Last Friday Christer Löfstedt held his State of the Union talk. To be fair more of a State of the Department talk, where Christer talked about (mer …)
Another year, another State of the Union
Komplext så det förslår –arter som inte är arter och bin som hittar hem
På dagens Tandem Tandem talk var det Mikael Hedrén och Stanley Heinze som var talarna. Mikael vann den sedvanliga (?) slantsinglingen och fick således börja att (mer …)
Equality group recommends: How female fellows fared at the Royal Society
A recent study by Aileen Fyfe and Camilla Mørk Røstvik shows that formal inclusion of women does not automatically lead to their full participation. The study used the archives of the Royal Society as data, and is summarized in the March 6th issue of Nature:
How female fellows fared at the Royal Society https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-02746-z
Masahito Tsuboi – new postdoc
Hi!
My name is Masahito Tsuboi. In the coming few years, I will be part of the Biology Department at Lund University (LU), studying the evolution of wing morphology in two insect lineages, the family Drosophilidae and the order Odonata, with Erik Svensson at LU and Thomas Hansen at University of Oslo.
Personally, I think comparative studies are fascinating because they allow us to explore the phenotypic diversity across the entire tree of life. This initially motivated me to conduct a phylogenetic comparative study back in 2009 with Niclas Kolm at Uppsala University (now he is at Stockholm University) as part of my MSc degree project. I continued there as a PhD doing phylogenetic
comparative studies on brain sizes in cichlids, pipefishes and seahorses. On a more technical side, I am concerned over the sharp divide between micro- and macroevolutionary biologists. My project in Lund will use a combination of phylogenetic comparative method and quantitative/population genetic theories and tools to reduce the divide among evolutionary biologists interested in phenomena at different time scales.
I will be mostly in Oslo for the first two years, and only be regularly present at Lund in my third year. Nevertheless, I am very excited to be part of the institution and am very much looking forward to share ideas and thoughts over the coming years with you!
Nyhetsbrev om jämställdhet
Tips från institutionens jämställdhets- och likabehandlingsgruppen!
Jämställdhetsmyndigheten har ett nytt nyhetsbrev om jämställdhetsfrågor.
Här kan du prenumerera på nyhetsbrevet.
Här kan du läsa första nyhetsbrev. Där finns bland annat information om att söka bidrag till jämställdhetsarbete, och om en internationell konferens om män och jämställdhet som ska hållas i Stockholm i år.
BLAM – a success, but cold, oh, so cold
Thursday and Friday last week, the PhD students’ annual conference BLAM was held. The whole department was invited to (mer …)
Janne Swaegers – new postdoc
Hi everyone,
I am Janne and will be working here the coming years as a postdoc. Together with Bengt Hansson I will be studying the factors that lead to genomic divergence between closely related and hybridizing damselfly species of the Ischnura genus.
During and after my PhD at the University of Leuven (Belgium) I studied the evolutionary processes during range expansion and thermal adaptation in two damselfly species and now I just finished a postdoc year at the Free University of Berlin to explore RNA interference possibilities in odonates in (semi)natural conditions. In general I am interested in disentangling the evolutionary processes driving population differentiation using genomics/transcriptomics.
I am pleased to meet you all!
Release party for CAnMove’s ebook
On Thursday 15/3 there was a ”Release Party” and photo exhibition of CAnMove’s e-book in foyer of the (mer …)
Maja Tarka is back as a researcher
Hi everyone!
I am now back in Lund after a three year postdoc in Trondheim at NTNU, where I worked on evolvability of sexual dimorphism and consequences of sex on pace-of-life syndromes. I am an evolutionary ecologist with a focus on the genetic architecture and evolutionary dynamics of wild animal populations.
I will now continue working on my favourite study system, the great reed warblers at Lake Kvismaren, and dig into questions on trade-offs between immunity and lifespan in combination with sexual conflicts. I will be affiliated as a researcher in Dennis Hasselquist’s and Bengt Hansson’s research groups.
In my spare time, I like to listen to music, hang out with my human and non-human friends and grow my own food.
Looking forward to meeting you all!
”New” researcher – Júlio Manuel Neto
Hi everyone!
After being a visiting post-doc for nine years, and subsequently teaching and working on several projects at Lund University, I am by now familiar to most people in this department! However, I’m starting a full-time contract as a researcher, and so let me present myself here again.
I’m Júlio Manuel Malha Simões Neto, a researcher originally from Portugal, but with a DPhil awarded by Oxford University back in 2004. I have a broad interest in behavioural ecology and evolutionary biology, and work mostly on natural populations of marshland passerines. My main current projects focus on local adaptation and speciation in Reed Buntings, and on the migration and conservation of Aquatic Warblers. I often use multidisciplinary approaches such as genetic, acoustic and stable isotope analyses, as well as intensive field work involving bird ringing, nest finding etc. Otherwise, I’m a member of the Aquatic Warbler Conservation Team, a subject editor of Journal of Avian Biology, and maintain a constant-effort ringing site in Krankesjön!
During the next 1.5 years, I will study the temporal and geographical variation of the relationship between malaria infections and the variation and expression of immunity (MHC) genes in natural populations of House Sparrows. This is part of the ERC-funded project given to Helena Westerdahl, which focuses on host-parasite co-evolution. Hence, I’ll be available for some more time to interact with you all, and undertake fruitful collaborations!
En dubbelnatur går i pension
Idag blev Stefan Pierzynowski avtackad då hans sista arbetsdag var igår. Sedan 1985 har Stefan jobbat på (mer …)
New microscope inaugurated
Yesterday the department’s new confocal and light sheet microscope, the Leica TCS SP8 DLS, was inaugurated at a highly successful launch event held in (mer …)
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