Research programmes at the department of cellular and molecular biology
1. Computational biology and bioinformatics
- Carlsson, Jens: Structure-based drug design, G protein-coupled receptors
- Gutierrez de Teran, Hugo: Protein-ligand binding, Membrane receptors
- Komorowski, Jan (senior professor): Bioinformatics
- Persson, Bengt: Medical bioinformatics
- van der Spoel, David: Computer simulations of molecular dynamics
- Åqvist, Johan (program leader): Computational structural biology & biochemistry
2. Microbiology and immunology
- Hellman, Lars: Allergy / vaccines
- Hinas, Andrea: Membranes and vesicles in RNA interference and RNA transport
- Holmqvist, Erik: Bacterial small RNAs
- Kleinau, Sandra: Immunology / autoimmunity
- Koskiniemi Sanna: Contact-dependent growth inhibition in bacteria and the use of armed probiotics in the prevention and/or treatment of infections
- Svärd, Staffan (dean of biology): Parasitic protozoa-biology and disease mechanisms
- Söderbom, Fredrik (program leader): Small regulatory RNAs in social amoebae - functions during development and infection
- Virtanen, Anders: RNA biology in eukaryotes
- Wagner, Gerhart (seniorprofessor): Bacterial regulatory RNAs - biological functions and mechanisms of action
3. Molecular biology
- Brandis, Gerrit: Protein synthesis and evolutionary dynamics
- Chattopadhyaya, Jyoti (professor emeritus): RNA-directed therapeutics and diagnostics
- Ehrenberg, Måns (professor emeritus): Protein synthesis – mechanisms to systems biology
- Forster, Anthony (program leader): Synthetic biology and protein synthesis
- Kirsebom, Leif (senior professor): RNA catalysis and mycobacteria
- Sanyal, Suparna: Protein synthesis and protein folding - mechanisms, disease and biotechnology
4. Molecular biophysics
- Andersson, Inger (professor emeritus): Plant biochemistry
- Deindl, Sebastian: Molecular mechanisms of nucleic acid-interacting protein machines
- Ekeberg, Tomas: Analysis algorithms to filter and combine large datasets
- Gunn, Laura: Photosynthesis and photosynthetic carbon fixation
- Hajdu, Janos (seniorprofessor): Flash diffraction imaging with X-Ray lasers
- Kasson, Peter: Membrane fusion and influenza virus
- Maia, Filipe (program leader): Imaging reconstruction
- Okamoto, Kenta: Photosynthesis and photosynthetic carbon fixation
5. Molecular evolution
- Andersson, Jan: Comparative genomics of protists
- Andersson, Siv (program leader): Microbial genomics
- Klasson, Lisa: Symbiotic bacteria in eukaryotic cells
6. Molecular systems biology
- Elf, Johan (program leader): Systems biology approach to intracellular kinetics and gene regulation
- Johansson, Magnus: Bacterial protein synthesis using biochemical and single-molecule fluorescence methods
- Jones, Daniel: Gene regulation, horizontal gene transfer, CRISPR-Cas systems
7. Structural biology
- Griese, Julia: Metal homeostasis in an actinomycete model organism
- Knight, Stefan (program leader): Structural determinants of fibrillar structures such as spider silk, bacterial adhesive fimbriae or amyloid
- Mowbray, Sherry: Protein structure/function relationships, enzyme catalysis, drug design
- Selmer, Maria: Structure and function in protein synthesis and protein evolution
- Sundborger-Lunna, Anna: Structure-function of membrane-remodeling proteins