I fredags var det dags för institutionens första bioblitz. En bioblitz går ut på att inventera alla arter inom ett visst begränsat område under 24 timmar. SACT hade fått ihop ett (mer …)
Livet på institutionen under ett dygn
Spexig avtackning
Snart går Anne Fogelberg i pension. Igår fylldes Ekologihusets foajé med folk som ville visa sin uppskattning och tacka Anne för hennes nästan tio år på institutionen. Sedan december 2008 har hon arbetat som forskningsadministratör, först på (mer …)
Equality group recommends: Nature highlights diversity
Nature has recently published two interesting articles highlighting the importance of diversity in science.
These labs are remarkably diverse — here’s why they’re winning at science discusses the benefits of diversity.
What does it take to make an institution more diverse? gives some practical suggestions on how to increase diversity.
Amanda Pettersen – new postdoc
Hej, I am a new postdoc fellow in Tobias Uller’s group. Despite the Scandinavian last name, I am originally from Australia and hardly speak a word of Swedish!
I recently completed my PhD in the Marine Evolutionary Ecology Group at Monash University in Melbourne. My PhD work combined life-history and metabolic theories, where I worked on maternal energy investment strategies in fish and marine invertebrates. I am now shifting to a terrestrial system in wall lizards where I will work on mechanisms underlying maternal effects that facilitate rapid, counter-gradient adaptation.
I’m looking forward to meeting people in the biology/evolutionary ecology department at Lund, and learning about the work that goes on here. I’m particularly interested in physiology, developmental biology and life-history theory, but am also keen to know any tips you might have on adjusting to Swedish life, plus any good hiking and diving spots in Europe!
Why not have a sabbatical?
The purpose of a sabbatical is to enrich and renew a university employee’s academic life by allowing them uninterrupted time to think and do research. According to its Biblical origins, the sabbatical, or Sabbath, is a break from (mer …)
Lugn morgon vid Krankesjön
I morse var det dags för SACTs årliga exkursion till Krankesjön för att titta på fågel. Klockan 04.30 samlades en liten skara något sömniga entusiaster utanför Ekologihuset. Men när solen började gå (mer …)
Communication opinions differ, as always
Thank you all for your response to the communication audit! I take it that you are curious about the result and what we are going to do about it. Some of you are (mer …)
Populära örter på populär växtexkursion
Idag ordnade SACT (the Scientific Activities group) en örtexkursion till Abusadalen för att plocka ätliga växter. I många länder är det en tradition att gå ut på våren och (mer …)
A day full of senses
Yesterday the unit Functional Zoology had their unit day. Or rather half a day. During the afternoon we learnt (mer …)
Rishi Kumar Jaiswal – new postdoc
I did my Ph.D. from the school of life sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. A dwindling question around us that, can a single target in cancer cell result into a cancer cure? And the vast datasets and literature suggest a big “NO”. Factors like p53, NFкB, TGFβ, telomerase, uPA and several other players have been considered as a potential therapeutic window but still the disease standing tall. This also bowed us to change our approach towards the disease, time to time. My doctoral work focused on the functional connection of two major tumor determinants: telomerase catalytic domain (TERT) and urokinase-type plasminogen activator and their therapeutic relevance in cancer therapy. I tried to correlate these two important pro-survival factors in cancer cells and how they interrelate and share the space in cellular processes. TERT has been prominently discussed in terms of life expectancy and its differential expression in 90% of cancers places it in the league of a potential therapeutic target for cancer. Reactivating telomerase is not the only way to obtain cellular immortality, around 10-15% of tumor cells maintain their telomere length over many population doublings in the absence of telomerase. Rather than reactivating telomerase, these cells use alternative mechanisms to maintain their chromosome ends which are collectively known as Alternative Lengthening of Telomeres (ALT). The existence of ALT changes our view towards anti-cancer therapies and development of an effective treatment will benefit by addressing the ALT-pathways. I joined Marita Cohn’s group as a postdoc fellow where I will be studying how telomeres are maintained in the telomerase knockout cells by using yeast as a model system. I will be focused on the elucidation of the molecular mechanisms of telomere maintenance.
Nils Malmer 1928–2018
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Professor emeritus Nils Malmer avled 17 april, 89 år gammal. Nils utvecklade redan under sin småländska uppväxt ett stort intresse för botanik. Han studerade i Lund och disputerade här 1962 i botanik på en avhandling om myrvegetationen på Åkhultmyren i Småland. Åren 1952-1955 vikarierade (mer …)
Jesús Ortega – new postdoc
I am a 32 years old postdoctoral researcher and did my PhD in the Natural History Museum of Madrid (MNCN, CSIC) on the mechanisms underlying phenotypic variation in the Iberian wall lizard species complex (Podarcis hispanicus). I am both a field and lab person whose previous work has focused on reptiles, and lizards in particular.
Currently, I am working with Anna Runemark as a postdoctoral researcher in the Evolutionary Ecology of Plant-Insect Interactions research group. We focus on host plant races of Tephritis conura flies and combine methods from evolutionary and chemical ecology and genomics. We aim to investigate the build up of epistatic interactions and the relative roles of regulatory and coding divergence at different stages along the speciation continuum but also the underlying basis of host plant preference.
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