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Grundutbildningsnämnden hade möte den 10 maj . Då diskuterades bland annat fördelningsmodellen, engelskspråkigt kandidatprogram i biomedicin, övergång till Canvas, Biologins dag, biblioteksundervisningen och studentrepresentanter, kursutbud, kurslitteratur, kursfordringar, betyg på kandidatexarbete, etik och kursutvärderingar.
Grundutbildningsnämnden har möte den 20 september klockan 13.15 i Stora konferensrummet i Ekologihuset. Följande står på dagordningen:
Hello! I am Kalle Nilsson and I just started as a PhD student at the Department of Biology, in the Evolutionary Ecology unit. My main supervisor is Anna Runemark, my co-advisor is Magne Friberg and as such I will be a part of the Evolutionary Ecology of Plant-Insect Interactions-lab. This spring I defended my MSc thesis in animal ecology here at the department, so many of you may have seen me around before. My BSc is from University of Oslo, and I also lived in Oslo for the better part of a decade.
My doctoral project will focus on the ecology and genetic architecture of host plant adaptation in the fly Tephritis conura, and its two Cirsium host plants; C. oleraceum and C. heterophyllum. During the last ice age, a subset of T. conura populations underwent a host shift from its ancestral host plant C. heterophyllum to a novel host plant C. oleraceum. I aim to study how such a shift in niche affects the coding genetic landscape of divergence between host races and combine that with morphometric measurements to investigate the phenotypic effects of host adaptation, as well as of sympatry with the other host plant races. Additionally, I will use evolvability measurements to investigate how the bottleneck in population size associated with the host shift may affect the adaptive potential of the species.
Other broad biological interests are insects, which I have liked since childhood and I am very pleased to be able to do a PhD which revolves around them. Outside of biology I enjoy music and will happily discuss local rock bands with you.
Hope to see you around!
I am Yun-Ting and I am starting my PhD studies in theoretical ecology with Mikael Pontarp as my main supervisor. We are going to explore further about how different environmental, temporal and spatial factors can interact and shape those intriguing community patterns, both from ecological and evolutionary perspectives.
I am myself not a “pure blood” in the field of theoretical ecology. I did my Bachelor in both Life science and Energy Engineering back home in Taiwan, then I went to Tübingen, Germany for a master’s degree in Evolution and Ecology. For my thesis, I worked with GEOMAR and stayed in Hokkaido for 6 months, studying about how ocean temperature would affect the feeding preference of a dominant marine herbivore and the effect on primary producers—generally I was always trying, moving, and searching— and now here I am , in Lund, thinking that I have found a place that I could slow down a bit and start digging deeper into the immense knowledge underneath the surface. I am looking forward to it!
Besides doing science, I am a nature lover in everyday life, which means that I enjoy outdoor activities especially hiking. In the past year I had the chance to learn more about the ocean, so I would like to get in more touch with her as now she is always nearby. 😊
I am happy to introduce myself and hope that I can meet you in person sooner or later!
Lars Hederstedt går i pension. Det kanske inte är så mycket att fira. Att tacka honom för hans arbete på institutionen och att vi får en ny emeritus är däremot väl värt (mer …)
I am a conservation biologist with a Master’s degree in Biology from Gothenburg University and a PhD in Environmental Science from Lund University. In 2014, I left academia and worked for three years at a municipality as their ecologist, but I soon realized that I missed working with knowledge and education. And so, I decided to enrol in the master’s program in Library and information science here in Lund. I graduated this spring, and since July, I have been employed as a librarian at the Biology library where I work with electronic journals, user statistics and teaching.
Jag är en disputerad naturvårdsbiolog med en magisterexamen i Biologi från Göteborgs Universitet och en doktorsexamen i Miljövetenskap från Lunds Universitet. År 2014 lämnade jag forskarvärlden för att under tre år arbeta praktiskt med naturvård som kommunekolog, men märkte snart att jag saknade att arbeta med kunskap och lärande. Jag bestämde mig då för att läsa masterprogrammet i Biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap här i Lund. Jag tog min examen nu i vår och sedan den 1 juli arbetar jag som bibliotekarie på Biologibiblioteket med ansvar för bland annat e-tidskrifter, analys av användningsstatistik och undervisning.
Igår var det en än gång dags för slåtter runt Ekologihuset. Det är tredje året Ola Olsson och Honor Prentice bjuder in till slåtter. Alla var (mer …)
The sun was shining from a clear blue sky both days as GENECO held its summer meeting at Stiftsgården Åkersberg in Höör.
Around 40 persons had signed up for the meeting which started with a talk about genomic inference of inbreeding in pinnipeds by one of the invited speakers, Joseph Hoffman from Universität Bielefeld in Germany.
There were two other invited speakers, Alison Wright from the University of Sheffield and Henrik de Fine Licht from University of Copenhagen. Alison talked about sexual conflict in guppies.
Henrik’s talk was about zombie flies and the funguses which took them over .
In the afternoon on the first day I, Inger Ekström, held a seminar and workshop about how to communicate with posters.
I hope that the participants in the evening poster session did not get to many crappy comments after my seminar. 🙂
Torbjörn Säll, Nils Cronberg and Mikael Hedrén took us on a genetic plant walk, a tradition at every GENECO summer meeting.
