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Visiting Ph.D. student – Anne-Lise Boixel

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Hi everyone,

I am Anne-Lise, a third-year Ph.D. student at the French National Institute for Agricultural Research visiting Erik Svensson’s group for three months (March–May 2018).

My research falls at the interface of epidemiology and ecology with a long-standing interest in phenotypic variation among individuals and its consequences on population- and community-level processes. I have investigated this topic on a variety of organisms including aphids, plants and fungal pathogens during my previous research positions (as a part of my bachelor and master programs that I conducted between France and the Netherlands).

I am currently studying responses and adaptation of plant pathogen populations to changes in thermal conditions at various spatio-temporal scales combining field, greenhouse and lab experiments.

At Lund University with Erik, I will further explore how thermal changes and population dynamics jointly influence patterns of phenotypic variations using a theory-driven modelling approach.

I am really delighted to be here and I look forward to the upcoming months working with all of you!

mars 1, 2018

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Miguel Gómez – new postdoc

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My name is Miguel Gómez, I did my PhD in intra- and interspecific interactions, looking at how they affect reproductive behaviours such as mate choice and sexual conflict and their evolutionary implications. Recently, I joined Erik Svensson group to study the effect of interspecific interactions allowing a guild of ecologically similar species of damselflies to coexist. Odonates are a really good system to study sexual selection, and I’m looking forward to investigate the role of interspecific reproductive interference and sexual harassment in species coexistence.

februari 26, 2018

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Robin Delhom – new researcher at LP3

Hej alla!

My name is Robin Delhom and I just started a two year contract as ‘Forskare’ at the Molecular Cell Biology Unit in a collaboration project with the Lund Protein Production Platform (LP3) and the European Spallation Source ERIC (ESS).

I am French, 28, have done a master degree in organic chemistry followed by a PhD in membrane biophysics and here I am now in the Department of Biology of Lund University!

I defended my PhD project, co-financed by the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) and the ESS, last December in Grenoble where I was mainly working for the past three years. The objective, among others, was to develop a relevant model membrane for neutron studies which I then used to investigate the mechanism of action of Amphotericin B, a powerful anti-fungal drug. The multidisciplinary project and its relationship with ESS allowed me to work in a lot of different environments and brought me towards Sweden, LU and LP3.

My contribution here and now is to develop, investigate and make use of lipid membranes extracted from microorganisms with neutron scattering techniques in order to understand biological processes occurring at the edge of living cells.

Thus, if you are intrigued or want to know more about lipids/membranes, neutrons or else, please come along! You can find me in the office 141 of Biology building A or contact me at robin.delhom@biol.lu.se

Ses snart!

januari 31, 2018

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Frederike Hanke – new postdoc

My name is Frederike Hanke, originally I am from Germany where I have studied and worked in Freiburg, Bochum and Rostock. Just recently I have joined Almut Kelber’s group to investigate if octopus is able to perceive colors. Generally I am very interested in the visual and cognitive abilities of (semi)aquatic animals. For many years, I investigated the visual abilities of harbor seals. Since 2012, I have been working with octopus, too. These animals are fascinating creatures that seem to observe me as soon as I enter the room with the aquaria. They easily learn experimental procedure. But can I make them discriminate in general and discriminate stimuli on the basis of hue specifically?

januari 29, 2018

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Make your research known

Hi everybody!

Last year the Department of Biology and its researchers figured quite a lot in media. Journalists and the public took interest in your results, your research projects and your opinions as experts on specific topics.

Hopefully your work will contribute to increase the Department’s visibility even more in 2018.

One of the things I work with is to try to help you to reach out to media and the public. It can be ongoing research as well as studies that have resulted in an article in a scientific magasine. If you know you will have an article published it is a big help if you contact me well in advance. Preferably about three weeks before the publishing date.

Another way to reach out is to use your expertise on current topics that are discussed in media. Don’t hesitate to get in touch with me if you have questions about how to approach media.

Finally, don’t forget The Conversation. It is a great chance to reach out with your popularly written scientific text. Lund University is a member of The Conversation which means that you can get assistance from one of their editors. Here you can read articles from Lund University on The Conversation.

Jan Olsson

januari 25, 2018

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Céleste Sele – new research engineer

Hi everyone!

My name is Celeste and I recently started working as a Research Engineer at LP3 in the Biology building.

By education, I am a structural biologist. I did my PhD in Grenoble, France, during which I studied the structure and interactions of Vaccinia virus replication complex proteins. I then spend some time in Helsinki, Finland as a postdoc, still doing biochemical and biophysical studies of various proteins (bacteriophage membrane protein and brain synaptic proteins).

Together with the other research engineers at LP3, our goal is to provide you with services in protein production, purification and crystallization. We can also help you with further biophysical characterization like DSF, DLS, SPR…

I hope to bring you both my scientific knowledge and my enthusiasm for Science!

januari 22, 2018

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Minnesord över Paul Holmgren

Lektor emeritus och mångåriga medarbetaren inom biologiundervisningen i Lund Paul Holmgren gick bort under julhelgen 2017.

Paul hade en imponerande vitalitet och ett brett intresse för biologi inkluderande i princip all organismgrupper. Detta intresse grundlades redan i barndomen. Paul växte upp (mer …)

januari 10, 2018

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The Biology Year 2017 in Photos

As usual, it has been an incredibly active year at the department. To illustrate this, I have chosen some of the photos I have. And this is only the part that I have participated in, or got hold of (mer …)

december 31, 2017

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Biologins dag Biologishow Biology in Lund Annual Meeting BLAM Fest Föreläsning Forskarutbildning Forskning Grundutbildning Händelser Infrastruktur Konst Kulturnatten Museerna Prefekt Vetenskapliga aktiviteter SACT

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