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Immune testing for Coronavirus created by researchers in Västerbotten

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[2020-04-15] Researchers at Umeå University and Norrland University Hospital have developed an antibody test for the new Corona virus

People who were once infected with the coronavirus also become immune to re-infection. By using tests that measure whether the body's immune system has reacted to the coronavirus, it is possible to identify people who are resistant to the infection. This is of particular importance for staff working in healthcare or working with risk groups, but also to determine so-called flock immunity, when enough people are immune to the spread of the virus.

On initiative of University Lecturer Mattias Forsell and through collaboration between researchers at Umeå University and the University Hospital in Umeå, a test has been developed in a short time, which could show immunity to coronavirus.

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Honory Doctor at the Faculty of Medicine

Iain Mattaj is one of the two honory doctors of the Faculty of Medicine in 2013

Iain Mattaj, Professor and Director General of EMBL (European Molecular Biology Laboratory), is the driving force behind the establishment of the Nordic EMBL Partnership for Molecular Medicine with MIMS as the Swedish partner.

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Funding from the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research


SSF grant to UCMR researchers for infection biology research 

Mikael Elofsson, Professor at Umeå University received 25 million SEK from the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research. This funding will support an infection research project with the aim to identify novel, alternative antibiotics that have a decreased risk for the development of antibiotic resistance.

Co-operators in this project are Åke Forsberg, Professor at Umeå University and Herwig Schüler, group leader at the Karolinska Institutet.

 

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Distinguished Guests Seminars Series - autumn term 2022

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We invite you to join the following seminar in the scope of the UCMR Distinguished Guests Seminars Series!
Please register here if you opt to join via Zoom: Registration

October 18, 2022, 14:00-15:00  Venue: Stora hörsalen KBC (KBE303)

PhD. Edward Egelman, Harrison Distinguished Professor, professor in Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics, University of Virginia, USA

Title of the talk: “Cryo-EM of Helical Polymers: From Biology to Materials
Host PI: Magnus Andersson

Electron cryo-microscopy (cryo-EM) has emerged as the main technique for determining the atomic structure of macromolecular assemblies. Edward Egelman will discuss applications of cryo-EM to a range of polymers, including bacterial and archaeal pili, bacterial and archaeal flagella, bacterial and archaeal mating pili, extracellular cytochrome filaments that conduct electrons over long distances (“microbial nanowires”) and filamentous viruses that infect hosts living in nearly boiling acid.

The powerful methods that have been developed in cryo-EM of biological complexes can now be readily applied to assemblies of peptides and small molecules. Cryo-EM is thus beginning to make a real impact in areas such as materials science, soft matter and chemistry.

Ph.D. Edward Egelman is a biophysicist known for his work on the structure and function of protein and nucleoprotein polymers. He developed the algorithm that is now widely used in cryo-electron microscopy for the three-dimensional reconstruction of helical filaments and tubes. His research has ranged from studies of actin to bacterial pili to viruses that infect hosts living in nearly boiling acid. Egelman graduated from Brandeis University in 1976 with a B.A. in physics. He started as a Ph.D. student in experimental high energy physics at Harvard, but changed fields and received his Ph.D. from Brandeis University in 1982 in biophysics. He was a Jane Coffin Childs postdoctoral fellow at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK, and became an Assistant Professor at Yale University in 1984. In 1989 he moved to the University of Minnesota where he was an Associate and Full Professor, and in 1999 moved to the University of Virginia where he is now a Harrison Distinguished Professor. He has been president of the Biophysical Society and Editor-in-Chief of Biophysical Journal, and is a Fellow of both the Biophysical Society and the American Academy of Microbiology. In 2019 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences of the United States.