Last Friday SACT invited a large group from the department to visit the national aquarium in Denmark, Den Blå Planet. We had a fantastic interesting day with a guided tour behind the scenes. We learned that (mer …)
Den Blå Planeten
Foton och föreläsning på Jubileumsträff
Igår öppnade LU350-årsfotoutställningen på Grand. Det är en utställning med vetenskapliga foton från institutionerna på fakulteten. Idén kom från (mer …)
Superframträdande av Supershowen
I helgen hade Supershowen, skapad enkom för 350-årsjubiléet, fem föreställningar. Supershowen är en sammanslagning, och omarbetning, av de tre naturvetenskapliga showerna – Biologishowen, Fysik- och lasershowen och Kemishowen. På Lunds Stadsteater kunde vi (mer …)
”Icke-svar” från Rektor på prorektorskrivelse
Rektor och universitetsstyrelsens ordförande har svarat på vår skrivelse – och andra skrivelser – med synpunkter på och frågor kring rekryteringen av ny prorektor för Lunds universitet.
Svaret (pdf) – som inte innehåller några egentliga svar eller förklaringar rörande de missförhållanden vi påpekat – har inte heller någon adressat. Detta är kanske en petitess men ändå lite anmärkningsvärt med tanke på att Lunds universitet också är en myndighet. Brukar det påpekas.
Fler icke-svar från Rektor finns att läsa på Rektors blogg.
Sammanfattningsvis verkar universitetsledningen varken förstå grunden för kritiken eller inse att man gjort något fel.
Döm själv!
För övrigt anser jag att prorektorsvalet bör göras om.
Christer Löfstedt
Prefekt Biologiska institutionen
Varpu Pärssinen – new PhD student
Nice to meet you! My name is Varpu Pärssinen and I’ve started my PhD studies at the Aquatic Ecology unit. My supervisor is Anders Nilsson, with Kaj Hulthén and Christer Brönmark as my co-supervisors.
I did my BS and MS studies in the University of Helsinki, Finland, with Ecology and evolutionary biology as my major. In my previous theses I have focused mainly on animal behaviour and sexual selection. I’ve also had the pleasure to do field and lab work in many different groups and projects, involving sticklebacks, common gobies, and the Glanville fritillary butterfly. I also love
birdwatching in my meantime.
My PhD project in Lund studies how natural selection affects the fitness of hybrids between isolated populations. I’m using the Bahamas mosquitofish as a model animal, working together with the Langerhans Lab in North Carolina, US. I’m very happy to work as a part of this international collaboration, researching one of the main mechanisms of speciation!
Collect data faster with new system
Finally, our new confocal microscope (Leica SP8 DLS) has arrived in the department and is being installed by (mer …)
Anhållan om omgjord rekrytering
Christer Löfstedt och ledningen för institutionen har skrivit till Universitetsstyrelsen och Rektor och bett dem göra om rekryteringen av prorektor:
Vi anhåller om att rekryteringen av prorektor för Lunds universitet görs om. Processen skall vara transparent och universitetskollegiets skall höras och ges möjlighet att ta ställning till flera kandidater, allt med sikte på att hitta en vid LU anställd lärare som med verksamhetens förtroende kan utföra förtroendeuppdraget som prorektor.
Samtliga enhetschefer och medlemmar i Biologiska institutionens ledningsgrupp, samt några ytterligare personer med nyckelpositioner vid institutionen står bakom bifogade skrivelse (pdf).
För Biologiska institutionen
Christer Löfstedt
PrefektÖvriga undertecknare:
Olle Anderbrant – professor, enhetschef Funktionell zoologi
Staffan Bensch – professor, enhetschef MEMEG
Christer Brönmark – professor, enhetschef Akvatisk ekologi
Marie Dacke – professor, medlem i ledningsgruppen
Mats Hansson – professor, enhetschef Molekylär cellbiologi
Anders Hedenström – professor, f d ledamot ledningsgruppen
Carin Jarl-Sunesson – universitetslektor, bitr. prefekt, huvudstudierektor GU
Almut Kelber – professor
Per Lundberg – professor, studierektor FU
Dan E Nilsson – professor, f d ledamot ledningsgruppen, ledamot i universitetskollegiet
Jan-Åke Nilsson – professor, enhetschef Evolutionär ekologi
Ola Olsson – universitetslektor, enhetschef Biodiversitet
Monica Pardon, administrativ chef, ledningsgruppen
Per Persson – professor, medlem i ledningsgruppen
Anders Tunlid – professor, f d ledamot ledningsgruppen
Tobias Uller – professor, medlem i ledningsgruppen
Niklas Wahlberg – professor, chef Biologiska muséet
Marcus Lee – new PhD student
Hej, my name is Marcus Lee. I am very excited to have started my PhD studies in the Aquatic Ecology department working with Lars-Anders Hansson.
