GRANT. Dr. Johansson, a researcher at the Department of Medical Chemistry and Cell Biology, is a co-recipient of the 2014 Erna and Victor Hasselblad Foundation research grant for female scientists. Her research focuses on the protection provided by the bacteria that live in an impenetrable mucosal layer of the colon. Her ultimate goal is to set the stage for improved treatment of inflammatory bowel disease.
Protection of the mouse gut by mucus depends on microbes
SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATION. The quality of the colon mucus in mice depends on the composition of gut microbiota, reports a Swedish-Norwegian team of researchers from the University of Gothenburg and the Norwegian University of Life Sciences in Oslo. The work, published in EMBO reports, suggests that bacteria in the gut affect mucus barrier properties in ways that can have implications for health and disease.