IMBIM News

New study sheds light on autoantibodies and immune system deficiencies in COVID-19

Wed, 08 Nov 2023 15:49:00 GMT

An international collaboration including Nils Landegren’s team at IMBIM has revealed the genetic roots of autoantibodies against type I interferons, which are linked to severe COVID-19. Their study published in Nature implicates genetic defects in the alternative NFκB pathway and a deficiency in thymic tolerance in the development of these autoantibodies.

More mast cell progenitors during pollen season

Tue, 05 Sep 2023 06:29:00 GMT

The frequency of mast cell progenitors in the blood circulation is higher in asthma patients during the birch pollen season than outside of it. This has been demonstrated in a new study by Uppsala University, published in the scholarly journal Allergy.

Björkén Prize goes to Dan I Andersson and Lena Claesson-Welsh

Mon, 03 Jul 2023 07:32:00 GMT

Dan I Andersson, Professor of Medical Biology, and Lena Claesson-Welsh, Professor at the Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, are the joint recipients of the 2023 Björkén Prize. The prize is one of Uppsala University’s top scholarly awards for outstanding research.

Hijacking strategy mapped for hundreds of viruses

Tue, 02 May 2023 09:42:00 GMT

One strategy that viruses use to take over a host cell is to mimic small parts of the cell's proteins called motifs. In a new study coordinated from Uppsala University, researchers have used a new method and doubled the available information on how viruses mimic human binding motifs. The results suggest new targets for the development of antiviral inhibitors.

Proteoglycans in cancer and embryonic development conference, May 3-5

Tue, 02 May 2023 09:22:00 GMT

Genomes from 240 mammal species explain human disease risks

Fri, 28 Apr 2023 07:11:00 GMT

A major international research project has surveyed and analysed the genomes of 240 different mammals. The results, now published in 11 articles in the journal Science, show how the genomes of humans and other mammals have developed over the course of evolution. The research shows which genetic changes have led to specific characteristics in different species and which mutations can cause disease.

How bacteria become resistant to antibiotics

Tue, 11 Apr 2023 09:08:00 GMT

Antibiotic resistance is a serious and growing public health problem both in Sweden and worldwide. This year's Göran Gustafsson Symposium brings together researchers to present and discuss research on antibiotic resistance. Increased knowledge about antibiotic resistance can influence more sustainable behaviour in society.

Antibiotics hindered treatment of urinary tract bacteria

Wed, 15 Feb 2023 15:11:00 GMT

The use of broad-spectrum antibiotics increased drastically in intensive care at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. At first, this helped patients avoid urinary tract infections and seemed to prevent the growth of most bacteria. However, it also contributed to a sharp growth in enterococci, an antibiotic-tolerant group of bacteria, which rendered the treatment of urinary tract infections more difficult.

New treatment inhibits brain tumor cell growth

Mon, 06 Feb 2023 13:20:00 GMT

Researchers from Uppsala University (IMBIM) in collaboration with researchers from the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP) and São Paulo University (USP), Brazil, have identified two compounds capable of inhibiting the growth of glioblastoma cells, which cause malignant brain tumors.

Studying the body’s defence against bacteria’s arsenal

Wed, 01 Feb 2023 20:24:00 GMT

What can we learn from studying the behaviour of bacteria in the gut? In Mikael Sellin's lab, scientists have grown intestines and managed to film when weak spots are attacked by aggressive bacteria. By gaining a better picture of their methods and weapons, they hope to be able to understand other bacterial infections in the body.

Tove Hoffman has been awarded funds from the AXA Research Fund

Sun, 15 Jan 2023 18:37:00 GMT

The AXA Research Fund has selected eight research projects to advance scientific knowledge and inform decision-making around the health impact of climate change.

Climate change, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), is the single greatest health threat facing humanity. Climate hazards directly cause over 150,000 deaths annually, and the figure is expected to double by 2030.1 According to the IPCC, if global greenhouse gas emissions continue at their current rate, global warming will exceed 2°C above pre-industrial levels by 2050, with serious consequences for human health including severe dehydration, respiratory diseases, acute cerebrovascular accidents, and thrombogenesis. Furthermore, climate change is one of the most frequently implicated "drivers" of infectious disease threats. More scientific knowledge is urgently required to accelerate awareness and develop effective adaptation and mitigation strategies to preserve planetary and human health.

How fat takes over the lymph nodes as we age

Thu, 22 Dec 2022 14:13:00 GMT

A new study from researchers at Uppsala University presents novel findings on why human lymph nodes lose their function with age and the consequences for the effectiveness of our immune system. The article has been published in The Journal of Pathology.

Kan vi hjälpa barn som drabbats av Sanfilippos sjukdom?

