Research at Uppsala University

Research project from 2020-01-01 to 2023-12-31

Several nanosafety projects have been funded by the EU (e.g. EU Nanosafety Cluster and SmartNanoTox), however, the standardized process to assess and to predict the toxicity of metal oxide nanoparticles ...

Research project from 2020-07-01 to 2023-06-30

Pathogens and parasites exert the strongest selection pressures on earth, shaping the evolution of an effective and efficient immune system. However, the geographic distribution of pathogens is hypothesized ...

Research project from 2019-01-01 to 2024-12-31

A new generation of superluminous X-ray free-electron lasers (XFEL) will deliver billions of exposures per day at intensities up to 100-times higher than intensities available from existing XFELs. The ...

Research project from 2016-07-01 to 2019-06-30

The overall aim is to understand platelet biogenesis, development and reactivity. The first two years of training will be in the host institute abroad, i.e., Framingham heart study (FHS), National Institutes ...

Research project from 2020-01-01 to 2023-12-31

For a very long time, magnetic order in two dimensions was not expected to exist. Everything changed just two years ago when the first-ever 2D ferromagnet, a monolayer of CrI3 was obtained. This finding ...

Research project from 2017-07-01 to 2020-06-30

In this proposal, we aim to explore the uncharted interactions between the heat released from an exothermic enzymatic reaction, and the enzyme’s structure and function. To achieve this goal, we chose pyruvate ...

Research project from 2019-01-01 to 2022-12-31

Charge transporting materials play a cruical role in one of the most active research areas: the development of molecular materials to facilitate the conversion of solar energy into electricity, fuels and ...

Research project from 2021-01-01 to 2024-12-31

CRISPR-Cas-based adaptive immune systems are ubiquitous in bacteria and archaea. Paradoxically, CRISPR-associated endonucleases are remarkably slow at locating target DNA, with search times on the order ...

Research project from 2009-09-10 to 2013-12-31

Virtually all human diseases have a sex specific component, in terms of rate of occurrence, age of onset and/or severity. Understanding the causes to these differences may hold important clues to how many ...

Research project from 2019-01-01 to 2022-12-31

The aim of this project is to lay the scientific foundation for the development of a new generation of nanocellulose-based therapeutic delivery platforms,with focus on the treatment of chronic wounds. ...

Research project from 2019-01-01 to 2022-12-31

Despite being a mature field of research studying of magnetism and spin-dependent phenomena remains one of the most fascinating area in condensed matter physics. Indeed, progress in technological development ...

Research project from 2017-01-01 to 2022-12-31

During the 1960's, the first observations were made of ultra high energy (UHE) charged particles arriving from space. These particles, known as cosmic rays, began a pursuit to discover which astronomical ...

Research project from 2021-01-01 to 2024-12-31

Enormous sets of observational data are being gathered through a number of planned or active large stellar surveys including 4MOST, APOGEE, GALAH, Gaia-ESO, PLATO, and WEAVE.  These data will enable us ...

Research project from 2019-12-01 to 2022-12-31

The nuclear data needs for Gen-IV systems are eminent. In order to ensure a safe and efficient reactor operation, fast-neutron induced data are needed. Fissions Yields (FY) are a major source of uncertainties ...

Research project from 2016-01-01 to 2018-12-31

Sex and gonadal hormones affect mental health in a profound manner. Their role in modulation of emotional circuits is presumably critical to differences in prevalence, aetiology, course, and treatment ...

Research project from 2016-07-01 to 2019-06-30

The finite verb in Semitic is sometimes extended by an ending that involves a and/or nasalization, for example the Akkadian ventive, the energic in Arabic, Ugaritic, and Aramaic, as well as the so-called ...

Research project from 2018-01-01 to 2021-12-31

Amyloid fibers are associated with more than \num{20} human diseasesranging from diabetes to Alzheimer´s. Still, the initiation of fiberformation has eluded scientists because of the many rapidconformational ...

Research project from 2021-01-01 to 2023-12-31

Pointing to climate change related injury, citizens are increasingly turning to courts in order to take legal action against their governments. Some lawsuits, such as Juliana v. United States and State ...

Research project from 2020-01-01 to 2023-12-31

The established chemotherapeutic treatment strategies used in pediatric oncology benefit groups of patients with similar clinical manifestations. Relapsed, chemorefractory, and extramedullary disease remain ...

Research project from 2015-07-01 to 2017-10-01

Next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies are the methods of choice to study molecular heterogeneity at single-cell level. However, when it comes to tissue analysis these methods are limited in spatial ...

Research project from 2019-01-01 to 2022-12-31

Recent reports on cyber-attacks, such as Stuxnet, have shown their devastating consequences on digitally controlled systems supporting modern societies. It is therefore of the utmost importance for control ...

Research project from 2019-01-01 to 2022-12-31

This project will study analytically conformal field theories in space-time dimensions greater than two. The approach that will be used goes under the name of conformal bootstrap and does not rely on a ...

Research project from 2019-07-01 to 2022-06-30

This project aims to study the semantic evolution of five modal verbs in Spanish between the 16th and the 20th centuries, based on data from Corpus del Español. The study builds on frameworks of cognitive ...

Research project from 2017-01-01 to 2020-12-31

Antimicrobial resistance is a rapidly growing health concern but environmental aspects are largely understudied. Here, a 2017-2020 multi-disciplinary project is proposed in which development and transfer ...

Research project from 2017-01-01 to 2017-03-06

Lichen research has advanced since the 1860s to recognize the multiple origins of lichens, the relationships of their fungal components to pathogenic fungi, andthe open nature of the symbiosis with photosynthesizing ...

Research project from 2020-07-01 to 2023-06-30

The assembly of the gut microbiome after birth is one of the most important processes for animal development and health. Yet we know extremely little about this process, including whether microbes are ...

Research project from 2018-01-01 to 2020-12-31

A long-standing, yet unresolved issue in ecology is understanding if and how biodiversity stabilizes the functioning of ecosystems. A general scientific consensus exist that species richness can enhance ...

Research project from 2017-01-01 to 2019-12-31

The purpose of this project is to add state-of the-art brain imaging to a double-blind randomized controlled trial of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) for the treatment of anhedonia. ...

Research project from 2017-07-01 to 2020-06-30

This project focuses on the political culture of the Western community of diplomats in the eventful years 1940–1958. Much of the scholarship on how the post-war world was built has dealt only with decision-makers ...

Research project from 2016-01-01 to 2018-12-31

The structure and dynamics of biomolecules are intimately coupled to biological function, and numerous diseases are rooted in biomolecular structure. Functionally important conformational states are often ...