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Major happenings 2023:
Paper out: Characterization of carfentanil and thiofentanil using SERS and density functional theory  (2023) Journal of Spectroscopy
Paper out:  Polydopamine-coated two-dimensional nanomaterials as high-affinity photothermal signal tag towards dual-signal detection of Salmonella typhimurium by lateral flow immunoassay (2023) Chemical Engineering Journal
Paper out:  Endospore pili - flexible, stiff and sticky nanofibers (2023) Biophysical Journal
Paper out: The F-pilus biomechanical adaptability accelerates conjugative dissemination (2023) Nature Communications
Paper out: A lab-on-a-chip utilizing microwaves for bacterial spore disruption and detection (2023) Biosensors and Bioelectronics
Paper out: Bioprinted Schwann and mesenchymal stem cell co-cultures for enhanced spatial control of neurite outgrowth (2023) Gels
Paper out: Design of a low-voltage dielectrophoresis lab-on-the chip to separate tumor and blood cells (2023) Microfluidics and Nanofluidics
Paper out: Hypervirulent R20291 Clostridioides difficile spores show disinfection resilience to sodium hypochlorite (2023) BMC Microbiology
Paper out: Three structural solutions for bacterial adhesion pilus stability and superelasticity  (2023) Structure
Paper out: Monitoring bacterial spore metabolic activity using heavy water-induced Raman peak evolution (2023)  Analyst
Paper out: Physico-chemical characterization of single bacteria and spores using optical tweezers  (2023) Research in Microbiology
Paper out: Fabricating a dielectrophoretic microfluidic device using 3D-printed moulds and silver conductive paint  (2023) Scientific reports
Paper out: A hybrid CNN-Random Forest algorithm for bacterial spore segmentation and classification in TEM images  (2023) Scientific reports
Preprint out: Evaluating Bacterial Spore Preparation Methods for Scanning Electron Microscopy (2023) ResearchSquare
Preprint out: Design and fabrication of a passive micromixer for synthesizing nanoparticles  (2023)
Preprint out: A community-curated, global atlas of Bacillus cereus sensu lato genomes for epidemiological surveillance (2023) bioRxiv 

Major happenings 2022:
We released a new ToxTrac software version (2.98): here
We received  10.2 MSEK in a collaboration project aimed at spore nanofibers.
We received funding for two postdocs from Kempestiftelserna.
Paper out: Archaic chaperone-usher pili self-secrete into superelastic zigzag springs (2022) Nature

Major happenings 2019-2021:
We received funding for a Park NX-Hivac AFM in a collaboration project.
We received funding via IceLAB for a postdoc aimed at image-processing of 3D tomography images.
Discovery at Umeå University awarded 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry! Info here
We received 3.4 million SEK from the Swedish Research Council, Vetenskapsrådet.
We received in a collaboration project, 24.5 million SEK for a project aimed at understanding the glymphatic system.