Wed, 21 Dec 2022 11:25:00 GMT

Professor Lena Kjellén vid Uppsala universitet har fått ta del av de pengar som Hjärnfonden delar ut från Team Rynkebys årliga arrangemang Skolloppet. Tillsammans med Anders Dagälv, ST-läkare vid Akademiska sjukhuset, forskar hon på ämnet och försöker hitta ett sätt att behandla Sanfilippos sjukdom.

Atopic dermatitis in dogs linked to certain parts of the genome

Thu, 15 Dec 2022 11:14:00 GMT

Using new gene mapping methods, researchers have found connections between atopic dermatitis (eczema) in dogs and several regions of the genome. Some of the genes identified coincide with genes linked to similar problems in humans. The filaggrin gene region, for example, which is regarded as the most powerful risk factor for atopic eczema in humans, has now also been linked to this disease in Labrador retrievers.

The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowship

Fri, 09 Dec 2022 15:22:00 GMT

The Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship programme is one of the European Union’s flagship programmes for postgraduate and postdoctoral training of researchers.

Gunnar Pejler has been awarded SEK 6 million in research grants from the Erling-Persson stiftelse

Mon, 05 Dec 2022 16:15:00 GMT

Gunnar Pejler has been awarded SEK 1.5 million in research grants from Hjärt-Lungfonden

Mon, 05 Dec 2022 16:10:00 GMT

Åke Lundkvist has been awarded SEK 3 million in laboratory support from SciLifeLab

Mon, 05 Dec 2022 15:43:00 GMT

Åke Lundkvist has been awarded SEK 3 million in laboratory support from SciLifeLab for the period 2023 - 2024 for the project ZSC – National core facility for Pandemic Preparedness

Förändringar av lymfkörtlar vid cancer – nytt forskningsfält med löfte om möjligheter att hitta nya biomarkörer och framtida terapi

Mon, 05 Dec 2022 15:29:00 GMT

För flera typer av cancer finns ett starkt kliniskt samband mellan att tumörceller har spridit sig till lymfkörtlarna, så kallad lymfkörtelmetastas, och en sämre prognos för patienten. Detta gäller cancertyper såsom bröstcancer, malignt melanom, prostatacancer och cancer i pankreas. Effekten av att tumörer sprider sig till lymfkörtlar kan vara stark. Den genomsnittliga tioåriga överlevnaden hos bröstcancerpatienter med lymfkörtelmetastas låg i äldre studier på runt 40–50 procent medan patienter utan lymfkörtelmetastas visade siffor runt 85 procents överlevnad. Här beskriver forskarna Tove Bekkhus och Maria H. Ulvmar vid Uppsala universitet den senaste kunskapen på området.

Group Sellin receives the Swedish Research Council Consolidator Grant 2022

Thu, 01 Dec 2022 15:51:00 GMT

Mikael Sellin’s research group has been awarded the Swedish Research Council Consolidator Grant. The grant, amounting to 10 million SEK over 5 years, aims “…to give the most prominent junior researchers the opportunity to consolidate their research and broaden their activities as independent researchers.”

Jin-ping Li has been granted proof of concept grants by the Swedish Research Council

Thu, 01 Dec 2022 13:49:00 GMT

Grant decision has been made by The Swedish Research Council on proof of concept within the infection area 2022. In total, nearly 20 million SEK for 2022–2024.

Maria Letizia Di Martino has been awarded a Carl Tryggers Stiftelse Research Grant

Tue, 22 Nov 2022 10:46:00 GMT

Maria Letizia Di Martino has been awarded 444,000 SEK by the Carl Tryggers Stiftelse for the project “The fitness landscape of Shigella flexneri at the transition between environmental and host-colonizing lifestyles”.

Researchers at IMBIM are awarded a total of 23.4 million by the Swedish Research Council for the grant period 2022-2027

Fri, 11 Nov 2022 11:21:00 GMT

The Swedish Research Council has decided which applications will be granted grants in medicine and health in 2022. A total of just over SEK 1.2 billion will be granted for the years 2022–2027.

Researchers at IMBIM are awarded a total of SEK 12,3 million in research grants from Cancerfonden

Thu, 10 Nov 2022 15:29:00 GMT

Cancerfonden´s research committee has this year decided to distribute SEK 900 million to 230 research projects.

Widespread variation of inherited retroviruses among Darwin’s finches

Tue, 18 Oct 2022 06:59:00 GMT

Vertebrate genomes are repositories for retrovirus code that was deposited into germ line as inherited endogenous retroviruses during evolution. Researchers from Uppsala University and Princeton University now provide new findings about retroviral establishment and distribution among Darwin’s finches. The findings are being published in Nature Communications.

