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Welcome to UCMR, Umeå Centre for Microbial Research
UCMR is an interdisciplinary research centre established by a consortium of scientists representing medical & molecular microbiology, molecular & structural biology, chemistry & physics, and is devoted to top quality research and novel applications in the fields of microbial pathogenesis. The consortium aims to initiate and coordinate supportive efforts at UmU in the research fields of UCMR: e.g. to promote collaboration; to organize seminars and workshops; to organize technology platforms and to obtain funding.
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Microbial virulence: Bacterial and viral cell attachment, bacterial protein delivery, proliferation of intracellular bacteria, and extracellular parasites.
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Skeleton proteins help cells to grow in the right direction
Linda Sandblad, Assistant Professor at the Department of Molecular Biology, Umeå University, has in cooperation with other colleagues from Sweden investigated one bacterial protein, called FilP. This protein is a crucial part of bacteria’s cell skeleton. This work can explain the cell’s mechanical mechanisms and how they obtain stability and flexibility to grow in one defined direction. The scientists have now published their results in PNAS.
 Press release Umeå University (in Swedish only)
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Fredrik Almqvist gets Sweden’s biggest science award
Fredrik Almqvist, Professor at Umeå University, Department of Chemistry, is honoured with the prestigious Göran Gustafsson Award – Sweden’s biggest prize in natural science. He is getting the award for his work with bacteria which cause diseases.
Press release Umeå University (in Swedish only)
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Revealing the weapons by which bacteria fight each other
A new study which was performed jointly at Umeå University and the University of Washington in Seattle, USA, discovered that bacteria can degrade the cell membrane of bacterial competitors with enzymes that do not harm their own membrane. This exciting finding opens the way for the development of new antibacterial drugs to fight bacteria using their own weapons. (NATURE, 2013).
Sun Nyunt Wai, professor at the Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS) and the department of Molecular Biology in Umeå, Sweden, and Joseph D. Mougous, professor at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA, studied together with their students and post-docs the genes and proteins that are behind this selective defence mechanism.
Press release Umeå University
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