Dr. Andrea Puhar and her team at The Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS) at Umeå University, discovered that gut cells sense harmful bacteria through the mechanical force exerted on their cell surface during bacterial invasion. A protein called PIEZO1, which is able to sense mechanical signals, is necessary to detect invading bacteria. Activation of PIEZO1 during infection triggers a protective immune response. The study is now published in the scientific journal Cell Reports.

Meet BICU Director and MIMS Team Leader Richard Lundmark and BICU Facility Manager Irene Martinez Carrasco, and learn about BICU’s expertise and approaches in light and correlative microscopy and in the study of biomolecule affinities.

Elham Shojaeinia is a PhD student in the Esguerra group at NCMM. She recently visited DANDRITE at Aarhus University, Denmark to learn in depth about the principles of neural organization

Dr Liye He is a Postdoctoral Researcher with a background in computational science and precision medicine in the group of Professor Tero Aittokallio at FIMM. He recently spent time with the Mathelier group at NCMM