February 14 Lunch Pitch: factors affecting lifespan February 14, 2024 Watch Lunch Pitch Video Pitch 1: Verena Kohler, Assistant Professor at Department of Molecular Biology. The Ageing Chaperome: A New Perspective on Health and Disease Have you ever wondered how our cells keep their proteins [...]
Icelabbers at the Scandinavian Winter Swimming Championship Doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows in IceLab today are drivers of a highly social, open and adventurous work culture. Recently six of them took this adventurous spirit to the next level by taking part in an ice swimming competition. [...]
Scale: a Book Club Snapshot ‘Scale’ looks at different scaling laws throughout living systems, cities and companies. The IceLab book club enjoyed reading this in the autumn term 2023 and all the discussions it prompted. Here is the take of two members of the book club, Josephine Solowiej-Wedderburn and Maja Lindström, on [...]
Happy Holidays and New Year from IceLab Happy Holidays and New Year from the Integrated Science Lab (IceLab) to all our our members, affiliates, funders, collaborators, and friends! A special thank you to all that took part in our activities in 2023, giving Lunch Pitches or contributing [...]
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 [...]
