För fjärde gången ordnade Allan Rasmusson och SACT Luciakonstutställning för institutionens (mer …)
Tredje gången gillt för ny bok
I fredags var det boksläpp på Akvatisk ekologi. Christer Brönmark och Lars-Anders Hansson firade att tredje upplagan av (mer …)
Ingen jul för Evolutionär ekologi utan ett besök på Örenäs slott
I torsdags åkte hela (nästan i alla fall) enheten Evolutionär ekologi till Örenäs slott för att ha julmöte. Under en och halv dag berättade enhetsmedlemmarna om (mer …)
Salwan Ali Abed Al Khanfar – new postdoc
I am Salwan Ali Abed from College of Science – University of Al-Qadisiyah, Iraq. I have a Ph.D. in Conservation Biology, and my area of work is focused on the conservation of the endangered species of birds in the marshes of southern Iraq. Now, I am working in the Department of Biology in Lund University with Dr. Bengt Hansson as a Postdoctoral Researcher of the project ”Conservation genetic of Basra reed Warbler in the marshes of southern Iraq.
Avoid scattered web information
I have seen a tendency among researchers and research groups to create their own external websites. The department strongly objects to this. It is not a good idea for a couple of (mer …)
Visst kan alla djur lära sig – även sjöharar
Idag höll Stanley Heinze sin docentföreläsning ”The neural basis for memory and learning across the animal kingdom”.
– Inlärning är en process som leder till förändring, vilket sker som svar på (mer …)
Anna Sterngren – new research engineer
My name is Anna and I’m happy to be back in the Ecology building after a two-year break. I recently started working as Research Engineer in the Microbial Ecology-group where my main tasks will be: running the Sanger Sequencing facility, supporting researchers within the MICCS-project and general maintenance of laboratory areas/equipment and registration/inventory of chemicals.
I’m a molecular biologist with a special interest in microbes. I defended my theses 2014 within Microbial Ecology and during my PhD studies I investigated how groups of soil microorganisms, in particular Archaea, are influenced by environmental factors such as soil pH and carbon and nitrogen availability. During the last year I have been working as a QC Microbiologist in a pharmaceutical company in Malmö.
In my spare time I like hanging out with family and friends, gardening, knitting and dancing.
Arif Ciloglu – new postdoc at MEMEG
I graduated as a Veterinarian from Erciyes University, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Kayseri, Turkey. I did my PhD in Veterinary Parasitology Science at Graduate School of Health Sciences, Erciyes University, from 2011 to 2016. I am currently working as an Assistant Professor in Department of Parasitology at Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Erciyes University. Also, I am a researcher in Protozoan Infections Group of Erciyes University Vectors and Vector-Borne Diseases Implementation and Research Centre.
In my postdoc project with Staffan Bensch as host, I plan to focus on a group of closely related lineages of Haemoproteus parasites (H. belopolskyi and H. nucleocondensus) that are primarily infecting warblers in the family of Acrocephalidae and that have their transmission restricted to tropical Africa. This study is important as it will provide unique knowledge of ecological and genetic adaptations associated to changes in transmission areas, key variables for predicting new Emerging Infectious Diseases.
Samlingar i fokus på forum
Idag och i morgon är det konferensen Samlingsforum 2017 nere i Universitetsaulan. Det är en konferens för museifolk. I år är det Biologiska museet tillsammans (mer …)
Nan Hu – new PhD student
My current research focuses on understanding the global warming effects across different trophic levels of marine species. More specifically, I propose to test whether species from different trophic positions response demonstrate different magnitude of phenotypic plasticity to abiotic versus biotic stress. My objectives are to measure the extent of shell shape, shell thickness, behavior and trait correlations among a set of traits. Together, these measurements will allow me to test whether stressors of different origin (abiotic vs. biotic) influence species associated to various trophic levels differently, and how this may cause ecological community imbalances via trophic effects. I use Nucella lapillus and Buccinum undatum, two carnivorous marine snails as high trophic level species. For low trophic level species, I will study the herbivorous marine snails Littorina obtusata and Littorina fabalis. Different pH levels will work as abiotic stress, and the predation risk from green crab work as biotic stress. I will also conduct a systematic review related to phenotypic plasticity of snails by using meta-analysis to extend the question to additional systems and taxa.
My previous study is mainly about predation behavior of the rapa whelk (Rapana venosa). I identified the prey selection of the whelk by filming their foraging behavior. I also examined the functional response of this species when they are exposed to different clam densities.
Nan Hu is a PhD student at Aquatic Ecology and Johan Hollander is his main supervisor.
Mads Fristrup Schou – new postdoc
Hey, I am happy to be here and look forward to meeting you all, and spending hopefully the next two years here at the department!
I did my PhD and Postdoc at Aarhus and Aalborg University in Denmark where most of my work involved the use of Drosophila as a model organism. I worked with genomic and phenotypic consequences for populations with a small population size, and in particular how environmental stress affected these relationships. I also worked on thermal adaptation in relation to climate change, where I used experimental evolution of thermal tolerances, but mostly focused on developmental plasticity of upper thermal tolerances.
Here in Lund I will work with Charlie Cornwallis, and use the novel (especially novel to me!) study system, the facultatively group living ostrich (Struthio camelus). Ostriches can breed on their own, but can also breed in complex groups and cooperate to protect eggs against extreme temperatures. I will measure ostrich heat tolerance in relation to cooperative breeding behaviour and combine this with large pedigrees and genomic analyses to understand the genetic basis of heat tolerance and if it is linked to the breeding strategy of ostriches.
Maarit Mäenpää – new postdoc
My current research focuses on understanding the mechanistic basis of phenotypic trait evolution. Specifically, my aim is to explore how external male and female reproductive structures coevolve, and how the structures themselves can potentially affect observed patterns of selection, via assortative mating. My study species, the blue-tailed damselfly Ischnura elegans, exhibits female-limited colour polymorphism, which is maintained by male harassment of the common female morphs. Males of this species, like all other Odonates (dragonflies and damselflies), possess easily distinguishable secondary sexual structures (claspers), which are used to grasp the female in order to initiate mating. These structures are obligatory for the mating to succeed. Thus, due to their importance to the mating success and their easily observable morphology, the claspers provide an exemplary system for exploring morphological evolution. In this work, I use both lab- and field-based methods.
In the past, I’ve studied animal communication with regards to the resolution of parent-offspring conflict, as well as life-history evolution with regards to large scale geographic variation in key traits, such as bodysize. In my work, I have mostly worked with insect systems, partly due to their ideal nature as study systems due to their short life cycles, and partly simply due to my lifelong fascination of the group. My main research interests lie in discerning the small scale mechanisms behind large scale patterns, and assessing the potential upstream influence that a mechanism may have for the scale and direction of evolution.
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