Sign up to give a Lunch Pitch in 2024 IceLab once again invites researchers to share their ideas and engage in discussion with a multidisciplinary audience What are the Lunch Pitches? IceLab created the Lunch Pitches as a way to bridge gaps between scientific disciplines and [...]
For the love of fun in science IceLab's culture creates space for collaboration in a number of ways, including by embracing fun. IceLab multidisciplinary postdoctoral fellow Josephine Solowiej-Wedderburn is one of the engines of fun in our interdisciplinary research environment. In this piece she offers a glimpse into her vision of [...]
Lessons from the 2023 SFI Complex Systems Summer School Four weeks filled with interesting lectures, exciting discussions and hikes in the beautiful surroundings - this was IceLab PhD student Hanna Isaksson’s experience at the Santa Fe Institute’s Complex Systems Summer School (SFI’s CSSS). Read on and let Hanna take you on [...]
FUNDING NEWS: Center for modeling adaptive mechanisms in living systems under stress at IceLab Martin Rosvall, together with Åke Brännström, Sebastian Diehl, Maria Fällman and Åsa Strand of IceLab have been awarded 30 million sek by the Swedish Research Council to establish a new center of excellence within IceLab: the Center [...]
Science's communication problem - and a solution! June 8, 2023 Watch Lunch Pitch Video Pitch 1: Atin Sharma: Science has a communication problem. Let’s do something about it! Postdoctoral researcher, MIMS, Department of Molecular Ecology The problem: We live in a world of disinformation. It [...]
Secondary metabolite discovery and a plant wall biodesign opportunity May 25, 2023 Watch Lunch Pitch Video Pitch 1: Laura Carroll: Machine learning approaches for microbial secondary metabolite discovery Assistant Professor in the Department of Clinical Microbiology at Umeå University and a SciLifeLab and Wallenberg Data-Driven Life [...]
Predicting gene expression, microproteins, and new tools May 11, 2023 Watch Lunch Pitch Video Pitch 1: Jian-Feng Mao: Predicting allele-specific gene expression (ASE) in poplar Associate Professor, Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Umea University Allele-specific expression (ASE) refers to the preferential expression [...]
In search of collaborators to study algal photosynthesis, becoming Bayesian, cell shape and apply statistical tools. May 4, 2023 Five researchers pitched projects during the IceLab multidisciplinary postdoctoral project call information session. They are seeking project partners to complete their teams and submit a project together for the call. Find out [...]
Conifers adapting to light and using autoencoders on zero-filled data April 27, 2023 Watch Lunch Pitch Video Pitch 1: Sonali Ranade: Adaptation in the Christmas tree to light Staff scientist, Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, Umeå Plant Science Centre, SLU Local adaptation is [...]
Metabolism: not the limiting factor in prokaryotic endosymbiosis “One of the great mysteries of biology,” says Eric Libby, former SFI Postdoctoral Fellow, now an associate professor at the Integrated Science Lab (IceLab), Umeå University in Sweden, “is eukaryogenesis, or how eukaryotes arose.” Scientists consider this to be a period of major evolutionary transition, critical to [...]
