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Hej! My name is David Gómez Blanco and I just started my PhD at the molecular ecology and evolution lab, under supervision of Prof. Dennis Hasselquist. During this PhD, I will be investigating the relationships between mild disease, immune responses and aging; and how these factors are associated with reproductive and life history strategies in studies on wild birds.

I am 24 years old and I come from Spain, where I finished my bachelor’s degree in Biology at the University of Oviedo. After that, I continued my education and I got a Master’s Degree in Biodiversity and Conservation Biology at the Pablo de Olavide University (Seville). Throughout my BSc and MSc I have been interested in the interaction between evolutionary and molecular ecology, especially in birds. I am now very excited to continue my career at Lund University.

I consider myself an active, friendly and easy-going person, so I am looking forward to meeting new people and to discovering a bit of Sweden‘s amazing nature and culture.

september 27, 2018

Inger Ekström

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Hej! I‘m a theoretical evolutionary biologist and a new postdoc in Tobias Uller‘s group. During my PhD at Humboldt University, Berlin, I worked on bacteria called Wolbachia, which are famous for ingeniously interfering with arthropod reproduction and development. In the course of this work, I became increasingly fascinated by the diverse interplay between evolution and development. Therefore, I am now shifting to the exciting field of evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo).

Here at Lund I‘ll focus on one of evo-devo‘s central topics: phenotypic plasticity. In particular, I‘m interested in a form of plasticity where environmental variation gives rise to discrete alternative phenotypes, so-called polyphenisms. I aim to reveal how polyphenisms evolve by modeling the evolution of their underlying developmental regulatory architecture.

More generally, I‘m interested in studying the interface between evo-devo and systems biology, and I think Lund is a fantastic place for this.

I‘m looking forward to meeting new people here at the biology department and elsewhere, and to discovering a bit of Sweden‘s amazing nature and culture. Last but not least, I‘m exited to go on extensive road bike tours and do the Vätternrundan!

september 7, 2018

Inger Ekström

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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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