Tran Nguyen

Thrilled to announce that Mara’s manuscript on G-quadruplex has been published on Nucleic Acids Research Journal.🤩 👏 👏 👏

Our senior Lab manager Sonja has won the Best Lab Manager Award organized by ProteinTech. Big congratulations to Sonja!!! https://www.ptglab.com/news/company-news/best-lab-manager-award/

Christmas is on the way, and to get a warm-up before the actual holiday season our department organized a full-day Medchem’s Christmas party on 9th December. With a lot of activities before and after the traditional Swedish Julbord (MedChem’s Choice Awards, secret Santa gift, Fika, karaoke and drinks), we had a wonderful time and so

Valentin L’ Hôte did his Master thesis in Wanrooij lab few years ago and after finishing his PhD at the Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell, Gif-Sur-Yvette, France, he is now back to Umeå to start his new Post doc position. Welcome (back) Valentin! 🙂

Together with PaulinaW’s lab, we went for canoeing along the river down to Sävar and got to do some exercises before heading to Swedish lunch at a restaurant by the river bank and had also a chance to say farewell to Gorazd and Mama.

SW group attended  the 6th DNA polymerases conference in Stockholm from 22nd to 25th May. The conference this year was organized by research groups from Umeå and had participation of scientists and researchers in the field from different countries around the world. Josefin gave a talk on the disease mechanism of PolG A Y951N and Andi

Anna-Maria received the internship for her Medical programme, so she is now back to our lab and will be working with us for next 8 weeks of summer. Welcome back Anna! And hope that she will be “still” enjoying her time in the lab! 😛

On Monday 30th August, we took the chance to have a kick-off day with Paulina’s group in 3-Camp, Hazeland, Hömlsund to welcome new comers to our labs. Doing 3 activities on-site (indoor paintball, archery tag and the bubble ball) with a motto “No pain No gain”, we had a wonderful day and created unforgettable memories

Cristina Velázquez Ruiz is doing her Ph.D. in  Luis Blanco’s group at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in Spain. She comes to Umeå to do her internship in our group for the next 3 months! 

Anna is now in her first year of Medical programme at Umeå University. She will be working with us for for her 5 week-summer internship. Hope that she will be enjoying her time in the lab! 😄