[20150825] The online magazine of the Swedish Research Council, Curie, reported from the first network meeting of the MIMS affiliated National Doctoral Programme in Infections and Antibiotics.
Webpage of the National Doctoral Programme in Infections and Antibiotics
[20150825] A study published online in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, shows that the travel behaviour of humans could also contribute to the dramatic increase of bacteria that are resistant against antibiotics. Anders Johansson, Clinical Research Fellow at MIMS, was leading the study, which showed that more types of resistant bacteria can follow along in our intestines when we travel than was previously known.
The researchers used explorative shotgun metagenomic sequencing to address more than 300 antibiotic resistance genes in fecal specimens from 35 Swedish students taken before and after exchange programmes on the Indian peninsula or in central Africa.
Publication in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
Press release of Umeå University (in Swedish only)
Anders Johansson's webpage at MIMS
Anders Johansson in an interview with Radio Sweden
[20150723] Emmanuelle Charpentier accepted the offer of the German Max Planck Society to become Scientific Member and new director at the Max Planck Institute of Infection Biology in Berlin.
MIMS congratulates Emmanuelle and wishes her all the best for the new position!
From October 1st, 2015 Emmanuelle will move her lab form Helmholtz Centre of Infection Biology, Braunschweig, to Berlin. She will still keep her guest professorship and research group at MIMS and UCMR.
Press release of the Max Planck Society
Webpage of the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology
Webpage of Emmanuelle Charpentier's department at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research
[2015-06-24] Umeå University honours Professor Emmanuelle Charpentier for her pioneering research with the powerful discovery of CRISPR-Cas9, which has already been of great importance by providing new opportunities for Life Science research and its applications in Biology and Medicine. Umeå University will present a special Jubilee Award to Emmanuelle Charpentier at the University's Annual Celebration Ceremony in 2015: The MIMS Excellence by Choice Programme.
Press release of Umeå University (in English)
Press release of Umeå University (in Swedish)
The annual ceremony, 50th anniversary of Umeå University
[2015-06-17] The University Board decided on June 4th to honour Bernt Eric Uhlin with Umeå University's Medal of Honour, the highest distinction that is awarded to an individual at the university. Bernt Eric Uhlin is being honoured for his outstanding contributions to the university and the development of the strong research environment infection biology and molecular infection medicine.
On Bernt Eric Uhlin's initiative two research centres have been established at Umeå University: Umeå Centre for Microbial Research - UCMR and The Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden - MIMS.
His diligent directorship and his commitment to the recruitment and guidance of talented young scientists have been critical to the success of the two centres and to the establishment of molecular infection research at Umeå University.
Despite his management duties, Bernt Eric Uhlin has maintained an active research programme and earned an international reputation as an expert in the field of virulence factors that control bacteria-host interactions in pathogenic Enterobacteria.
Umeå University's Vice-chancellor Lena Gustafsson, will present the Medal to the awardee on the Annual Cerelebration on October 17th.
MIMS congratulates Bernt Eric Uhlin!
[20150528] The Jury for the 2015 Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research agreed to grant the 2015 Princess of Asturias Award jointly to Emmanuelle Charpentier and the American researcher Jennifer Doudna for scientific advances that have led to the development of a technology that allows genes to be modified with great precision and simplicity in all types of cells, thus enabling changes that suppose the actual “editing of the genome”. Emmanuelle Charpentier will receive the prize, a sculpture of Joan Miró, and a monetary award at the prize ceremony in October 2015.
"The research carried out by Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna has meant a revolution in biotechnology", the Princess of Asturias Foundation said in its press release.
Richard Lundmark, PI at MIMS and associate professor at the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, will receive Umeå University's Eric K. Fernström prize 2015 for young and promising scientists. The prize committee at the Faculty of Medicine, Umeå University, decided to award Richard Lundmark for his exeptional scientific carreer after his disputation. In recent years he published several important papers in the research area of membrane trafficking which attracted international recognition. Richard Lundmark is head of the Biochemical Imaging Centre Umeå (BICU) and Lecturer at the department of Integrative Medical Biology.
The prize amount is 100.000 SEK and Richard will receive the prize at the during the Annual Celebration Ceremony at Umeå University. According to the founder of the prize, the ship-owner Eric K. Fernström, the Fernström foundation awards every year six young researchers at Sweden's six university medical faculties.
It is the fifth time that the Faculty of Medicine at Umeå University decided to award a MIMS young group leader with the Fernström Prize. Earlier awardees since MIMS was initiated are Andrei Chabes, Emmanuelle Charpentier, Jörgen Johansson, and Niklas Arnberg.
[2015-05-15] MIMS welcomes Andrea Puhar who is establishing her research group from May 2015 at the Department of Molecular Biology.
Andrea has during the previous years performed postdoctoral research at Institut Pasteur in Paris, France. Before her arrival in Umeå, she spent some months as a visiting scientist in the Department of Gastroenterology, RWTH University, Aachen, Germany.
Within the next months Andrea Puhar will recruit PhD students, master students and postdocs to her new lab. Interested persons are highly welcome to send a letter of interest with CV and motivation letter to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
[2015-04-29] Three MIMS members participated in the European Congress for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, 25-28 April 2015, Copenhagen.
Dagens Medicin's journalist, Michael Borgert, reported about the Conference with more than 10 000 participants. (Dagens Medicin) He focussed also on three researchers from MIMS and Umeå University. 
Chinmay Dwibedi, PhD-student at the department of Clinical Microbiology presented his poster on the phylogenomic study of the Clonal expansion of Francisella tularensis in continental western Europe.
Article in Dagens Medicin (in Swedish)
Chinmay Dwibedi's abstract at ECCMID 2015
"Outstanding abstract": Alicia Edin, MIMS Clinical Research Fellow, medical doctor and PhD-student, was the second scientist who attracted the interest of Dagens Medicin. Her abstract was awarded as "one of the outstanding abstracts" at the conference and she received a travel stipend. She presented a metabolomic study on the metabolite profiles of patients who suffered from Community-Acquired Pneumonia, CAP. The study, performed in collaboration with the Swedish Metabolomics Centre, showed that it is possible to use a metabolite fingerprint as a tool for faster diagnosis and cure of these patients.
Article in Dagens Medicine (in Swedish)
Winning abstract at ECCMID 2015
Anders Johansson, Clinical Research Fellow and PI at MIMS, medical doctor and head of the department of the Hospital Infection Control at Norrland University Hospital interviewed by Michael Borgert about his impression of the conference and the three most interesting topics on the congress of the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases.
Dagens Medicin about ECCMID
Read more about ECCMID 2015
For the prize ceremony on 22 April in Geneve, the Louis-Jeantet Foundation presented a movie about Emmanuelle Charpentier, the winner of the Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine 2015. In the movie several people from MIMS and Umeå University give interviews.
Watch the movie on the webpage of the Louis-Jeantet Foundation
To download a copy, go to:
http://www.mims.umu.se/news-events/2026-mims-annual-report-2019-2020-available.html
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