Research at Uppsala University
History of human antibiotic use written in the oral bacteria of wild brown bears
25 August 2021. An international team of researchers used historical museum collections to study the effects of huma ...
How research can encourage us to cycle instead
19 August 2021. How do you get to work in the mornings? Transport currently accounts for 25 per cent of GHG emission ...
Philippine ethnic group has most Denisovan DNA
13 August 2021. The Philippine ethnic group Ayta Magbukon has the highest proportion of genes from our extinct relat ...
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Here you will find all research projects at Uppsala University funded by the main Swedish funding bodies. The search feature is based on the SweCRIS database.
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Disciplining Fighters: Understanding Armed Political Actors’ Control of Sexual Violence
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Research project from 2016-01-01 to 2018-12-31
The ways that armed political actors prevent sexual violence remains an unresolved research puzzle. By questioning why some actors are able to discipline their fighters, this study will contribute to our ...
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Engineered scaffold proteins for radionuclide tumour targeting
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Research project from 2016-01-01 to 2019-12-31
A promising approach to treatment of disseminated cancer is a targeting, i.e. therapy based on specific recognition of cancer-associated molecular alteration in tumour cells. Success of the targeting therapy ...
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Swedish Caribbean Colonialism 1784–1878. Integrating, Classifying, Publishing and Investigating Dispersed Swedish Colonial Archives
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Research project from 2018-01-01 to 2022-12-31
Sweden’s possession of the Caribbean island of Saint Barthélemy (StB) is inadequately investigated. The Swedish Caribbean Colonialism 1784–1878 project (SweCarCol) integrates, orders and opens up important ...
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Genetics of platelet biogenesis and aggregation in humans and zebrafish, and relationship to cardiovascular disease
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Research project from 2016-07-01 to 2019-06-30
The overall aim is to understand platelet biogenesis, development and reactivity. The first two years of training will be in the host institute abroad, i.e., Framingham heart study (FHS), National Institutes ...
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"Parks around the Towers": Landscape as Resource in the Urban Periphery from the Record Years to the Future
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Research project from 2016-01-01 to 2020-12-31
Reversing a famous functionalist formulation – from “towers in the park” to “parks around the towers” – I study the construction, use, and transformation of outdoor spaces in suburbs from the Swedish Record ...
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"Queer and Transgender Reproduction with ART: Legal, Cultural and Socioeconomic Challenges"
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Research project from 2018-05-03 to 2018-05-04
Changes in the legal access to ART (Assisted Reproductive Technologies) for queer and transgender people in different countries have created both challenges and possibilities for reproduction of LGBTQ-people ...
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Spaces for variation? Towards a practice-based and spatial understanding of disability
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Research project from 2017-01-01 to 2019-12-31
This project aims at investigating the intersection of rurality and disability, more specifically how rural life is experienced from a disability perspective. We will find out where questions of the intersection ...
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3D Dynamical Models of Cool Giant Stars and their Dust-driven Winds
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Research project from 2016-01-01 to 2019-12-31
Cool giant stars are strongly affected by dynamical processes. Large-scale convective flows reach deeply into the stars, bringing newly produced elements such as carbon to the surface. Convection and pulsation ...
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4D Strain quantification in analogue models simulating compressional tectonic regimes
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Research project from 2018-01-01 to 2021-12-31
Converging plate boundaries are areas where upper crustal rocks are subjected to intense compressional deformation. Deformation (strain) resulting from this compression is partitioned in both space and ...
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A 1D Imaging SXES/RIXS Spectrometer at the XFEL SQS Station
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Research project from 2016-01-01 to 2019-12-31
Resonant inelastic soft X-ray scattering spectroscopy has several important features that makes is attractive for studies ranging from fundamental phenomena in atoms and molecules to the function of complex ...
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A Centralisation of Rulemaking in Europe? The Legal and Political Governance of the Financial Market
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Research project from 2017-01-01 to 2019-12-31
During recent years there have been striking changes in the patterns of rulemaking within the EU internal market. That can be seen, most obviously, in a shift of instruments for rulemaking; from directives ...
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A DNA origami single molecule trap to study self-inflicted heat shocks in enzymes
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Research project from 2017-07-01 to 2020-06-30
In this proposal, we aim to explore the uncharted interactions between the heat released from an exothermic enzymatic reaction, and the enzyme’s structure and function. To achieve this goal, we chose pyruvate ...
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A European DNA bank for deciphering the missing heritability of Alzheimer’s disease
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Research project from 2015-12-01 to 2018-11-30
Genetic factors account for up to 80% of the risk in Alzheimer’s disease (AD). The advent of genomic approaches (such as genome-wide association studies, GWASs) has led to the characterization of 26 genetic ...
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A Framework for Parallel Programming Specifications
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Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2018-12-31
This project is a direct continuation of the project "A framework for parallel programming models", to accommodate and verify a spectrum of high-level modeling languages. We formally established correctness ...
