Staff at the Department of Clinical Microbiology

I am a One Health Infection Epidemiologist/Expert. I conduct research and teach epidemiology of infectious diseases at the human, animal, and their shared environment interface. 

I am a PhD student in Annasara Lenman’s lab. My research focus on trying to understand the role of hyaluronic acid during and after infection with Puumala virus.

I am a PhD student in Anna Överby's lab that aims to discover how Tick-borne encephalitids virus (TBEV) is capable of overcoming the host defenses and cause inflammation in the brain. 

Professor in Infectious diseases at Umeå University and Senior Consultant in Infectious diseases and in Infection prevention and control at Region Västerbotten in Sweden.

Amyloid Fibrils and Cytotoxic Oligomers

Professor in Clinical Microbiology

Senior consultant (attending) physician in Clinical Microbiology

My doctoral research investigates neuropsychiatric complications following acute viral infections, with a focus on SARS-CoV-2 and influenza, using Swedish population-based registers.

Professor of immunology with focus on viral infections

Associate professor in virology. Head of a research group that investigates the various mechanisms that affect the severity of illness and recovery during viral infections. 

Ph.D and University Resident in Cardiology.

Principal Investigator at the Dept. of Public Health and Clinical Medicine and the Dept. of Clinical Microbiology.

Associate Professor and resident in Clinical Microbiology. Researches acute and long-term complications following infections using whole-population data. Founder of the Clinical Research Network

I am a postdoctoral fellow interested in multi-omics model and data integration. My kind of research helps to understand disease progression in both hereditary or acquired cases.

Basit Jabbar is a postdoctoral researcher in Professor Niklas Arnberg’s group, studying antiviral compounds targeting virus–host interactions, with a focus on human parainfluenza viruses.

My research aims at understanding why only certain individuals develop more severe infections, with a focus on medical immunosuppressive therapy as well as pregnancy and the uterine immune environment

Leg. biomedical analyst in clinical physiology.
PhD student at the Department of Clinical Microbiology.
Guest lecturer at the medical programme and the biomedical analyst programme..

I am seeing human gut microbiome from a functional point of view.

High resolution human gut microbiota research.

Christoffer Granvik is a medical doctor working in Johan Normark´s group. His work is focusing on long-term effects after COVID-19 infection.

We study disease mechanisms in the Puumala virus infection and COVID-19, in order to understand disease mechanisms and be able to develop future treatment.

I am a postdoc in the Olivia Wesula Lwande lab. My research focuses on the ecology of viral communities in mosquitoes.

I explore innate immune responses against microbial pathogens. Our team aims to exploit new immunological insight to develop new diagnostic tools and antimicrobial therapies.

I am a postdoc in Marta Bally’s group at the Department of Clinical Microbiology. My research focuses on the kinetics of the early interaction between SARS-CoV-2 and the cell surface.

Deep is a postdoc studying gut microbial adaptation to internal and external perturbations.

I am a PhD student in the Olivia Wesula Lwande lab, studying the eco-epidemiology of bird-borne arboviruses at the vector-host-human interface.

PhD in Niklas Arnberg's group. Her research focus on enteric viruses.

Elina’s doctoral work focuses on bacterial biofilm infections, such as prosthetic joint infections and other implant-associated infections.

I am a scholarship student in Anna Överby's group at the Department of Clinical Microbiology

My research is on host-pathogen interactions under hypoxic conditions and neutrophil responses in COVID-19.

I am a PhD student in Anna Överby’s group, where I study host cell proteins that play key roles in the flavivirus life cycle.

I am a PhD student in Mattias Forsell’s group.

PhD

Staff Scientist 

Department of Clinical Microbiology 

I am a professor of organic chemistry and my research group looks for new solutions for infectious and neurodegenerative diseases. I am director of the Umeå Center for Microbial Research, UCMR.

Freja has a background as a medical doctor and ecologist, with a particular  interest in the Arctic. She is a PhD student in Infectious Disease Epidemiology in Magnus Evander’s group.

Frida Jakobsson is a medical doctor working in Anne-Marie Fors Connolly’s group. Her PhD work is focusing on viral hepatitis and COVID-19, mainly in register-based studies.

I am PhD student in Mattias Forsell’s group. My doctoral study will focus on the dynamics of B cells after viral infection and vaccination.

My research focus on gene therapy in particular the use of viral vectors as vaccines and oncolytic agents.

Hanna Jerndal is a medical doctor working in Anne-Marie Fors Connolly’s group. Her work is focusing on complications to COVID-19 in both register based and clinical cohort studies.

I have a shared position as research coordinator at UCMR and research communicator at the Faculty of Medicine.
My office is at KBC Communication Office.

I am a postdoctoral fellow jointly hosted by the labs of Laura Carroll and Johan Henriksson. My research focuses on developing innovative single-cell -omics methods. 

I am a postdoctoral fellow in Mattias Forsell’s group studying long-lived immune responses and the potential role of antibody-dependent enhancement in respiratory viral infections.

Associate Professor of Biomedical Laboratory Science

Docent in Medical Microbiology

Department administrator and responsible for exams at the Biomedical Analyst program.

I´m an infectious diseases clinician and associate professor at the university. My research experience is in host immunological and metabolomic responses to acute infections and vaccination.

I work as a physician at the infectious disease clinic and as an Assistant professor at the university. My research is about Clostridioides difficile infection, Puumala virus infection, and COVID-19.

PhD Student Infection Epidemiology

Registered Nurse in Infectious Diseases Care

I am a PhD student in Laura Carroll’s group. My research focuses on the annotation and clustering of biosynthetic gene clusters from various microbiomes.

