Qi Zhang's research shows how the atmosphere on Mars has evolved over time and may look like in the future.
The yearly KBC Relay took place again, with colourful costumes and competition from SLU's students
Niklas Eklund took over as Director of the European CBRNE Center at the beginning of the year.
SciLifeLab site Umeå celebrates 16 new Group Leaders with cake and a get-together.
Infectious disease doctors became significantly more infected than other doctors during the pandemic.
The conference aims to promote collaboration between academia and industry and drive innovation.
By opening up pollen grains, a technique developed in Umeå, scientists found clues to pollen's expiration date
Resistant spores can cause food poisoning and infections via, for example, dairy products.
Improved resolution promotes advanced cell analysis, especially in cases of abnormal cell division in cancer.
Doctoral student Andreas Eriksson experienced cultural differences at the Sartorius research lab.
Honored for serving with distinction in the advancement of optics and photonics
Project proposals can be submitted until May 19th and an information session is available February 12th.
UCMR Day is an opportunity to increase international visibility by inviting talented keynote speakers.
MIMS awarded the 2024 Clinical Research Fellowships to Vanja Lunberg Wiraeus and Anne Tuiskunen Bäck.
With Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, most of laboratory research came to a halt.
Professor Yaowen Wu's lab is at the forefront of developing chemo-optogenetic systems.
Jens Zamanian wants to encourage more students to study abroad and take double degrees.
Climate change is expected to have far-reaching implications for livelihoods, infrastructure and environment.
Aims to increase collaboration between academia and the sector when it comes to “safe” use of chemicals
Nabila El Arbi shed light on plant RNA regulation, focusing in particular on alternative splicing.
UMF researchers are granted Baltic Waters funding to study eutrophication and storage of carbon in the Baltic.
Ryo Morimoto introduces snails as model system in Umeå for evolutionary studies of the immune system.
The scientists take viewers on a journey below Rosfjordsvatnet's icecovered surface.
Three professors from Umeå University newly appointed members of the Scientific councils.
Christmas trees bring joy into our lives, but also endure extremely harsh conditions in the forest.
Comparing ROV with diving in underwater surveys.
IceLab launches the Stress Response Modeling Graduate Research School with five PhD positions now available.
The Swedish Research Council awards Umeå University 16 million SEK to two national research schools.
A documentary project about innovative initiatives across Europe highlights Life Science in Umeå.
Researchers have investigated substances used as pesticides – suspected of inducing cancer.
Collected samples from the visitor's hands and everyday objects.
Arctic climate, tourism, and Sami research for sustainability were presented to the Swiss embassy.
The PANDASIA project aims to increase our understanding of how diseases make the leap from animals to humans.
20 research projects, from virus control to tech innovations, have secured EU funding. Curious? Learn more.
Elin trains to become a specialist in general medicine and continues her doctoral project about virus.
Ten projects at Umeå University receive a total of 30 million SEK from the Swedish Cancer Society.
Faculty of Science and Technology Dean new fellow in the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA).
Activating instead of blocking a special protein can open a new way to fight some forms of prostate cancer.
Some people naturally have higher levels of proteins that protect them from covid-19.
The new FIB-SEM instrument was inaugurated in November 2024.
Astrophysicist explains why we are seeing unusually high levels of Northern Lights at the moment.
IceLab members turned network science inwards to visualize research overlaps during their annual meeting.
A Umeå project is among those that receive the most, 30 million, for interdisciplinary research environments.
David Wardle's research on ecosystems is highly influential in the field.
Extensive study examines damage to Swedish trees and how the forest industry can become more profitable.
New SciLifeLab director, Jan Ellenberg, and SciLifeLab board chair Ylva Engström, paid a full-day visit.
Researchers and staff from infrastructures and industry shared ideas and results under the theme sensing.
Doctoral thesis explains what happens when the solar wind meets other objects with atmospheres.
Minuscule plastic particles can reduce effect of antibiotics and risk causing resistance, according to study.
Environmental science students have explored various aspects of sustainability on campus.
