New #plantscience publication out now from IceLab affiliate @treesandgrowth.bsky.social, also including work from IceLab affiliate Jun Yu and IceLab alums Bertold Mariën and Alexander Vergara. Read the article & learn about boosting poplar growth while preserving seasonal adaptation. 👇🌱

Maria E. Eriksson @treesandgrowth.bsky.social · 4d ago

Delighted to share the results of years of work on modulating GA levels in #trees, made possible with a little help from molecular clockwork⏰ #PlantSci Biotechnological adaptation of high-yielding, gibberellin-overproducing Populus trees to seasonal growth patterns academic.oup.com/jxb/article/...

Come joins us at @umeauniversitet.bsky.social as #assistantprofessor in #machinelearning!

Tommy Löfstedt@tommylofstedt.bsky.social · 2w ago

Come work with us! An assistant professor position is open in #machinelearning within the Northern Star Fellows Programme at @umeauniversitet.bsky.social. Do you have a stellar CV? Contact me and I'll help you apply! Read more here: umu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

What influences which scientific papers make it through editorial and peer review? 15:00 CEST Oct 5, @aaronclauset.bsky.social joins IceLab online to discuss an analysis of 110,303 submissions to @science.org & Science Advances. Register for the zoom link: www.umu.se/en/events/ic...

IceLab Seminar: Editorial and peer review with Aaron Clauset

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IceLab and @umeaplantsciencecentre.se interdisciplinary postdoc @gasconelsa.bsky.social presented at the 2026 Sainsbury Laboratory Symposium. Elsa is a computational biologist whose research focuses on the interplay between tissue topology and mechanical stresses during plant morphogenesis. 👏

Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)@slcuplants.bsky.social · 6d ago

Elsa Gascon from @umeaplantsciencecentre.se introduced at #SLS26 a novel representation of multilayered tissues based on simplicial complexes, which captures cell layers while remaining fully compatible with biomechanical modelling. Find out about Elsa's research: www.umu.se/en/staff/els...

🧵 When bacteria are stressed, RNA doesn’t always tell the whole story. New research in @pnas.org from @umeauniversitet.bsky.social shows that the relationship between mRNA and protein can weaken under stress — particularly for genes responding to osmotic stress. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

#träd #tajming #höst @strategiska.bsky.social⏰🍂https://se.linkedin.com/posts/stiftelsen-f%C3%B6r-strategisk-forskning-ssf_hur-vet-tr%C3%A4den-n%C3%A4r-det-%C3%A4r-dags-att-sluta-activity-7504106939862347777-7ehN?utm_source=li_share&utm_content=feedcontent&utm_medium=g_dt_web&utm_campaign=copy

Hur vet träden när det är dags att sluta växa och tappa sina löv? Vi ringde Maria Eriksson, universitetslektor på Umeå universitet, och lät henne förklara. I korthet handlar det om två faktorer:… | St...

Hur vet träden när det är dags att sluta växa och tappa sina löv? Vi ringde Maria Eriksson, universitetslektor på Umeå universitet, och lät henne förklara. I korthet handlar det om två faktorer: kriti...

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🦠 Bacterial gene expression is not a reliable proxy for protein levels, at least not under stress. Our new paper in PNAS shows how far mRNA and protein diverge, across three pathogens and 10 stress conditions. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #Pathogen #RNA #protein #MachineLearning

“We are really good at solving problems, but we are not equally good at identifying the problems.” Meet Yanjun Zan, new group leader at IceLab & @umeaplantsciencecentre.se, bridging experimental and computational plant science 🌱 www.umu.se/en/feature/p... #plantsky #scisky

Predicting how plants respond to their environment

How do genetic differences shape plant responses to the environment? Yanjun Zan aims to predict them.

