WELCOME TO UPPSALA BIOLOGY

Biology is at the core of life sciences and is a discipline presently characterized by rapid development and potential. The ability to decode the complete genetic material of living organisms opens up tremendous possibilities toward understanding the evolution and function of life forms. This provides guidance on how biodiversity is formed and can be sustainably maintained, and gives essential insight into basic molecular processes that are necessary for developing, for example, new medical treatments.

Building on the tradition of Linnaeus, biology is one of the strongest scientific disciplines at Uppsala University. This is testified by a high success rate in competitive funding and publication, including housing two Centres of Excellence sponsored by the Swedish Research Council’s Linnaeus grant program. In addition, a number of highly competitive international awards have recently been given to young Uppsala biologists, like European Research Council Starting Grant and European Young Investigator Award.

Biology research at Uppsala University is organized into 20 different research programs, each led by a Chair and including faculty and a PhD education program. The breadth of biological subdisciplines represented forms a major strength as it offers a venue for cross-disciplinary research and provides students with a plethora of advanced courses. Several programs amalgamate into a Department, which is the main administrative unit of the Faculty of Science and Technology. Physically, one department if located at the Biomedical Centre (BMC), shared with departments from the Faculties of Medicine and Pharmacy, and three departments form the Evolutionary Biology Centre (EBC).

Undergraduate education at basic (bachelor) and advanced (master) levels is organised by Biology Education Centre. Our section offer three master programs - Biology, Applied Biotechnology and Bioinformatics. The Biology program contains eleven specialisations in e.g. Cell and Molecular Biology, Ecology and Conservation, Evolutionary Biology, Ecotoxicology, Immunology and Infection Biology and Structural Biology and Biophysics. Biology Education at our section has recently recieved significant recognition in the Excellence Ranking of the Centre for Higher Education Development, by the Swedish National Audit Office, by the Centre for Higher Education Development (Germany) and at a local level, by obtaining the Uppsala Student Union’s award for best education centre in Uppsala in 2008. We wish you very welcome to share this exiting time in science with us here at Uppsala University, as a student, post-doc or professor!

Hans Ellegren
Dean of Biology


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Departments Department of Cell and Molecular Biology Department of Ecology and Evolution Department of Evolution, Genomics and Systematics Department of Physiology and Developmental Biology Biology Education Centre Research Programs Animal Ecology Bioorganic Chemistry Comparative Physiology Computational and Systems Biology Developmental Biology Environmental Toxicology Evolutionary Biology Evolutionary Functional Genomics Evolutionary Organism Biology Limnology Microbiology Molecular Biology Molecular Biometry Molecular Biophysics Molecular Evolution Molecular Immunology Physological Botany Plant Ecology Population and Conservation Biology Structural Biology Systematic Biology	WELCOME TO UPPSALA BIOLOGY Biology is at the core of life sciences and is a discipline presently characterized by rapid development and potential. The ability to decode the complete genetic material of living organisms opens up tremendous possibilities toward understanding the evolution and function of life forms. This provides guidance on how biodiversity is formed and can be sustainably maintained, and gives essential insight into basic molecular processes that are necessary for developing, for example, new medical treatments. Building on the tradition of Linnaeus, biology is one of the strongest scientific disciplines at Uppsala University. This is testified by a high success rate in competitive funding and publication, including housing two Centres of Excellence sponsored by the Swedish Research Council’s Linnaeus grant program. In addition, a number of highly competitive international awards have recently been given to young Uppsala biologists, like European Research Council Starting Grant and European Young Investigator Award. Biology research at Uppsala University is organized into 20 different research programs, each led by a Chair and including faculty and a PhD education program. The breadth of biological subdisciplines represented forms a major strength as it offers a venue for cross-disciplinary research and provides students with a plethora of advanced courses. Several programs amalgamate into a Department, which is the main administrative unit of the Faculty of Science and Technology. Physically, one department if located at the Biomedical Centre (BMC), shared with departments from the Faculties of Medicine and Pharmacy, and three departments form the Evolutionary Biology Centre (EBC). Undergraduate education at basic (bachelor) and advanced (master) levels is organised by Biology Education Centre. Our section offer three master programs - Biology, Applied Biotechnology and Bioinformatics. The Biology program contains eleven specialisations in e.g. Cell and Molecular Biology, Ecology and Conservation, Evolutionary Biology, Ecotoxicology, Immunology and Infection Biology and Structural Biology and Biophysics. Biology Education at our section has recently recieved significant recognition in the Excellence Ranking of the Centre for Higher Education Development, by the Swedish National Audit Office, by the Centre for Higher Education Development (Germany) and at a local level, by obtaining the Uppsala Student Union’s award for best education centre in Uppsala in 2008. We wish you very welcome to share this exiting time in science with us here at Uppsala University, as a student, post-doc or professor! Hans Ellegren Dean of Biology	News 2010-01-07 When ribosomes produce protein in all living cells, they do so through a chemical reaction that happens so fast that scientists have been puzzled. Using large quantum mechanical calculations of the reaction center of the ribosome, Johan Åqvist's group at Uppsala University has now provided the first detailed picture of the reaction. The findings are published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2010-01-07 Today, Prof Per Ahlberg, together with colleagues from Poland, presents the earliest known fossil footprints of land vertebrates in the leading journal Nature. The footprints, which are about 395 million years old and come from Zachelmie Quarry in Poland, show that land vertebrates evolved much earlier than had been thought. [link to article] 2010-01-07 Together with partners in Groningen, Munich, Montpellier and Harvard, Biology at Uppsala University now launch MEME (the Erasmus Mundus Master Programme in Evolutionary Biology). This research oriented master programme offers scholarships for talented students from the whole world. Students will start the programme at Uppsala or Groningen and will spend at least one semester at a partner university. [more news]

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