SLU launches large-scale fish tracking – aiming to provide new insights about fish in the Baltic Sea
SLU has deployed 80 acoustic receivers along two lines in the Baltic Sea. By listening for signals from tagged fish, the receivers will reveal migration routes and uncover new insights on life beneath the waves. This is important for both research and management of fish in the Baltic Sea.
From new faces to lifelong friends
Discover the experiences of exchange students and learn how SLU becomes their home away from home, as shared by SLU’s student ambassador, Wisdom Ezechi.
A day of high-tech and agriculture at SLU
On June 12, 2025, a symposium about digital agriculture and forestry was held at SLU. Around 140 researchers, students, professionals and decision-makers gathered to share groundbreaking technological developments, through lectures, posters and field demonstrations.
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News and events
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The protein that helps seedlings straighten
Seedlings bend their tip as they grow through soil, then straighten when they reach light. Scientists from Umeå have, after years of challenging research, identified a protein that promotes this straightening by regulating cell growth through the plant hormone auxin. -
12 million SEK for unique research project: Can relocated trees save the forests of the future?
Swedish forests face major challenges as the climate changes. To prepare for the future, Formas has now awarded 12 million SEK over four years for a research project on assisted migration of tree species. -
SLU’s first eel survey in the Nyköpingsån aims to provide knowledge about the eel’s future
Hydropower plants and dams pose major obstacles for the critically endangered European eel. Now researchers from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) want to find out how eels in the Nyköpingsån are affected if the water is allowed to flow more freely. -
Digital tools are reshaping our relationship with birds
Apps, cameras, and social media make it easy to start birdwatching, but they also raise many questions. How do new technologies affect birdwatching itself: how it is carried out, experienced, and who takes part?
Research
Most recently published projects
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Boosting the reproductive performance of Arctic charr using high-throughput sequencing technologies
The project will identify the main causes affecting male fertility and assess to which degree they explain the low reproductive performance in Arctic charr farmed in Sweden. Multiple parameters will be explored, such as age, sampling time during the spawning season, and genetics. Read more below. -
Brachycephal Airway Obstructive Syndrome (BOAS)
Brachycephalic Airway Obstructive Syndrome (BOAS) is a common upper airway condition in brachycephalic dogs, i.e. dogs with an extremely blunt nose, such as Pugs, English and French Bulldogs.
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How medicine residues in water affect young salmon
Imagine you are a young salmon making a long and dangerous journey from the river to the sea. -
Mapping bird flu risks will prevent future outbreaks
Since 2020, bird flu has affected around twenty food-producing poultry farms in Sweden, leading to the death or culled of nearly 2.4 million poultry. -
Pests and pathogens cause devastation in nature reserves
It may be tempting to perceive damaged forests as primarily a problem for the forest owner or the industry. A factor affecting price on wood, but of limited importance to society.