I studied my Masters at the University of Sheffield, UK, and since graduating I have been lucky enough to work in the field on multiple projects, from the molecular basis of eusociality in wasps to how land-use change is affecting montane rainforest communities.
Building on this varied experience, I’m looking forward to turning my attention to everyone’s favourite model zooplankter, Daphnia! My PhD studies will focus on how individual variation to multiple stressors (predation, UV radiation, toxic food) will produce trade-offs in the exhibited phenotype and how this determines population structure.
Gróa Valgerður – new PhD student
My name is Gróa [/ˈɡrəʊə/] Valgerður and I‘ve just started working on a PhD project within the research group Plant Ecology and Systematics. My main supervisor is Stefan Andersson and co-supervisors are Nils Cronberg, Mikael Hedrén and Torbjörn Tyler; I think it‘s safe to say I‘m in good and capable hands! The next few years we‘ll study the ecotype differentiation of Scorzoneroides autumnalis (sv. höstfibbla) and I‘m indeed very excited about it.
I come from Iceland, where I did my BS in biology and BS hons in plant taxonomy at the University of Iceland. I moved to Lund in 2011 and very recently moved to Staffanstorp. I‘m a hobby photographer, and if the time it took me to find a picture to go with this little entry is any indicator, I just might have some problem being on the front side of the camera lens. I‘m also a food lover, following the strict guidelines of the exceedingly popular dietary program HCHF. However, the title mom is admittedly what has defined me most the past 9 years.
Magne Friberg – new Associate Senior Lecturer
I am a recently started Associate Senior Lecturer in the unit of Biodiversity. I was an undergraduate student in Lund some 15 years ago, and it feels exciting to be back again after pit stops at Stockholm University (PhD-studies), University of California, Santa Cruz (post-doc) and Uppsala University (Assistant Professor).
In our research group, we study the processes that have made plants and plant-feeding insects two of the most diverse and abundant groups of organisms on earth. Much of our current research involves the evolution of plant signals, and ecological and evolutionary responses to these signals by associated insects. Please see the research group web page for more info. In my spare time, I do not watch as many birds as I would like to, and I do not play as much sports as I would need. I am a descent racquet-sport player (tennis/squash/badminton) in need of new sparring partners. For research-, birding-, or sports-related inquiries, please contact me: magne.friberg@biol.lu.se
Anna Runemark is back as a researcher
I have just returned to work as a researcher at the Evolutionary Ecology unit after post doctoral studies at the University of Oslo. I am an evolutionary biologist/genomicist with a broad interest in speciation and how new diversity within and between species arises. I also find the role of biogeography for the faith of diversity interesting, and have been working extensively on island biogeography. I did my PhD here at the Department of Biology, working on population divergence and island biogeography of an island endemic lizard species, and my post doctoral work has been on variation and constraints on diversity arising from hybridization, with a focus on genomics.
I am currently starting up a study system on host plant driven speciation in the fly Tephritis conura infesting different thistle species. I am interested in for instance how host shifts and host expansions affect variation at the phenotypic and genomic level, and how associations between genomically unlinked phenotypic characters arise.
Hampus Petrén – new PhD student
Hej! My name is Hampus Petrén and I just started as a PhD student at the Biodiversity unit. I did my bachelors and masters studies at Uppsala university, as well as the first year of my PhD.
Now however I am excited to continue my PhD studies at Lund university. My supervisor, Magne Friberg, started a position here and I decided to come along. My research revolves around plant mating systems, floral traits and plant-insect interactions. More specifically, I study different European populations of the alpine plant Arabis alpina to investigate how floral signals, such as flower morphology and floral scent, vary between self-compatible and self-incompatible population, and how such variation affects/is affected by interactions with insects.
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