Inside and outside leaves February 16, 2023 Watch Lunch Pitch Video Pitch 1: Stefan Jansson: How green is an aspen leaf? Professor at Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University. The leaves of an individual aspen starts degrading its chlorophyll almost the same date every year, [...]
The Faculty of Medicine and IceLab organized an AI Hackathon Pitch event for the second time. February 2, 2023 Seven researchers pitched ideas during the IceLab - Medical Faculty Hackathon Pitch Event. They are seeking project partners to complete their teams and submit a project together for the Hackathon in Lövångergården. [...]
Madagascar's biodiversity acutely threatened Madagascar exhibits an enormous biodiversity - most of the plant and animal species in Madagascar are found nowhere else on earth. According to researchers from over 50 different organizations (including IceLab) and universities writing in the journal Science, the rich life on the island is acutely threatened. [...]
Complex traits and eternal life October 11, 2022 Watch Lunch Pitch Video Pitch 1: Sara Westman: Unravel the genetics of complex traits Doctoral Student at Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University. Some things in life are simple, while most are not. The same holds true for [...]
The 11th IceLab Camp exceeded the participants’ expectations Making up projects from random keywords. Communicating ideas through drawings. Writing an interdisciplinary research proposal. Learning to listen to and ask questions. Last week 18 local and international researchers at different career stages (MS, PhD and Postdoc) and from different scientific backgrounds converged on [...]
Networks like curves and going beyond probabilities September 13, 2022 Watch Lunch Pitch Video Pitch 1: Klara Stokes: How is a network like a curve? Associate professor at Department of Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, Umeå University. Graphs are combinatorial models of networks. Networks arise everywhere – [...]
Meet Erik Morrow Erik Morrow is a Master's student working on a project with Martin Rosvall on the Map Equation website How did you come to be in IceLab? I first met Martin Rosvall a few years ago when he was teaching a course on information [...]
Lighting up life, feeding mathematicians and plants in pain June 14, 2022 Watch Lunch Pitch Video Pitch 1: Nicolò Maccaferri: Light as a probe to understand life Assistant professor at Department of Physics, Umeå University. Biomolecules ‘speak and understand’ the natural language of biological processes as [...]
Symmetries in math biology and Optimization May 17, 2022 Watch Lunch Pitch Video First Pitcher: Fredrik Ohlsson, Associate professor at Department of Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, Umeå University Not just a pretty face: Symmetries in mathematical biology Symmetries are an important and ubiquitous concept in [...]
DNA’s Dark Matter, Robust Networks and Forest Canopies May 3, 2022 Watch Lunch Pitch Video First Pitcher: Peter Kindgren, Researcher, Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, Umeå Plant Science Centre, SLU Why do organisms need non-coding DNA? All eukaryotic organisms have a lot more [...]
