PODCAST. When antibiotics no longer work against diseases - what do we do? The question is asked in the Naturvetarna podcast to UCMR PI Fredrik Almqvist . Listen to the podcast produced by Naturvetarna (In Swedish, appr. 20 min) naturvetarna.se/om-oss/naturve…

RESEARCH. How a simple prokaryotic cell, like a bacterium, ‘swallowed’ another cell and created conditions for more complex life is a mystery. One key to this puzzle has been uncovered thanks to a new study in PNAS by UCMR PI Eric Libby and collegues. bit.ly/425skEx

POPULAR SCIENCE. Quench your thirst for knowledge with a Pint of science! 🍻On May 22-24. Organized by Umeå Postdoc Society. Venue: Elektra. PhD Kasturika Shankar in UCMR PI Lars-Anders Carlson lab is one of the participants and she is very excited! umu.se/en/news/quench…

Warmly welcome to a hybrid UCMR Distinguished Guest Seminar 1 June: Herbert Waldmann umu.se/en/news/distin…

THESIS. A Swedish variant of the dreaded tick-borne TBE virus causes unusually severe disease in experiments on mice. This is shown in a new thesis by Ebba Rosendal successfully defended on 26 May. Congrats! 🎉Supervisor :UCMR PI Anna Överby lnkd.in/d9_bMHsA

RESEARCH. New study in Nature Microbiology by UCMR PI Felipe Cava lab deepen our knowledge of bacterial behaviour: Cholera bacteria use specific D-amino acids to escape unfavorable niches and form complex ecological systems umu.se/en/news/d-amin…

2023-06-30 Almedalen: Niklas Arnberg, generalsekreterare och initiativtagare till Virus- och pandemifonden och professor i biologi vid Umeå universitet, säger att Folkhälsomyndigheten gjorde allt man kunde för att kommunicera, men samhället hade svårt att ta till sig.

Participate at the Umeå Infection Symposium, co-organised by MIMS - Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden and Umeå Centre for Microbial Research, at Umeå University on 30 August 2023! Register before 11 August and attend this exciting half-day event with lunch & mingle! shorturl.at/wyzD4

NEW EC POSTDOC: "My research is focused towards understanding the assembly of LcrV, a virulence protein in the Yersinia pseudotuberculosis pathogenic Type 3 secretion system (T3SS) and it’s interactions with the regulator LcrG.," says Jagadish Mangu. umu.se/en/news/invest…

Join our #CommunityEngagement conversation series on #AntibioticResistance this fall, by ReAct - Action on Antibiotic Resistance Uppsala Antibiotic Center & #AntibioticSmartSweden It´s essential to engage communities & CSOs! 🙏🌎 Click here to find details and registration links to the webinars⬇️ bit.ly/ComEng23

Friday 22 September UCMR Distinguished Guest Seminar: Frank van Kuppeweld, Utrecht University Venue: Carl Kempe-salen KBC, 15:15-16:15 Host: Lars-Anders Carlson No registration needed picornavirus replication and virus-host interactions. Welcome! Read more umu.se/en/news/distin…

Beyond recycling: new role for autophagy protein in membrane repair discovered bu UCMR PI Yaowen Wu team. umu.se/en/news/beyond…

Apply for a #postdoc fellowship in life sciences in the third round of the “Excellence by Choice” Postdoctoral Programme at Umeå University, Sweden, with Nobel laureate Emmanuelle Charpentier as patron. Umeå Centre for Microbial Research Umeå Plant Science Centre (UPSC)

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Fungal toxin triggers traps: Revealing the clever defence of white blood cells. UCMR PI Constantin Urban unveil how the most common white blood cells, neutrophils, counter C. albicans toxin stopping its tracks. The results are published in EMBO Reports. umu.se/en/news/fungal…

Make a change - apply for ‘Excellence of Choice postdoc programme in life science! Read inspiring feature at Nature.com our environment is described by postdoc Aicha Kriia, and Nobel laureate Emmanuelle Charpentier, patron of the programme. nature.com/articles/d4247…

GRANT. The Medical faculty at Umeå University grants strategic research to UCMR PIs: Anders Hofer, Jörgen Johansson and Lars-Anders Carlson. umu.se/en/news/the-me…

AWARD. Professor Bernt Eric Uhlin receives Forska!Sverige Honorary Award for his long and dedicated work in building a world-leading and sustainable scientific environment that promotes pioneering biomedical research in molecular infection medicine. umu.se/en/news/bernt-…

Nicolò Maccaferri, physicist at Umeå University, has been awarded a €2 million grant by the European Research Council for fundamental research that could change the way we store and process information. umu.se/en/news/erc-st…