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indianadiez.bsky.social
Super happy to be approved as a @scilifelab.se Group Leader 🤩

Looking forward to bringing #ancientDNA, #museomics, and #conservation to the mix, and very excited for new networking and funding opportunities.

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SciLifeLab welcomes new Group Leaders
On February 11, the SciLifeLab Board approved over two hundred SciLifeLab Group Leaders, marking an important step in strengthening the national research community. This follows the launch of SciLifeL...
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February 12, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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“I feel very proud every time I see an article published using data we at NGI helped generate” says Elísabet Einarsdóttir, project coordinator at @scilifelab-ngi.bsky.social.

Full interview ↓🧪
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#ResearchInfrastructure
SciLifeLab Voices - Elísabet Einarsdóttir
NGI project coordinator Elísabet Einarsdóttir tells us a bit about her role and work in this latest edition of the SciLifeLab Voices.
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February 20, 2025 at 10:05 AM
milocco.bsky.social
🚨 We're hiring!
PhD position in Evolutionary Systems Biology at Stockholm University & SciLifeLab

🎓 Focus: evolution, development, computational & mathematical modeling, prediction
📍 Stockholm, Sweden
🕒 4 years, fully-funded
🔍 Details: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Please share!
August 25, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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🌱 On this year’s #BiodiversityDay, five SciLifeLab researchers share how their work is helping us better understand – and protect – the living world around us. 🧪🌏

Full article ↓
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Close-up of SciLifeLab researcher Gabriela Montejo-Kovacevich with a butterfly on her nose. The logo of the International Day for Biological Diversity is also visible
May 22, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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SciLifeLab researchers Maliheh Mehrshad (SLU) and Camilla Engblom (@ki.se) appointed Wallenberg Academy Fellows ↓ 🧪

“This program gives researchers the chance to pursue high-risk, high-gain research ideas” – @mehrshmali.bsky.social

Q&A ↓
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@kawresearch.bsky.social
Long-term funding to SciLifeLab researchers: “a huge boost and game-changer to starting a lab”
SciLifeLab researchers Maliheh Mehrshad and Camilla Engblom are appointed Wallenberg Academy Fellows, and receive five-year basic research grants.
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December 8, 2025 at 12:09 PM
mafaldaferreira.bsky.social
Stockholm University is hiring three assistant professors in the broad field of Biodiversity. Positions would be SciLifeLab fellows with a generous starting package. #AssistProf #SciLifeLab #Biodiversity #AcademicJobs #Evolution #Genomics #StockholmUniversity
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Assistant Professor in Biodiversity (up to three positions)
at the Department for Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, the Department of Environmental Science, the Department of Geological Sciences, the Department of Physical Geography or the Department of
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November 12, 2024 at 10:53 AM
science.org
For solving a 50-year mystery by uncovering the machinery behind BMP, a molecule with protective effects against various disorders, Uche Medoh is the winner of the 2025 Science & SciLifeLab Prize for Young Scientists.

🎉 Learn more about the work: https://scim.ag/4qVpK1a
Uche Medoh
November 13, 2025 at 8:34 PM
cpgsthlm.bsky.social
🦣 🤯 🦣 🤯 🦣

Video of woolly mammoth leg discovered in the Siberian permafrost!

Researchers from #CpgSthlm and SciLifeLab have now, for the first time ever, identified signatures of gene activity in frozen mammoth remains!

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November 16, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Why is it important to include sex and gender in #DrugDiscovery and development? 🧪

Sara Mangsbo: SciLifeLab researcher & @uu.se Professor;
Sophia Ivarsson: gender and innovation expert at Vinnova;
Irena Loryan: @uu.se Associate Professor

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#IWD2025 #AccelerateAction #WomenInStem
Experts: It is important to include SEX AND GENDER in drug discovery and development
YouTube video by SciLifeLab
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March 8, 2025 at 6:27 AM
tuuliel.bsky.social
This is super cool science, empowered by our infrastructure team at @scilifelab-ngi.bsky.social @scilifelab.se !
February 12, 2026 at 6:40 PM
carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social
Great piece on @arcinstitute.org investigator and former @stanford-chemh.bsky.social CBI graduate program alum @uchemedoh.bsky.social, winner of the 2025 Science & SciLifeLab prize 🏆 👏
science.org Science Magazine @science.org · Nov 13
For solving a 50-year mystery by uncovering the machinery behind BMP, a molecule with protective effects against various disorders, Uche Medoh is the winner of the 2025 Science & SciLifeLab Prize for Young Scientists.

🎉 Learn more about the work: https://scim.ag/4qVpK1a
Uche Medoh
November 14, 2025 at 4:57 PM
heilemannlab.bsky.social
Sebastian Bauer @sebjbauer.bsky.social from SciLifeLab Stockholm @juliettegriffie.bsky.social reporting #SMLMS2025
August 29, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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“Optogenetics has revolutionized how we study the brain”. Hear insights into this year’s @nobelprize.org in Physiology or Medicine from SciLifeLab Fellow @iskrapollak.bsky.social and SciLifeLab electrophysiology expert Nina Ottosson ↓ 🧪

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Insights into the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
"As an electrophysiologist, I'm especially excited to see a Nobel Prize that puts ion channels in the spotlight. It is a remarkable example of how fundamental research can lead to breakthroughs that c...
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October 5, 2026 at 12:31 PM
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Are you a recent Ph.D. graduate? Apply for the Science & SciLifeLab Prize for Young Scientists.

