Annual Call for PhD Students by the Nordic EMBL Partnership

The Nordic EMBL Partnership for Molecular Medicine has opened its annual call for recruting outstanding PhD students. The Partnership consists of four nodes, residing at the universities of Oslo in Norway, Umeå in Sweden, Helsinki in Finnland and Aarhus in Denmark. These excellent research centres offer a fantastic PhD education and research experience with state-of-the-art technologies and strong networking. To find out more, read more at https://projects.au.dk/nordic-embl-partnership/show-news/artikel/nordic-embl-partnership-annual-call-for-phd-students/ (written by Annabel Darby, Joint Communications Officer Nordic EMBL Partnership & NCMM) and follow the indicated instructions for all details, or open the PDF file. 

Nordic_EMBL_PhD_call_2021.pdf

Solving the structure of diarrhea virus by two virologists in Umeå

Niklas Arnberg and Lars-Anders Carlson (researchers at Umeå University and MIMS, Umeå) recently published the atomic level structure of the enteric human adenovirus 41 using cryo-electron microscopy. This type of virus is responsible for diarrhea and related complications in children. To find out more, please go to: https://www.umu.se/en/news/breakthrough-on-diarrhea-virus-opens-up-for-new-vaccines_9989218/ (article written by Ola Nilsson, communication officer at Umeå University). The original scientific publication is available at: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/2/eabe0974 .

Nobel lecture: Emmanuelle Charpentier, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020

To learn more about the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, go to https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/ .

To learn more about Emmanuelle Charpentier, please visit

• Emmanuelle Charpentiere's website: https://www.emmanuelle-charpentier-pr.org/
• Website of Umeå University where you find a collection of related articles: https://www.umu.se/en/research/features-and-news/the-revolutionary-crispr-cas9-gene-editing-tool/

Follow the Nobel Prize Award Ceremonies online

A great summary of online events in the frame of the annual Nobel Prize Award Ceremonies in 2020 where Emmanuelle Charpentier will be highlighted: https://www.umu.se/en/news/online-ceremony-celebrating-the-nobel-prize-in-chemistry_9861330/ - written by Johanna Fredriksson, communications officer at the Communications Office, Umeå University.

Follow the events and celebrate her discovery together! 

Visit the official Nobel Prize website also to learn more about the events: https://www.nobelprize.org/ 

New publication from the Cava Lab

Felipe Cava, MIMS group leader and associate professor at the Department of Molecular Biology, Umeå University, recently published a new scientific article on cell-wall stapling, a unique technique for cell-wall peptidoglycan modification in bacteria. This strategy provides a novel way to chemically lace the bacterial wall. This work is the result of a successful collaboration between the Cava lab in Umeå and several partners in the United States (University of Massachusetts, Harvard Medical School, Stanford University, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute). The study was led by Felipe Cava and M. Sloan Siegrist, assistant professor at the Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts.

Access to the article: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33238158/

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