För nionde gången var det idag dags för Lund Biology Seminar. SACT hade bjudit in (mer …)
Marie Dam – new PhD-student
I am starting as a PhD student in the Pheromone group. I will be working on a EU Horizon 2020 project called OLEFINE, which is about making safe insecticide alternatives (pheromones) in a biological way, using cell factories and metabolic engineering. I will be doing research to find and characterise genes that can be used in biosynthetic pheromone production pathways, to make pheromones of moths that are economically important pests on cash- and row crops.
I am an engineer in biotechnology from Aalborg University, Denmark, and have in the past years been working with metabolic engineering of yeasts, employed at the Center for Biosustainability at the Danish Technical University and at the company Biophero.
Bats and vampires in French Romanticism
Some beasts are rare and live their lives unseen by most of us. Many of the nocturnal mammals with membranous wings qualify, but so do the unsung heroes of our profession, the ones daring to tread alien and peripheral territories.
The link below refers to a both charming and erudite paper by our colleague Jens Rydell that does just that. It is a fine example of how one realm of knowledge (here bats) can transgress deep into our history and culture. Behold the grandeur of having Baudelaire in the reference list!
And don’t miss the acknowledgments.
Read the article in Journal of Bat Research and Conservation (pdf; 5.9 MB; new window).
Per Lundberg
Mission statement from the administration
Hello,
I have now spent the first weeks getting to know as much as I can about the organization and the people operating in it, and since the first of November I have moved into the office of administrative manager. We have outlined the administrative work ahead of us and established the four key words – structure (organization), competence, flexibility and service as our mission statement.
The first change you will see is an array on the administrative web page in English and in Swedish which aims to clarify who to contact in different matters. The first function, finances/administrator is the person closest to the unit and likely the one to turn to in most cases, and then the HR and budget & forecast help out with more specialized matters. As you see Anne is still listed as HR administrator for her units but that will change, as I mentioned last week, to Sara by the end of 2018.
This is hopefully helpful for you and a start for us to build an administrative structure that makes everyday life easier for all of us.
// Joakim Nilsson
Judith Matavacas – new PhD student
Hej everyone! I just started my PhD in the Biology Department, under the supervision of Claes von Wachenfeldt. My research will focus on how bacteria can sense and adapt to different kinds of stress (for instance, disulfide stress).
I come from Barcelona (Spain), where I did my Bachelor’s degree in Biotechnology. Then, I performed my Master’s degree in Molecular Biology, specialization in Microbiology, at Lund University.
I am very excited to be starting this new adventure and I hope we can meet in the lunch room or in other faculty activities!
Rundvandring runt ringen
Idag (fredag 9/11) hade Edith Hammer ordnat en guidad visning av MAX IV för SACTs räkning. Aktiviteten var populär och blev snabbt fullbokad. Några av dagens deltagarna kommer (mer …)
Erik Nord – new extra help
Erik Nord is our new temporary extra help in the Biology Building. He will assist Lars Fredriksson with general janitor duties. Erik is working between 10 AM and 2 PM.
Städa källarförråden senast 14/12 -18
Short English summary
Clean the basement storage spaces and the corridors in the Ecology and Biology Buildings as soon as possible, but no later than 14 December 2018! After that Carl Sjökvist and Cecilia Thomasson have free hands to throw away things. Everything in the storage spaces must be (mer …)
Funding available for gender equality and equal opportunities initiatives
Promoting gender equality and equal opportunities and combating discrimination at Lund University
The management group for gender equality and equal opportunities extends an annual invitation to employees and students at Lund University to apply for funding for initiatives aimed at moving gender equality and equal opportunities issues forward and combating discrimination at Lund University.
The management group for gender equality and equal opportunities will allocate a maximum of SEK 1 million. Usually, a sum up to SEK 50 000 to 100 000 is allocated for each application.
The management group particularly welcomes applications in line with Lund University’s mission on gender mainstreaming. The management group also encourages applications with an intersectional perspective, which are focused on initiatives and reviews that combine several different areas within equal opportunities, if possible across several faculties. Applications concerning initiatives that contribute to the University’s systematic prevention work against discrimination (SFAD) are welcomed.
Decisions on the allocation of funding will be taken by the Vice-Chancellor in April 2019, following preparation by a working group from the management group. The deadline for applications is 7 February 2019. The call for applications takes place every year in November. Questions about applications can be addressed to the management group via email: jol@pers.lu.se
Examples of successful applications
Some of the initiatives that received funding previous years are: Seminar series in norm-critical education (HT), Computer engineering for everyone (LTH), IDAHOT – seminar day (HBTQ-LU/LTH), workshops for promoting equality and diversity at LUCSUS, Collaborative Toolbox towards diversity and antiracism in academia (department for gender studies).
How to apply
Read more, and download instructions and application form on: http://www.staff.lu.se/organisation-and-governance/vision-objectives-and-strategies/gender-equality-and-equal-opportunities/funding-for-gender-equality-initiatives
Equality group recommends: Petition against binary definition of sex
The United States is currently planning to introduce a proposal to enforce a binary definition of sex in the country. Under the proposal, a person will be assigned to a given sex based on genital shape, regardless of whether they have an intersex phenotype or not and regardless of their later gender preference. This proposal has no basis in science: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07238-8
If you would like to protest the proposal, you can sign a petition here: https://not-binary.org/statement/
New email look for blog posts
In the communication audit this spring, there were some confusion about emails coming from our blog and our newsletter. People had a hard time to distinguish between the different emails. To make this easier, I have now changed the design of the (mer …)
Why Pub Einar?
Every Friday an email is sent out to everybody on the Biology department mailing list, saying that beer is available for after work “discussions”. Sometimes the event is called the Friday Pub, but for many years and still now (mer …)
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