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Molecular biology and genetics

Molecular biology is the study of biomolecules (e.g. DNA, RNA, proteins and metabolites) and control of their dynamic interactions within cells. It interfaces extensively with genetics concerned with the mechanisms of inheritance and evolution. Molecular biology and genetics, alongside bioinformatics, underscore modern approaches in cell and developmental biology, infection and immunology, as well as functional interpretation of structural data and regulatory networks underlying system biology.

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Eric Libby and Laura Carroll sit in IceLab against a background wallpaper of birds
Model how a microbe can tell a friend from a foe

'Can microbes distinguish friend from foe?' only DDLS funded PhD project at UMU in recent call.

Open invitation to the IceLab Stress Response Modeling kick-off

Life science researchers invited to the launch of IceLab stress response modeling excellence center June 10-11

Sophia Harlid sits at a white table and smiles while talking to three researcher who have their backs to the camera.
AI for Images and Genomes, Cancer Research at the Lunch Pitch

Pitches: AI for image processing, understanding breast cancer risk and unravelling plant genome complexity.

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In search of collaborators after the March 13 Lunch Pitch.

An audience of seated researchers listen intently to a research pitch while eating their lunches
IceLab opens the 2024 Lunch Pitches

IceLab opens its Lunch Pitch season with pitches related to aging from Verena Kohler and Mattias Forsell

Healthy millions from the Swedish Research Council for research at Umeå University

Umeå University is well ahead in autumn's allocation in the medical field from the Swedish Research Council.

Features

Oliver BillkerProfessor vid Institutionen för molekylärbiologiEnhet: Grupp Oliver BillkerAnknuten som forskare till Molekylär Infektionsmedicin, Sverige (MIMS)Roll: Föreståndare
Insight into the life of the malaria parasite could lead to new drugs

Oliver Billker studies 5000 genes of malaria parasite in fight against one of the world’s deadliest diseases.

Studying the interplay between host cell and pathogen

Barbara Sixt wants to know how human cells can fight pathogenic bacteria.

Charpentier: "I really miss the atmosphere at Umeå University"

Words of praise, memories and laughter. Celebrating Umeå's first Nobel laureate via a live web link.

Chasing unusual bacterial toxins

Professor Teresa Frisan is researching how so-called genotoxins affect mammalian cells.

Genetic technology for the future

CRISPR-Cas9: Emmanuelle Charpentier's breakthroughs.

The biomedicine student who got on the plane to Umeå

"The course starts tomorrow!" Henry Bwanika just got on the plane to Umeå to start his student life.

Research projects

Scentsory Foraging
Duration 21 August 2023 until 20 August 2025
Type of project PhD project
Bacterial membrane vesicles as a biomedical engineering platform
Duration 1 January 2023 until 31 December 2027
Type of project Research project
Epigenetic regulation by Polycomb-Trithorax system: leaving the mark on histones and other proteins
Duration 1 January 2022 until 31 December 2025
Type of project Research project
Duplicating the genome
Duration 1 January 2022 until 31 December 2024
Type of project Research project
Establishment of Photosynthesis, a Tale of Two Genomes
Duration 1 January 2021 until 31 December 2024
Type of project Research project
Chromosomal Gene Regulatory Systems and Chromosome-Specific Adaptations
Duration 1 January 2021 until 31 December 2024
Type of project Research project
"To live and let die"
Duration 1 January 2020 until 31 December 2023
Type of project Research project
Checkpoint mechanisms that safeguard the mitochondrial genome and their role in cancer development
Duration 1 January 2020 until 31 December 2022
Type of project Research project

Research groups

Linda Sandblad lab
Electron microscopy methods to study bacteria cytoskeleton structure, assembly and spatial organization.
Ludmilla Morozova-Roche
Role of amyloid formation and neuroinflammation in neurodegenerative diseases.
Martin Cohn group
Maintenance of genomic stability and DNA repair in humans.
Mattias Alenius
Our group is interested in the essential regulatory processes that control and maintain neuronal activity and which malfunction cause diseases like...
Nasim Sabouri
Maintenance of genome integrity by DNA helicases.
Oliver Billker Lab
The group investigates how malaria parasites reproduce in mosquitoes and get transmitted.
Paulina Wanrooij lab
Our group is interested in the causes and consequences of mtDNA instability.
Peter Lind Lab
Modelling to predict the evolution of biofilm mutants and antibiotic resistance in Pseudomonas bacteria
Richard Lundmark Lab
Membrane sculpting is fundamental for many cellular processes, and malfunction is implicated in many diseases.
Ronnie Berntsson Lab
The group studies structural biology of type 4 secretion systems.
Saskia Erttmann Lab
Unraveling the molecular mechanisms during the microbial-driven onset and resolution of inflammation
Silvia Remeseiro lab
We study long-range gene regulation and 3D organization of the glioblastoma genome.
Sjoerd Wanrooij lab
Molecular mechanism of DNA repair and replication in human mitochondria.
Stefan Björklund lab
The Mediator complex and its function in transcriptional regulation at the molecular level.
Teresa Frisan Lab
We study the role of bacterial genotoxins in modulation of intestinal mucosa homeostasis.