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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

Open Science workshop on MetaboLights
Unlocking metabolomics data through Open Science

Forskare got invaluable guidance in how their metabolomics data can be shared in an accessible way

Gruppledarna står uppradade på en trappa och blir fotograferade
SciLifeLab site Umeå celebrates 16 new Group Leaders

SciLifeLab site Umeå celebrates 16 new Group Leaders with cake and a get-together.

Open up for Innovation 2025
100 Life Science experts gather to connect science and industry in Umeå

The conference aims to promote collaboration between academia and industry and drive innovation.

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.

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.

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.

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 clocks: modeling of biomarkers to measure and predict biological aging
Duration 1 January 2022 until 1 January 2025
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

Research groups

Linda Sandblad lab
Electron microscopy methods to study bacteria cytoskeleton structure, assembly and spatial organization.
Ludmilla Morozova-Roche
Role of amyloid formation and neuroinflammation in neurodegenerative diseases.
Martin Cohn group
Maintenance of genomic stability and DNA repair in humans.
Mattias Alenius
Our group is interested in the essential regulatory processes that control and maintain neuronal activity and which malfunction cause diseases like...
Nasim Sabouri
Maintenance of genome integrity by DNA helicases.
Oliver Billker Lab
The group investigates how malaria parasites reproduce in mosquitoes and get transmitted.
Paulina Wanrooij lab
Our group is interested in the causes and consequences of mtDNA instability.
Peter Lind Lab
Modelling to predict the evolution of biofilm mutants and antibiotic resistance in Pseudomonas bacteria
Richard Lundmark Lab
Membrane sculpting is fundamental for many cellular processes, and malfunction is implicated in many diseases.
Ronnie Berntsson Lab
The group studies structural biology of type 4 secretion systems.
Ryo Morimoto Lab
Studying processes that drive the diversification of antigen recognition molecules in the immune system.
Saskia Erttmann Lab
Unraveling the molecular mechanisms during the microbial-driven onset and resolution of inflammation
Silvia Remeseiro lab
We study long-range gene regulation and 3D organization of the glioblastoma genome.
Sjoerd Wanrooij lab
Molecular mechanism of DNA repair and replication in human mitochondria.
Stefan Björklund lab
The Mediator complex and its function in transcriptional regulation at the molecular level.