science Centre
In his research, 'EC' postdoc Joram Kiriga Waititu will use the single cell RNA-sequencing method.
Felipe Cava's group has discovered proteins needed to maintain the bacteria's cell wall structure.
The collaboration with the researcher started through the South Africa - Sweden University Forum, SASUF.
Overexploitation negatively affects the majority of the island's animals and plants.
Professor Yaowen Wu, director of UCMR, receives funding for another five years for research on autophagy.
Awarded EU money for innovative research in chemistry and community medicine.
18 research projects receive funds from the EU to create new knowledge in everything from health to AI.
KBC celebrated its 15th anniversary with a scientific conference with many interactive opportunities
The symposium brought the community of infection researchers and microbiologists together locally.
Niklas Arnberg, Anna Arnqvist and Nasim Sabouri are the principal investigators who get funding.
Between 2003 and 2019 almost a fourth of Sweden's last old unprotected natural forests have disappeared.
14 projects with research leaders affiliated to UCMR received funding from the Swedish Research Council.
Umeå physicists have designed a laser that can make it possible to study completely new phenomena.
The discovery is an important piece of the puzzle for designing new enzymes.
Information flows, the research infrastructures are important and the “we-feeling” is growing stronger at KBC.
Umeå University is a partner in the project that collects billions of images of cells.
Master’s students in environmental science have worked on how Umeå University can become more sustainable.
Umeå physicist's industrial doctoral project one of twelve selected in the country.
Umeå researchers one step closer to a new weapon against multidrug-resistant bacteria.
Edward Egelman is known for his work on the structure and function of protein and nucleoprotein polymers.
Researchers from Umeå University, SLU and Algeria have found bacteria in previously unexplored caves.
Researchers can now show how poliovirus takes over and tricks a cell into producing new virus particles.
Anna Överby Wernstedt, Christian Hedberg, Richard Lundmark, Felipe Cava and Constantin Urban are installed.
When permafrost melts greenhouse gas emission from arctic lakes increase, as quantified in a new study.
Andriy Rebryk has developed a method for non-target screening for potentially harmful substances.
New thesis shows how cells regulate their protein level and adjust to the environment outside their organism.
The Excellence by Choice Postdoc programme is managed by UCMR and UPSC with Emmanuelle Charpentier as patron.
Professor Johannes Krause lectures via Zoom on origin of the Black Death and genetic history of the plague.
The period of ice-cover and subsequent ice-melt is important for understanding CO2 emission from arctic lakes.
Professor Edward Egelman lectures on powerful methods developed in Cryo-EM of biological complexes.
Niobium can be used to design electrochemical energy storage materials, Mark Rambaran's thesis shows.
Research aimed at better understanding of future pandemics.
A new study uncovers a new mechanism for how plants protect themselves from strong illumination.
New study shows inactivation of a particular protein complex gives shortage of essential neurotransmitters.
Nordic algae are studied by Umeå University researchers within the project MicroBioRefine.
PhD student Ionut Sebastian Mihai is affiliated with MIMS and Industrial Doctoral School and studies T cells.
EU-OPENSCREEN integrates high-throughput screening platforms in chemical biology across Europe.
Maria Hamrin, docent in space plasma physics, is chair of the Swedish Space Scientists' Collaboration Group.
The pollen trap is located on a roof on campus. Data is reported to the Swedish Museum of Natural History.
Researchers present 28 ecological regulation scenarios with environmental benefits on electricity production.
Bio4Energy researchers have found a new building block for the biorefinery of South american quinoa residues.
SEK 30 million goes to nanomedical precision therapies for the treatment of lower respiratory tract...
Metabolites expression varies greatly between subgroups of malignant brain tumors, cancer researchers show.
PARC is a new chemistry research project funded by the EU, with over 200 partners from 28 countries.
Umeå researcher and the company Sartorius in Umeå combine deep learning with two imaging techniques.
Researchers reveal three-dimensional structure of a protein complex in the cell envelope of D. radiodurans.