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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Open positions in infection medicine and molecular biology at MIMS, Umeå University

MIMS_postdoc_call_2020-21.pdf

Two-year post-doctoral position in Molecular Biology, Cava lab

Read more: Two-year post-doctoral position in Molecular Biology, Cava lab

The Swedish Research Council (VR) awards 11 researchers at the medical research field at Umeå University

Source: https://www.umu.se/nyheter/miljoner-till-medicinsk-forskning-i-umea_9767496/

Several researchers within the MIMS/UCMR research community got funding from the Swedish Research Council: Jörgen Johansson, Anders Sjöstedt, Constantin Urban and Anna Överby Wernstedt. Congratulations to them! 

Read the article (in Swedish) for more details here. 

This year the Swedish Research Council distributed a more modest budget to support research projects at the field of medicine and health but there is high hope for next year as the government partitioned a higher bugdet for VR again. 

Visit the website of the Swedish Research Council for more information: https://www.vr.se