Cancervaccin på gränsen till genombrott

Mon, 15 Aug 2022 14:39:00 GMT

Utvecklingen av cancervaccin kan snabbas på tack vare den internationella kraftsamling som gjordes för att framställa covid-19-vaccin. På sikt kan cancerformer som i dag saknar bot bli möjliga att behandla. Men vad är egentligen ett cancervaccin?

How innovation from Uppsala University can reduce antibiotic-resistant bacteria

Thu, 23 Jun 2022 15:54:00 GMT

Treating severe infections with a combination of antibiotics has long been standard practice in Swedish medicine. Despite this, at present there is no clinical test to prove how well it actually works. Researcher Nikos Fatsis-Kavalopoulos wants to change that.

New inherited retroviruses identified in the koala genome

Thu, 23 Jun 2022 15:48:00 GMT

Historic virus infections can be traced in vertebrate genomes. For millions of years, these genomes have been repositories for retroviruses that incorporated their code into germline cells and were inherited as endogenous retroviruses (ERVs). Researchers from Uppsala University now provide new findings about retroviral establishment in the koala genome. The findings are being published in the journal PNAS.

Inês Rodrigues Faria, master student at IMBIM, received the best short oral presentation award at the 11th One Health Sweden Scientific Meeting "Pandemics and preparedness", March 2022.

Tue, 31 May 2022 09:12:00 GMT

Erik Schubert, PhD student at IMBIM, has received an award for best post at the scientific conference Viruses 2022

Mon, 02 May 2022 17:52:00 GMT

Erik Schubert presented results on how human adenovirus can affect homeostasis in mitochondria, focusing on which viral protein may be responsible for mitochondrial DNA release.

Ancient Genes for Symbiosis Hint at Mitochondria’s Origins

Wed, 27 Apr 2022 07:09:00 GMT

Ancestors of legionella bacteria infected cells two billion years ago

Wed, 16 Feb 2022 16:57:00 GMT

Researchers at Uppsala University have discovered that the ancestors of legionella bacteria infected eukaryotic cells as early as two billion years ago. It happened soon after eukaryotes began to feed on bacteria. These results, described in a new study published in Molecular Biology and Evolution, also contribute to the chicken-or-egg debate about whether mitochondria or phagocytosis came first.

The Swedish Society for Virology has decided that the first Sigvard Olofsson Award in virology is to be shared between Mahmoud M Naguib at IMBIM and Ka-Wei Tang at Sahlgrenska Academy

Sun, 02 Jan 2022 20:57:00 GMT

Herring and sprat: silver of the sea that turned into sand

Tue, 14 Dec 2021 09:34:00 GMT

“I’m passionate about understanding the genetic background of biodiversity development and I’d like our research to culminate in more sustainable use of herring and sprat, which are a superb resource,” writes Leif Andersson, Professor of Functional Genomics at IMBIM.

Johanna Lindahl has been awarded about 3 million in research grants from Formas.

Tue, 14 Dec 2021 09:23:00 GMT

Researchers at IMBIM are awarded a total of SEK 20 million in research grants from Cancerfonden

Tue, 14 Dec 2021 08:46:00 GMT

Cancerfonden´s research committee has decided to distribute SEK 732 million to 230 research projects. In total this year, there will be SEK 850 million for Swedish cancer research.

För andra året i rad har medicinska studierådet utsett IMBIM´s kurs medicinsk mikrobiologi till bästa kurs på läkarprogrammet.

Thu, 09 Dec 2021 09:11:00 GMT

Örjan Carlborg, Lionel Guy, Jenny Hesson, Diarmaid Hughes, Mahmoud Naguib and Linus Sandegren have been awarded SEK 2.8 million för the coming four years

Wed, 24 Nov 2021 10:31:00 GMT

Carl-Johan Rubin has been awarded NOK 3 120 000 by Havforskningsinstitutet for the next four years.

Wed, 24 Nov 2021 10:22:00 GMT

Dan Andersson, Patric Jern, Nils Landegren and Jin-ping Li are awarded a total of 21.8 million SEK by the Swedish Research Council for the grant period 2021-2025

Tue, 02 Nov 2021 11:09:00 GMT

Why some Darwin’s finch nestlings have yellow beaks

Tue, 02 Nov 2021 10:41:00 GMT

Allergisk stimulans aktiverar förstadieceller till mastceller

Wed, 29 Sep 2021 12:23:00 GMT

Dan I Andersson har tilldelas medel om 2 025 000 dollar över fem år från amerikanska National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Tue, 01 Jun 2021 14:13:00 GMT

Gut epithelium muscles up against infection

Tue, 13 Apr 2021 11:37:00 GMT

Nils Landegren tilldelas Stora Gustafsson priset 2021

Thu, 08 Apr 2021 08:14:00 GMT

Påskkaninen som kan gå på ”händerna”

Thu, 01 Apr 2021 09:27:00 GMT

Mastcellers frisättning av serotonin bidrar till luftvägsöverkänslighet vid astma

Thu, 11 Mar 2021 19:11:00 GMT

Over half a billion people a year get some type of bacterial intestinal infection. By building their own intestines, so-called organoids, Mikael Sellin and his colleagues at IMBIM, Uppsala University can study how these infections occur.

