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SciLifeLab Infrastructure Day

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Welcome to Infrastructure Day, hosted by SciLifeLab Umeå. We bring together research infrastructures from Umeå University’s Faculties of Science and Technology and Medicine, as well as SLU and the University Hospital, to connect with researchers, explore cutting-edge technologies, share expertise, and strengthen collaboration in northern Sweden

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Monday the 11th of May

About the event

A full-day gathering for all scientists to explore research infrastructure opportunities, share expertise, and connect across Umeå’s life science.

Learn more about national research infrastructures and the SciLifeLab platforms across Sweden, through personal meetings with our local staff scientists. Be part of collaboration with research infrastructures and SciLifeLab capabilities to drive life science in Sweden.

Event highlights include:

  • Future outlook of SciLifeLab site Umeå 
  • Presentations from national and local research infrastructure units
  • Focus on bridging science and technology development
  • Data managment pannel discussion
  • Infrastructure poster exhibitions, mingling and engaging infrastructure presentations

Registration


Registration deadline April 27th of 2026

Registration form

Register to the SciLifeLab Infrastructure Day

*this information is required

We welcome SciLifeLab Heads of Unit, SciLifeLab Infrastructure Representatives, and Local Infrastructure Representatives to present posters or rollups focusing solely on infrastructure or units. Please note that research posters will not be displayed.

The number of poster boards is limited. Once all requests have been received, we will do our best to accommodate everyone.

Please be aware that hiring poster boards involves a cost. Therefore, you have until 4 May to cancel or modify any request you have submitted. If a reserved poster board is left empty during the session, the hiring cost may be charged.

Poster request:

 

Lunch & Fika 

We are delighted to invite you to a standing lunch and well-deserved breakes, so you can continue enjoying the conference day.

We are aware that some guests my have dietary preferences or restrictions. Please let us know in advance if you have any allergies or special dietary requirements.

Please Note: Due to recent changes in food regulations, any request outside the standard menu or the vegetarian option will be served from the side table designated for dietary preferences and restrictions.

 

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Cancellation policy

Please note that a fee of 500 SEK may be charged for a "no-show" without prior communication.

For those who wish to present posters, any costs related to poster board hire may be charged if the poster board is left empty on the day of the event.

Program

 

Theme: Elevate your research by unique technologies

8.30 Registration and poster mounting

9.00 Welcome; Introduction and future paths of research infrastructures users and providers 

  • SciLifeLab advancing life science and access to unique technologies 
  • The “Umeå Model” what make us unique 
  • Organisation of research infrastructure in Umeå  

SESSION 1: Infrastructure Pitches
(Chair: TBA)

9.30 "From idea to insight: Data, bioinformatics, and AI support in Life Science"
Janett Trångrot 
NBIS - National Bioinformatics Infrastructure Sweden 

9.36 "Dungeons and bioinformaticians: data processing and storage at UPSCb"
Edoardo Piombo 
UPSC Bioinfromatics - Umeå Plant Science Centre Bioinformatics  

9.42 "From Freshwater to Ocean: An Open Research Infrastructure for Experimental Aquatic Science"
Regina Kolzemburg 
UMF - Umeå Marine Science Centre 

9.48 "C-Trap: combining optical tweezers, confocal microscopy and microfluidics to study single-molecule dynamics and mechanics." 
Rubén Casanova Sáez 
C-Trap Facility 

9.54 "Launching the Umeå Proteomics Core Facility" 
Iker Valle Aramburu 
Proteomic Core Facility 

9.58 "Clinical/Medical Research Infrastructure at NUS/RV "
Anna Ramnemark 
Head of Unit Clinical Research Centre 

10.10 Coffee  Break

SESSION 2: Infrastructure Presentations - Representing National SciLifeLab Platforms
(Chair: TBA)

11.40 TBA
Linda Köhn
Clinical Genomics

11.00 "From Molecules to Meaning: Metabolomics at the Swedish Metabolomics Centre"
Annika Johansson
Swedish Metabolomic Centre (SMC)

11.20 TBA
Stina Berglund Fick
Chemichal Biology Centre Sweden (CBCS)

11.40 TBA
Tobias Sparrman
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)

12.00 - 13.00 Lunch

13.00 Poster Session and Interaction

SESSION 3: Panel Discussion - Data Management 
(Chair: Kate Bennet)

Björn Nysted (NBiS, UU), Björn Torkelsson (Assistant Director of HPC2N, UMU), Elisabeth Mach (Legal Officer at Legal and Infromation Management Office UMU),Kelly Swarts (DDLS Fellow, SLU & UMU), Nicolas Delhomme (Coordinator for data and computational support for WIFORCE)

14.30 Coffee Break

SESSION 4: Infrastructure Presentations - Representaing National Microscopy Infrastructures
(Chair: TBA)

15.00 "Putting electrons to work: From cell imaging to nanostructure fabrication"
Lorene Gonnin & Nils Hauf
Umeå Centre for Electron Microscopy (UCEM)

15.20 From Photons to Forces: Imaging Biology Across Scales 
Fouzia Bano & Sebastian Rönfeldt
Biochemical Imaging Centre Umeå (BICU)

15.40 Access for external/non-academic projects and industry collaborations
TBA
Umeå University Innovation office 

16.00 - 16.30 Bubbles, mingle and poster viewing

 

Venue

The event will be held at seminar room Rotundan, in the Universum Building, Umeå University.

Universum Building

Umeå University Campus, Universum Building on a winter day.

Umeå University Campus, Universum Building

ImageMattias Pettersson

Place:

If you have not been to Rotundan Seminar Room in the Universum building before, please have a look at the digital campus map link. Once you enter the building you need to go one flight of stair up.

Access:

You can easily go to the Universum building from the city center of Umeå by bus. Take bus 5 or 8 from Vasaplan and get off at the bus stop Universum.

From there, it is only a few minutes to walk to get to Universum Building. You can find more information about bus timetables.

If you arrive by plane to Umeå, the fastest way to get to Universum Building is taking a taxi. The journey takes approximately 20 minutes. Please book your taxi in advance to avoid waiting at the airport.

 

Organizers

The event is organized by SciLifeLab site Umeå in collaboration with KCB Communications Office.

 

Contact

 

Latest update: 2026-04-13