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 conference on June 10th and 11th at Rotundan and Galaxen, Umeå University, aims to foster collaboration and propel research on [...]
Juhee Lee Title: Artificial selection of microbial collectives on its composition and collective function Juhee Lee, Postdoctoral Researcher from Hye Jin Park's group (Inha University, Incheon, Korea). Juhee's background is in physics but works on problems in ecology ("Statistical Physics of Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics"). He is visiting Ludvig Lizana (IceLab Associate Professor) in IceLab this [...]
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 [...]
Florian Heyde and Alexander Lindström work on the projects supervised by Ludvig Lizana, senior lecturer at Department of Physics, IceLab. Here they tell us about their experiences. Florian Exchange Master’s student in Technical Physics, Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany I am currently doing my 'Advanced Project in Physics' supervised by Ludvig Lizana, and Rikard [...]
Micro Loans and Crowdfunding in the Charity Space with Ludvig Lizana Hive Talk Snippet Ludvig began our season of hive talks with a presentation of the kiva loan data [www.kiva.org] that contains information on over a million microloans. The ensuing discussion focused on identifying patterns that might be present in [...]
The genome contact map explorer: a tool to find patterns in piles of DNA contact data The problem Every chromosome in our cells is a long polymer that is packaged and folded in particular ways. Researchers don’t exactly know how, but it is clear that it is not a random [...]
What’s your message? Public speaking with twice the impact, using half the effort. Author: Cam Barber This book debunks several myths about public speaking and gives handy tips on how to structure, practise and deliver a talk. Overall, the book was highly appreciated by the members of the book club. The [...]