Mon, 18 Jan 2021 18:01:00 GMT

Antibiotic resistance from random DNA sequences

Tue, 12 Jan 2021 09:11:00 GMT

Genome sequencing for more sustainable herring fishery

Wed, 16 Dec 2020 13:10:00 GMT

Linnémedaljen tilldelas professor Kerstin Lindblad Toh

Wed, 09 Dec 2020 12:45:00 GMT

Stora bidrag till utveckling av forskningsinfrastruktur. Kerstin Lindblad-Toh tilldelas 7 850 000 kr för sitt projekt En svensk EBP plattform: infrastruktur och proof-of-principle project

Tue, 24 Nov 2020 12:05:00 GMT

Carl-Henrik Heldin, Per Jemth, Joakim Näsvall and Gunnar Pejler are awarded a total of 14.2 million by the Swedish Research Council for the grant period 2020-2024.

Tue, 24 Nov 2020 11:39:00 GMT

Rapid testing for antibiotic resistance

Tue, 17 Nov 2020 18:23:00 GMT

In cases of severe infection, identifying the correct antibiotic – and doing so quickly – can be a matter of life and death. At Uppsala University a very fast test for antibiotic resistance is being developed. The goal is to reduce the time from taking a sample to getting a result from one day to under four hours.

240 mammals help us understand the human genome

Thu, 12 Nov 2020 12:05:00 GMT

A large international consortium led by scientists at Uppsala University and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard has sequenced the genome of 130 mammals and analysed the data together with 110 existing genomes to allow scientist to identify which are the important positions in the DNA. This new information can help both research on disease mutations in humans and how best to preserve endangered species. The study is published in Nature.

Per Jemth, Lena Kjellén, Kerstin Lindblad-Toh och Anna-Karin Olsson tilldelas 11 miljoner i forskningsanslag av Cancerfonden

Thu, 12 Nov 2020 11:59:00 GMT

Carl-Henric Heldin, Per Jemth, Joakim Näsvall, John Pettersson och Gunnar Pejler har tilldelats projekt/etableringsbidrag på totalt ca 20 miljoner över fyra år av Vetenskapsrådet.

Wed, 04 Nov 2020 16:27:00 GMT

Vetenskapsrådet har fattat beslut om vilka ansökningar som beviljats bidrag inom Naturvetenskap och teknikvetenskap 2020. Uppsala universitet får 225 miljoner till 65 forskningsprojekt som spänner över ett brett fält av områden

Leif Andersson receives 25 million SEK in project grants from KAW

Thu, 01 Oct 2020 11:39:00 GMT

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New high-speed test shows how antibiotics combine to kill bacteria

Fri, 18 Sep 2020 09:48:00 GMT

Researchers at Uppsala University have developed a new method to determine – rapidly, easily and cheaply – how effective two antibiotics combined can be in stopping bacterial growth. The new method is simple for laboratories to use and can provide greater scope for customising treatment of bacterial infections. The study is published in PLOS Biology.

Genomic Analysis Reveals Many Animal Species May Be Vulnerable to SARS-CoV-2 Infection

Tue, 25 Aug 2020 06:47:00 GMT

För att i framtiden snabbt kunna hejda utbrott av covid-19 som orsakas av viruset SARS-CoV-2 och för att redan nu kunna skydda utrotningshotade arter som riskerar att drabbas, behövs kunskap om vilka djur som är tänkbara smittbärare av viruset. Professor Kerstin Lindblad-Toh vid Uppsala universitet och hennes kollegor har identifierat ett stort antal däggdjur som potentiellt kan smittas.

Birgitta Tomkinson has been awarded the newly established pedagogical prize by BAStU-rådet / BMA program

Mon, 24 Aug 2020 09:32:00 GMT

The Swedish Research Council has granted Jin-ping Li SEK 797,320 in project grants for research on coronavirus and covid-19

Thu, 09 Jul 2020 14:29:00 GMT

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Novel function of platelets in tumour blood vessels found

Thu, 25 Jun 2020 12:40:00 GMT

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50 miljoner till forskning om antibiotikaresistens

Fri, 05 Jun 2020 14:03:00 GMT

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Carl-Henrik Heldin, senior professor at IMBIM, has been appointed by the European Commission as chair of the committee to appoint members of the ERC Scientific Council.

