Open position: Postdoc position in Molecular mechanisms of development and mosquito transmission of malaria parasites

Prof. Oliver Billker, director of MIMS, professor at the Department of Molecular Biology, seeks a postdoc to a project in Molecular mechanisms of development and mosquito transmission of malaria parasites. The position is full-time and for two years, access 1 May 2023 or upon agreement.

As part of the Nordic EMBL Partnership for Molecular Medicine, the host Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden, MIMS, is closely integrated with a European excellence network, its advanced research infrastructure and international networking opportunities.

Application deadline: 23 March 2023

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Highlighting the MIBEst project- Molecular Infection Biology Estonia, 2019-2023

MIBEst project's main goal is to strenghten the research capacity on latent and chronic infections of Institute of Technology at University of Tartu by creating long-lasting links with internationally-leading research institutions: the Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS) at Umeå University, Sweden, and Basel Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland.

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Introducing Laura Carroll: Developing and applying methods to analyze massive microbial genomic and metagenomic data sets

Written by Nóra Lehotai, MIMS, Umeå University

Picture: Dr Laura Carroll. Credit: Hans Karlsson.

Dr Laura Carroll, assistant university lecturer at the Department of Clinical Microbiology, DDLS Fellow, MIMS Investigator, UCMR PI and IceLab Affiliate. She wants to develop methods that biologists and clinicians can use to draw conclusions from their omics data—especially genomics and metagenomics data—to improve human, animal and environmental health.

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"Excellence by Choice" Postdoctoral Programme in Life Science 2023

A new call for postdoctoral fellows is open in the frame of the "Excellence by Choice" Postdoctoral Prohramme for Life Science. The application deadline is 19 March 2023.

Umeå University is currently running the “Excellence by Choice” Postdoctoral Programme in Life Science research to train outstanding young researchers and stimulate cutting-edge research. As a collaboration between the two national Centres of Excellence – Umeå Centre for Microbial Research (UCMR) and Umeå Plant Science Centre (UPSC) – the programme aims to encourage new synergies in Life Science with a focus on molecular and translational research and to strengthen world-class research activities in Umeå. Patron for the programme is Nobel laureate Emmanuelle Charpentier, who discovered the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technology during her time as a scientist and group leader in Umeå.

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New transporter for recycling of bacterial cell wall found

Text written by Ola Nilsson, Umeå University.
Article originally appeared at https://www.umu.se/en/news/new-transporter-for-recycling-of-bacterial-cell-wall-found_11714458/ 

A transporter which some bacteria use to recycle fragments of their cell wall has been discovered by researchers at Umeå university, Sweden. They found that the transporter controls resistance to certain kinds of cell-wall targeting antibiotics.

The transporter that Professor Felipe Cava and PhD student Michael Gilmore at Umeå university have found is vital for cell wall integrity in the plant pathogen Agrobacterium tumefaciens, a convenient lab model of some human pathogens.

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