Editing Umeå University (section)

===Research===
Umeå University has research departments and education in a broad range of academic disciplines, with more than thirty university departments conducting most teaching and research. Since the 1990s there are also several [[Umeå University#Research centers|research centers]], mostly local but some in partnership with other Swedish universities, such as the neighbouring [[Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences]] and [[Luleå University of Technology]].

The university is home to more than 2,000 researchers and teachers, many of them with international background. Important research areas include ageing and population studies, infections, and forest research.
* '''Ageing and population studies''' have access to the new and unique ''Linnaeus database'', which covers the entire Swedish population between 1960 and 2009. It links information from four existing databases, enabling researchers to find new connections between health, lifestyle and aging. The ''Demographic Data Base'' also gives access to extensive databases with [[population statistics]] from old Swedish [[Parish register|parish records]], dating back to the 18th century, and from 2012 a ''Department of [[Biobank]] Research'', providing data management for research in large biological sample collections collected since the 1990.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.biobank.umu.se/biobank/ |title=Welcome to the Department of Biobank Research - Department of Biobank Research - Umeå University, Sweden |website=Biobank.umu.se |date=2015-10-20 |access-date=2016-02-06}}</ref>
* '''The infection biology research''' focuses on [[microorganism]]s like bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites, and their molecular infection mechanisms – microbial pathogenesis and virulence. ''Umeå Centre for Microbial Research (UCMR)'', offer a qualified environment for the development of new strategies against infectious diseases.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.umu.se/sok/english/news-and-press-releases/newsdetail/infection-research-receives-continued-linnaeus-centre-funding-with-45-million-sek-during-the-second-five-year-period.cid236939 |title=Infection research receives continued Linnaeus Centre funding with 45 million SEK during the second five-year period - Search Facilities - Umeå University, Sweden |website=Umu.se |date=2014-06-17 |access-date=2016-02-06}}</ref> The centre also hosts ''[[Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden|The Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS)]]'', which is the Swedish's node in the ''Nordic [[EMBL]] Partnership for [[Molecular Medicine]]''.
* '''The forest research''' includes plant and forest biotechnology within the ''Umeå Plant Science Centre (UPSC)'' – a collaborative effort between the ''Department of Plant Physiology'' at Umeå University and the ''Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology'' at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), and one of the strongest research environments for basic plant research in Europe,<ref>{{cite web|author=Eva-Maria Diehl |url=http://www.upsc.se/about-upsc/news/4381-umea-plant-science-centre-receives-top-review-among-the-worlds-best.html |title=Umeå Plant Science Centre receives top review – "among the world's best" - Umeå Plant Science Centre |website=Upsc.se |date=2013-04-29 |access-date=2016-02-06}}</ref> known for its research relating to the genome of the [[Populus]] tree<ref name="pnas.org"/> and the [[Norway Spruce]]. The mapping of the spruce [[genome]], in collaboration with the Swedish ''SciLifeLab'', was the first complete sequencing of a [[gymnosperm]] and notable because it is seven times the size of the human genome, with some 20 billion base pairs.<ref name="nature.com"/>