We cordially invite you to attend the KBC DAYS 2025 conference with the main theme "Bridging Scales: from Quantum to Cosmos" on 11-12 November!
Registration deadline: 28 October 2025
28 October 23.59 - registration deadline for the KBC DAYS 2025.
22 October - deadline for PhD students to express their interest in presenting their projects.
28 October - abstract submission deadline for PhD students' presentations.
When: Tuesday, 11 November - Wednesday, 12 November 2025
Where: Carl Kempe salen (KB.E3.03) (MAP) and other locations at KBC
We invite you to participate in KBC DAYS, an annual interdisciplinary conference. This conference aims to foster collaborations between different departments and research centres affiliated with the Chemical Biological Centre, KBC, including departments from two faculties of Umeå University and the Faculty of Forest Sciences, SLU.
The scientific theme this year will be "Bridging Scales: from Quantum to Cosmos", providing a framework for discussions on different scales of scientific research and interpreting and using research results across scales and dimensions. We also wanted to highlight that this year is the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (IYQ 2025). We welcome you to listen to the keynote lectures and other presentations focused on the scientific theme of this year's KBC DAYS! We also hope that the local speakers can relate to this theme and start their talks by identifying the temporal and spatial scales at which their research operates.
We welcome newcomers, longer-term KBC residents and other curious researchers to learn or update themselves about the research infrastructures available at KBC and Campus Umeå, get to know more about their services and join the guided tours to their facilities or drop in to their "stations" to discuss potential projects!
You will also gain insights into what happened at KBC during the previous year by listening to exciting scientific talks from new faculty members of the KBC environment, awardees and researchers who received large grants in the past year, presentations by PhD students and activities organised by the Umeå Postdoc Society (UPS)!
As usual, the KBC DAYS will bring researchers from different departments and scientific disciplines together, offering numerous opportunities to network, participate in engaging discussions, and generate new ideas and collaborations!
Clarice D. Aiello, Founder of the Quantum Biology Ecosystem, CSO of the Quantum Biology Institute
Clarice is a quantum engineer interested in how quantum physics informs biology at the nanoscale. Born and raised in Brazil, Clarice obtained a Diplome d'Ingenieur in Physics from the Ecole Polytechnique in France and an M.Phil. in Physics from the University of Cambridge, Trinity College, in England; she received her Ph.D. from MIT in Electrical Engineering. She further held postdoctoral appointments in Bioengineering at Stanford, and in Chemistry at Berkeley.
Webpage: https://www.quantumbiology.org/
Sven Adler, Associate Professor, Department of Forest Resource Management; Division of Landscape Analysis, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)
Sven Adler – Associate Professor of Biology – studied mathematics and biology at the University of Rostock and then completed his PhD on the use of diatoms as bioindicators in paleoecology. After earning his doctorate, he joined the University of Kiel, where he supported PhD students in designing their studies and analysing their data, with a focus on marine birds and mammals in the North and Baltic Seas.
In the autumn of 2011, Adler began working at SLU in Umeå on the EU LIFE project MOTH – Monitoring of Terrestrial Habitats – working on a two-stage monitoring design to locate rare habitat types using remote-sensing data. In subsequent projects, he increasingly combined national monitoring datasets with remote-sensing products, applying different ecosystem-service frameworks and machine-learning methods. In collaboration with the Sámi Parliament and the Swedish Forest Agency, he produced in 2019 the first reindeer-lichen map for northern Sweden. Since 2021, Adler has led the National Alpine Vegetation Monitoring Project (NILSfjäll), where he is testing the integration of diverse remote-sensing platforms, novel field-work techniques (drones) and machine-learning methods to optimize filed data collection in the Swedish alpine environments.
