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Hey! My name is Martin Škerlep and I just started a PhD at the aquatic ecology department. I will be studying how land-use affects browning of fresh waters (brownification). More specifically, my studies will focus on how different types of land-use affect mobility of iron and organic matter in soils. I will work under supervision of Emma Kritzberg.

I am from Slovenia, where I finished my bachelor’s degree in Biology at the University of Ljubljana. After that I continued my studies in Lund, where I majored in Aquatic ecology. Having also done my master’s project with Emma Kritzberg, I am now excited to continue with research in the same research group.

maj 2, 2017

Inger Ekström

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I recently received funding from the Carl Tryggers Foundation to begin a postdoc project with Staffan Bensch. I will work on the genetics and evolution of host specificity in malaria parasites of birds.

I’m originally from San Diego, California. I did my undergraduate work at UC Santa Barbara and my PhD at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. From there I moved to Belo Horizonte, Brazil for a mostly teaching postdoc at the Federal University of Minas Gerais.

april 26, 2017

Inger Ekström

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I have just started at LU as a new senior lecturer in the Molecular Cell Biology Unit. I was born in Belgium and completed my PhD at Ghent University. In 2007, I moved to the University of Western Australia to continue my research as a post-doc and Research Assistant Professor. Having returned to Europe, my new lab will be focusing on how plants perceive and respond to external stress conditions, ranging from heat and water stress, to pathogen infection, and even response to physical contact (so-called ‘touch’ responses).  In particular, the role of energy converting organelles like mitochondria and chloroplasts will be studied during stress response, and how they can influence cellular signalling and gene expression through organelle-to-nuclear ‘retrograde’ signalling. The second main research area is to understand the molecular basis of how plants can change gene expression, hormone levels and downstream morphological changes within minutes of being touched. Indeed, plants are well aware of even gentle physical manipulation, for instance by rain drops falling on a leaf, or just a brief touch with a finger. This is thought to prepare the plant for further potential danger such as wounding and infection, but also changes in environmental conditions such as light, wind and rainfall.

april 11, 2017

Inger Ekström

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Victoria’s interests are in applying genomic techniques to organisms in order to better understand evolutionary relationships and the patterns and processes of molecular evolution and diversification both at intra- and inter-specific levels. Victoria completed her PhD at The University of Auckland, New Zealand with Thomas Buckley and Richard Newcomb. For her thesis, she used genomics techniques to investigation various evolutionary aspects of weta biology. In particular, she looked at molecular evolutionary patterns associated with alpine adaptation, de novo assembly of a giant weta genome and undertook a conservation genetic analysis of three threatened species. Victoria has now started working as a postdoc with Niklas Wahlberg on Lepidoptera phylogenomics.

april 11, 2017

Inger Ekström

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I started working as a post doc in March together with Jörgen Ripa and Jacob Johansson in ThePEG, at the Evolutionary Ecology unit. Last year I defended my thesis in computational mathematics at Umeå University in northern Sweden. My research is about understanding bumblebee coexistence and response to environmental change. To do this I use optimization and techniques from adaptive dynamics. Our basic assumption is that bumblebees compete for many flower resources which have different peaks during a season. The question is if and how the bumblebees will specialize in a flower resource, and how the resources will coevolve with the bumblebees.

mars 20, 2017

Inger Ekström

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I am returning to Sweden after nearly two decades abroad. I completed my undergraduate education at UC Berkeley in California, my Masters and PhD at the University of Missouri in St. Louis, and then did two post-docs in Brazil – one at the University of São Paulo and another at São Paulo Federal University in Diadema. Since my undergraduate years, my focal study system has been avian malaria. I’ve been involved in research on these organisms’ community ecology, biogeography, and host specificity, among other things.

With my current position, I am switching gears to work with experimental evolution. I will work with Charlie Cornwallis, Karin Rengefors, Erik Svensson, and Tobias Uller, but for the first couple of years I will be focusing on the Chlamydomonas multicellularity project lead by Charlie and Karin. Markus Lindh, a new postdoc here, has already provided an excellent summary of the project aims on Biologibloggen if you’re interested in knowing more about it.

mars 20, 2017

Inger Ekström

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