Department of Molecular Sciences

News

21 June 2018 Department of Molecular Sciences Ievgen Pylypchuk recieved award for outstanding poster Ievgen Pylypchuk, who works as a post doc at the Department of Molecular Sciences, has recieved the Dalton Transactions Outstanding Poster Award at the 1st National Meeting of the Swedish Chemical Society in Lund 17-20 June 2018.
18 June 2018 Department of Molecular Sciences New postdoc will investigate bioactive compounds From June 2018, Viktoriia Burkina joined the Department of Molecular Sciences at SLU as a postdoctoral researcher. Viktoriia received her PhD in the University of South Bohemia in Ceske Budejovice in 2014 on the topic “Pharmaceuticals in the aquatic environment and their effects in fish”.
31 May 2018 Department of Molecular Sciences Networking in Kazakhstan for research on improved food quality During April 2018, SLU external collaboration specialist in food quality from the Department of Molecular Sciences, Galia Zamaratskaia, visited Baitursynov’s Kostanay State University in Kazakhstan, networking with researchers within animal management and food science.

About us

The Department was formed in January 2017 from the Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, The Department of Food Science and The Department of Microbiology.

The Department conduct research in the fields of inorganic chemistry, physical chemistry, organic chemistry, natural products chemistry, molecular biogeochemistry and molecular biology. We isolate, characterize and commercialize a wide spectrum of bacteria, archaea, yeasts and filamentous fungi as well as their metabolites. Our research is also directed towards an increased understanding about microbial complexity and its function in different environments and in response to different treatments. We investigate the composition and properties of our most common foods, and explores how these are affected by different factors in the food value chain, from raw material to consumer product. Our research considers composition, structures and properties of the most common foods of animal as well as plant origin.

Or work is often performed in collaboration with industrial partners and has resulted in several patents and tech companies.

The department is part of the cluster Uppsala BioCenter.

Collaboration

We often collaborate with industrial partners and have two External Collaboration Specialists at the Department, specialising in Bioenergy and Food Quality.

Lennart Kenne's memorial fund

The Fund distributes two travel grants annually to PhD students or postdocs working on projects within natural product chemistry, mainly focused on structure determination.