Wed, 27 May 2020 09:26:00 GMT

European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth has invited six high-level scientists to identify future members of the ERC Scientific Council. One of the six is Carl-Henrik Heldin, senior prefessor at IMBIM.

Intensive hunt for drugs to fight COVID-19

Tue, 12 May 2020 06:04:00 GMT

The entire world is currently waiting for a vaccine against COVID-19. Intensive research is ongoing to develop useful drugs against the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. At Uppsala Biomedical Centre (BMC), substances are being tested that attack the same type of enzyme as drugs against HIV and hepatitis C.

Tests provide new picture of the spread of the virus

Mon, 11 May 2020 06:02:00 GMT

Two recent studies testing for antibodies against the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 provide a new picture of the spread of virus in Sweden. “To gain a more realistic picture of the spread of the virus in Sweden, we need to perform more tests,” says Åke Lundkvist, professor of virology at Uppsala University.

How gene flow between species influences the evolution of Darwin’s finches

Tue, 05 May 2020 05:45:00 GMT

Despite the traditional view that species do not exchange genes by hybridisation, recent studies show that gene flow between closely related species is more common than previously thought. A team of scientists from Uppsala University and Princeton University now reports how gene flow between two species of Darwin’s finches has affected their beak morphology. The study is published today in Nature Ecology and Evolution.

Kerstin Lindblad-Toh has been elected as a member to the National Academy of Sciences

Tue, 28 Apr 2020 10:24:00 GMT

Kerstin Lindblad-Toh, Professor of Comparative Genomics at Uppsala University, has been elected as one of 146 new members of the National Academy of Sciences, founded by Abraham Lincoln in 1863.

Shady Younis and Gustav Brander has received ”The Wallenberg Foundation Postdoctoral Scholarship Program at Stanford” respectively ”The Wallenberg Foundation scholarship program for postdoctoral studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Broad Institute"

Wed, 08 Apr 2020 07:49:00 GMT

New insights into evolution: why genes appear to move around

Fri, 06 Mar 2020 10:58:00 GMT

Scientists at Uppsala University have proposed an addition to the theory of evolution that can explain how and why genes move on chromosomes. The hypothesis, called the SNAP Hypothesis, is presented in the scientific journal PLOS Genetics.

Mikael Sellin appointed Future Research Leader by SSF

Tue, 18 Feb 2020 12:17:00 GMT

“Lethal” mutation makes tuberculosis bacteria resistant to antibiotic

Wed, 29 Jan 2020 10:29:00 GMT

Antibiotic-resistant tuberculosis is a common and serious problem globally. In a new article, researchers from Uppsala University describe how tuberculosis bacteria that carries a mutation that in theory should kill them manages to stay alive. The researchers discovered that the same trick that kept the bacteria alive also made them resistant to a very important type of antibiotic.

Maria Letizia Di Martino has been awarded an ESCMID Research Grant 2020

Wed, 22 Jan 2020 14:20:00 GMT

Maria Letizia Di Martino has been awarded 20,000 € by ESCMID (European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases). The project - Revealing the Shigella flexneri epithelial invasome in a human enteroid infection model - will provide a global map of the Shigella virulence factors required for infection of the human “mini-intestine” model. This will form a solid basis for future molecular studies of human shigellosis, a research field thus far hampered by the lack of physiological infection models.

Carl-Henric Heldin, Staffan Johansson and Gunnar Pejler have been awarded a total of 10.6 million SEK by the Swedish Cancer Society, Cancerfonden

Thu, 21 Nov 2019 07:47:00 GMT

Cancerfonden has decided to give an additional SEK 670 million to Swedish cancer research. This means that the Swedish Cancer Society decided this year on a record dividend of SEK 770 million. It is the largest amount in the history of the Swedish Cancer Society.

Formas has decided to award Dan Andersson, Kerstin Lindblad-Toh och Linus Sandegren three million SEK each in research funds in the Annual Open Call for Research and Development Projects 2019

Wed, 20 Nov 2019 18:15:00 GMT

Linus Sandegren has been awarded the educational prize Inspiriet by the Medical Studies Council (Medicinska studierådet)

Mon, 14 Oct 2019 10:15:00 GMT

Medicinska studierådet har tilldelat Linus Sandegren, Universitetslektor vid Institutionen för medicinsk biokemi och mikrobiologi, Uppsala universitet, det pedagogiska priset Inspiriet. Kursledare, Medicinsk mikrobiologi, 8.0 hp, Läkarprogrammet.

Dan Andersson has been awarded SEK 5 million over three years by the Erling-Persson Family Foundation for the project “Rapid diagnostics to reduce antibiotic resistance and the adverse effects of antibiotics”.

