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Integrated Science Lab, Umeå University, Sweden. Home of Stress Response Modeling at IceLab.

Connecting researchers across disciplines for the love of launching and landing new ideas.

https://icelab.se/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/icelab-umea/
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Seeing science in a new light: take your time!
Five participants talk about their experiences at IceLab Camp.
www.umu.se/en/feature/g...

@umeauniversitet.bsky.social #complexity #complexsystems #researchschool #multidisciplinary #researchculture
Johan Henriksson (IceLab affiliate) has secured SEK 10 M to build a massive single-cell database to accelerate safer and more affordable CAR T-cell therapies for cancer. Wishing the team great success! www.umu.se/en/news/fast... #singlecell #cancertherapy #umeåresearch
Faster and safer development of CAR T cells against cancer
Ten million for innovative technology in cancer research.
www.umu.se
November 13, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Congratulations Sonali! You are always a welcome addition to our Lunch Pitches - wonderful to see you recognized at the KBC Days!
👏Congratulations, Sonali! We’re so pleased to see your efforts recognized with KBC’s Employee of the Year award.

Your commitment to creating a positive and supportive environment makes a real difference, and we’re proud to have you in our community at Umeå Plant Science Centre!🧪🌾
I’m delighted to share that my dear colleague, Sonali Ranade, has received a well-deserved recognition for her outstanding contributions to make the work environment better for everyone. Congratulations Sonali, "Employee of the Year, KBC 2025". Well deserved! 👏 @umeaplantsciencecentre.se
November 13, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Ingo Scholtes is in IceLab and talking #networks!
November 5, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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Join us at Umeå University: Expression of interest for an Assistant Professor in Molecular Biology or Molecular Infection Medicine. Starting package 1.8M$, <7 years after PhD. Details at: www.nature.com/naturecareer...
Assistant professor in Molecular Biology or Molecular Infection Medicine - Expression of interest - Umeå, Sweden job with Umeå University | 12847135
Expressions of interest are invited for an Assistant Professor (tenure track) role with a generous 5-year startup package of about SEK 20M (≈EUR 1.8M)
www.nature.com
October 24, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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Beyond Calls – Interreg Aurora
20 Nov, 12:00, Umeå University

UMU researchers, learn what makes funding applications successful. Bring your questions, share your experience, connect with colleagues and build strong networks for future calls.

Register here! 👇
Beyond Calls – Nov25
Log into the student web
www.umu.se
October 21, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Visste du att denna vecka är Giällavahkkuo (Samiska språkveckan)?

Denna vecka uppmärksammas de samiska språken över hela Sverige. Vid Umeå universitet uppmärksammas den av Várdduo - centrum för samisk forskning med en föreläsning av Peter Steggo på Tráhppie. Välkommen den 22 oktober!
Giällavahkkuo / Samisk språkvecka uppmärksammas
www.umu.se
October 20, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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We have a new preprint modeling the regulatory networks of efflux pumps to predict the evolution of multidrug resistance in P. aeruginosa. Also explore cross-resistance, collateral sensitivity & loss of resistance. With @suvamroy.bsky.social @elibbyscience.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Forecasting multi-trait resistance evolution under antibiotic stress
Many bacteria rely on efflux pumps to survive antibiotic stress, and exposure to antibiotics often leads to mutations in pump genes or their regulators that increase pump expression. Predicting the sp...
www.biorxiv.org
October 20, 2025 at 6:21 AM
New preprint out from IceLab researchers @suvamroy.bsky.social @elibbyscience.bsky.social and @peteralind.bsky.social - Forecasting multi-trait resistance evolution under antibiotic stress.
Forecasting multi-trait resistance evolution under antibiotic stress https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.17.683023v1
October 20, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Seeing science in a new light: take your time!
Five participants talk about their experiences at IceLab Camp.
www.umu.se/en/feature/g...

@umeauniversitet.bsky.social #complexity #complexsystems #researchschool #multidisciplinary #researchculture
October 17, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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🍁 Ever wonder how math can reveal the hidden patterns in nature? This fall-inspired post explores morphometrics (the study of shape) through something as simple as autumn leaves.

👉 Read the full post: www.comap.org/blog/item/mo...

#MathModeling #STEM #RealWorldMath #MathTeacher
October 14, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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What is the physical basis of death? Can we manipulate cellular rules to avoid it? What does death mean for a machine? Is immortality possible? What does it mean for language, thought, or information to die? My new book @princetonupress.bsky.social is coming soon. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
October 15, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Antón Carcedo Martínez came to Umeå for winter — and stayed to explore life with math. Now a PhD student in IceLab, he builds models linking physics and biology.

Read his story (Swedish)
umu.se/…/vintern-lockade--nu-utvecklar-anton-matematiska-modeller-id3011491#PhDLifef#ComplexSystemsms
https://umu.se/…/vintern-lockade--nu-utvecklar-anton-matematiska-modeller-id3011491
October 16, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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🧪🌾PAPER - Struggling to identify genes behind specialised metabolites?🧬

Sara Rydman et al from the Nathaniel Street group share a combined metabolomics & transcriptomics dataset for aspen, freely accessible via plantgenie.org.