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A Light-Induced Route to New Sustainable Biocrudes for Lubricant Oils
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Research project from 2018-01-01 to 2020-12-31
The project aims at the development of a novel photochemical process for production of sustainable fossil-free lubricant oils from compounds obtained from Swedish biosources. For a variety of different ...
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A Novel Approach to Boundary Value Problems for Parabolic Equations and Systems
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Research project from 2018-01-01 to 2021-12-31
Parabolic equations and systems are indispensable models in mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, finance and in most engineering disciplines. These models appear in contexts involving time dependent ...
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A School in Crisis: Changing crisis discourses and unchanging figures of thought, 1950-2020
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Research project from 2018-01-01 to 2020-12-31
During the last decades, it has often been claimed that the Swedish school system is in crisis. These crises have led to a number of school reforms and a vast academic debate about the causes and solutions ...
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A Swedish Model of Administration? State level Agency Autonomy from a Multi-Dimensional Perspective
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Research project from 2017-01-01 to 2019-12-31
Governments today face complex problems such as migration and environmental threats, problems which cut across territorial and sectoral borders and are truly hard to handle. Politicans and scholars alike ...
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A citywide classroom: Time-space aspects of mobile preschool pedagogy
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Research project from 2016-01-01 to 2019-12-31
In contemporary Sweden, children increasingly grow up in urban environments. Simultaneously, spaces for children in the city – including (pre)school yard spaces – are decreasing which in children spending ...
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A community-based participatory intervention to change attitudes towards female circumcision among Somali immigrants in Sweden: a cluster-randomised controlled trial
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Research project from 2016-01-01 to 2018-12-31
Due to the harmful consequences of female circumcision (FC), this project will seek to decrease the support of its continuation among newly arrived Somalis in Sweden. The hypothesis is that a community-based ...
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A coupled geomorphological-biogeochemical model for process-based prediction of methane bubble emission from inland waters
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Research project from 2018-01-01 to 2021-12-31
Inland waters are a large source of methane (CH4) to the atmosphere, and ebullition, i.e. gas bubbles, is the dominating pathway of inland water CH4 emission. Ebullition is extremely stochastic in time ...
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A development platform for matrix based drug delivery
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Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2018-12-31
In this project we will establish and develop synthetic methods to construct in vivo targeting biomaterials using motives from, or extracellular matrix (ECM) components as macromolecular building blocs ...
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A digital antimicrobial stewardship smartphone application to combat AMR: the AB-assistant
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Research project from 2017-12-01 to 2019-12-31
Antimicrobials are an indispensable part of modern medicine. Improvement of antimicrobial use, in particular prevention of overuse of (broadspectrum) antibiotics, through antimicrobial stewardship (AMS ...
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A digital platform for computation of carbon budgets as well as simulation and co-creation of mitigation measures
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Research project from 2018-11-05 to 2019-07-01
Purpose and goal: The project aims to after step 3 having developed digital tool to calculate local climate goals in relation to national as well as the Paris agreement, inclusive of a local carbon budget ...
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A genome wide approach to replication initiation
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Research project from 2018-12-01 to 2021-12-31
At the core of this project is the question how a cell coordinates growth with DNA replication. We have recently shown that the bacterium E. coli does this by triggering replication initiation at a fixed ...
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A healthier population in Sweden through better conditions for research on biobanks and health data
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Research project from 2018-11-26 to 2019-08-31
Purpose and goal: The project aims to produce an efficient and secure method of combining biobank data with health register data for the benefit of academic and industrial research. A platform for ...
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A high-fidelity model of acoustic-gravity waves from volcanic eruptions
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Research project from 2018-01-01 to 2021-12-31
The present project focuses on high-fidelity mathematical and numerical models, in collaboration with Stanford University, to simulate infrasound from a wide range of volcanic activity. The first task ...
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A known midwife-the best treatment for childbirth fear? A randomised controlled trial
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Research project from 2016-01-01 to 2018-12-31
A significant proportion of health care resources are used for counseling support for fear of childbirth. Women are mostly satisfied with such counseling but the treatment has not shown any noticeable ...
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A new generation of permanent magnet generators for marine energy conversion
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Research project from 2016-06-01 to 2018-12-31
This project aims at using scientific methods to improve the design of slow moving, permanent magnet generators for marine energy conversion. The goal is to develop generators that have better performance ...
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A new perspective on French Historical Phonology - What loan words in Breton can tell us.
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Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2018-12-31
The project will attempt to shed new light on the history of French. In spite of at least 150 years of research, there are still many unsolved problems in French language history. This is particularly ...
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Helpline important for older people during the pandemic
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The national COVID-19 Data Portal turns one year old
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Lectures
Uppsala University’s researchers share their knowledge in public lectures. Every year, the University is visited by leading researchers and influential people from around the world. At Uppsala University, you can hear Nobel laureates, researchers, authors, politicians and many others give lectures. Here we present some of the most prominent, annually occurring lectures at Uppsala University.