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15 PhD students have honed their messages during the course Science Communication.

A correct assessment of risks with chemicals that replace those that are banned is hampered by lack of data.

The neutron reflexometry method gives scientists atomic-level insight into the behaviour of the protein Bcl-2.

A study by Gerard Rocher Ros shows that the flux may be greater than previously thought.

Vikash Kumar and Jay Prakash Maurya receive the Ramalingaswami Fellowship from the Indian Government.

Johan Lidman shows in his dissertation that metals in water have negative effects on insect-eating birds.

Global warming can be even bigger since capacity of vegetation to absorb carbon dioxide is likely to decline.

Not all major faunal transitions are related to abrupt global perturbations that triggered mass extinctions.

Physicist László Veisz, significantly reduces the divergence of laser-driven X-ray radiation

Two new studies emphasize the variability of soil organic carbon in the Arctic permafrost region.

Umeå researchers establish climate regions based on vertebrates' distribution in a new study in eLife.

Dean, Deputy Dean and one Associate Dean appointed at the Faculty of Medicine, for the next term of office.

Umeå researchers show that carbon emissions from rivers and lakes exceed coal exports to the Arctic Ocean.

Reindeer herders are forced to support feeding when weather and little food make it difficult for reindeer.

Maria Myrstener shows that this has the potential to decrease primary productivity of these ecosystems.

Professor André M de Roos, University of Amsterdam, has been appointed the professorship 2021–22.

This has been shown by researchers in a new study published in “Environmental Research Letters”.

Mapping a virus that causes mortal diarrhea can provide opportunity for new ways of treating COVID-19.

29-30 August, the University launches exciting activities linked to "Pollinating Insects in Västerbotten".

Yan Ji has studied the complex first developmental steps when a cell turns green, in Arabidopsis thaliana.

The research focuses on accurate data of highly excited energy levels of important molecules in astrophysics.

The evergreen Christmas tree is our economically most important plant and continuously researched.

A short-cut in the photosynthesis apparatus means that pine needles can survive the winter.

Dan Adolfsson has manufactured synthetic molecules that bind to so-called amyloid plaques.

The first steps can be important to increase the yield from forest raw material, says Jessica Gard Timmerfors.

Arcum affiliate Natuschka Lee is the editor and author of a new book about life in extreme environments

Bernadette Sztojka has identified three new regulators involved in this process.

Lecture, broadcasts, articles. There is a lot of digital to take part in before the Nobel Prize ceremony.

In the study in Nature Geoscience, nearly 40 per cent increase in carbon dioxide emissions was observed.

Majid studies the electro-peroxone process by which increased removal of pollutants in wastewater is achieved.

The Sweden-Korea Nobel Memorial Program 2020 will take place on 1 December.

Congratulations to Lill Eilersten and Lena Lassinantti for winning the Best PhD Student Presentation Awards!

Research from Umeå University explains how traits in pale lichens allow them to thrive in wet climates.

FOI Industrial Doctoral School researchers solve a riddle that has eluded researchers for over 50 years.

Stefan Björklund talks about the KBC DAYS 2020 and why they chose this year’s main topics

Algoryx, Infobaleen, Prediktera and Shimmercat are all among the brightest startups within AI in Sweden.

Gisa Gerold has researched with one of this year´s Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine.

A three-month internship is included in the Industrial Doctoral School. Johan thinks it has been rewarding.

The prestigious journal New Phytologist selects the study led by researcher Xiao-Ru Wang as its cover story.

Casper discusses in his thesis which water molecules that are the active ones and how this reaction proceeds.

Chemists together with German researchers have captured and identified bacterial toxin target substrates.

Johan's thesis shows that pharmaceuticals can be surprisingly persistent in northern environments.

On August 25, the English newspaper reported on earthworms in Arctic and Jonatan Klaminder's research

River scientists report detailed measurements of sediment movement and water level in an ice-covered river.

Permafrost thaw due to anthropogenic climate warming may convert peatlands into a net source of warming.

Researchers redefine how the binding effect works at the nano level.

Plant roots stimulate microbial decomposition and increases greenhouse gas emission from thawing permafrost.

A research team has provided the mechanistic insight into protein co-aggregation in Alzheimer’s disease.

150,000 diligently working bees and their queens Vilhelmina, Dorotea and Fredrika make up Campus Bigården.

