Latest news and events
Latest News from the Partnership
2020.10.23 | People
Four questions to researcher Ellen Bushell - new Swedish Young Academy member
Dr Ellen Bushell joined MIMS as a group leader in 2018. In the autumn of 2020 it was announced that she had been elected as a new member of the Swedish Young Academy.
2020.10.07 | Research news
Former MIMS group leader, Emmanuelle Charpentier, awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry
The Nordic EMBL Partnership congratulates Emmanuelle Charpentier, and collaborator Jennifer A. Doudna, on receiving the Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2020. Here, Directors of the Nordic EMBL Partnership nodes past and present, alongside the former Director General of EMBL, recall Professor Charpentier’s appointment as one of the Partnership’s first…
2020.09.28 | Knowledge exchange
The annual Nordic EMBL Partnership meeting 2020: Connecting with colleagues to increase future interactions
MIMS hosts the 10th annual Nordic EMBL Partnership meeting from Umeå, Sweden.
2020.09.18 | Research news
Meet DANDRITE
Our Danish node, DANDRITE (Danish Research Institute of Translational Neuroscience) is hosted by Aarhus University and funded by the Lundbeck Foundation. Recently, the University featured an in-depth article about DANDRITE and its importance to the local and national research environment.
2020.09.09 | Research news
The Nordic EMBL Partnership and COVID-19
Across the Nordic EMBL Partnership, a wide range of projects are underway to help tackle the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The Partnership is home to a high number of highly talented young group leaders, recruited according to the EMBL model, who are well equipped to help contribute towards research into diseases and societal emergencies like…
2020.09.03 | Research news
ERC starting grants for two Nordic EMBL Partnership group leaders
The Nordic EMBL Partnership wishes to congratulate Dr. Andrea Ganna, group leader at FIMM, and Dr. Jonas Barandun, group leader at MIMS, on receiving an ERC Starting Grant.
2020.08.28 | Research news
First mosquito cell atlas published in Science
Professor Oliver Billker, Director of MIMS, is a senior author on the paper, 'Mosquito cellular immunity at single-cell resolution'; findings that will help researchers to further understand how mosquitoes fight malaria and other infections.
2020.08.24 | People
Welcome to: Dominik Fischer, Science Manager
Dr. Dominik Fischer joined MIMS in June 2020 as Science Manager. Here, he explains more about his role and what the Nordic EMBL Partnership annual meeting will look as it takes place online for the first time in September 2020.
2020.08.05 | People
Meet Katja Kivinen, Research Director of the FIMM Technology Centre & HiLIFE Deputy Director for Research Infrastructures
Katja Kivinen leads the FIMM (Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland Technology Centre), which provides state-of-the-art biomedical research services to national and international research groups. Dr Kivinen is also HiLIFE Deputy Director for Research Infrastructures. In this interview, Dr. Kivinen speaks about her role as Research Director and…
2020.07.11 | People
Welcome to: Dr. Sebastian Waszak
Dr. Waszak joined NCMM in March 2020 as head of the Computational Oncology group.Dr Waszak completed his postdoc at EMBL Heidelberg in the group of Jan Korbel. In this article, he describes his research into precision medicine for young people with cancer, the role that rare genetic disorders can play when it comes to cancer treatment, and what…
Upcoming Partnership Events
- Mon 02 Nov
- 09:00-16:00 | Oslo, Norway
NCMM's national PhD course in molecular medicine
NCMM's annual national PhD course in molecular medicine will feature a number of talks from leading researchers - Mon 09 Nov
- 12:00-13:00 | Zoom
Inside the Coronavirus
A webinar with Dr Andrea Thorn, Universität Hamburg. In this talk Andrea Thorn gives an insight into these viral structures using models and animations. She will tell us about their implications for the pandemic and her team's work with over 500 known macromolecular structures from SARS-CoV and SARS-in order CoV-2 to build a bridge between the pioneers who determined these structures at large facilities and the drug developers at forefront of the COVID-19 pandemic.
News on publications
2020.09.10 | Publication
New publication from MIMS group leader Björn O. Schröder in JBC on function of microbiota in obese mice
The paper, 'Obesity-associated microbiota contributes to mucus layer defects in genetically obese mice', has been published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry.
2020.09.10 | Publication
A high profile review article from MIMS group leader Barbara S. Sixt on host cell death modulation by the bacterial pathogen Chlamydia
The review has been published in the journal FEMS Microbiology Reviews.
2020.09.02 | Research news, Publication
Comment article: Predicting Cancer Evolution Using Cell State Dynamics
Dr Kuijjer's article, 'Predicting Evolution Using Cell State Dynamics', examines research using state transitions to model cancer development and progression.
2020.09.02 | Publication
Rapid Growth and Fusion of Protocells in Surface‐Adhered Membrane Networks
Elevated temperatures might have promoted the nucleation, growth, and replication of protocells on the early Earth.
2020.05.14 | Knowledge exchange, Publication
Joint efforts between Nabavi and Capogna group have led to the development of a novel approach named TRACE ´Tracing Retrogradely the Activated Cell Ensemble’
The neural circuitry teams at DANDRITE and PROMEMO introduce a novel approach in their latest publication, which selectively labels sensory inputs that are activated by a defined stimulus and directed to a region of interest in the brain.
2020.05.06 | Publication, Knowledge exchange
Gene variants that protect against glaucoma identified, opening therapeutic possibilities
An international research collaboration led by researchers from the University of Helsinki and Stanford University has identified rare changes in a gene called ANGPTL7 that lower intraocular pressure and significantly reduce the risk of glaucoma. The results open important new therapeutic possibilities.
2020.04.24 | Publication, Knowledge exchange
New work from the Esguerra group provides novel insight into disease mechanisms of Dravet syndrome
A new article from NCMM’s chemical neuroscience group published in Epilepsia sheds light on the early mechanisms underlying seizure onset in Dravet syndrome, a severe and devastating type of epilepsy that occurs in children and infants.
2020.02.03 | Publication, Knowledge exchange
Assistant professor Joseph Lyons coauthors milestone paper in Nature on lysosome function.
New article published in Nature entitled “ATP13A2 deficiency disrupts lysosomal polyamine export” sheds light on a defective lysosomal polyamine exporter (ATP13A2) that represents a lysosome-dependent cell death pathway that may be implicated in several neurodegenerative disorders including Kufor-Rakeb syndrome – a rare form of inherited…
2020.01.31 | Publication, Knowledge exchange, People
New publication for NCMM researchers: novel insights into cell death-inducing signals activated by ER stress
The new study, published this week in the open access journal Cell Communication and Signaling, was led by the autophagy team at NCMM.
2019.11.08 | Publication, Knowledge exchange
Targeted Gene Modification in Animal Pathogenic Chlamydia
Researchers at Umeå University (Sweden), in collaboration with researchers at the University of Maryland and Duke University (USA), now for the first time successfully performed targeted gene mutation in the zoonotic pathogen Chlamydia caviae.
