News

04.2024 – Alizée is giving a talk at the Eastern Regional Photosynthesis conference in Woods Hole, USA.

03.2024 – Aurélie is giving a talk at the French Society of Photosynthesis meeting in Paris, France.

12.2023 – Congrats Pierrick on successfully defending your PhD dissertation with your opponent Stefano Caffarri! Bravo Dr. Bru!

11.2023 – Pierrick nails his thesis to a wooden board in the library of Umeå University! A Swedish tradition, learn more here ~

10.2023 – Lab reluctantly says farewell to Aurélie and wishes her all the best in her new position in France!

09.2023 – Aurélie is giving a talk at the 22nd Congress of the French Bioenergetics Group in Bédoin, France.

09.2023 – Alizée is a panel member for a discussion on career opportunities at the 12th SPPS PhD conference in Lund, Sweden.

08.2023 – It’s official! The lab will move to Indiana University, Bloomington in April 2024.

07.2023 – Alizée is giving a talk at the Gordon Research Conference on Photosynthesis in Newry, USA.

07.2023 – Pierrick & Alizée are giving talks at the European Photosynthesis Workshop in Lautrach, Germany.

07.2023 – Paola is presenting a poster and Aurélie is giving a talk at Plant Biology Europe in Marseille, France.

06.2023 – Pierrick, Paola, Aurélie & Ahmet are presenting posters at the 16th Nordic Photosynthetic Congress in Umeå, Sweden.

05.2023 – Congratulations Jingfang for upcoming accepted bio-protocol and another very special experiment! Welcome little one!

04.2023 – Paola & Alizée are presenting at the SSF center meeting, SciLife Lab in Stockholm.

03.2023 – Welcome to master student Ahmet Gökçebel from Umeå University, Sweden.

02.2023 – Alizée is giving a talk at the 3rd INUPRAG symposium in Umeå, Sweden.

02.2023 – Aurélie is giving an online talk for the Big Quantum Bio seminar serie organized by University of Surrey and UCLA.

01.2023 – The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research came to Umeå for a site visit of our research center, see here.

10.2022 – Welcome to PhD student Yuka Fukushi from Tokyo Tech, Japan.

09.2022 – Pierrick’s article, together with Fleming & Niyogi’s groups, on LHCII as qH site, is now published! Read it here.

09.2022 – Alizée receives the Early Career Prize from the Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society. Thank you! See interview here.

08.2022 – Congratulations Pierrick for his poster award at the 18th International Congress on Photosynthesis Research!

07.2022 – Jingfang’s article, together with Mei Li’s group, on SOQ1 structure/function is now published! Read it here.

05.2022 – Jingfang is giving an online talk at the Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Photosynthesis research.

04.2022 – Alizée and Robbie become parents of a human progeny 😉 Welcome little one!

03.2022 – Welcome to Erasmus+ PhD student Fadime Demirel from Akdeniz University, Turkey.

02.2022 – Our mobility grant application for internationalisation from STINT to enable visits between Mei Li’s group and ours got funded!

02.2022 – Check out Alizée’s PNAS commentary about oxidation of chloroplast enzymes by thioredoxin-like proteins.

01.2022 – Alizée’s got tenure!

12.2021 – Lab says farewell to Jianli, wishing her & family all the best in their new positions in Maryland.

11.2021 – We started a Photosynthesis PREreview community and are posting public reviews on preprints, see here and here.

10.2021 – Congrats Pierrick for his poster award at the 15th Nordic Photosynthetic Congress! See this post here or here.

10.2021 – Alizée is giving a talk at the 15th Nordic Photosynthetic Congress in Gothenburg, Sweden.

09.2021 – Welcome to postdoctoral researchers Aurélie Crépin and Paola Puggioni.

08.2021 – Alizée & Robbie appear in an article from the French business magazine L’Usine Nouvelle about Sweden’s attractiveness for foreign researchers!

07.2021 – Our manuscript on qH LHCII site and photophysical mechanism is posted on bioRxiv!

06.2021 – Warm congratulations to Ahmet, Alexander, Julie & Yolande for passing their exams!

05.2021 – Welcome to researcher Jianli Duan.

04.2021 – Our first preprint, about SOQ1 structure, is posted on bioRxiv!

03.2021 – Welcome to master student Yolande Provot from Montpellier University, France.

03.2021 – Alizée is giving an online talk at the Institute of Biology, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

01.2021 – Welcome to bachelor student Ahmet Gökçebel from Umeå University, Sweden.

