Nutrient limitation constrains arctic stream responses to climate warming
Many current climate studies focus solely on increases in temperature, and in doing so, the ecosystem effects caused by climate change may be misinterpreted. In a new study, Umeå researchers are...
View ArticleTree rings provide vital information for improved climate predictions
Due to their worldwide distribution, trees have an extraordinary role in removing excessive amounts of CO2 released by our highly industrialized and mobile modern societies from the atmosphere. So far...
View ArticleIndustrial Doctoral School: useful and collaborative
The successful Industrial Doctoral School for Research and Innovation at Umeå University is now kicking off twelve new doctoral projects with ten new industrial partners. Co-funded doctoral education...
View ArticleResearch on sex in malaria parasites granted prestigious EU grant
ERC Advanced Grants – the European Union’s most prestigious research funding programme – is granting Professor Oliver Billker EUR 2.5 million for a period of five years for research on the sexual...
View ArticleWCMM symposium: New frontiers in neuroscience and imaging
On June 7 the Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine arranged a symposium on neuroscience and imaging.
View ArticleExpert in chemistry education becomes honorary doctor
Ilka Parchmann, Professor and Vice President at Kiel University, has been appointed the 2018 honorary doctor at the Faculty of Science and Technology, Umeå University in Sweden.
View ArticleMajor European grant to newly recruited Umeå researcher
The European Research Council grants an ERC Starting Grant of 1.5 million euro to the group leader Changchun Chen at the Umeå Centre for Molecular Medicine (UCMM) and Wallenberg Centre for Molecular...
View ArticleSEK 24 million to research on tuberculosis and antibiotic resistance
Fredrik Almqvist, Professor in organic chemistry at Umeå University, and his American research colleague Christina Stallings, receive SEK 24 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for...
View ArticleLarge amounts of antimicrobial substances in Swedish sewage treatment plants
A large number of antimicrobial substances are found in sludge and water in Swedish sewage treatment plants. Several of them pass through the treatment plants and are released into the aquatic...
View ArticleParents guts tell tales to their children
Researchers at Umeå university in Sweden have published a new study showing that the gut bacteria can carry information of past experiences of an altered environment from parents to offspring. Eggs and...
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