In this year's call from the Swedish Research Council, a total of 66 million is granted to 14 projects.
Johan Normark will study how the immune system regenerates after treatment with drugs that eliminate B cells.
€10 will contribute to new knowledge on plant development.
Linda Sandblad receives the Bo and Barbro Hammarström Prize.
Camilla Canovi developed a bioinformatics pipeline to assign putative functions to long non-coding RNAs.
Scientists made wildlife flourish by creating new wetlands.
Björn Schröder's research group receives SEK 6 million for research on the intestinal microbial modulation.
New thesis shows that special proteins are used when resistance to antibiotics spreads between bacteria,
Researchers combine AI with computational physics in a new project with industry.
Alicia Lind is one of five employees who receive Region Västerbotten grant for postdoctoral qualifications.
Lars-Anders Carlson is receiving SEK 24 million from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation.
Research breakthrough could be significant for the food industry and the fight against antibiotic resistance.
A discovery of how stem cells becomes specialised cells provides new understanding of how cancer develops.
Kemal Avican joined Curiosum’s ForskarFredag Sept. 27 to build virtual bacteria with children.
The school covers infection biology in a broadly, from humans and animals to plants and is a success story.
Teresa Frisan shared her enthusiasm for research and gave an insight into researchers' everyday life
Not accounting for carbon fluxes between land and water leads to incorrect climate assessments.
Nicolò Maccaferri and his group had the pleasure to host Stefano Corni in the context of UCMR Seminar Series.
A crosslinking mode in the bacteria's cell wall inhibits degrading enzyms and thus protects the bacteria.
Túlio's research is about saprolegnosis - a fungi disease that affect freshwater fishes.
Biomass from algae is converted into plastic used in lamps and packaging.
Under certain conditions the induced magnetosphere of Mars can degenerate, a study in Nature shows.
Common PFAS substances are difficult to capture once they have entered the environment, new thesis shows.
A research group conducted joint field work with USA in Abisko and Lake Torneträsk to collect HNP samples.
Suvam's project concerns how bacteria respond to external stressors like antibiotics and develop resistance.
The structural changes that occur in graphite during oxidation have puzzled scientists for 50 years.
Novel mechanism in gene regulation uncovered in study exploring the 3-dimensional dynamics of gene elements.
South Korean researchers visited IceLab as part of STINT research exchange in modeling ecology and evolution.
Antibiotic-driven alterations in the microbiota. causes defects in the normally protective mucus barrier.
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.
Antonio's work focuses on the chemical and structural mode of action of the novel drug at molecular level .
Matthew lectures on chemical probes for imaging cancer and infectious diseases.
Research shows how the magnesium atom directs the chemistry that catalyzes the production of ATP in a cell.
Lakshmi Das receives Marie Curie Fellowship to investigate new material with ultra-fast light pulses.
The project will develop production of fish and shrimp in circular aquaculture systems.
Current outbreak of mpox is a more dangerous variant than the one that spread in Africa about two years ago.
In a mix of biology and physics, Ben investigates biological reactions and processes with fast lasers.
Effective against serious infections, according to new study.
Major global study shows that insect herbivory plays a significant role in carbon and nutrient cycling.
Professor Oliver Billker is one of the newly elected EMBO Members on the 60th anniversary of EMBO.
PhD student Johan Sjölander discovered that modifying the internal clock in hybrid aspen can increase growth.
Tea bags buried in soil worldwide show decomposition rates in different soil types.
Cryo.electronmicroscopy reveals the positions of hydrogen atoms and water molecules in photosynthesis.
New study shows how an enzyme breaks down the bacteria's cell wall to transfer resistance to antibiotics.
MIMS welcomes Ryo Morimoto and Iker Valle Aramburu as new Group Leaders!
The AI system has been developed on a supercomputer in several million training steps.
Kickoffen för Stress Response Modeling vid IceLab den 10-11 juni innebar en lovande start för det nya centret.
Breakthrough in research enables more experiments than ever before on vital processes inside cells.
Umeå university has received five new Arctic Five Chairs 2024-2026.