The $30,000 grand prize will be awarded for outstanding research in cell and molecular biology, genomics, ecology, or molecular medicine.

Apply by 15 July: https://scim.ag/4lUpKMN
Science & SciLifeLab Prize for Young Scientists
This Prize was created to recognize that global economic health is dependent upon a vibrant research community and we need to encourage our best and brightest to continue in their chosen fields of res...
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June 25, 2026 at 9:05 PM
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“We love #microscopy and thanks to the infrastructures at SciLifeLab we can develop new methods and establish original views on human #CellBiology” says Bennie Lemmens (SciLifeLab & @ki.se) 🧪

Image: #SuperResolutionMicroscopy image of replicating human epithelial cell with two nascent #DNA labels
The image shows a microscopy image of a replicating human epithelial cell with two different nascent DNA labels in cyan and magenta, which was imaged with super resolution microscopy (3D-SIM) at the SciLifeLab Advanced Light Microscopy unit.
February 14, 2025 at 9:48 AM
metalichen.bsky.social
⚡️Fully funded #PhD position in my lab at Stockholm University / SciLifeLab! If you’re interested in #lichens, #symbiosis, fungal biology, or meta-omics, please apply. Deadline Feb 1. Read more here: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Black field with a macro image of a bright orange lichen Xanthoria in one of the corner. Little diagrams showing a structure of a lichen thallus with different layers in grey and green, a phylogenetic tree, and an alphafold generated structure of a protein. White text says "PhD position in Stockholm University / SciLifeLab. Lichen Biology, Symbiosis, Microbial Ecology & Evolution,Meta-omics Fully funded for 4 years. Start Apr-Sep 2026. Deadline for application: Feb 1st."
January 12, 2026 at 2:15 PM
kinglhung.bsky.social
Honored to receive the Science & SciLifeLab Prize! Very grateful to all my mentors and colleagues. I wrote an article in @science.org about my PhD thesis research on extrachromosomal DNA at Stanford @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
November 14, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Congratulations to all newly elected members of The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences with SciLifeLab Director Jan Ellenberg and SciLifeLab Group Leader Sara Hallin among them 👏🧪

@ki.se
February 19, 2026 at 12:07 PM
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@erc.europa.eu Starting Grants awarded to SciLifeLab Fellows and DDLS Fellows — for projects ranging from the immune system’s role in #fertility and pregnancy to computational models of #AlzheimersDisease. 🧪

More about the projects ↓
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@kawresearch.bsky.social
SciLifeLab and DDLS Fellows awarded ERC Starting Grants for 2025
SciLifeLab Fellow Erik Benson - Karolinska Institutet, as well as DDLS Fellows Jacob Vogel and Camila Consiglio - Lund University researchers and Fellows of the SciLifeLab & Wallenberg National Progra...
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September 4, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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José Cerca (@naturalselection.bsky.social) and Anabella Aguilera, Scientific Coordinator at the SciLifeLab Planetary Biology Capability, on pressing #ecology issues & why scientific conferences matter – at the Swedish Oikos Meeting 2025 🌍🧪↓

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@nordicoikos.bsky.social
Pressing issues within ecology & why scientific conferences matters – from our community members
YouTube video by SciLifeLab
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February 6, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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SciLifeLab drug discovery expert Per Arvidsson explains the @nobelprize.org in chemistry 2026 for asymmetric synthesis chemistry. 🧪

The prize rewards fundamental research that demonstrates how life on earth theoretically could become “homochiral”.

Read more ↓
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October 8, 2026 at 8:59 AM
soreklab.bsky.social
Congratulations to Sorek lab alumnus Nitzan Tal, who won the prestigious 2025 Science & SciLifeLab prize for the best PhD thesis in Systems Biology! 💫

Read her Prize Assay, published in the journal Science today

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

@nitzantal.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 6:33 PM
gmkov.bsky.social
Interested in applying for a 3-year postdoc fellowship co-funded by Marie Curie and SciLifeLab / me? See our research lines here gmontejokovacevich.wordpress.com/research/ and get in touch! www.scilifelab.se/research/pul... @animecol-uu.bsky.social @scilifelab.se

Some mobility rules apply
PULSE
SciLifeLab PULSE: Program for Future Leaders in Life Science SciLifeLab PULSE is a comprehensive postdoctoral program, that will train 48 future leaders in life sciences. PULSE focuses on innovative, ...
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January 23, 2025 at 11:55 AM
adameur.bsky.social
The Genome of Europe project has started!🎉 For the next 3.5 years I’ll be involved in GoE activities in Sweden, including a new effort on long-read sequencing🧬🧪 Exciting times ahead!! @scilifelab.se @scilifelab-ngi.bsky.social www.scilifelab.se/news/sweden-...
Sweden and SciLifeLab Contribute to the Genome of Europe
The most extensive EU-funded program on population genomics to date, “Genome of Europe” (GoE), has officially launched. The project will deliver a resourceful database for research and future clinical...
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December 5, 2024 at 10:26 AM
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(1/3) Have you started your application for the SciLifeLab PULSE Fellows Program yet? This 36-month #PostDoc program is designed to empower diversity in science and equip researchers with the skills, network, and experience to thrive in academia or industry. ⬇️🧪🌍🖥️🧬⚒️

www.scilifelab.se/research/pulse
PULSE
SciLifeLab PULSE: Program for Future Leaders in Life Science SciLifeLab PULSE is a comprehensive postdoctoral program, that will train 48 future leaders in life sciences. PULSE focuses on innovative, ...
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February 18, 2025 at 9:07 AM