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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Development of a proof of concept for a cell-based method for potency determination of Botulinum toxin
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Research project from 2019-12-01 to 2022-12-31
We will within this project develop a proof of concept assay to replace Botulinum Toxin type A (BoNT/A) testing in animals. Our assay is a cell based assay, based on human embryonic stem cells. These cells ...
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Earth´s past environmental crises: Large Igneous Provinces and sedimentary basins
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Research project from 2019-01-01 to 2022-12-31
Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) are of enduring interest to scientists and the general public because of their link to paleoclimate change, mass extinctions, evolution of life, and economic ore deposits ...
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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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Regional Carbon Budgets and the rapid transition to a fossil-free energy system
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Research project from 2019-01-01 to 2022-12-31
The four year project aims to facilitate Sweden’s transition to a 100% renewable energy system by defining required targets and processes. The temperature and equity framing of the Paris Agreement will ...
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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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The civilian dimension of peacekeeping operations and human rights promotion
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Research project from 2019-01-01 to 2022-12-31
United Nations (UN) peacekeeping operations have become one of the most prominent responses to civil wars around the world. The role of civilian personnel and their activities have proliferated during ...
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The Torrent Ahead: Algorithms for X-ray Lasers to Study Structure, Function and Dynamics
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Research project from 2019-01-01 to 2024-12-31
A new generation of superluminous X-ray free-electron lasers (XFEL) will deliver billions of exposures per day at intensities up to 100-times higher than intensities available from existing XFELs. The ...
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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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"Mamabies" among the Afro-Baloch community: Social status and cultural heritage of a low caste community in Iran
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Research project from 2019-01-01 to 2021-12-31
Proposed project is about songs sung by women for women during pregnancy, delivery and postpartum. I will call these songs "mamabies". Mamabies are recited in the Afro-Baloch community along the coast ...
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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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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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2019 workshop on New institutionalism in organization theory
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Research project from 2019-03-14 to 2019-03-16
This workshop brings together scholars from different disciplines, countries, and academic systems who share an interest in pushing forward theoretical and/or empirical frontiers of organizational institutionalism ...
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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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3D-nanoprinted supercapacitors
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Research project from 2019-01-01 to 2022-12-31
Supercapacitors belong to the top candidates for the next leap in energy storage technology, with better theoretical performance than the currently best batteries for applications in e.g. electric cars ...
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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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5G Network Performance: A Mathematical Optimization Perspective
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Research project from 2019-01-01 to 2022-12-31
Will 5G hold its promise? Whereas a huge amount of efforts is being devoted to addressing the question, the research falls short on understanding, characterizing, and improving network-level performance ...
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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 Fundamental Approach to Charge Transfer in Transition Metal 1D Coordination Polymer Materials
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Research project from 2019-01-01 to 2022-12-31
Charge transporting materials play a cruical role in one of the most active research areas: the development of molecular materials to facilitate the conversion of solar energy into electricity, fuels and ...
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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 Resource Efficient Society with sustainable processes for using the waste residue streams from pulp production to produce chemicals for electric energy storage based on reNEWable MATerials (RES-NEWMAT
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Research project from 2019-01-01 to 2023-12-31
The project has the aim of creating the scientific base for sustainable industrial processes for using the waste-residue streams from pulp production (annually consisting of ~400 Mtons of hemicellulose ...
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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 city-wide preschool yard? Challenges and possibilities for supporting inner city preschools´ mobility and space for play in dense urban environments
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Research project from 2019-12-01 to 2023-11-30
Public space has become less accessible to children. Research on children’s mobility and play shows a link between compact city policies, heavy traffic, a lack of nearby green and open recreational and ...
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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 cosmopolitan language: Hindustani in Surat - 300 years ago
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Research project from 2019-01-01 to 2019-12-31
Our project aims to produce a documentary film on the blossoming of a cosmopolitan language in one of the most vibrant cities in pre-colonial Asia around 1700 and its codification. We will illustrate how ...
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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 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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New method for discovery of antiviral drugs
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Helpline important for older people during the pandemic
8 July 2021. For many older individuals, the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in the loss of daily anonymous contac ...
The national COVID-19 Data Portal turns one year old
3 June 2021. The national Swedish COVID-19 Data Portal was launched one year ago to support researchers in utilis ...
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.