Wed, 02 Oct 2019 13:47:00 GMT

High levels of hyaluronan polysaccharide in serum from patients infected with dengue virus predict severe disease and contribute to increased blood vessel leakage

Mon, 16 Sep 2019 13:06:00 GMT

Dengue virus infection is transmitted by mosquitoes and is increasing rapidly in the world due to global warming and travel abroad. The infection causes suffering, consumes medical care resources, and can sometimes develop into a deadly disease that, among other things. manifests itself in a greatly increased leakage in the blood vessels that leads to fluid loss. There is no effective dengue virus vaccine and no specific treatment for patients with dengue fever.

Bacterial Persisters Promote the Spread of Antibiotic Resistance Plasmids in the Gut

Mon, 09 Sep 2019 05:23:00 GMT

Antibiotic therapy of bacterial infections may fail either because the microbe becomes genetically resistant to the administered drug, or because it enters a slow growing antibiotic-tolerant state – a phenomenon known as ”persistence”.

How the herring adapted to the light environment in the Baltic Sea

Tue, 27 Aug 2019 09:27:00 GMT

The evolutionary process that occurs when a species colonizes a new environment provides an opportunity to explore the mechanisms underlying genetic adaptation,which is essential knowledge for understanding evolution and the maintenance of biodiversity. An international team of scientists, led by researchers from Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, reports that a single amino acid change in the light-sensing rhodopsin protein played a critical role when herring adapted to the red-shifted light environment in the Baltic Sea. Remarkably about one third of all fish living in brackish or freshwater carry the same change. The study is published today in PNAS.

Anahita Hamidi is rewarded by the Swedish Society for Medical Research, with one of the country's most sought after scholarships for young, extra promising researchers.

Mon, 05 Aug 2019 06:22:00 GMT

The scholarships are awarded by SSMF with SEK 850,000 for two years of full-time research and SEK 658,000 for two years at half-time. In total, SSMF will support young medical researchers in 2019 with over SEK 70 million. The 26 fellows come from four different universities.

Birgitta Tomkinson has been awarded STINT's "Grants for Teaching Sabbaticals"

Tue, 18 Jun 2019 10:40:00 GMT

Kerstin Lindblad-Toh becomes honorary doctor at SLU

Mon, 17 Jun 2019 15:20:00 GMT

Kerstin Lindblad-Toh har utsetts till veterinärmedicine hedersdoktor vid Sveriges Lantbruksuniversitets (SLU:s) fakultet för veterinärmedicin och husdjursvetenskap. Totalt har sju nya hedersdoktorer utsetts, som promoveras den 5 oktober i Uppsala.

Omenn Prize goes to Roderich Römhild for his article on Preventing Antibiotic Resistance

Wed, 12 Jun 2019 11:29:00 GMT

The $5,000 Omenn Prize for the best article published in the previous calendar year in any scientific journal on a topic related to evolution in the context of medicine and public health goes to Roderich Römhild for his paper: Roemhild, R., Gokhale, C. S., Dirksen, P., Blake, C., Rosenstiel, P., Traulsen, A., … Schulenburg, H. (2018). Cellular hysteresis as a principle to maximize the efficacy of antibiotic therapy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(39), 9767–9772. doi:10.1073/pnas.1810004115

New genes out of random gene sequences

Mon, 10 Jun 2019 11:08:00 GMT

One key question in evolutionary biology is how novel genes arise and develop. Swedish researchers now show how new genes and functions that are advantageous to bacteria can be selected from random DNA sequences. The results are presented in the scientific journal mBio.

Helen Wang has received SEK 200,000 from the Foundation Clas Groschinsky's Memorial Fund

Mon, 27 May 2019 13:22:00 GMT

Fan Han (Leif Andersson research group) has received a prestigious award from the Chinese government to PhD students abroad. Fan will be one of nine Chinese students in Sweden that get this award this year

Fri, 29 Mar 2019 11:57:00 GMT

Dan Andersson is awarded 18 million by the Wallenberg Foundations in the form of a five-year grant for free research

Tue, 26 Mar 2019 14:54:00 GMT

Twenty-two Excellent Researchers Chosen to be Wallenberg Scholars

The researchers – among the foremost in their field in Sweden – receive SEK 18 million each from the Wallenberg Foundations in the form of a five-year grant for free research.

Jumping genes, antibiotics resistance, new therapies for infections, diabetes and Parkinson’s disease, secure technology for wireless communication, self-repairing batteries, a better understanding of climate change, and searching for Earth-like planets are examples of the research that will be conducted by some of the twenty-two Wallenberg Scholars.

Svårdetekterad antibiotikaresistens underskattat kliniskt problem

Wed, 13 Feb 2019 08:19:00 GMT

I de flesta fall när en bakterie behandlas med antibiotika som den är känslig emot så fungerar behandlingen. Men ibland fungerar inte det valda antibiotikat och en av förklaringarna till detta är heteroresistens, ett fenomen som forskare vid Uppsala universitet tillsammans med kollegor vid Emory University i USA klarlagt i detalj i en ny studie.

