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Hello,

My name is Joakim Nilsson and I just started my work here at the department of biology as head of administration. I will work parallel with Monica Pardon for the coming weeks before taking the full responsibility.

I have a degree in economics from Lund University but have spent the last decade and a half with a similar position at Malmö Stads office for education management. I’m looking forward to reconnecting with Lund University and getting to know you all.

The coming weeks I will visit all research units and other units to get to know the different parts of the department, and I will look confused and bewildered trying to memorize as much as possible. I will also use the excuse “sorry I’m new here” for as long as you let me.

september 4, 2018

Inger Ekström

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Hi!
My name is Johanna Stedt and I’m a new Ph.D. student at the unit of Aquatic Ecology. I took my master’s degree in marine biology here at Lund University a few years ago and feel very excited to be back. During my master project I studied the distribution and behaviour of the harbour porpoise and my PhD-project will build on those studies. In my research I will focus on the ecology and social group structure of the harbour porpoise. My supervisor is Per Carlsson, with Anders Nilsson as my co-supervisor.

I live together with my boyfriend in Mölle, a small fishing village at the foot of Kullaberg nature reserve in the north-western part of Scania. Although it’s an hour’s drive to Lund I can’t imagine living somewhere else. I grew up in a nearby village and after having lived a few years in Lund and Malmö I love to again have Kullaberg, with the ocean and it’s dramatic nature, at my doorstep. This is also where I spend most of my spare time – diving, hiking, horse riding or just sitting on the rocks looking out over the ocean trying to spot some porpoises.

Looking forward to meeting you!
/ Johanna

augusti 24, 2018

Inger Ekström

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Hej alla!

I am a new and at the same time old postdoctoral fellow in Magne Friberg’s group. New because I just started here at Lund University. Old because I was already a postdoc in Magne’s group at Uppsala University for the two previous years.

In my current project, I study the relative importance of effects of whole-genome duplications (polyploidization, the most dramatic form of mutation) and selection mediated by specialised and generalised pollinators on the variation in complex floral traits such as floral scent. As study species, I use the Californian plant Lithophragma bolanderi (Saxifragaceae), which is involved in a coevolutionary interaction with its highly specialised, pollinating seed parasite Greya politella (a Prodoxidae moth), but is also pollinated by generalised pollinators.

I did my PhD in Evolutionary Biology at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. In my PhD project, I studied pollinator-mediated evolution in Orchids in Southern Italy and the Swiss lowlands and the lovely Swiss mountains. The latter, are probably the thing I miss most from my home country.

Vi ses!

Karin

augusti 24, 2018

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Hi everyone!
My name is Tobias and I am a new postdoc working with Per Persson. My research interest is in soil organic matter decomposition and in my current project we focus on root exudation and mineral-bound organic matter. We aim to understand mechanism through which root exudates destabilize bonds between minerals and organic matter. Mineral-organic matter bonding in soils is an important mechanism protecting organic matter from microbial decomposition. During my PhD at SLU in Uppsala, I have studied thermodynamic and carbon-use efficiency of microbial communities.

You will probably not see me much in Lund during the first two years of my project, because I am conducting most of my experimental work at University of Massachusetts Amherst in the USA. However, I am looking forward to meet you during shorter visits and in the final year of my project. You will probably see me then arriving on my bike as I am a huge cycling enthusiast.

augusti 23, 2018

Inger Ekström

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Hi everyone!

My name is Esther and I’m a new Ph.D. student in Fredric Carlsson’s group where we are looking at mycobacterial interactions with macrophages. Our aim is to gain insights into the disease pathogenesis of tuberculosis. I have a master’s degree in biomedicine (Lund University) and my current project will be an extension from my one year master’s project also performed in Fredric Carlsson’s group.

I was born and raised in Helsingborg, just north of Lund, but I am currently living in Malmö. I am a big fan of traveling and wild life experiences, as well as a slow Sunday breakfast with a tricky cross-word.

Hope to meet you all soon!

/Esther

juli 17, 2018

Inger Ekström

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Hello, my name is Colin Olito, and I am a new postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Jessica K. Abbott’s group. I was born and raised in Alaska, but my academic life has taken me, and my family, around the world.

Although I have a background in evolutionary ecology, I underwent a bit of a metamorphosis into a theoretical population geneticist during my PhD. My main research interests include sexually antagonistic selection, the evolution of hermaphrodite mating and sexual systems, sex chromosome evolution, and the population genetic factors driving major evolutionary transitions in flowering plants.

I’m excited to be a part of this vibrant ecology and evolutionary biology department here at Lund, and hopefully starting some new collaborations. My family and I are also looking forward to exploring the Swedish wilderness, so any camping and hiking advice is most welcome. See you at fika!

juni 21, 2018

Inger Ekström

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Hi! Some of you might recognise me from my many stays here during my PhD with my suitcase full of flies. However, I’ll be here more permanently this time as a postdoc with Jessica Abbott continuing the work from my PhD.

I did my PhD with Ted Morrow at University of Sussex with the main focus on sexual antagonism and its impact on sex chromosomes in Drosophila melanogaster. I did two main projects, one long-term evolution experiment still ongoing in Jessica’s lab and a shorter evolution experiment looking at coevolution between the sex chromosomes.

juni 21, 2018

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