Read more in @pplplantarum.bsky.social:
doi.org/10.1111/ppl....
A Metabolomics and Transcriptomics Resource for Identifying Candidate Genes in the Biosynthesis of Specialised Metabolites in Populus tremula
This study aims to identify candidate genes involved in the biosynthesis of salicinoid phenolic glycosides (SPGs), a group of specialised metabolites characteristic of the Salicaceae family. While th...
doi.org
October 13, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Halfway into #inktober in IceLab - which is your favorite of the prompts? And our sketches?
#whimsy
October 16, 2025 at 11:01 AM
We agree with our friends at @umeaunimarine.bsky.social - too good not to share - nerdy and cool game alert! IceLab affiliate @ericcapo12.bsky.social developed a microbe card game with his colleagues. Read more about it in the article below.
Ok, we just have to share this 🤓
Our research colleagues are developing a #microorganism card game — teaching kids (and parents!) all about the tiny creatures living in our waters!
So nerdy. So cool.🌊🧪🦑

www.umu.se/en/news/rese...

@umeauniversitet.bsky.social #Micromates #ScienceEducation
Researchers' card game teaches children about microorganisms
Hope to spark curiosity about life beneath the water’s surface – with playful game cards.
www.umu.se
October 10, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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🧪🌾INTERVIEW - His discovery challenges current textbook knowledge

PhD student Özer Erguvan from the @stephanevrg.bsky.social group discovered that two key sites in plant cell walls and not the middle lamella help cells stick together.🔬

Read more in this interview👇:
www.upsc.se/about-upsc/n...
October 7, 2025 at 12:15 PM
🛣️ Bypass a molecular bodyguard to stop persistent bacterial infections:
IceLab researcher Kemal Avican and team show how the protein RfaH helps them resist stress and persist — and how its network could be a new antimicrobial target.
🔗 www.umu.se/en/news/mole...
#scicomm #stressresponse
“Molecular bodyguard” helps infections persist
Key protein helps bacteria survive in the body and points to strategies for fighting persistent infections.
www.umu.se
October 9, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Bias in scientific productivity and prominence - it's about your network.
@aaronclauset.bsky.social's IceLab talk showed how collaboration networks shape the gender productivity gap in academia.
Watch here: play.umu.se/media/t/0_40...
#ScienceofScience #Networks @umeauniversitet.bsky.social
October 9, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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🧪🌾PAPER - How do plants increase their stress responsiveness? 🧬

Vasiliki Zacharaki et al from the Kindgren group show that convergent antisense transcription is an evolutionary strategy used by plants to achieve this.

Read more in Molecular Plant @cellpress.bsky.social:
doi.org/10.1016/j.mo...
Redirecting
doi.org
October 8, 2025 at 7:25 AM
No party like a spikning party 🔨
IceLab theoretical ecologist and modeler of lake algae extraordinaire Hugo Harlin nailed his PhD thesis to a board today! Next week he will defend. He joins a long tradition of PhD candidates nailing their work in @umeauniversitet.bsky.social library 👏 #phdsky
October 3, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Why does a gender gap in scientific “productivity” persist?
📅 Oct 8, @aaronclauset.bsky.social in Umeå: biased networks, not ability, explain the difference. Join us!
🔗 www.umu.se/en/events/ic...
@umeauniversitet.bsky.social
October 3, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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📢 We have an ever increasing number of #student #research opportunities at Umeå Marine Sciences Centre including our #Borealis Internships www.umu.se/en/umea-mari... Come and join us for an exciting #marine #science adventure in #northern #Sweden ❄️ 🌊
October 1, 2025 at 5:55 PM
New paper out from IceLab affiliate @treesandgrowth.bsky.social and IceLab alum Alex Vergara 👇
Finally, the fruit of our labour investigating salt stress in wild-type and RNAi trees affected in timing🌳⏰! I am very happy to have this work out 😍 Thanks to all involved and fabulous collaborations between Chilean and Swedish groups 🥂✨ rdcu.be/eI1vq
The circadian clock of Populus affects physiological, transcriptional and metabolomic responses to osmotic and ionic components of salt stress
npj Biological Timing and Sleep - The circadian clock of Populus affects physiological, transcriptional and metabolomic responses to osmotic and ionic components of salt stress
rdcu.be
October 2, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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How dit life originate in our planet? How can we create it in the lab?Our @royalsocietypublishing.org Theme Issue "Origins of Life: the possible and the actual", coedited with @sfiscience.bsky.social C Kempes and Susan Stepney is out! royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202... @manlius.bsky.social
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: Vol 380, No 1936
royalsocietypublishing.org
October 2, 2025 at 9:04 AM