Christmas trees bring joy into our lives, but also endure extremely harsh conditions in the forest.
IceLab launches the Stress Response Modeling Graduate Research School with five PhD positions now available.
IceLab members turned network science inwards to visualize research overlaps during their annual meeting.
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.
€10 will contribute to new knowledge on plant development.
Camilla Canovi developed a bioinformatics pipeline to assign putative functions to long non-coding RNAs.
The project will devolop production of fish and shrimp in circular aquaculture systems.
PhD student Johan Sjölander discovered that modifying the internal clock in hybrid aspen can increase growth.
Cryo.electronmicroscopy reveals the positions of hydrogen atoms and water molecules in photosynthesis.
Kickoffen för Stress Response Modeling vid IceLab den 10-11 juni innebar en lovande start för det nya centret.
Project proposals can be submitted until May 27th and an information session is available April 29th.
In search of collaborators after the March 13 Lunch Pitch.
IceLab seeks faculty for Stress Response Modeling excellence center.
The three cross-faculty areas show the width and edge of research at Umeå University.
Plant scientist Stefan Jansson has been involved for decades in the debate on genetically modified crops.
Umeå Postdoc Society with 220 postdocs at campus works successfully to improve the postdoc experience.
Research helps to increase agricultural productivity as the weather becomes more extreme.
'EC' Postdoc Dhruv has followed his passion for microbiology and life science throughout his academic journey.
A celebration of the official opening of the most northern SciLifelab’s national site - in Umeå.
The Swedish Research Council investigates millions in ground-breaking research environments.
Conifer needles consume oxygen in early spring by using an ancient mechanism
Stefan Jansson is celebrated with the Bo and Barbro Hammarström Award.
Virus and other exciting things at popular science Pint of Science 22-24 May. Umeå Postdoc Society arranges.
As a group leader, you have access to a strong network within life science and tailored activities.
"CU4 a Life Science Shake-Up" meeting took place on 7-8 February 2023 in Sollefteå
Göran Ericsson and Mikael Elofsson inaugurate the new growth facility at Umeå Plant Science Centre
KBC celebrated its 15th anniversary with a scientific conference with many interactive opportunities
A new study uncovers a new mechanism for how plants protect themselves from strong illumination.
Conifers have developed special mechanisms that prevent damage to the photosynthetic machinery.
A new study led by researchers from Umeå Plant Science Centre has shed light onto this cryptic association.
With the method, he has tested the effect of nitrogen supply on fungal communities.
On Saturday, 21st of May,UPSC arranging a day filled with knowledge and interactive activities around plants.
The International Human Frontier Science Program Organization announced the 65 young researchers chosen.
The gene SLI1 protects arabidopsis and makes aphids spit 20 times before absorbing sugar juice from the plant.
With genomes of trees mapped, one can study initiation of adventitious roots from an evolutionary perspective.
Vikash Kumar and Jay Prakash Maurya receive the Ramalingaswami Fellowship from the Indian Government.
Yan Ji has studied the complex first developmental steps when a cell turns green, in Arabidopsis thaliana.
The evergreen Christmas tree is our economically most important plant and continuously researched.
A short-cut in the photosynthesis apparatus means that pine needles can survive the winter.
Bernadette Sztojka has identified three new regulators involved in this process.
Congratulations to Lill Eilersten and Lena Lassinantti for winning the Best PhD Student Presentation Awards!
Bastian Schiffthaler has improved the genome information from aspen and developed bioinformatic tools.
Jean Claude Nzayisenga validates method to analyse lipid, carbohydrate and protein content of microalgae.
UPSC study show that genetically modified wood have a higher energy yield for the production of biofuels.
Chanaka Mannapperuma has developed user-friendly bioinformatics tools for plant biologists.
UPSC Researchers demonstrate that death of certain cells in the root facilitate growth of lateral roots
Abdellah Lakehal has studied how the initiation of adventitious roots is regulated at the molecular level.
In an open letter scientists call for changed European legislation on genetically modified organisms.
Barbara Terebieniec has in her thesis identified genes that control the leaf shape of the European aspen.
On Saturday, 18th of May, the 5th Fascination of Plants Day was celebrated in Umeå with a public event.
Professor Markus Schmid receives 18 MSEK Wallenberg Foundations for research without any restriction.
Marianne Sommarin receives Umeå University's Medal of Merit 2019.
Bernard shows that trees that cannot perceive the ethylene signal have problems to lift themselves up.
Climate change will affect Norway spruce and also bacteria and fungi that live in symbiosis with the tree.
A team of researchers publish the genomes of two species of aspen trees.
The onset of flowering is a central event in the life cycle of a plant and ensures reproduction....
The question whether genetically edited plants, with new methods, shall be classified as GMOs by...