Under certain conditions the induced magnetosphere of Mars can degenerate, a study in Nature shows.
Common PFAS substances are difficult to capture once they have entered the environment, new thesis shows.
A research group conducted joint field work with USA in Abisko and Lake Torneträsk to collect HNP samples.
Suvam's project concerns how bacteria respond to external stressors like antibiotics and develop resistance.
The structural changes that occur in graphite during oxidation have puzzled scientists for 50 years.
Novel mechanism in gene regulation uncovered in study exploring the 3-dimensional dynamics of gene elements.
South Korean researchers visited IceLab as part of STINT research exchange in modeling ecology and evolution.
Antibiotic-driven alterations in the microbiota. causes defects in the normally protective mucus barrier.
MIMS Group Leader and DDLS Fellow starts his independent research lab at Umeå University.
ERC Starting Grants is a research programme that support promising young researchers.
Antonio's work focuses on the chemical and structural mode of action of the novel drug at molecular level .
Matthew lectures on chemical probes for imaging cancer and infectious diseases.
Research shows how the magnesium atom directs the chemistry that catalyzes the production of ATP in a cell.
Lakshmi Das receives Marie Curie Fellowship to investigate new material with ultra-fast light pulses.
The project will devolop production of fish and shrimp in circular aquaculture systems.
Current outbreak of mpox is a more dangerous variant than the one that spread in Africa about two years ago.
In a mix of biology and physics, Ben investigates biological reactions and processes with fast lasers.
Effective against serious infections, according to new study.
Major global study shows that insect herbivory plays a significant role in carbon and nutrient cycling.
Professor Oliver Billker is one of the newly elected EMBO Members on the 60th anniversary of EMBO.
PhD student Johan Sjölander discovered that modifying the internal clock in hybrid aspen can increase growth.
Tea bags buried in soil worldwide show decomposition rates in different soil types.
Cryo.electronmicroscopy reveals the positions of hydrogen atoms and water molecules in photosynthesis.
New study shows how an enzyme breaks down the bacteria's cell wall to transfer resistance to antibiotics.
MIMS welcomes Ryo Morimoto and Iker Valle Aramburu as new Group Leaders!
The AI system has been developed on a supercomputer in several million training steps.
Kickoffen för Stress Response Modeling vid IceLab den 10-11 juni innebar en lovande start för det nya centret.
Breakthrough in research enables more experiments than ever before on vital processes inside cells.
Umeå university has received five new Arctic Five Chairs 2024-2026.
The Arctic Congress 2024 gathered many researchers from Umeå University who presented their research.
Anne L'Huillier and Ferenc Krausz have worked with researchers at the Department of Physics for many years.
The UCMR community welcomed professor Emma Thomson to a summer warm Umeå for networking and talk.
By letting AI count on climate change and travel patterns it is possible to forecast new infections.
Welcome to a UCMR two seminar 30 May at 14:00-16:00 in Major Groove.
A clinician, a preclinician, and a biomedical analyst demonstrate successful COVID-19 research.
Doctoral students at the Arctic Graduate School went on a doctoral course and field trip to Rovaniemi.
'Can microbes distinguish friend from foe?' only DDLS funded PhD project at UMU in recent call.
On April 27, 2024, Skogsungdomarna organised a forest history excursion in Kulbäcksliden for their members.
PNAS study makes a good "case" for using small molecules as chemical tools to understand complex biology.
How a special protein complex moves along genes in DNA may have an impact on how cells divide.
Mathematical modelling advances research in endosymbiosis, according to a research group in Umeå.
Dietary fibre is vital for our intestinal flora, where the bacteria Blautia is important to the mucus barrier.
ESWW brings scientists and the space industry together as it takes place in Sweden for the first time.
For the second year in a row, a Umeå University researcher is a finalist for the Frontiers Planet Prize.
During the unusually dry year of 2018, Sweden was hit by numerous forest fires.
A new method for measuring efficiency losses gives a breakthrough in the development of new light sources.
A new major study shows that the effects of climate change could be stronger than previously thought.
Keith Larson at the Arctic Centre is the 2024 recipient of the Iwan Bolin Prize.
The study supports the use of ciprofloxacin and identifies the need for more knowledge about the disease.
