Our funding
List of funding grants received
2024: Synergy grant from the European Research Council – “STARMORPH” (10 million EUR – coordinator – shared among 4 principal investigators – 2.8 million EUR for S. Robert group)
2024: Grant from the Swedish Research Council, Vetenskapsrådet – “Coordination of cell shape acquisition in plants” (4.1 million SEK – Main applicant)
2024: KBC interdisciplinary post-doctoral fellowship from the Carl Kempe foundation (one post-doctoral position and 300 000 SEK in running costs – Main applicant)
2024: Marie-Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral fellowship – Vinod Kumar (222 727.68 EUR- Host laboratory)
2023: Financial support from the Carl Kempe foundation to acquire a C-Trap optical tweezers (6 million SEK – Co-applicant)
2023: Grant from the Carl Kempe foundation – Excellence of Choice program (one post-doctoral position, 600 000 SEK – Main applicant)
2022: Grant from the Carl Kempe foundation (JCK-1912.1, one post-doctoral position, 600 000 SEK – Main applicant; JCSMK22-0096)
2022: Grant from K & A Wallenberg foundation – “FATE” (32.3 million SEK – Main applicant; 2022.0029 – shared among 5 principal investigators)
2022: Grant from the Carl Tryggers foundation (one post-doctoral position, 684 360 SEK – Main applicant; CTS 21:1344)
2022: Financial support from the Chemical Biological Centre (KBC), Umeå University, for the UPSC Microscopy Facility (200 000 SEK)
2021: Package associated with S. Robert’s professor position at SLU (includes 300 000 SEK a year for 3 years, two 2-year post-doctoral positions, one permanently employed researcher)
2021: Grant from the Swedish Research Council, Vetenskapsrådet – “Molecular mechanisms regulating shape acquisition in plants” (3.8 million SEK – Main applicant)
2019: Grant from the Carl Kempe foundation (JCK-1912.1, one post-doctoral position, 600 000 SEK – Main applicant)
2019: Grant from the K & A Wallenberg foundation (one post-doctoral position, 814 000 SEK – Main applicant)
2018: Grant from the Olle Engkvist Byggmästare foundation (one post-doctoral position, 600 000 SEK – Main applicant)
2018: Grant from the Carl Kempe foundation (INUPRAG post-doctoral position, together with Dr. Benjamin Peret, 540 000 SEK – Main applicant)
2018: Financial support from the Carl Kempe foundation to acquire an epifluorescence microscope (JCK-1812; 1 million SEK – Main applicant)
2018: SLU Infrastructure Grant (5,3 million SEK – Main applicant) – HighReso: imaging high resolution, to acquire a confocal microscope
2018: Mobility Grant, Wenner-Gren Stiftelserna, 40 000 SEK
2017: Grant from the Olle Engkvist Byggmästare foundation (one post-doctoral position, 600 000 SEK – Main applicant)
2017: Grant from the Carl Tryggers foundation (CTS 17: 379: experimental cost – Crystal analysis of binding between a newly discovered signaling molecule and its target protein, 111 000 SEK – Main applicant)
2017: Grant from the Carl Kempe foundation (SMK 1732, one post-doctoral position, 600 000 SEK – Main applicant)
2017: Financial support from the Carl Kempe foundation to acquire a confocal microscope (2,5 million SEK – Main applicant)
2016: Grant from the Swedish Research Council, Vetenskapsrådet – “Molecular mechanisms regulating shape acquisition in plants” (3.1 million SEK – Main applicant)
2016: SLU Infrastructure Grant (4,9 million SEK – Main applicant) – PlantScreen: high throughput phenotyping
2015: Berzelii support (585 000 SEK – Main applicant; co-applicant Thomas Moritz) – for industrial collaboration project with SweTree Technologies
2015: Grant from the Carl Tryggers foundation (one post-doctoral position, 331 500 SEK – Main applicant)
2015: Grant from the Swedish Research Council, Formas – “Improving Norway spruce root system architecture for sustainable forestry” (3 million SEK – Co-applicant)
2014: Grant from the Carl Kempe foundation (SMK 1441, one post-doctoral position, 540 000 SEK – Main applicant)
2014: Grant from the Olle Engkvist Byggmästare foundation (one post-doctoral position, 600 000 SEK – Main applicant)
2013: Berzelii support (250 000 SEK – Main applicant) for industrial collaboration project with SweTree Technologies (STT 250 000 SEK) (450 000 SEK total)
2013: Grant from the Carl Tryggers foundation (one post-doctoral position, 306 600 SEK – Main applicant)
2012: SLU “quality grant” (research grant of 1 million SEK per year for two years – Main applicant)
2012: Coordinator of a grant from the Carl Kempe foundation – 2-year post-doctoral fellowship for the Chemical Biological Centre (KBC), Umeå University, in collaboration with Fredrik Almqvist (LCBU, 480 000 SEK – Main applicant)
2012: Grant from the Swedish Research Council, Vetenskapsrådet – “Unraveling the mechanisms controlling cell wall biosynthesis and deposition during cell elongation” (4.2 million SEK – Main applicant)
2012: Grant from K & A Wallenberg foundation – “ShapeSystems – Systems Biology of Plant Cell Shape” (31.3 million SEK) – Grant coordinated by Markus Grebe and shared between 6 principal investigators
2011: Financial support from the Carl Kempe foundation to acquire an Intavis Insitu Pro VSi immunolocalization robot (560 000 SEK – Main applicant)
2011: Grant from the Carl Tryggers foundation (one post-doctoral position, 306 600 SEK – Main applicant)
2011: Grant from the Laboratories for Chemical Biology Umeå (LCBU), Umeå University (one post-doctoral position, 504 000 SEK – Main applicant)
2011: Berzelii new support (202 500 SEK – Main applicant)
2010: Grant from the Carl Kempe foundation (one post-doctoral position, 444 000 SEK – Main applicant)
2010: 50% of a 4-year graduate student position from the Berzelii centre
2010: Package associated with S. Robert’s assistant professor position at SLU (including 300 000 SEK, 50% of a 4-year graduate student position and a 2-year post-doctoral position)