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! 😄
On this beautiful summer sunny day, our Ph.D. student Josefin successfully defended her doctoral thesis!!! A big round of applause for her 👏👏👏Great job!Due to the current pandemic situation, Josefin’s defense was done virtually via Zoom but we had a small celebration afterwards within the group to raise a toast to her big achievement!!! 🥂
Published March, 2021 Shelan came to work in the group last summer and now she is back to work for her Bachelor’s thesis for 2 months.
NEWS Emmanuelle Charpentier, honorary doctor at Umeå University, Sweden, and former group leader at the Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS) and former visiting professor at Umeå Centre for Microbial Research (UCMR), has been awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, together with Jennifer Doudna, for her groundbreaking work on the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technology.
On Monday 10th September, a kick off meeting with Paulina’s group took place at Scandic hotel followed by Escape room activity.Here are some of the “evidence” of the meeting 😁