01.2021 – Welcome to master student Alexander Johansson from Umeå University, Sweden.

12.2020 – Our research is featured in a holiday-themed news piece from Umeå University.

11.2020 – Our first paper from Umeå is online! Congrats Pierrick & Sanchali, check it out here.

11.2020 – Alizée is giving an online talk at Chemical Biological Center (KBC) days from Umeå University.

11.2020 – Welcome to bachelor student Esteban Duneau from Aix-Marseille Université, France.

10.2020 – Alizée is giving an online talk at the Dept. of Biology, University of Waterloo, Canada hosted by Laura Hug.

09.2020 – Pierrick & Alizée are giving talks at the 11th SPPS PhD student conference hosted online from Turku, Finland.

09.2020 – Welcome to master student Julie Guerreiro from Umeå University, Sweden.

06.2020 – Welcome to bachelor student Johanne Adam from Magistère Européen de Génétique, Paris University, France.

06.2020 – Our research center together with Åsa Strand, Paul Hudson and Alexey Amunts has been granted funding by the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research, thank you! Announcement here and more information here or here.

05.2020 – Congrats Johan on his master thesis investigating SOQ1 redox function.

02.2020 – Cindy’s paper is published! Learn all about ROQH1 here.

01.2020 – Welcome to master student Johan Svensson from Umeå University, Sweden.

12.2019 – Congratulations now Dr. Cynthia Amstutz on her PhD dissertation from the Niyogi lab at UC Berkeley, USA!

11.2019 – Alizée is giving a talk at Okayama University, Japan hosted by Yuichiro Takahashi.

11.2019 – Alizée is learning about redox biochemistry with Keisuke Yoshida at Toru Hisabori’s lab Tokyo Tech, Japan.

10.2019 – Congratulations to Pierrick and Sanchali for their poster award at the International Congress on Biophysics of Photosynthesis in Rome, Italy!

08.2019 – Jingfang and Pierrick are presenting posters at the Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society meeting.

08.2019 – The Malnoë lab welcomes new doctoral student, Sanchali Nanda, from IISER Bhopal, India.

08.2019 – Welcome to Erasmus+ student Eva Szczyrbová from Palacky University Olomouć, Czech Republic.

07.2019 – Jingfang is giving a talk at the Gordon Research Seminar on Photosynthesis in Newry, USA.

06.2019 – Congrats Jingfang for receiving a travel stipend from the Kempe foundation to attend the Gordon Research Seminar on Photosynthesis.

05.2019 – The Malnoë lab welcomes new doctoral student, Pierrick Bru, from Université Montpellier, France.

05.2019 – Alizée is an evaluator for Gunvor Røkke’s PhD thesis from PhotoSynLab at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway.

05.2019 – Our lab is hosting Markita Landry from UC Berkeley for a cutting-edge seminar, see this post & follow her lab here!

03.2019 – A big thank you to the Faculty of Science and Technology of Umeå University for funding our equipment grant: we’re getting LED panels and a chlorophyll fluorescence imager from JBeamBio! More here.

02.2019 – Alizée is participating to the SPPS Early Career PI meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark.

02.2019 – Alizée is awarded a Marie Skłodowska Curie Action Individual Fellowship – Reintegration panel, thank you! More information here.

12.2018 – The Malnoë Lab welcomes its first postdoctoral researcher, Jingfang Hao, from Université Paris-Sud Orsay, France.

11.2018 – Our lab is awarded a starting grant from the Swedish Research Council Vetenskaprådet, thank you! Read more here or here.

11.2018 – Alizée is giving a talk at the International Symposium on Photosynthesis and Chloroplast Biogenesis in Kurashiki, Japan.

05.2018 – Our lab is awarded a starting grant from the Faculty of Science and Technology of Umeå University, thank you!

05.2018 – Invited review on qH is published! Read it here. Thanks Barbara Demmig-Adams for this invitation, the nice discussion and feedback.

04.2018 – Alizée is giving a talk at the French Society of Photosynthesis meeting in Paris, France.

03.2018 – A big thank you to the Kempe Foundation for funding our equipment grant: we’re getting a JTS+laser! More here.

02.2018 – Alizée is giving a talk at the SE2B Congress on Nanoscale Dynamics of the Thylakoid Pigment-Protein Complexes in Turku, Finland.

02.2018 – Our publication on the discovery of LCNP involvement in qH has been recommended by Faculty 1000! https://f1000.com/prime/732292392

01.2018 – The Malnoë Lab opens in the Dept. of Plant Physiology at Umeå University.