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Just ten days left to apply to join our Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Fellows! #phdsky #complexity #complexsystems #postdocjob

IceLab@icelabumu.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🚨 NOW SEEKING POSTDOCS 🚨 The call for IceLab Interdisciplinary Postdoc Fellows funded by Kempestiftelserna is open until Sept 17 2026! 3 postdocs will join teams working at the interface of theory, computation, & experiment. #Postdoc #ComputationalBiology #ComplexSystems #InterdisciplinaryResearch

What can physics tell us about how we age? On 17 October, IceLab’s Ludvig Lizana, newly installed Professor of Physics at @Umeå University, gives a 20-minute public lecture on bringing physics and cell biology together to understand biological ageing. 🕘 09:00 | In English | Open to everyone #scicomm

Daylight matters! Here is my popular science talk on trees earlier this year in Copenhagen #ConferenceDLA🌲🌳⏰https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZefLZmbZL54

Nature‘s clock: How trees sense daylight and adapt to seasonal timing

YouTube video by Daylight Academy

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Congratulations @laurabacete.bsky.social on your early career award! If you are interested in a #postdoc in #plantscience using #modelling to uncover cell wall dynamics in algae working with Laura & others, apply here: www.umu.se/en/work-with...

Three multidisciplinary postdoctoral scholarships (2 years)

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Laura Bacete@laurabacete.eurosky.social · last mo.

Thrilled to receive the Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society (@plantspps.bsky.social) Early Career Award 2026 at #SPPS2026! Deeply grateful to the Society and to everyone who has supported my research on plant cell wall integrity signalling along the way 🌱🏆

Welcome to IceLab, Andrew Magee! 🧬 Andrew joins @umeauniversitet.bsky.social as a new #DDLS Group Leader, using evolutionary modelling to read the history of disease transmission encoded in pathogen genomes – and make phylodynamics more useful for epidemiology. Read more: www.umu.se/en/news/read...

Reading the history of epidemics in pathogen DNA with Andrew Magee

Reading the history of epidemics in pathogen DNA: Andrew Magee joins MIMS

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Looking for an #interdisciplinary #postdoc in a supportive and intellectually stimulating environment? Look no further! One month left to apply for one of three #postdocfellowship in IceLab - apply by September 17: www.umu.se/en/icelab/ca... #scisky #phdsky #postdocsky #complexsystems

Icelab Multidisciplinary Postdoctoral Programme

IceLab supports researchers to launch and land new collaborative projects that cross disciplines by funding a shared multidisciplinary postdoctoral fellow. The fellowship programme is made possible by...

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IceLab@icelabumu.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🚨 NOW SEEKING POSTDOCS 🚨 The call for IceLab Interdisciplinary Postdoc Fellows funded by Kempestiftelserna is open until Sept 17 2026! 3 postdocs will join teams working at the interface of theory, computation, & experiment. #Postdoc #ComputationalBiology #ComplexSystems #InterdisciplinaryResearch

Proud to announce that PANORAMA just came out in @plos.org Computational Biology🧬 Paper: journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol... Code: github.com/labgem/PANOR... Docs: panorama.readthedocs.io/latest/ #Bioinformatics #Pangenomics #ComparativeGenomics #Microbiology #OpenScience 🧵 Here's what it does 👇

LABGeM@genolabgem.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🧬 We're thrilled that PANORAMA has been published! An open-source method to predict & compare biological systems across bacterial pangenomes. Built on PPanGGOLiN, it runs at #pangenome scale in minutes vs. hours for genome-by-genome tools. 📄 doi.org/10.1371/jour... @jpjarnoux.bsky.social

Hydrology Paper of the Day @grocherros.bsky.social @icelabumu.bsky.social on a global increase in atmospheric methane starting in the 2020s and a subsequent reduction by 2023: spatial and temporal changes due to climatology; inland waters; La Niña effects; and variability not captured by models.

IceLab@icelabumu.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Read the original paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🧪VACANCY: Computational biologist, modeller or biophysicist? Join Laura Bacete @cellwalldynamics.com and Christiane Funk in an interdisciplinary @icelabumu.bsky.social postdoctoral project exploring cell wall sensing in the microalga Chlorella vulgaris. Apply by 17 Sept👇 www.umu.se/en/work-with...

Three multidisciplinary postdoctoral scholarships (2 years)

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🚨 NOW SEEKING POSTDOCS 🚨 The call for IceLab Interdisciplinary Postdoc Fellows funded by Kempestiftelserna is open until Sept 17 2026! 3 postdocs will join teams working at the interface of theory, computation, & experiment. #Postdoc #ComputationalBiology #ComplexSystems #InterdisciplinaryResearch

🎉 🔚 That's a wrap on the 2026 IceLab Lunch Pitch season! Thank you to all the speakers for bringing your research, problems, opportunities, ideas and collaborative sparks. We hope you all found a new insight, and perhaps new connections.

