Biologiska institutionen | Lunds universitet
Last Friday afternoon Bengt Olle Bengtsson had arranged a seminar on account of Bengt Lidforss 150 years anniversary.
Bengt Olle greeted the audience welcome on behalf of the Departement of Biology and the Mendelian Society. Lidforss has been given much attention as a political intellectual and (mer …)
I juni anordnade SACT en bioblitz, en dygnslång kartläggning av växter och djur på en begränsad yta runt institutionen. Efter några månaders utredning och kartläggning kunde Pål Axel Olsson i fredags eftermiddag avslöja (mer …)
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!
Wednesday and Thursday our Graduate Research School in Genomic Ecology, GENECO, had their annual summer meeting. This year is special, as it is 10 years since GENECO was founded. It is also time to change (mer …)
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.
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
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
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.
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
Short summary in English below
Joakim Nilsson börjar sin anställning som ny administrativ chef hos oss den 1 september. Joakim arbetar för närvarande som administrativ chef för gymnasieverksamheten i Malmö stad. Han kommer att under september och (mer …)
Short summary in English below
Vi tackar Helena Westerdahl för flera års insatser som studierektor för Geneco. Helena slutar sitt uppdrag vid halvårsskiftet för att under en period få lite mer tid över för forskning inom sitt ERC-projekt. Bengt Hansson tillträder som ny studierektor och Olov Hellgren övertar Bengts tidigare uppgifter i styrgruppen som nu består av
Christer Löfstedt / prefekt
Helena Westerdahl will leave as a director of studies in GENECO. Instead Bengt Hansson will take over.
Today SACT (the group for Scientific Activities) arranged a seminar with our mushroom expert Sigvard Svensson. The purpose was to make us aware of the dangers of picking mushrooms without the right knowledge.
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