Congratulations Josefin on her Ph.D. defense !!!

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!!! 🥂

Welcome back Shelan!

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. 

Discovery at Umeå University awarded 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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.