Gunnar Pejler receives the largest project grant from Hjärt och Lungfonden, a total of SEK 2.4 million over three years. He is one of the world's leading experts on mast cells, a type of white blood cell that has a key role in asthmatic reactions.

Tue, 05 Feb 2019 10:24:00 GMT

The Linnaeus Medal is awarded to Professor Leif Andersson, the medal is awarded at the Winter Promotion on January 25

Thu, 24 Jan 2019 12:37:00 GMT

Jenny Hesson has been awarded 633 000 SEK in research funding from the Carl Trygger Foundation

Tue, 27 Nov 2018 13:02:00 GMT

Andreas Wallberg has been awarded SciLifeLab Bioinformatics Long-term Support (WABI) by the National Bioinformatics Infrastructure Sweden at SciLifeLab for his project 'Environmental genomics in the Northern krill'

Tue, 27 Nov 2018 09:53:00 GMT

Helen Wang has been awarded 306 000 SEK in research funding from the Carl Trygger Foundation

Tue, 20 Nov 2018 15:14:00 GMT

Formas has decided to award Patric Jern three million SEK in research funds in the Annual Open Call for Research and Development Projects 2018

Tue, 20 Nov 2018 14:53:00 GMT

Göran Akusjärvi, Ingvar Ferby, Paraskevi Heldin, Per Jemth, Jin-ping Li, Kohei Miyazono och Aristidis Moustakas have been awarded a total of 17.6 million SEK by Cancerfonden

Wed, 14 Nov 2018 13:42:00 GMT

Det är Johanna Lindahl, forskare inom veterinär-epidemiologi, som får priset och 100 000 kronor från Swedish Institute for Global Health Transformation, SIGHT. Priset delas ut för en utmärkt vetenskaplig insats inom global hälsa.

Fri, 09 Nov 2018 10:40:00 GMT

Antibiotikaresistens och interaktionen människa och djur i fokus för SIGHT Award 2018

Andreas Wallberg and Mathew Webster have been awarded a total of SEK 7 million of Research project grants by VR.

Wed, 07 Nov 2018 15:36:00 GMT

Birgitta Heyman, Patric Jern, Jin-ping Li, Åke Lundkvist, Aristidis Moustakas, Mikael Sellin and Helen Wang have been awarded a total of SEK 31 million of Starting- and Research project grants by VR.

Wed, 07 Nov 2018 14:58:00 GMT

Details of protein evoltuion investigated

Thu, 25 Oct 2018 10:50:00 GMT

Proteins govern the biology of the cell. Through random mutation the sequences of our proteins slowly change over time, usually without affecting function. But sometimes new functions will be invented in this process. Scientists at Uppsala University have studied such a case in molecular detas. The results show how several factors conspire to shape a plastic protein-protein interaction.

New knowledge about retrovirus-host coevolution

Wed, 10 Oct 2018 09:51:00 GMT

Retroviruses have colonised vertebrate hosts for millions of years by inserting their genes into host genomes, enabling their inheritance through generations as endogenous retroviruses (ERVs). Researchers from Uppsala University now provide new knowledge about the long-term associations of retroviruses and their hosts by studying ERV variation and segregation in wild and domestic rabbit populations. The findings are being published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

Ny metod kan bromsa antibiotikaresistens

Wed, 12 Sep 2018 16:15:00 GMT

Tyska och svenska forskare visar i en ny studie hur man genom att snabbt växla mellan två olika antibiotika drastiskt kan öka deras förmåga att döda bakterier samt bromsa resistensutvecklingen. Resultaten publiceras i den vetenskapliga tidskriften PNAS.

Kaninens tama beteende associerat med tydliga förändringar i hjärnans utveckling

Thu, 12 Jul 2018 14:03:00 GMT

En internationell forskargrupp har använt högupplösande magnetkamera (MRI) för att undersöka hur domesticeringen har påverkat hjärnans utveckling hos tamkaninen. Resultaten visar på tydliga skillnader mellan vilda och tama kaniner, i synnerhet i de regioner av hjärnan som kontrollerar rädsla. Studien publiceras i den amerikanska vetenskapsakademins tidskrift PNAS.

New research shows that bacteriophages (viruses that infect bacteria) can contribute to new functions by revealing hidden potential in their bacterial hosts.

Wed, 30 May 2018 06:17:00 GMT

Virus genes from city pond rescue bacteria

Mikael Sellin is awarded with The Lennart Philipson Award 2018

Mon, 14 May 2018 10:50:00 GMT

New research from Uppsala University shows that even low concentrations of antibiotics can lead to the development of high antibiotic resistance in bacteria.

