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The Biology Doctoral Student Council (BDR) had meetings on 28 November. Among other things, they discussed an informal seminar series for PhD students, dates for the PhD event in 2024, and the guest lecture for 2024. You can find the minutes on our Swedish internal website.
Den 13 december klockan 13.15 har institutionsstyrelsen möte i Stora konferensrummet i Ekologihuset. Följande står på dagordningen:
Hej! My name is Antonis Myridakis, and I am a new PhD student at the Unit of Aquatic Ecology. I am thrilled to join Lund University and look forward to get to know and collaborate with everyone. I will be working with Emma Kritzberg as my main supervisor and Håkan Wallander and Dimitrios Floudas as co-supervisors, and our research will focus on understanding how fungal communities link land-use practices to mobilization of dissolved organic matter and iron, and subsequently surface water browning.
My academic background is in biology and bioinformatics, and for the past two years I have been working with fungi. I am enthusiastic about applying my existing skills and acquiring new ones throughout this research journey to successfully bring this project to fruition.
The Biology Doctoral Student Council (BDR) had meetings on 20 October. Among other things, they discussed the schedule for the 2024 PhD event, a seminar series about grant writing, and the PhD guide for new students. You find the minutes on our Swedish internal website.
Den 1 december klockan 13.15 har grundutbildningsnämnden möte i Stora konferensrummet i Ekologihuset. Följande står på dagordningen:
Den 20 oktober hade grundutbildningsnämnden möte. Då diskuterades bland annat CECs flytt, lokalanvändingen, utbildning/spår i biodiversitet, lärardag, åtgärdsförslag av vår utbildning, kurstilldelning, programråd och kursanalyser. Du hittar hela protokollet på vår internwebb.
Institutionsstyrelsen hade möte den 22 november. Då diskuterades bland annat ny enhetsorganisation, budget 2024 och uppdelningen mellan Biologi och den kommande enheten med Geologi, INES och CEC. Du hittar hela protokollet på vår svenska internwebb.
Den 25 oktober hade institutionsstyrelsen möte. Då diskuterade bland annat den nya enhetsorganisationen och budgeten för 2024. Hela protokollet hittar du på vår svenska internwebb.
Den 22 november klockan 13.15 har institutionsstyrelsen möte i Stora konferensrummet i Ekologihuset. Följande står på dagordningen:
Hi everyone!
My name is Daniel Gutierrez, I’m a new PhD student working with David O’Carroll on insect vision. I’m part of the Animal Physiology and the Vision Group.
I’m originally from Colombia, where I worked in entomology and with scorpions’ vision. I did my Master’s in ethology at Linkoping University. I ended up here in Lund three years ago to finish my master’s thesis, working on vision in wasps and stayed. I have worked with different arthropods from scorpions to dung beetles.
I’m excited to be here to work on a comparative study where I will measure and calculate the visual resolution of different insects.
I’m happy to be here and excited to meet you all!
Hi everyone. My name is Mikkel Skovrind and I have recently started as a MSCA postdoctoral fellow at LU. I see myself as a classical naturalist driven by a fundamental curiosity – with a state-of-the-art toolbox to help me answer fundamental biological questions of how, when and where the genomic patterns we can observe today arose.
My research investigates how environmental heterogeneity, habitat use, and adaptation have shaped patterns of intraspecific diversity across space and time in marine vertebrates. I combine population genomics, of both modern and ancient samples, with insights from ecology, physiology, and behavioural biology, to investigate when, where and how the variation we observe in the natural world arose.
I did my PhD and a four-year postdoc at the GLOBE Institute UCPH where I was working with Arctic whales, primarily belugas, investigating their evolutionary and demographic histories in a range-wide context. My research usually has a non-genetic component such as environment, ecological or phenotype data as I believe the inclusion of supporting data makes the impact of the genomic result much greater and helps put their implications in perspective.
At Lund University my research includes high-coverage genomes from freshwater and brackish water ecotypes of pike and perch from the western Baltic Sea region. For each species, three separate population pairs (one freshwater and one brackish water population) as well as an ancestral population from central Europe are included. This enables me to investigate whether genomic adaptations are parallel in function, time and space – within and between species.
In addition to a broad scientific reach, I want my work to matter, and to be relevant to society. Throughout my career, I have forged strong partnerships with institutions, that have used the findings of my research to guide conservation and policy. I believe that my work, on both Arctic whales and brackish water fish, will aid the long-term conservation of vulnerable populations and make a lasting impact on biodiversity and society as a whole. I have contributed my expertise to the North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission, the Danish professional working group on brackish water pike and perch (Rovfiskene tilbage til brakvandet) and consulted several Danish municipalities.
I am always open to collaborations, so please contact me if you think we could benefit from each other’s expertise.
Mikkel Skovrind
Den 22 september hade grundutbildningsnämnden möte. Då diskuterades bland annat utlåtandet från kvalitetsgranskningen, ekonomin, söktryck, ventilation, kursutbud, och kursanalyser. Hela protokollet finns på vår svenska internwebb.
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