Department of Molecular Sciences

News

05 October 2018 Department of Molecular Sciences Seminar in Alnarp on biological control with CBC's new operations group The Center for Biological Control, CBC, met in Alnarp 4–5 October. The center has a new operations group this fall, and the meeting therefore started with seminars on biological control research.
04 October 2018 Department of Molecular Sciences New collaboration between SLU and Kazakh National University in Kazakhstan An agreement on future collaboration has been signed by the Department of Molecular Sciences at SLU and the Kazakh National University in Kazakhstan. The aim of this collaboration is to promote internationalisation in both research and teaching, especially at master's and PhD student level.
03 October 2018 Department of Molecular Sciences Safety and quality of food was discussed in China The meeting of ISO/TC34/SC6 “Meat, poultry, fish, eggs and their products” was held from 11 to 14 September 2018, in Nanjing, China and brought together the experts from 9 countries. Sweden was represented by Associate Professor Galia Zamaratskaia from the Department of Molecular Sciences.

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.