Forskning vid Uppsala universitet

Forskningsprojekt från 2020-01-01 till 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 ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2020-07-01 till 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 ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2020-12-01 till 2024-11-30

Nonvolatile memories (NVRAMs)} offer the best of two worlds, namely the low latency of DRAM, and the persistency of long term storage.They provide direct access to data in the same way as DRAM, but allow ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2019-01-01 till 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 ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2020-01-01 till 2023-12-31

Language family histories can resemble genealogies, in which a constant process of diversification produces ‘family trees’. But it is also well-known that language histories are not always tree-like, and ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2020-01-01 till 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 ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2019-01-01 till 2023-12-31

Projektet syftar att skapa en vetenskaplig bas för hållbara, industriella processer som använder restströmmar från massaproduktion för att producera kemikalier för elektrisk energilagring. Projektet ska ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2019-12-01 till 2023-11-30

Det offentliga rummet har blivit allt mindre tillgängligt för barn. Forskning om barns mobilitet och lek visar att det finns samband mellan tätare städer, ökad trafik, färre närliggande grönområden och ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2021-01-01 till 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 ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2020-01-01 till 2023-12-31

The proposed project aims at developing a novel low-noise Silicon nanowire ion sensor for rapid antibiotic susceptibility tests. The extremely low sensor noise will be achieved by completely replacing ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2020-01-01 till 2023-12-31

Why do some people succeed in school and later in life and others do not? Recent studies show very clearly that it is not primarily about social intelligence, physical health, IQ or talent. Instead, it ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2020-01-01 till 2023-12-31

The purpose of this study is to engineer CAR T cells with enhanced tumor-killing capacity as well as to shape the tumor microenvironment to become less immune hostile in order to increase the efficacy ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2021-01-01 till 2024-12-31

Managed languages, such as Java, JavaScript and Haskell, enable better software by abstracting the hardware and removing entire classes of bugs from software development, for example through the use of ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2021-01-01 till 2024-12-31

The present project will meet the broad Swedish national scientific, industrial and societal demands for high-quality material analysis by sustaining and advancing the role of the Tandem Laboratory at ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2021-01-01 till 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 ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2021-01-01 till 2023-12-31

An understanding of the ecological and genetic mechanisms governing plant adaptation to environmental conditions is of fundamental interest in evolutionary biology, but also for meeting the challenges ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2020-03-01 till 2024-12-31

Syfte och mål: Syftet med AddLife är att i) utveckla, ii) tillhandahålla och iii) stödja en framtida tillgång på kompetens och teknologi inom Additiv Tillverkning för Livsvetenskaperna. Vårt mål är ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2018-12-01 till 2024-12-31

While substantial and persistent immigrant-native disparities in labor market performance and socioeconomic status is a primary concern in the scientific as well as in the policy debate, little attention ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2021-01-01 till 2024-12-31

Elections are a cornerstone of democracy, yet many elections are marred by violence. What explains patterns of electoral violence? While research on the causes of electoral violence has made important ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2020-01-01 till 2023-12-31

The project fuses low-coordinate phosphorus chemistry and carbonyl olefinations with the aim to develop unprecedented alkene formation reactions from the reductive cross-coupling of two carbonyl compounds ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2020-01-01 till 2023-12-31

Människor agerar ofta prosocialt genom att hjälpa familjemedlemmar, vänner och främlingar eller genom att bidra till välgörande ändamål. Men när är prosociala beteenden motiverade av egenintresse och när ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2019-01-01 till 2023-12-31

Projektet syftar till att utveckla en naturinspirerad och ädelmetallfri elektrokemisk katalysator där ammoniak (NH3) kan produceras från luft (N2), vatten (H2O) och solenergi. Ammoniak har hög energidensitet ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2021-01-01 till 2024-12-31

The purpose of this project is to push the limits for oral drug delivery and disposition with the use of breakthrough methodologies and models for accurate and precise prediction of oral drug delivery ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2014-07-01 till 2023-12-31

The domestic dog encompasses hundreds of genetically isolated breeds, many of which have increased risk of specific diseases. With mapping tools available, we are in a unique position to map canine disease ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2020-01-01 till 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 ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2020-01-01 till 2023-12-31

Gauge and gravity theories seem to possess completely different properties. However, over the past decades, theoretical physicists have discovered deep and unexpected relations between the two. A first ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2020-01-01 till 2023-12-31

Managed languages dominate computing: enterprises run Java/C#, Python drives AI, and the web runs on JavaScript. This success comes from the productivity of automating common error-prone tasks (such as ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2020-01-01 till 2023-12-31

Understanding how new species are formed is one of the most fundamental questions in evolutionary biology. Speciation involves divergence in genetic and phenotypic traits, but the interplay between and ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2019-12-01 till 2023-12-31

Why are some people more highly educated, healthier and, in general, happier than others? Understanding the origins of social and economic inequalities in life course outcomes between individuals is fundamental ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2020-07-01 till 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 ...