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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.

oktober 2, 2017

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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

september 26, 2017

Inger Ekström

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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.

september 26, 2017

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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.

september 26, 2017

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I am a 22 year old from the Netherlands. My research interests mostly focus on evolutionary biology, taxonomy and systematics. I am currently doing the Master specialisation “Evolution, Biodiversity and Conservation” at the University of Leiden. My second year of this Master consists of a research project here at the University of Lund concerning a multiplex PCR approach on unresolved relationships of moths (Lepidoptera: Erebidae) under the supervision of Niklas
Wahlberg and co-supervision of Hamid Ghanavi.

september 11, 2017

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Hello to everyone reading this blog. My name is Humberto Itriago, I am a 24 years old and come from Caracas, Venezuela. I recently graduated from Simón Bolívar University’s Biology degree and within the program I have gathered knowledge from different areas of biology but focused in Molecular Biology studies, having my Master’s dissertation in Telomere Biology. I will now continue my studies working with Docent Marita Cohn (Molecular Cell Biology Unit, Genetics Group) in different projects related to the maintenance of yeast telomeres and the genetic requirements for alternative lengthening of telomeres.

september 8, 2017

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My name is Rachel and I’m currently on a Placement year here in Lund, for the third year of my Bachelors degree. In England, I am studying Biology at the University of Manchester. I have a wide range of interests, including Evolution, Development and Neuroscience. I will be an intern with Erik Svensson.

september 7, 2017

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My name is Matilda Pembury Smith. I am currently in my third year at The University of Manchester in the UK reading Zoology. My main areas of interest are sexual selection and mimicry between organisms. I will be an intern with Erik Svensson.

september 6, 2017

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I am a 25 year old guy from Riga, Latvia. I did my Bachelor at the University of Latvia and my Master at Uppsala University. I am interested in studying sex differences, sexual selection and evolution and development of sex.

My PhD project ”The genomic basis of the response to sex-limited selection in a hermaphrodite” will be conducted at the Section for Evolutionary Ecology under supervision of Dr. Jessica Abbott and co-supervised by Prof. Bengt Hansson and Dr. Nils Cronberg. The aim of this project will be to investigate the genetics of sex differences using experimentally evolved populations of the hermaphroditic flatworm Macrostomum ligano that have been selected for male or female fitness.

september 5, 2017

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I’m Illiam Jackson and have just started my position as a post-doc with the Uller Group after completing my PhD at Uppsala University. My PhD was an investigation into morphological evolution in the Cambrian. It focused on exploring concepts in evolutionary theory not previously examined in a palaeontological context such as stabilizing selection and genetic assimilation.

Using a morphometric approach to quantifying and analyzing changes of shape between closely related species as well as within a single species through time, the project illustrated the potential for new modes of analysis that quantify morphological variation along continuous spectra rather than into discrete units and characters.

The interpretation of the project’s results was conducted in the conceptual framework of the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis and identified patterns of phenotypic plasticity and subsequent accommodation, or genetic assimilation, consistent with those predicted by a model of evolution that incorporates a reciprocal relationship between development and environment. In other words, the results suggest that developmental bias and phenotypic plasticity may play very important roles in evolution even, or especially, across geological timescales.

My work with the Uller Group will continue the study of these topics as well as working towards synthesizing this deep-time perspective with the fields of evolutionary biology and theory. I will also be collaborating with other group members by employing and developing the morphometric methods mentioned above in the study of extant organisms.

I have a broad background in evolutionary biology and even broader interest so please don’t hesitate to get in touch if you’d like to discuss or ask anything, or have ideas for potential collaboration!

september 5, 2017

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