Forskning vid Uppsala universitet

Forskningsprojekt från 2018-01-01 till 2021-12-31

Each branch of the tree of life includes a myriad of parasitic species but current research does not adequately represent their remarkable diversity. Today, entire parasitic groups have eluded characterization ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2012-01-01 till 2015-12-31

The proposed research is a multifaceted investigation centering on problems in homogeneous dynamics and fundamental questions about lattices. We will focus in particular on problems which hold the promise ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2016-07-01 till 2017-11-03

Brachiopods are amongthe first mineralized metazoans to appear in the fossil record, yet agreement about the phylogenetic relationships among these early forms is remarkably poor. While the brachiopod ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2017-01-01 till 2020-12-31

The research program studies contact and symplectic topology and its relations to other geometric fields, in particular to physics inspired low-dimensional topology and knot theory. The main tool is theories ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2014-01-01 till 2016-12-31

Orchids are collected widely in Asia Minor for use in the traditional product salep. Destructive harvesting and overexploitation of fragile populations has forced traders to tap into new resource areas ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2015-01-01 till 2017-12-31

Det här projektet undersöker vilka miljöfaktorer som styr produktionen av matsvamp i västra Afrika. Matsvamp utgör ett viktigt tillskott till maten för stora delar av befolkningen och samlande och försäljning ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2017-01-01 till 2020-12-31

Most of our timber producing trees are depending on a root associated symbiosis with fungi called ectomycorrhiza (ECM). ECM communities usually containing only a few stand forming trees but hundreds of ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2012-01-01 till 2014-12-31

The aim of the project is to produce sequence data in order to address both long-standing and novel questions regarding the evolution of early land plants. Our three interrelated questions include i) a ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2014-01-01 till 2017-12-31

The eukaryote tree of life is a central paradigm in evolutionary biology. A new root for the eukaryote tree identifies the little known Discoba as one of its earliest branches. We have sequenced the genome ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2012-01-01 till 2015-12-31

The impact of large-scale environmental alteration on mammalian biodiversity is poorly understood, especially in Australasia, where many native marsupial lineages are experiencing high rates of extinction ...

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

The framework of string compactifications is of undisputed importance to connect string theory to the physics of our world, and has promoted progress in fields ranging from quantum gravity and cosmology ...

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

The Fukaya category is a powerful invariant of exact symplectic manifolds in the form of an A-infinity category, the objects of which consist of (a suitable class of) its Lagrangian submanifolds, while ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2014-01-01 till 2016-12-31

Farmers in the Southern Tanzania have associated an unidentified macro-fungus with cashew tree wilting for more than three year by now. The fungus was first noted by cashew growers in Mtwara; then in their ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2015-01-01 till 2018-12-31

The spread of farming practices has had a marked influence on how humans are distributed around the globe today. The expansion of Bantu-speaking farmers from west Africa to the whole of sub-Saharan Africa ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2013-01-01 till 2016-12-31

This project studies the mathematical models arising from a variety of imaging techniques. These problems are formulated mathematically as "inverse problems" where one deduces information about the differential ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2017-01-01 till 2020-12-31

Conserved quantities are important in various areas of physics, as in many cases they provide an essential characterization of a physical system. However, to define the mass, center of mass, angular and ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2015-01-01 till 2018-12-31

This project is in the area of Theoretical and Mathematical Physics. The main emphasis is on the development of new geometrical ideas and concepts originating from the modern string theory and the quantum ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2012-01-01 till 2014-12-31

This project is in the area of Theoretical and Mathematical Physics. The main emphasis is on the development of new geometrical ideas and concepts originating from the modern string theory and ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2014-01-01 till 2016-12-31

During the past decade there has been an important development of the mathematical tools available for high-energy physics. I have participated in and contributed to this development of Generalized Complex ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2015-01-01 till 2018-12-31

This research project aims to study several related topics in higher dimensional Auslander-Reiten theory. Classical Auslander-Reiten theory is an important tool in representation theory of associative ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2015-01-01 till 2017-12-31

In Tanzania, medicinal plants are an important source of primary healthcare. Molecular identification of plant material is an expressed critical interest for the research capacities at the Institute of ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2015-01-01 till 2017-12-31

In Tanzania, medicinal plants are an important source of primary healthcare. Molecular identification of plant material is an expressed critical interest for the research capacities at the Institute of ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2013-01-01 till 2013-12-31

More than thirty years ago a result derived in the context of superspace supergravity indicated that even the most promising supergravity candidate had problems when viewed as a model for quantum gravity ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2018-12-01 till 2021-12-31

The main purpose of this project is to further the understanding of exact Lagrangian manifolds in symplectic manifolds, and understand the relations to quantum physics. We propose the following specific ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2015-01-01 till 2018-12-31

The present project proposal employs high-throughput sequencing to assemble genomes and transcriptomes of several Bryophyte species in order to resolve long standing issues on the evolution of early land ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2015-01-01 till 2018-12-31

Mathematical morphology (MM) is a widely-used framework for efficient processing and analysis of images. Linear filters, according to the Nyquist-Shannon sampling theory, are not affected by the sampling ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2018-01-01 till 2021-12-31

The tree of life is a central paradigm in evolutionary biology. Our data strongly support the little known Excavata as a paraphyletic assemblage including the eariest branches of eukaryotes. This is a ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2013-01-01 till 2016-12-31

Symplectic and contact geometry has its roots in the mathematical description of mechanics. Its modern development was initiated in the early 1980´s with conjectures by Arnold and then shaped by Gromov ...

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

Over the last 35 years, the study of the role of geometric and topological aspects of fundamental physics in gauge theory and strings has been a central theme in both theoretical physics and in geometry ...