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 (senior professor): Protein synthesis – mechanisms to systems biology
• Forster, Anthony: Synthetic biology and protein synthesis
• Kirsebom, Leif (senior professor): RNA catalysis and mycobacteria
• Sanyal, Suparna (program leader): Protein synthesis and protein folding - mechanisms, disease and biotechnology

4. Molecular biophysics

• Andersson, Inger (professor emeritus): Plant biochemistry
• 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

• Deindl, Sebastian: Molecular mechanisms of nucleic acid-interacting protein machines
• 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