Welcome to the UCMR DAY 2020!
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Get an update on research within the university's Linnaeus Centre of Excellence in life sciences, The Umeå Centre for Microbial Research (UCMR)!
All scientists and staff members within UCMR, collaboration partners and researchers with an interest in life sciences are invited to a day of inspiring research presentations and an excellent opportunity for networking and initiation of multidisciplinary collaborations.
The program will include international invited speakers, poster sessions, presentation for submitted abstract, in a truly bottom up approach, networking in form of round table discussions on topics relevant for life sciences and/or “speed date” to foster even better interactions within the UCMR umbrella.
To update the UMCR community on your latest research and to increase and diversify the collaborative frameworks, the research groups are kindly invited to fill in a very simple (and not time consuming) PowerPoint presentation, found in the registration form.
Date: Thursday 23rd of January 2020
Venue: Aula Nordica
More information and Programme will be found on:
Registration and abstract submission is open now! (Deadline 9th of December)
IMPORTANT: To encourage interactions and provide an overview of the broad spectrum of research activities within UCMR the majority of the talks will be selected from the submitted abstracts.
Link to the registration form!
For questions concerning the organisation of the UCMR Day, please contact the organising committee:
Teresa Frisan, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Constantin Urban, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Yaowen Wu, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Picture: The participants at the UCMR DAY 2019, picture by Eva-Maria Diehl
[2019-10-25] Congratulations to six UCMR/MIMS PIs, who will receive funding from the Swedish Research Council!
[2019-06-24] It was a big surprise for both Bernt Eric Uhlin, founding director of MIMS, and the audience attending the “10 years of MIMS symposium”, when Emmanuelle Charpentier – one of the first group leaders who started a lab at MIMS - entered the podium and gave a speech to honor Bernt Eric and MIMS.
A research team lead by MIMS/SciLifeLab research group leader Jonas Barandun uses cryo-electron microscopy to provide near atomic details of the smallest known eukaryotic cytoplasmic protein synthesis machine, the microsporidian ribosome. 
150 years ago, the European silk industry was threatened by an unknown epidemic killing the silkworms. At that time, Louis Pasteur was able to identify the source of infection and made important suggestions for treatment. The silk production in Europe survived. Today, a microsporidian parasite is known as the cause of this epidemic and silk worm diseases still cause more than 100 million USD losses to the Chinese silk industry every year. Microsporidiosis is not restricted to silk worms. The diverse phylum of the microsporidia contains thousands of different species with parasites for essentially every animal. At least 14 of them can infect humans. Particularly challenged by microsporidia are not only aquacultures, sericultures and honey bee populations in which infections can wipe out entire hives, but also immunocompromised patients. Microsporidia are a risk for the environment, agriculture and human health and the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently added the parasitic fungi to the list of emerging pathogens of high priority. Even if microsporidia infections are among the most common parasitic diseases in all animals, relatively little is known about their fascinating molecular life which is shaped by an accelerated evolutionary rate and extreme genome compaction.
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