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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

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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.

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.

Workshop on advanced electron microscopy imaging techniques in Umeå attracts many participants from the Nordics

Written by Nóra Lehotai. Pictures by Linda Sandblad.

The first course by MIMS in the frame of the NordForsk grant was held in Umeå in December 2022 under the lead of UCEM and BICU, two imaging facilities at Umeå University.

CLEM workshop 1

The Swedish node of the Nordic EMBL Partnership for Molecular Medicine, MIMS, held its first course in Umeå in the frame of the ”NordForsk: Nordic EMBL Partnership Hub” grant during 5-8 December 2022. Two state-of-the-art imaging facilities at Umeå University; Umeå Centre for Electron Microscopy (UCEM) and Biochemical Imaging Centre Umeå (BICU), were the drivers of the workshop where participants could learn about advanced correlative light and electron microscopy (CLEM) methods.

New potential target proteins for novel antibiotics discovered

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Press release – 30 November, 2022, Umeå, Sweden

New potential target proteins for novel antibiotics discovered

Bacteria are small but tough organisms, partly because their cells are enclosed by a protective cell wall skeleton. Professor Felipe Cava and his team at Umeå University in Sweden and collaborators at Harvard Medical School in the USA, have discovered long-sought proteins needed to maintain the bacterial cell wall structure. These proteins represent a very promising vulnerability for many bacteria that can be exploited by future antimicrobial compounds. The findings are published in Nature.

André Mateus, MIMS Team Leader, receives ERC Starting Grant

Text by Nóra Lehotai.

Two researchers from Umeå University, André Nyberg (Department of Community Medicine and Rehabilitation) and André Mateus (Department of Chemistry), receive the prestigious ERC Starting Grant for emerging excellent scientists. Congratulations to André, new ERC laureate!

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