IceLab and the Medical Faculty Launch AI Hackathon Turning the hype of machine learning-powered precision medicine into actual science calls for collaboration between life-science researchers and data scientists. Therefore, an AI Hackaton pitch event will be organized at Umeå University on 12 October. The Faculty of [...]
Visiting professor André de Roos pushes boundaries between disciplines and shakes up established ideas in theoretical ecology Mathematicians call him an ecologist, ecologists call him a mathematician. André de Roos is comfortable in interdisciplinary research settings, having worked along the border between mathematics and ecology since his PhD. A professor of [...]
IceLab Open Pitches for the IceLab Multidisciplinary Postdoctoral Project Call April 20, 2021 In this pitch session researchers who had not identified a research partner, either to collaborate on an application for the IceLab multidisciplinary postdoctoral project call, or in general for future collaboration, presented a 5 minute pitch. [...]
2021 IceLab Multidisciplinary Postdoctoral Fellowship Call Opens April 20th IceLab once again invites applications from multidisciplinary research teams for three multidisciplinary research projects In between traditional disciplines lies an under-explored landscape of interesting research questions. Members of IceLab love to roam around this uncharted territory, integrating [...]
Gradual changes triggered historical shift in marine fauna Large asteroids or comets hitting Earth, massive volcanic eruptions and other single, deadly events are usually the focus for scientists seeking to reconstruct Earth’s past mass extinctions. In a new study, researchers from Umeå University and the University of Florida instead uncovered a [...]
Finding a new way to uncover targets for future antibiotics How do you take great ideas and turn them into innovative research? In this case the Integrated Science Lab, IceLab, offered up some help in the form of funding for a postdoc who could act as a bridge between computational and [...]
The distribution of vertebrate animals redefines temperate and cold climate regions The distribution of vegetation is routinely used to classify climate regions worldwide, yet whether these regions are relevant to other organisms is unknown. Umeå researchers have established climate regions based on vertebrate species' distributions in a new study published in [...]
How long does it take a protein to find a target on our DNA? The problem To get many different processes started in our nucleus, we need proteins to bind to specific sequences on our DNA. For example, the gene-editing tool CRISPR/CAS9 needs to locate a [...]
A look behind a new COVID-19 project with Joacim Rocklöv Joacim Rocklöv is hiring a new postdoctoral fellow and joining the Integrated Science Lab (Icelab) as an affiliate professor, cementing casual discussions and previous collaborations and moving a new project from the idea phase to action. Gabrielle Beans interviewed him, read their [...]
SPPAT: Spatial point pattern analysis of traces Site-selectivity patterns of drilling predators revealed by spatial point pattern analysis Trace fossils left by predators on skeletons of their prey, including drillholes, repair scars, fractures, and tooth marks, are the most powerful direct indicators of predator-prey interactions available in the [...]
