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Quit: Book Club Snapshot
Quit: A Book Club Snapshot In ‘Quit’ Annie Duke explores the critical moments when walking away can be more beneficial than sticking it out, highlighting the rewards of quitting and the challenges [...]
IceLab kickoff conference propels stress response research
IceLab kickoff conference propels stress response research The kickoff conference for IceLab’s VR-funded Center of Excellence with support from KAW and Kempestiftelserna, held on June 10th and 11th at Umeå University, marked [...]
Model how a microbe can tell a friend from a foe
Model how a microbe can tell a friend from a foe 17 projects from Swedish universities were granted from the SciLifeLab and Wallenberg national program for data-driven life science. Eric Libby and [...]
Open invitation to the IceLab Stress Response Modeling kick-off
Open invitation to the IceLab Stress Response Modeling kick-off Umeå University life science and environmental researchers are invited to participate when IceLab launches its excellence center on stress response modeling. The kick-off [...]
Life’s insiders: Decoding endosymbiosis with mathematics
Life’s insiders: Decoding endosymbiosis with mathematics Endosymbiosis, the intimate and long-term relationship where one organism lives inside another, is a cornerstone of life as we know it, and a key to [...]
IceLab opens project call for shared postdoctoral fellows
IceLab opens project call for shared postdoctoral fellows IceLab invites multidisciplinary research teams to propose projects for a shared postdoctoral fellow, funded by Kempestiftelserna. Project proposals can now be submitted, until May [...]
Science that speaks plainly
We believe anyone should be able to grasp the findings of any scientist’s research studies. To that end, we feature summaries of IceLab work on this page that is accessible and interesting.
Life’s insiders: Decoding endosymbiosis with mathematics
Life’s insiders: Decoding endosymbiosis with mathematics Endosymbiosis, the intimate and long-term relationship [...]
Metabolism: not the limiting factor in prokaryotic endosymbiosis
Metabolism: not the limiting factor in prokaryotic endosymbiosis “One of the great [...]
Scientists: Madagascar’s biodiversity acutely threatened
Madagascar's biodiversity acutely threatened Madagascar exhibits an enormous biodiversity - most of [...]
Visiting Professor Andre de Roos
Visiting professor André de Roos pushes boundaries between disciplines and shakes up established ideas [...]
Gradual changes triggered historical shift in marine fauna
Gradual changes triggered historical shift in marine fauna Large asteroids or comets [...]
The distribution of vertebrate animals redefines temperate and cold climate regions
The distribution of vertebrate animals redefines temperate and cold climate regions The [...]
How long does it take a protein to find a target on our DNA?
How long does it take a protein to find a target on our DNA? [...]
IceLab Collaborative Event Experiments
IceLab is here to help other scientists reach across disciplines to find new ideas and collaborations. We experiment wildly with different event formats to help make this happen.
Quit: Book Club Snapshot
Quit: A Book Club Snapshot In ‘Quit’ Annie Duke explores the critical moments when walking away can be more beneficial than sticking it out, highlighting the rewards of quitting and the challenges [...]
IceLab kickoff conference propels stress response research
IceLab kickoff conference propels stress response research The kickoff conference for IceLab’s VR-funded Center of Excellence with support from KAW and Kempestiftelserna, held on June 10th and 11th at Umeå University, marked [...]
Open invitation to the IceLab Stress Response Modeling kick-off
Open invitation to the IceLab Stress Response Modeling kick-off Umeå University life science and environmental researchers are invited to participate when IceLab launches its excellence center on stress response modeling. The kick-off [...]
March 27th Lunch Pitch: Anders Garpebring, Sophia Harlid and Jian-Feng Mao
March 27th Lunch Pitch: Anders Garpebring, Sophia Harlid and Jian-Feng Mao March 27, 2024 AI for image processing, understanding breast cancer risk and unravelling the complexity of plant genomes were the [...]
March 13th Lunch Pitch: Aftab Nadeem, Barbora Parizkova and Jakob Hultgren
March 13th Lunch Pitch: Aftab Nadeem, Barbora Parizkova and Jakob Hultgren March 13, 2024 Insert favorite scientific problem here:in search of image data for signal processing, machine learning tools for root [...]
February 28th Lunch Pitch: Cemal Erdem and Elin Chorell
February 28th Lunch Pitch: Cemal Erdem and Elin Chorell February 28, 2024 Cemal Erdem introduced his use of machine learning and mechanistic modeling in cancer and disease research, while Elin Chorell [...]
Science Life
Commentaries on life as a scientist
Icelabbers at the Scandinavian Winter Swimming Championship
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 [...]
For the love of fun in science
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 [...]
Lessons from SFI CSSS
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 [...]
In memory of Carl Kempe
In memory of Carl Kempe Permanent secretary, Kempe foundations We are deeply saddened by the passing of Carl Kempe. Carl was integral in shaping our creative culture for disseminating [...]
The 11th IceLab Camp exceeded the participants’ expectations
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 [...]
IceLab Master’s Students in 2022
Meet IceLab's Master's Students Meet some of the Master's students working on different projects and getting a taste of IceLab in 2022 There are currently 5 [...]