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UCMR Day
Conference boosts the international microbial research network

UCMR Day is an opportunity to increase international visibility by inviting talented keynote speakers.

Läkare skriver på en laptop. Fokus på stetoskop.
2024 MIMS Clinical Research Fellowships awarded

MIMS awarded the 2024 Clinical Research Fellowships to Vanja Lunberg Wiraeus and Anne Tuiskunen Bäck.

Forskaren och Head of Unit på SMC, Annika Johansson, berättar om forskningen vid infrastrukturen för besökarna.
Ukrainian researchers visited Umeå in search of collaboration and inspiration

With Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, most of laboratory research came to a halt.

Jun Zhang, Laura Herzog, and Yaowen Wu in front of the computor.
New light-tuned chemical tools control processes in living cells

Professor Yaowen Wu's lab is at the forefront of developing chemo-optogenetic systems.

Karin Lexén
A balance between natural resources and industrial development

Can we balance natural resources and justice in northern Sweden's green transition?

En kvinna sitter vid ett bord och skrattar.
Launch of new student website

The new student website has now been launched with the aim to simplify for students at Umeå University.

Avtackning av rektor Hans Adolfsson 23:e januari 2025 i Brashörnan
Vice-chancellor Hans Adolfsson was farewelled

After eight and a half years, Umeå University's Vice-Chancellor Hans Adolfsson was farewelled at a ceremony.

Bild på Charlotta Svonni
Charlotta Svonni awarded IASC Fellow 2025

Charlotta Svonni, postdoctoral researcher at Várdduo, has been awarded the IASC Indigenous Fellowship.

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From the Umeå lab to around the world – how genetic scissors are now being used

Key pieces of the puzzle for the gene scissors were discovered in Umeå. The tool is used for many things.