Thank you, all organisers, for being invited and a special thank you to Christina Rengefors who, as always, made all the practicalities run so smooth!
You find more photos at Flickr
Text by Inger Ekström, photos by Inger Ekström and Christina Rengefors.
Allbright has released a new report about gender equality in academia in Sweden. Lund University placed 12 of 17 in terms of proportion female professors. Read the report (in Swedish) at Squarespace (pdf; 2MB; new window).
The Swedish Research Council’s online magazine Curie also published an article (in Swedish) about the report.
The Biology doctoral students council had a meeting on 12 June. Among other things, they discussed BDR representatives and the guide for PhD students.
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During four days in June (9-12 / 6), an EMBO Workshop was held at Örenäs Slott entitled “Bacterial Cell Division: Closing the Gap”. 123 participants from 23 countries gathered to discuss the latest advances in our understanding of bacterial cell division and proliferation. The workshop followed a series of similar meetings sponsored by EMBO with some regularity since 1980. Organizers for this meeting were Tanneke den Blaauwen (Swammerdam Institute for Life Science, University of Amsterdam), Daniel Daley (Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Stockholm University ), and Klas Flärdh (Department of Biology, Lund University), and it was organized with the support of EMBO and the Swedish Research Council. Among the 22 invited speakers were both many of the foremost established experts in the area and several promising younger researchers at the beginning of their careers. From the other participants, 85 abstracts had been submitted, of which 19 were selected for short lectures while the others were presented as posters.
The presentations were consistently of very high quality and covered a wide range of approaches. New methods in microbial genetics were mixed with advanced and high-resolution microscopy, protein structure, biochemistry, biophysics, bioinformatics and modeling. The diversity of the organisms studied was also striking. Classic model systems such as Escherichia coli, Bacillus subtilis and Caulobacter crescentus, were mixed with pathogens like Vibrio cholerae, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and Streptococcus pneumoniae, and more unusual organisms such as stalked Hyphomonas, mycelium-forming streptomycetes, planctomycetes, and even a nematode sybiont that divides along its longitudinal axis. From this diversity, new trends and insights emerged about the structure and function of the cell division machinery, the properties of cytoskeletal proteins, bacterial cell wall and its formation, and how cell division is coordinated with replication and segregation of chromosomes. Also the effects of antibiotics were discussed, as well as development of new types of antibiotics. The discussions were lively and constructive, and the good food and the fantastic environment at Örenäs also contributed strongly to a very successful conference. One free afternoon was dedicated to selectable excursions with visits to Ven, a guided nature walk in the surroundings, or study visits to MAX IV.
Under fyra dagar i juni (9-12/6) hölls en EMBO Workshop på Örenäs slott med titeln “Bacterial Cell Division: Closing the Gap”. 123 deltagare från 23 länder var samlade för att diskutera de senaste framstegen i vår förståelse av bakteriers celldelning och förökning. Workshopen följde i en serie av liknande möten som organiserats i EMBOs regi med viss regelbundenhet sedan 1980. Organisatörer för detta möte var Tanneke den Blaauwen (Swammerdam Institute for Life Science, University of Amsterdam), Daniel Daley (Institutionen för biokemi och biofysik, Stockholms universitet), och Klas Flärdh (Biologiska institutionen, Lunds universitet), och det ordnades med stöd av EMBO och Vetenskapsrådet. Bland de 22 inbjudna talarna fanns både många av de främsta etablerade experterna i området och flera lovande yngre forskare i början sina karriärer. Från övriga deltagare hade 85 abstracts skickats in, varav 19 valdes ut för korta föredrag medan övriga presenterades som posters.
Presentationerna var genomgående av mycket hög kvalitet och täckte ett brett spektrum av angreppssätt. Nya metoder inom mikrobiell genetik blandades med avancerad och högupplöst mikroskopi, proteinstruktur, biokemi, biofysik, bioinformatik och modellering. Även diversiteten bland de organismer som studerades var slående. Klassiska modellsystem som Escherichia coli, Bacillus subtilis och Caulobacter crescentus, blandades med sjukdomsalstrare som Vibrio cholerae, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, och Streptococcus pneumoniae, och mer ovanliga organismer såsom stjälkförsedda Hyphomonas, myceliebildande streptomyceter, planktomyceter, och till och med en nematodsymbiont som delar sig längs cellens längdaxel. Ur denna mångfald trädde nya trender och insikter fram om celldelningsmaskineriets struktur och funktion, om cytoskelettproteiners egenskaper, om bakteriecellväggen och hur den bildas, om hur celldelning koordineras med replikation och segregation av kromosomer, Även effekter av antibiotika diskuterades, samt om utveckling av nya typer av antibiotika. Diskussionerna var livliga och konstruktiva, och den goda maten och fantastiska miljön ute på Örenäs bidrog också starkt till en mycket lyckad konferens. En eftermiddag ägnades åt valbara utflykter med besök på Ven, naturguidning i omgivningarna, eller studiebesök på MAX IV.
Text by/av Klas Flärd
Inga Rudebeck, mångårig medarbetare på dåvarande Zoologiska, senare Ekologiska institutionen och på Oikos-redaktionen, avled stilla i hemmet den 16 juli i år, fyllda 93 år. Inga var känd för sin arbetskapacitet och många var de (mer …)
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