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. 

Postdoc in Anne-Marie Fors Connolly lab identifying biomarkers for serious disease outcomes in infections caused by viruses such as covid-19, influenza and the puumala virus.

Ph.D and University Resident in Cardiology.

Principal Investigator at the Dept. of Clinical Microbiology.

Course leader in Evidence Based Medicine and teacher at the Medical Programme. 

Postdoctoral fellow in Olivia Wesula Lwande lab.

Research interest: virus-mosquito and mosquito-host interactions

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

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.

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

PhD Student Infection Epidemiology

Registered Nurse in Infectious Diseases Care

Jyoti is IceLab Postdoc in Laura Carroll’s group. She is developing high-throughput, single-cell metagenomic sequencing methods, to be used to resolve the oral microbiome at the single-cell level.

Kerstin is a biophysicist working in Marta Bally´s group at Clinical Microbiology. She got a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions postdoctoral fellowship to investigate Ebola Virus attachment to cells.

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

I conduct research on epidemiology and clinical manifestations of tularaemia in Northern Sweden.

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. 

Sarah is a postdoc in Marta Bally’s group in the Department of Clinical Microbiology. She uses her expertise in atomic force microscopy to study the mechanics of cells during viral infection.

I am a postdoc studying cellular host factors involved in alphavirus replication.

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 split my time between clinical work as an attending physician in infectious disease medicine at Sunderby Hospital and research at the Dept of Clinical Microbiology at Umeå University.

I am an ‘EC’ postdoc in Constantin Urban’s group. I am investigating Saprolegnia’s disease in salmoid fish. The fungal infection causes significant losses in aquaculture industry. 

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

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