Project proposals can be submitted until May 27th and an information session is available April 29th.
Matthew lectures about fungal pathogens and future risks for the global life-support system.
Pär Byström wants to develop one of the world's leading centers for climate research in the Arctic.
André Mateus had a seminar on everything you ever wanted to know about proteomics, but never dared to ask.
Doctoral student Eva Krämer went on a 12 week long research stay at the University Center in Svalbard (UNIS).
Freshwater microbes hitchhike with plastic particles to the sea. Does it affect microbes in seawater?
Pitches: AI for image processing, understanding breast cancer risk and unravelling plant genome complexity.
Six Umeå University researchers have been admitted to the Wallenberg Scholars programme 2024.
People with post-COVID syndrome often suffer from intense fatigue and dyspnea, is shown in Nordic study.
Stefan Jansson receives a prize from the Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society
Researchers at the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics have been granted a three-year position.
Results made by Anna Arnqvist´s group include molecular details and the importance of the pH in the stomach.
In search of collaborators after the March 13 Lunch Pitch.
Johan Normark tells about current knowledge on symptoms, causes, treatment, and prognosis of post-COVID.
Welcome to a UCMR two seminar 25 April at 14:00-16:00 in Lilla hörsalen, KBC.
Deepen your knowledge on how human activity has changed the Earth through the course Global Change Science.
The study will evaluate knowledge, awareness and practices of TBE vaccination.
Oliver Billker is awarded the Medicine Doctor Axel Hirsch prize 2024 for his research in the field of malaria.
IceLab seeks faculty for Stress Response Modeling excellence center.
Small, inconspicuous organisms potential superstars in the green transition.
The pitches covered cancer and disease modeling and the role of sphingolipids in metabolic diseases.
Anna Överby Wernstedt at Umeå University is one of five junior researchers who will share SEK 33 million.
Jens Zamanian is awarded the Faculty of Science and Technology's pedagogical prize 2024.
Studies in a thesis give hope for medicines for colds and other diseases as well as an intestinal organism.
Several postdoc projects receive funding from EU within the ´Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme.
Individual variation explains recurrent caries disease and that others are asymptomatic.
Produces significantly fewer defects compared to the most commonly used method today.
STINT-funded research collaboration with Inha University researchers begins with a visit to Incheon, Korea
See photos from the Nobel Prize winner's visit to Umeå University.
Felipe Cava, Umeå University, is one of the researchers that have identified a bacterial enzyme.
Doctoral student Maria Camila Urrea went on a scouting trip to sample several Northern mine-impacted lakes.
IceLab opens its Lunch Pitch season with pitches related to aging from Verena Kohler and Mattias Forsell
Metabolomics is a growing field within life science - 120 scientists from all over the world gathered in Umeå.
Emma Thomson lectures on AAV2 and immune dysregulation in children with unexplained hepatitis.
'EC' postdoc Adrien is studying the relationship between plant epidermal cell structure and mechanical stress.
Kim lectures on virulence factors in bacteria that provide molecular insight into eukaryotic signaling systems
Society beneficial products and services based on research or education at the university are recognized.
Sweden's last unmodified rivers and streams provide important information for restoring destroyed habitats.
Anne L'Huillier gives a lecture at Umeå University on 15 February.
5 and 12 February Västerbotten Region focuses on Chlamydia - a bacteria well studied at Umeå University.
The three cross-faculty areas show the width and edge of research at Umeå University.
Nicolò Maccaferri wants to create hard drives that work like 'time machines'.
Bacterial pili increase virulence and form biofilm structures that strengthen antibiotic tolerance.
Plant scientist Stefan Jansson has been involved for decades in the debate on genetically modified crops.
Thirteen research projects, ranging from algae to digital merits, can look forward to funding from the EU.
The support means that scientific breakthroughs in life science can be converted into future innovations.
Umeå Postdoc Society with 220 postdocs at campus works successfully to improve the postdoc experience.
The climate crisis demands expertise and knowledge.
Postdoctoral fellow Audrey Schillings and team went to Svalbard to study the Eidembukta lagoon.
Ferenc Krausz's advice to young researchers: "Find the right question for yourself."
Ribosomal protein undergoes structural change but retains sequence during evolution.