Bastian Schiffthaler has improved the genome information from aspen and developed bioinformatic tools.

Researchers have mapped environmental factors leading to whitefish dividing into different "sibling species".

SSF supports a hydrogen research centre led by KTH and including Umeå researchers.

Professor Anna Linusson Jonsson receives the Faculty of Science and Technology's Collaboration award.

Researchers have been awarded SEK 4 million to test a new method for cleaning contaminated sediments.

Dominic Vachon receives the award for his research on greenhouse gases in inland waters.

Frida Torell has studied how metabolite samples can be interpreted when there are only a few available.

Algoryx has been awarded for implementation of industry grade physics simulation in Unreal Engine.

Jean Claude Nzayisenga validates method to analyse lipid, carbohydrate and protein content of microalgae.

UPSC study show that genetically modified wood have a higher energy yield for the production of biofuels.

Chanaka Mannapperuma has developed user-friendly bioinformatics tools for plant biologists.

Stream restauration projects planned at the landscape scale leads to the best results.

Scientists take steps towards capturing a molecular movie of how oxygen-oxygen bond formation occurs.

After graduation, Mar Edo keeps working on the waste management industry.

A regulatory system of toxin and antitoxin proteins in bacteria can be a defense system against viral attack.

Nature Communcations: Absence of earthworms can explain why Arctic plants are starving for nitrogen.

The key agent is graphene oxide. The authors have applied for patent for the method to prepare dispersions.

An international research group has investigated a strain of multi drug resistant tuberculosis from Ukraine.

Research reveales how regulate muscle relaxation protein undergoes structural change in a critical phase.

With remote analysis techniques, researchers gain better understanding of tundra regions becoming greener.

Christiane Funk and Venkata Krishna Kumar Upadhyayula are on IVA's list over sustainable research.

The Graduate School of Gender Studies is recruiting five PhD students.

In the summer, doctoral students Johan Leander and Sven Norman go into an intense period out in the field.

Four-stranded DNA associated with the onset of cancer can be detected with a fluorescent molecule.

UPSC Researchers demonstrate that death of certain cells in the root facilitate growth of lateral roots

The unexpected ecological pattern is the conclusion of a study about biodiversity in competitive environments.

Umeå physicists are the first to show high stability of the porous nanomaterial COF-1.

Sjoerd Wanrooij gets another five-year period as Wallenberg Academy Fellow.

Abdellah Lakehal has studied how the initiation of adventitious roots is regulated at the molecular level.

The UN report on oceans and climate is based on long time data series. Umeå University contributes to these.

Marianne Sommarin receives Umeå University's Medal of Merit 2019.

In an open letter scientists call for changed European legislation on genetically modified organisms.

Scientists meet at Umeå University to discuss renewable energy and to test drive a hydrogen car.

The introductory day at the conference in Inorganic Chemistry in Umeå, focuses on the periodic system.

Professor John Anderson and designer Anne Asensio are honorary doctors at Faculty of Science and Technology.

The BIOMEX research team, including Natuschka Lee, has made biological experiments under space conditions.

The University draws attention to the crisis situation and starts research on insects in Northern Sweden.

Mirva shows that the capacity of the tested carbon materials to separate organic water pollution was low.

Space physicists at Umeå University develop measuring instruments for the spaceship Comet Interceptor.

Researchers have delevoped method using sound recordings to estimate gas exchange in waters.

US PhD students visit CIRC this summer to research the role of arctic lakes and rivers in the carbon cycle.

Arctic waters contributes largely to global carbon dioxide emissions and we need to better understand how.

Funding from Erasmus continues for Thomas Boréns exchange program with a university in Ukraine.

Barbara Terebieniec has in her thesis identified genes that control the leaf shape of the European aspen.

Nordic microalgae can be used for simultaneous production of biomass and municipal sewage treatment.

Climate change threatens the Arctic freshwater ecosystems according to a new report published in May.

On Saturday, 18th of May, the 5th Fascination of Plants Day was celebrated in Umeå with a public event.

A large grant from Kempe initiates a postdoctoral programme to stimulate bold structural biology research.

An American-Umeå team shows in PNAS a molecule that prevents resistance to antibiotic treating tuberculosis.

A study in Nature shows new global assessment of the planet’s remaining free-flowing rivers.

A study by CIRC in Nature Communications shows that CO2-emissions from Western Siberia lakes are high.