I am a PhD student in Niklas Arnberg’s group and a junior physician at the University Hospital of Umeå.

I am a PhD student and my research focuses on developing software that makes single-cell metagenomic data analysable at the scale of millions of cells.

I am a postdoc in the Olivia Wesula Lwande lab. My research focuses on the virus-mosquito and mosquito-host interactions.

Professor of Immunology

Deputy director Umeå School of Education

Recognized teacher

Study administrator (independent courses)

Doctoral education administrator

I am a staff scientist in virology, focusing on zoonotic viruses and their pathogenesis during pregnancy.

Assistant university lecturer

I am a PhD student in Mattias Forsell's research group at the Department of Clinical Microbiology. My research focuses on the adaptive immune system after infection and vaccination.

I am a PhD student and my research is focusing on paediatric infectious disease epidemiology.

I am a postdoctoral researcher working on discovering different aspects of TBEV replication mechanism and pathogenicity.

Pregnancy and cancer share common aims – to escape attack by the immune system.

Professor in Virology. Research mainly on zoonotic viruses and work with studying how they infect and develop antiviral drugs

I am a postdoc in Marta Bally’s group at the Department of Clinical Microbiology. I investigate the interaction of coronaviruses and filoviruses with the cell surface.

I am Senior Professor and Principal Investigator for a a national multicenter study on biomarkers in colorectal cancer predicting risk for recurrence after curative surgery, the COLONODE-study.

Associate Professor of Virology

Deputy Director of the Umeå Center for Microbial Research, UCMR.

We characterize how human B cells in circulation and tissues are affected by underlying disease.

PhD student in the Olivia Wesula Lwande lab. Maud studies the vector competence of mosquitoes for different mosquito-borne diseases, for example O’nyong-nyong virus and Usutu virus.

Alejandra’s research focuses on understanding the role of the herpes virus in neuroinflammatory processes and its connection to neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's.

I am a PhD student in Anders Olofsson’s research group. My research investigates amyloidogenic diseases, focusing on strategies to inhibit amyloid formation and develop potential treatment approaches.

Senior Consultant in Infectious Diseases
Associate professor in Clinical Microbiology and docent 
Deputy Medical Officer for Communicable Disease Control in Östersund

Monika is a postdoc in Anders Sjöstedt’s group where she is studying the type VI secretion system (T6SS) of the pathogenic intracellular bacterium Francisella tularensis. 

I’m a Postdoctoral fellow in Constantin Urban’s group at the Department of Clinical Microbiology. My research mainly focuses on Nutritional Immunity applied by neutrophils.

‘Excellence by Choice’ postdoc investigating how bacterial membrane vesicles influence adenovirus infections in the gut

Virus-host cell interactions: implications for tropism, treatment, and targeting

My research focuses on the virus-mosquito and mosquito-host interactions. Now, I have my own research group and I am passionate about research, teaching and mentorship.

How respiratory viruses, such as hantaviruses, parainfluenza, and RSV, interact with the lung microenvironment. ALI models are used to identify host susceptibility factors and antiviral strategies.

I am a postdoc in Mattias Forsell's group.

I study the genetics of Puumalavirus in Sweden.

Staff Scientist at the Department of Medical and Translational Biology, with a research focus on stem cell biology and regenerative medicine.

I am a PhD student in Anders Olofsson lab. my research focuses on the molecular mechanisms underlying protein misfolding diseases, particularly transthyretin (TTR) amyloidosis.

I am a consultant in Geriatric medicine and Phd student. My research is on frail elderly and severe infections.

With professional teaching and research experience in bioinformatics, Sobiah is working as a postdoctoral researcher in Anne Tuiskunen Bäck lab, focusing on a research project on myocarditis.

Professor in Biomedical Laboratory Science

Cancer researcher

I am a Postdoc in Laura Carroll's group in the Dept of Clinical Microbiology and Johan Henriksson's group in the Dept of Molecular Biology. I am also a part of IceLab.

MD, PhD

I am a PhD student in Johan Normark’s group at the department of clinical microbiology. My research focuses on how Borrelia spirochetes interact with the human and murine complement system.

I am a senior consultant in infectious disease medicine at Sunderby Hospital and an adjunct associate professor at the  Department of Clinical Microbiology at Umeå University.

My research interest is the metabolism of hyaluronan in inflammation and tissue growth.

Rescarcher and pedagogically recognised university teacher
Infection Disease Specialist
Academic course leader in Disaster Medicine at the International Crisis and Conflict Management Programme

PhD in Clinical Neurophysiology

Associate professor in Biomedical Laboratory Science

Assistant and Depudy Head of Department

PhD student in Laura Carroll lab. My research focuses on genomic pathogen surveillance, risk assessment and bioprospecting of bacterial species.

Head of administration and human resources.

Vincent Rusanganwa is Staff Scientist in Magnus Evander’ Group. His research interest is the combination of health systems and infectious diseases’ epidemiology.

I am a group leader of virus research group focusing on oncolytic adenoviruses for cancer therapy and development of viral vaccine.

Postdoctoral researcher in Chinmay Dwibedi lab. Yingyu's research focuses on conjugated linoleic acid biosynthesis in gut microbiota.

Associated professor in Biomedical Laboratory Science

Recognised university teachar and licensed Biomedical Scientist

My research theme is the relationship between the transport protein transthyretin and human amyloid disease.

I am researching to find small molecules that can be developed into new drugs against infections. Specifically, I focus on molecules that have an effect on chlamydia bacteria.