Tue, 24 Apr 2018 13:49:00 GMT

Antibiotics resistant antibiotics are a global and growing problem in health care. In order to avoid further resistance development, it is important to understand where and how antibiotic resistance in bacteria occurs.

The European Research Council (ERC) has allocated a total of € 653 million in grants for the announcement of the 2017 ERC Advanced Grants. Uppsala University receives a contribution in life sciences. This grant goes to Carl-Henrik Heldin, cancer researcher at IMBIM.

Mon, 09 Apr 2018 17:32:00 GMT

Gerli Rosengren Pielberg has been appointed as a lecturer in genomics.

Mon, 09 Apr 2018 17:30:00 GMT

A new study shows that there has been a larger gene flow than previously thought among elephant species, both living and extinct. In addition, it points out that African savannah elephants and forest elephants should be seen as two different species.

Mon, 05 Mar 2018 12:11:00 GMT

Philosophy doctor Simon Forsberg has been awarded by The Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry

Thu, 18 Jan 2018 15:07:00 GMT

Dan I Andersson has been awarded by Olav Thon's Foundation ten million NOK in funding for research on the development of antibiotic resistance in bacterial biofilm.

Mon, 15 Jan 2018 14:46:00 GMT

Åke Lundkvist has been awarded three million kronor in project grants from the Swedish Research Council for Research Cooperation between China and Sweden.

Mon, 15 Jan 2018 14:35:00 GMT

Syftet med projektbidraget är att stödja en långsiktig utvecklingen av samarbete mellan svenska och kinesiska forskare. Totalt har cirka 36 miljoner kronor beviljats för bidragsperioden 2018-2020.

The Swedish Research Council has decided on project grants and network contributions - Swedish Research Links in the field of development research. Six of the contributions go to researchers at UU, hence one to Johanna Lindahl and her project: Man's best friend? A cross-border "One Health" approach to improved rabies control in South East Asia dogs.

Tue, 12 Dec 2017 14:25:00 GMT

Vetenskapsrådet har fattat beslut om projektbidrag och nätverksbidrag - Swedish Research Links inom området utvecklingsforskning. Sex av bidragen går till forskare vid Uppsala universitet

Johanna Lindahl has been appointed as a lecturer in infectious biology

Fri, 12 Jan 2018 14:20:00 GMT

Leif Andersson receives Distinguished Professor Grant, 47.6 million between 2018 - 2027.

Wed, 06 Dec 2017 09:52:00 GMT

Kerstin Lindblad-Toh has together with Leif Andersson received this year's The Björkén Prize

Mon, 04 Dec 2017 09:46:00 GMT

The course "Homeostas och endokrin reglering" (HoER) given by IMBIM during the second term of the medical program has once again been rewarded with the prize Optimus

Thu, 30 Nov 2017 08:17:00 GMT

Darwinfinkar: About the emergence of a new species

Tue, 28 Nov 2017 12:06:00 GMT

The Darwinfinkar family on the Galapagos Islands is an iconic model for the appearance of different species on our planet. A group of researchers from Uppsala University and Princeton now report that they were able to document how a new species of these birds occurred. The new species developed after two different species of Darwin finches hybridized almost 40 years ago.

Anna-Karin Olsson, Lena Kjellén and Kerstin Lindblad-Toh have received a total of 7.8 million in research funding to their projects

Wed, 15 Nov 2017 12:10:00 GMT

Per Jemth has been awarded with Limbiska priset 2017

Wed, 15 Nov 2017 08:29:00 GMT

Örjan Carlborg and Andreas Wallberg have been awarded with research funding by FORMAS

Mon, 13 Nov 2017 14:13:00 GMT

Örjan Carlborg, Lionel Guy and Diarmaid Hughes have been awarded a total of 9 million SEK in research grants from VR

Thu, 02 Nov 2017 08:40:00 GMT

Göran Akusjärvi, Dan Andersson, Aris Moustakas and Gunnar Pejler have been awarded a total of 12.3 million in research grant from VR

Thu, 02 Nov 2017 08:07:00 GMT

PhD-student Anna Knöppel was awarded the Hwasser price for the best PhD thesis of the year 2017

Wed, 04 Oct 2017 10:04:00 GMT

Knut och Alice Wallenbergs Stiftelse har beviljat totalt 560 miljoner kronor till 18 forskningsprojekt som bedöms hålla högsta internationella klass och ha möjlighet att leda till framtida vetenskapliga genombrott. Leif Andersson och Gunnar Pejler vid IMBIM får sammanlagt 52 miljoner kronor till två av dessa projekt.

Thu, 28 Sep 2017 09:40:00 GMT