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
  
• Komorowski, Jan (senior professor): Bioinformatics
• Persson, Bengt: Medical bioinformatics
• van der Spoel, David: Computer simulations of molecular dynamics
• Åqvist, Johan (head of program): 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
• Jerlström-Hultqvist, Jon: Symbiotic mechanisms in protists living in oxygen-depleted environments
• 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 (head of program): 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 (head of program): 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
  
• Hajdu, Janos (seniorprofessor): Flash diffraction imaging with X-Ray lasers
• Kasson, Peter: Membrane fusion and influenza virus
• Landreh, Michael
• Maia, Filipe (head of program): Imaging reconstruction
• Okamoto, Kenta: Photosynthesis and photosynthetic carbon fixation

5. Molecular Evolution

• Andersson, Jan: Comparative genomics of protists
• Andersson, Siv (head of program): Microbial genomics
• Klasson, Lisa: Symbiotic bacteria in eukaryotic cells

6. Molecular Systems Biology

• Elf, Johan (head of program): 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 (head of program): Structural determinants of fibrillar structures such as spider silk, bacterial adhesive fimbriae or amyloid
• Marcia, Marco
• 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