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Molecular biology and genetics

Molecular biology is the study of biomolecules (e.g. DNA, RNA, proteins and metabolites) and control of their dynamic interactions within cells. It interfaces extensively with genetics concerned with the mechanisms of inheritance and evolution. Molecular biology and genetics, alongside bioinformatics, underscore modern approaches in cell and developmental biology, infection and immunology, as well as functional interpretation of structural data and regulatory networks underlying system biology.

Latest news

Sebastian Mihai, doktorand MIMS
Immune system DNA holds key for multiple disease personalised therapies

Some people naturally have higher levels of proteins that protect them from covid-19.

En grupp människor som står vid en monter på KBC-dagarna 2024
KBC DAYS strengthens interdisciplinary collaboration

Researchers and staff from infrastructures and industry shared ideas and results under the theme sensing.

Universitetslektor vid Institutionen för medicinsk kemi och biofysikKB. A5, Campus, UmeåUmeå universitet, 901 87 Umeå
Important new funding for research on virus factories

Lars-Anders Carlson is receiving SEK 24 million from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation.

Eric Libby and Laura Carroll sit in IceLab against a background wallpaper of birds
Model how a microbe can tell a friend from a foe

'Can microbes distinguish friend from foe?' only DDLS funded PhD project at UMU in recent call.

Open invitation to the IceLab Stress Response Modeling kick-off

Life science researchers invited to the launch of IceLab stress response modeling excellence center June 10-11

Sophia Harlid sits at a white table and smiles while talking to three researcher who have their backs to the camera.
AI for Images and Genomes, Cancer Research at the Lunch Pitch

Pitches: AI for image processing, understanding breast cancer risk and unravelling plant genome complexity.

Features

Oliver BillkerProfessor vid Institutionen för molekylärbiologiEnhet: Grupp Oliver BillkerAnknuten som forskare till Molekylär Infektionsmedicin, Sverige (MIMS)Roll: Föreståndare
Insight into the life of the malaria parasite could lead to new drugs

Oliver Billker studies 5000 genes of malaria parasite in fight against one of the world’s deadliest diseases.

Studying the interplay between host cell and pathogen

Barbara Sixt wants to know how human cells can fight pathogenic bacteria.

Charpentier: "I really miss the atmosphere at Umeå University"

Words of praise, memories and laughter. Celebrating Umeå's first Nobel laureate via a live web link.

Chasing unusual bacterial toxins

Professor Teresa Frisan is researching how so-called genotoxins affect mammalian cells.

Genetic technology for the future

CRISPR-Cas9: Emmanuelle Charpentier's breakthroughs.

The biomedicine student who got on the plane to Umeå

"The course starts tomorrow!" Henry Bwanika just got on the plane to Umeå to start his student life.

Infrastructures

BioMolecular Characterization Umeå
BMCU is an interdisciplinary facility that provides state-of-the-art technology to characterize biomolecules.
Integrated Science Lab (Icelab)
We take a modelling approach for causal understanding and connect researchers from different backgrounds.
National Bioinformatics Infrastructure Sweden (NBIS)
NBIS provides bioinformatics and data science support to the Swedish life science research community.
NorthPop
Biobank and database for children and young adults in Västerbotten.
PREDICT
Personalised screening, risk prediction, and understanding disease trajectories for early detection of disease - An integrated cohort approach.
Umeå center for functional brain imaging (UFBI)
(UFBI) is an inter-disciplinary research center where imaging techniques are used to examine brain structure and function in relation to both basic...
Umeå Centre for Comparative Biology (UCCB)
Biomedical research on experimental animals at Umeå University is organized within Umeå Centre for Comparative Biology (UCCB).

Research projects

Scentsory Foraging
Duration 21 August 2023 until 20 August 2025
Type of project PhD project
Bacterial membrane vesicles as a biomedical engineering platform
Duration 1 January 2023 until 31 December 2027
Type of project Research project
Epigenetic regulation by Polycomb-Trithorax system: leaving the mark on histones and other proteins
Duration 1 January 2022 until 31 December 2025
Type of project Research project
Duplicating the genome
Duration 1 January 2022 until 31 December 2024
Type of project Research project
Establishment of Photosynthesis, a Tale of Two Genomes
Duration 1 January 2021 until 31 December 2024
Type of project Research project
Chromosomal Gene Regulatory Systems and Chromosome-Specific Adaptations
Duration 1 January 2021 until 31 December 2024
Type of project Research project
Improving Cancer Immunotherapy – A Quantitative Model of Human T Cell Activation and Proliferation
Duration 1 August 2020 until 25 November 2024
Type of project PhD project
"To live and let die"
Duration 1 January 2020 until 31 December 2023
Type of project Research project
Checkpoint mechanisms that safeguard the mitochondrial genome and their role in cancer development
Duration 1 January 2020 until 31 December 2022
Type of project Research project

Research groups

Anders Hofer
We study biosynthetic pathways of nucleotides in T. brucei, G. lamblia, B. burgdorferi and other pathogens.
Anders Olofsson
Amyloid Fibrils and Cytotoxic Oligomers.
Andreas Kohler Lab
Mitochondrial protein quality control in health, ageing and disease
Andrei Chabes Lab
dNTPs and maintenance of genome stability.
Anna Arnqvist Lab
We study mechanisms for stochastic and tightly controlled regulation of Helicobacter pylori adhesins.
Danielson/Backman Laboratory
Lab of Professor Patrik Danielson and Associate Professor Ludvig Backman and co-workers.
David Cisneros Lab
Molecular biology of human bacterial symbionts.
Eric Libby lab
We are interested in how simple organisms evolve into complex ones.
Erik Johansson lab
We are studying on the molecular level how DNA replication is accomplished in eukaryotic cells.
Ignacio Mir-Sanchis Lab
Our group studies antimicrobial resistance - phage therapy.
Jan Larsson Lab
The research group is studying chromosome-specific gene regulation and chromosome specific adaptations.
Johan Henriksson Lab
Our group aims at integrating all regulatory mechanisms about T cells in a single predictive model
Jürgen Schleucher Lab
A biophysical approach to study climate change.
Lars-Anders Carlson Lab
Our group studies structure and mechanism of viral replication complexes.