@icelabumu.bsky.social in Umeå is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Computing Science (ML focus). Start your own group in a genuinely interdisciplinary lab. Awesome science, fantastic people. Deadline Aug 10, 2026. www.umu.se/en/work-with...

Assistant Professor in Computing Science with a focus on machine learning - linked to IceLab’s Center for modeling adaptive mechanisms in living systems under stress

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Why don't the strongest plants always win? A new study shows that soil microbes can help weaker plant species persist, promoting coexistence rather than exclusion. Ecology & modelling came together to uncover the mechanism. 🌱🦠📊 www.umu.se/en/news/why-... #EcolSky #AcademicSky #SciSky #EcologyLetters

Why do rival plants coexist?

Researchers have discovered that trees can act as mediators that balance competition between plants

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Last chance to apply to join IceLab Camp! Apply by midnight on the 10th of June to join us. #AcademicSky #PhDSky #PostdocSky

IceLab@icelabumu.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Join IceLab Camp! An international 2 ECTS course for early career researchers wanting to explore interdisciplinary science. The course is free & brings you to the forests of northern Sweden for creative thinking, teamwork and proposal writing. #PhDLife #PostdocLife #ECRchat #ComplexityScience

📢 We're hiring! Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Computing Science (Machine Learning) at IceLab, Umeå University. Interdisciplinary science, collaborative culture, mentorship, scientific freedom, and life in northern Sweden. 🔗 www.umu.se/en/work-with... #AcademicSky #MachineLearning #AcademicJobs

“What if failure isn’t a personal shortcoming, but a structural feature of academic life?” In @ecrLife, Dr Marina Cano and Dr Rosa García‑Periago discuss "Women, Failure and Academia." buff.ly/S7tRd9o?utm_...

🧵1/ Plant physiologist Barbora Pařízková at @umeaplantsciencecentre.se had a research problem with auxin. Auxin is a key plant hormone involved in root development among other things. Because it is so essential, it is difficult to isolate the effects of individual auxin pathways experimentally. 🌱🔬

"If 100 people apply for one job, 99 will fail" –and it's not random who those 99 are. Great interview on women, failure, and who academia sometimes feels built for 👇

eLife@elife.bsky.social · 4mo ago

“What if failure isn’t a personal shortcoming, but a structural feature of academic life?” In @ecrLife, Dr Marina Cano and Dr Rosa García‑Periago discuss "Women, Failure and Academia." buff.ly/S7tRd9o?utm_...

Today we had the pleasure to listen to the lecture for King Carl XVI Gustaf professorship at SLU. The king visited Umea and we were ready! Ove Nilsson and @rootsofthenorth.bsky.social gave lectures in addition to James Kirchner. @umeaplantsciencecentre.se was well represented!

New research from Stress Response Modeling at IceLab and UPSC researcher Yanjun Zan 👇 #plantsky #plantphysiology 🌱🔬

Umeå Plant Science Centre@umeaplantsciencecentre.se · 4mo ago

🧪🌾PAPER - How can we better predict plant performance across environments? 🌍 Yanjun Zan and colleagues present MMGS, a framework integrating genetics, environment, and their interactions for multi-environment breeding trials. 🧬 Read more in Horticulture Research: academic.oup.com/hr/article/1...

🧪🌾VACANCY - PhD position in Functional Genomics of Conifers🧬 Interested in combining molecular biology, genomics and bioinformatics in conifer research? Join Nathaniel Street’s group and investigate gene regulation in spruce & pine. Apply by June 30👇: www.umu.se/en/work-with...

PhD position in Plant Science with focus on functional genomics of conifers

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We are recruiting a #postdoc in #bioinformatics! If you are passionate about #gutmicrobiome analyses, data-driven approaches and #guthealth, please have a look at our offer: umustipendie.varbi.com/en/what:job/... #DataScience #MicrobiomeSky #MicroSky #CSMicrobiome2026