Webpage: https://publications.slu.se/?file=pers/show&cid=307326
Stephanie Werner, Professor, Department of Geosciences, Centre for Planetary Habitability, University of Oslo
Webpage: https://www.mn.uio.no/geo/english/people/aca/phab/stephaw/
Time in the programme is Central European Time (CET), e.g. Stockholm, Umeå
Note! The programme is under construction, preliminary and subject to change
8.30 Registration and poster mounting
(Chairperson: Stefan Björklund)
9.00 Welcome
Stefan Björklund
Scientific Coordinator of KBC
9.05 Opening KBC DAYS 2025
Thomas Olofsson
Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Research, Umeå University
9.15 TBA
Annasara Lenman
National coordinator NDPIA, Department of Clinical Microbiology, Umeå University
9.25 KEYNOTE LECTURE I:
Clarice D. Aiello
Founder of the Quantum Biology Ecosystem, CSO of the Quantum Biology Institute
10.10 Coffee break
Chairperson:
10.40
10.55
11.10
11.25
11.40
12.00 Lunch break
Chairperson:
13.00 KEYNOTE LECTURE II: Integrating Environmental Ground Monitoring and Remote Sensing Using Machine Learning: Promising Advances and Key Challenges
Sven Adler
Department of Forest Resource Management; Division of Landscape Analysis, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)
13.45 Elevator talk presentations by PhD students (2 min each)
13.45
14.00 Poster presentations by PhD students and research infrastructures
and
Coffee
Chairperson:
15.00
15.15
15.30
15.45
16.00
16.15
16.30 Poster viewing and mingling before the dinner starts
18.00 Dinner
- Announcement of the PhD student presentation prize winners
- Announcement of photo contest winner
- Award ceremony for the KBC Ping-Pong Tournament winner
Chairperson:
8.30 Research support presentations
9.00-11.00 Programme organised by UPS
10.50 Short break
Chairperson: Linda Sandblad
11.00-12.00 Presentations by research infrastructures
12.00 Posters by Research Infrastructures
and
standing lunch
13.00 Guided tours to infrastructure facilities /drop-in discussions with infrastructure representatives
Chairperson:
13.30 KEYNOTE LECTURE III:
Stephanie Werner
Department of Geosciences, Centre for Planetary Habitability, University of Oslo
14.15
14.30 Coffee break
Chairperson:
14.45
15.00
15.15
15.15
15.30
15.45 Concluding remarks
Stefan Björklund
Scientific Coordinator of KBC
Information about and pre-registration for the various activities organised in the frame of this year's KBC DAYS will be available on this webpage soon. Stay tuned for the email and digital screen announcements!
Register by 6 October 2025.
Scientific Organisers
Stefan Björklund, Professor, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Scientific Coordinator of KBC, Umeå University
Anna Strandberg, Associate Professor, Department of Applied Physics and Electronics, Umeå University
Benedicte Albrectsen, Associate Professor, Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Umeå University
Lars-Anders Carlson, Associate Professor, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, and Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS), Umeå University
Madhusree Mitra, Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, SLU, and Umeå Postdoc Society (UPS)
Morgan Jones, Associate Professor, Department of Ecology, Environment and Geoscience, Umeå University
Nicolò Maccaferri, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Umeå University
Ryo Morimoto, Research Fellow, Department of Molecular Biology and Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS), Umeå University
Conference Organisers
Stefan Björklund, Professor, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Scientific coordinator of KBC, Umeå University
Anna Shevtsova, Communications Officer, KBC, Umeå University
Ingrid Söderbergh, Research coordinator, Umeå Centre for Microbial Research (UCMR), Umeå University
Irina Iakovleva, Research coordinator, Bio4Energy and Department of Chemistry, Umeå University
Ainhoa Querejeta, Coordinator, SciLifeLab Site Umeå
Anna Shevtsova, PhD, Communications officer, KBC
E-mail: info.kbc@umu.se, anna.shevtsova@umu.se
Tel. +46 (0)70 547 2672
Visiting Address: KBC-building, KB.J3(C3.25.25), Linnaeus väg 6, 90736 Umeå
