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 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

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 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 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

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 ...

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 2020-07-01 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 ...

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

In this project we will address the fundamental question of how the genetic information in DNA codes for rates of binding and unbinding, by using p53 - DNA binding as a model system. To answer this question ...

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

Oxygen is essential for the health of lake ecosystems, but global climate warming may severely deplete oxygen concentrations by increasing microbial respiration rates and stifling atmospheric exchange. ...

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

To accelerate CO2 fixation, cyanobacteria encapsulate Rubisco and carbonic anhydrase within a protein organelle called the carboxysome. This provides Rubisco with a high concentration of CO2 and protects ...

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

Scandinavia was assembled by collision of multiple continental blocks during billions of years. While its eastern part is the oldest, Scandinavia was expanded by younger mountain building events in the ...

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

Owing to its lightweight, fibrous structure, high electrical conductivity and mechanical integrity, carbon fiber paper has been widely used as multifunctional substrate and has led to state-of-the-art ...

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

This project historicises institutions studying climate change during the second half of the twentieth century and their role in reinterpreting and politicising the concept of ‘climate’. I focus on the ...

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

Emergent phenomena, such as insulator to metal transitions, magnetism and superconductivity, often occur in materials where many degrees of freedom are strongly coupled to each other. To understand, and ...

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

The function of microbial ecosystems is often dependent on symbiotic interactions between microbes. Such interactions are critical for essential biogeochemical processes such as global carbon, nitrogen ...

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

Currently there are no effective treatments that can cure metastatic breast cancer and therefore patients diagnosed with metastatic disease have an extremely poor prognosis. A critical program underlying ...

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

Last year marked the emergence of DNA sequencing-based microscopy: methods to produce optics-free microscopic images by encoding spatial information in DNA sequence format prior to recovering that information ...

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

In this project we are concerned with degenerate parabolic equations and their applications to AI.This project has two directions. The first direction concerns boundary comparison principles, specifically ...

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

Sexual dimorphism (SD) is central for biodiversity and genome evolution. SD is ubiquitous across taxa despite the fact that the shared genome imposes a conflict over independent evolution in the sexes. ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2019-01-01 till 2024-12-31

What factors determine when the UN decides to intervene to stop civilians from being harmed? And what determines the type of response? This project focuses on these questions by examining the interplay ...

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

Studies in ecotoxicology traditionally focus on exposing organisms to a single stressor, for example, a chemical. But rarely does the resulting data provide the predictive power to understand the outcome ...

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

A subject is epistemically uncertain when she is uncertain about, e.g., what she knows, what she is justified in believing, or what her evidence supports. This project is a study of epistemic uncertainty ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2019-01-01 till 2024-12-31

Gauge theories describe the fundamental subnuclear forces; in work by the applicant and collaborators this class of theories was shown to possess a deep mathematical structure that correlates spacetime ...

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

According to the Liberal Principle of Legitimacy – a highly influential view among liberal political philosophers - normative political legitimacy requires justifiability to all citizens. In this project ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2019-01-01 till 2024-12-31

The identity of politicians affects which policies get selected, how well they are implemented, and who benefits from them. While this is intuitive for autocracies, in which rulers face few constraints ...

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

Rapid rates of global climate change emphasize the urgent need to predict how species will respond to these changes. This endeavor has direct implications for conserving biodiversity and maintaining ecosystem ...

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

Glaciers outside the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are at present, despite their small volume (200,000 glaciers on Earth. A range of remote sensing and in situ observations of surface conditions and ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2020-07-01 till 2023-06-30

Focusing on smuggling in the Nordic peripheries, this project examines how the smuggling of global goods and raw materials challenges how we think about globalization during the war-stricken period 1770 ...