Department of Molecular Biology

Research fellow at the Department of Molecular Biology investigating the role of bacterial pore-forming toxins in the pathogenesis of the host.

Study counsellor for Bachelor's Programme in Life Science and Master's Programme in Molecular Biology (studycounsellor.molbiol@umu.se)

I am doing PhD in molecular biology and PhD thesis is focused on predicting experimental evolution of biofilm mutants for different Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains. 

Atin is a SSMF postdoc in Andrea Puhar's group. He is a molecular biologist trying to understand what makes an intracellular bacterium such a successful pathogen.

My research focuses on cell-autonomous immunity and bacterial evasion strategies

My research focuses on the interaction between diet, gut microbiota and mucosal barrier function.

I am the national director for the National Doctoral Programme in Infections and Antibiotics, NDPIA, and I am a group leader studying infection biology at the Department of Molecular Biology.

Postdoctoral fellow in Jörgen Johansson's group. Duarte investigates structural changes of RNA and the impact on the regulation of virulence in Staphylococcus aureus.

MiMS group leader and malaria researcher interested in parasite-host interactions.

I study adaptations of pathogenic bacteria to adverse environments.

I am Manager of Umeå Hypoxic Research Facility, UHRF.

Pharmacist, currently working as a PhD student in PI Björn Schröder´s research group.

I am a group leader at MIMS and researching the cell walls of bacteria.

I am Director of Umeå Hypoxic Research Facility, UHRF.

My research is about RNA-based gene regulation of cell fate and breast cance.

Postdoc in Barabara Sixt’s group. Gözde investigates and characterizes the factors and pathways that are important for the interaction of Chlamydia trachomatis with its host cells.

I am a phD student at the industrial Doctoral School.

I am a professor of genetics and my research is focused on understanding the meaning and function of chromosomes to organize the genome and to make it function properly.

Our study is focused on studying cancer metastasis and developing targeted drugs. 

I am a researcher in T-cell biology and development of new methods (bioinformatics algorithms and wet lab protocols), with special emphasis on immunotherapy and CAR T cells.

Our research is focused on neuroblastoma, a form of cancer that predominantly affects young children.

I am a post-doctoral fellow in the group of Matthew S Francis. My research is focused on understanding the assembly mechanisms of the type III secretion system (T3SS).

Karsten is a PhD student in Barabara Sixt lab. He works with identifying virulence factors that enable Chlamydia bacteria to evade the immune response of the host cell.

Katharina Wulff studies the physiological mechanisms of mammalian timing behaviour from infancy to adulthood and the way in which biological clocks exploit daylight to entrain to the environment. 

PhD student in the Barbara Sixt group at the Department of Molecular Biology and MIMS.

Longjun is a PhD student in Changchun Chen's group.

PhD student in André Mateus lab since September 2022. Focused on identifying protein function and drug targets in gut microbiome species using functional proteomics and structural approaches.

Our research aims at understanding molecular mechanisms behind the ability of bacteria to adapt to different environments.

I am a postdoc in molecular biology working on host-pathogen interaction.

Marta Nieckarz is a postdoctor in Felipe Cava's group focusing on cell wall biology and environmental adaptation strategies of pathogens capable of residing inside eukaryotic cells.

I am a postdoc in Ellen Bushell's graoup. My project is focused on the characterization of the exportome of the parasite Plasmodium causing malaria.

Research: Understanding the physiology and pathogenesis of bacteria

Education: Director of undergraduate education at the Department of Molecular Biology

I am postdoc in Barbara Sixt lab working on deciphering host cell death programs activated during infection with Chlamydia trachomatis mutants.

(she/they) Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Design and Molecular Biology at Umeå Institute of Design, Department of Molecular Biology & Um...Arts

Communications officer and project coordinator for at The Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden, MIMS, and communications officer for the Nordic EMBL Partnership for Molecular Medicine. 

My research is about genome scale approaches to understand the biology of malaria parasites and how they interact with the mosquitoes that transmit them.

I am a PhD student in the Sun Nyunt Wai group. My research focuses on understanding the role of outer membrane vesicle-associated proteases in bacterial pathogenesis.

Forecasting experimental evolution of biofilm formation and antibiotic resistance

PhD student in Björn Schröder's research group

Sandra is a PhD student in Björn Schröder's research group.

Project coordinator at The Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS)

Postdoc in Andrea Puhar’s group. Her research interests focus on molecular biology, library screening and metabolomics.

Sun Nyunt Wai is Professor of Medical Microbial Pathogenesis and conducts research on the properties of pathogenic bacteria at the molecular level.

I am a postdoctoral researcher in Björn O. Schröder group with a focus on gut microbiota and intestinal mucosal barrier function.

Teresa Frisan, PhD, is Professor in Cell and Molecular Biology at Umeå University, actively involved in research and in teaching within the frame of undergraduate programs.

Thorey is a postdoc in the Ellen Bushell lab. She studies the asexual blood stage of the rodent malaria parasite Plasmodium berghei and new techniques for gene modification.

I am a senior research engineer in Maria Fällman's group working on in vivo transcriptomics of Salmonella Typhimurium.

With our research we aim to understand the interconnections between ageing and proteostasis, focussing on intracellular communication pathways.

I am full professor and studying environmental signal sensing and integration.

Research interests: The evolution of multicellularity; phenotypic plasticity; mutational bias; evolutionary forecasts; fitness trade-offs