Research Programmes at the Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology
1. Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
- Johan Åqvist: (programme director): Beräkningsstrukturbiologi och biokemi
- Bengt Persson: (head of department): Medical Bioinformatics
- David van der Spoel: Method development in computational biology and studies of viral infections and environmental toxins
- Hugo Gutierrez de Teran: Protein-ligand binding, Membrane receptors
- Jan Komorowski: (senior professor): Bioinformatics
- Jens Carlsson: Structure-based drug design
2. Microbiology and Immunology
- Fredrik Söderbom: (programme director): Small regulatory RNAs in social amoebae - functions during development and infection
- Anders Virtanen: (director of studies first cycle (doctoral)) RNA PolyA /Exoribonuclease/Function
- Erik Holmqvist: Bacterial small RNA
- Gerhart Wagner: (professor emeritus) Regulatory RNA in bacteria- biological functions and mechanisms of action
- Jon Jerlström-Hultqvist: Symbiotic mechanisms in protists living in oxygen-depleted environments
- Lars Hellman: (professor emeritus) Allergy/vaccines
- Sandra Kleinau: Immunology and autoimmunity
- Sanna Koskiniemi: (director of studies first cycle (undergraduate)) Understanding bacterial interactions
- Staffan Svärd: (deputy vice-rector, deputy dean) Parasitic protozoa - biology and disease mechanisms
3. Molecular Biology
- Anthony Forster: (program director): Synthetic biology and protein folding
- Gerrit Brandis: Protein synthesis and evolutionary dynamics
- Jyoti Chattopadhyaya: (professor emeritus) RNA directed therapeutics and diagnostics
- Leif Kirsebom: (professor emeritus): RNA catalysis and mycobacteria
- Måns Ehrenberg: (professor emeritus) Protein synthesis – from mechanisms to systems biology
- Suparna Sanyal: (professor and director of third cycle education): Protein synthesis and protein folding- mechanisms, disease and biotechnology
4. Molecular Biophysics
- Filipe Maia: (program director): Reconstruction of flash diffraction imaging
- Inger Andersson: (professor emerita) Plant biochemistry
- Janos Hajdu: (professor emeritus) Flash diffraction imaging with X-ray lasers
- Kenta Okamoto: Photosynthesis and photosynthetic carbon fixation
- Michael Landreh: Understanding protein interactions through Native Mass Spectrometry
- Peter Kasson: Membrane fusion and influenza virus
- Sebastian Deindl: Molecular mechanisms of nucleic acid-interacting protein machines
5. Molecular Evolution
- Siv Andersson: (program director): Microbial genomics
- Courtney Stairs: Evolutionary cell biology
- Jan Andersson: Large-scale sequencing and comparative genomics
- Jennifer James: Population genetics and proteomics
- Lisa Klasson: Symbiotic bacteria in eukaryotic cells
6. Molecular Systems Biology
- Johan Elf: (program director): Systems biology studies of gene regulation and intercellular
- Daniel Jones: Gene regulation, horizontal gene transfer, CRISPR-Cas system
- Magnus Johansson: Bacterial protein synthesis using biochemical and single-molecule fluorescence methods
7. Structural Biology
- Stefan Knight: (program director): Structure and function of biological macromolecules
- Anna Sundborger-Lunna: Structure-function of membrane remodeling proteins
- Julia Griese: Metal homeostasis in an actinomycete model organism
- Marco Marcia: Structure and function of large non-coding RNAs
- Maria Selmer: (pedagogical leader for basic education) Structure and function with protein synthesis and protein evolution
- Sherry Mowbray: (professor emerita) Protein structure/function relationships, enzyme catalysis, drug design