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A newly discovered molecule paves the way for research into new antibiotics that kill chlamydia.
Improved resolution promotes advanced cell analysis, especially in cases of abnormal cell division in cancer.
MIMS awarded the 2024 Clinical Research Fellowships to Vanja Lunberg Wiraeus and Anne Tuiskunen Bäck.
Ryo Morimoto introduces snails as model system in Umeå for evolutionary studies of the immune system.
Some people naturally have higher levels of proteins that protect them from covid-19.
The new FIB-SEM instrument was inaugurated in November 2024.
Researchers and staff from infrastructures and industry shared ideas and results under the theme sensing.
Linda Sandblad receives the Bo and Barbro Hammarström Prize.
Björn Schröder's research group receives SEK 6 million for research on the intestinal microbial modulation.
The school covers infection biology in a broadly, from humans and animals to plants and is a success story.
A crosslinking mode in the bacteria's cell wall inhibits degrading enzyms and thus protects the bacteria.
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.
Effective against serious infections, according to new study.
Professor Oliver Billker is one of the newly elected EMBO Members on the 60th anniversary of EMBO.
MIMS welcomes Ryo Morimoto and Iker Valle Aramburu as new Group Leaders!
'Can microbes distinguish friend from foe?' only DDLS funded PhD project at UMU in recent call.
Dietary fibre is vital for our intestinal flora, where the bacteria Blautia is important to the mucus barrier.
People with post-COVID syndrome often suffer from intense fatigue and dyspnea, is shown in Nordic study.
Oliver Billker is awarded the Medicine Doctor Axel Hirsch prize 2024 for his research in the field of malaria.
Felipe Cava, Umeå University, is one of the researchers that have identified a bacterial enzyme.
5 and 12 February Västerbotten Region focuses on Chlamydia - a bacteria well studied at Umeå University.
Umeå Postdoc Society with 220 postdocs at campus works successfully to improve the postdoc experience.
Ribosomal protein undergoes structural change but retains sequence during evolution.
Irina Gutsche is the holder of the 2023 Tage Erlander visiting professorship, working at Umeå University.
MIMS expands opportunities for life science research at Umeå University through NORPOD postdoc programme.
Bernt Eric Uhlin is honored for his extraordinary commitment to creating an excellent research environment.
The great interest highlights the need for meeting platforms focusing specifically on postdocs and PhDs.
Professor Frank van Kuppeveld from Utrecht University gave a UCMR Distinguished Guests seminar.
UCEM collaboration to identify novel player in peroxisomal biogenesis
MIMS participates at the 12th annual Nordic EMBL Partnership meeting in Helsinki between 11-14 September 2023.
A celebration of the official opening of the most northern SciLifelab’s national site - in Umeå.
MIMS and UCMR highlighted infection research in the form of a joint scientific symposium.
Karim Rafie is about to start his independent research group at the University of Groningen.
This report features major breakthroughs in infection research and the community driving this at MIMS.
Cholera bacteria use specific D-amino acids to orm complex ecological systems, shows a new study.
Frank van Kuppeveld from Utrecht University lectures on picornavirus replication and virus-host interactions.
Kempestiftelserna, Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation and Umeå University invest SEK 67.5 million in MIMS.
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".
SciLifeLab Umeå has advanced equipment and other resources that help researchers, hospitals and companies.
"CU4 a Life Science Shake-Up" meeting took place on 7-8 February 2023 in Sollefteå
Postcovid is a growing social problem, and we still know very little about it.
A transporter which some bacteria use to recycle fragments of their cell wall has been discovered in Umeå,
Magnus works on a chlamydia project that lets him develop his skills in drug discovery and machine learning.
What has the Nobel Prize meant and recent developments in CRISPR-Cas9. Watch an exclusive interview.
Felipe Cava's group has discovered proteins needed to maintain the bacteria's cell wall structure.
Professor Yaowen Wu, director of UCMR, receives funding for another five years for research on autophagy.
Information flows, the research infrastructures are important and the “we-feeling” is growing stronger at KBC.
Umeå researchers one step closer to a new weapon against multidrug-resistant bacteria.
The detection of physical forces produced by bacterial infection can initiate the immune response.
Linda Sandblad, appointed Research Infrastructure Fellows by the Foundation for Strategic Research, SSF.
Thanat talks about his experiences with mosquitoes in the forest, his research at MIMS and his hobbies.
Lana Jachmann joined the Barabara Sixt lab and is now a PhD student. She moved to Umeå from Germany
André Mateus' Nature article is awarded 10,000 euros, and the ceremony takes place in Heidelberg on 21 May.
Takahiro Ishizaki from Japan is postdoctoral fellow in the Ellen Bushell group at MIMS.
Oestrogen may have protective effect against becoming seriously ill and dying in COVID-19, according to study.
A pH-induced structural mechanism of membrane remodelling caused by the protein MakA has been discovered.
Björn Schröder is group leader at MIMS and researches the interaction between diet and gut microbiota.
Today, World Antimicrobial Awareness Week kicks off and MIMS launches a series of articles.
Umeå University stimulates cutting-edge research with a new program which has Nobel Prize laureate as mentor.
Barbaras goal was to work with bioinformatics, programming, sequence data analyses.
The AI-council works in order to strengthen the faculty before a future when AI will play a crucial role.
Dr Ellen Bushell and Professor Oliver Billker are prominent malaria researchers with exciting goals in mind.
Increased risk of acute myocardial infarction and stroke after covid-19.
Dean, Deputy Dean and one Associate Dean appointed at the Faculty of Medicine, for the next term of office.
Today we celebrate International Day of Women in Science and draw attention to inequalities in academia.
Mapping a virus that causes mortal diarrhea can provide opportunity for new ways of treating COVID-19.
The financial support is included in a national investment into Life Science.
Ellen tells us about how one becomes a member of the Swedish Young Academy and how she plans to use her time.
Gisa Gerold has researched with one of this year´s Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine.
Sweden's so far biggest COVID-19 study has now been completed. Thousands of students and staff participated.
The results give possibilities to find ways to prevent mosquitoes from spreading malaria parasite to humans.
Mirjam Hunziker will study how malaria parasites switch to sexual reproduction.
Intermediate of the peptidoglycan recycling pathway that can modulate synthesis and structure of cell wall.
MIMS researchers for the first time performed targeted gene mutation in the zoonotic pathogen Chlamydia.
Bacteria use the bleaching agent hydrogen peroxide to weaken the immune system and cause pneumonia.
Near atomic details of the smallest known eukaryotic cytoplasmic protein synthesis machine provided.
The bacterium that causes tularemia can be traced with a new method if its used as a biological weapon.
A component has been identified as a novel regulator that can deactivate the immune system.
SEK 30 million grant for malaria parasite research
Felipe Cava has been awarded the 2018 Fernström Prize at Umeå University.
The meeting was preceded by workshops on research communication and career planning for NDPIA.
At a ceremony in Copenhagen on 17 March, Professor Emmanuelle Charpentier received the annual Novozomes Prize.
Discoveries on the CRISPR-Cpf1 enzyme are expected to open up for new opportunities to edit genes.
Umeå University honours Professor Emmanuelle Charpentier for her pioneering research