Finally, our new confocal microscope (Leica SP8 DLS) has arrived in the department and is being installed by (mer …)
Collect data faster with new system
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.
10 år från idé till färdig bok
Idag var det boksläpp för Bengt Olle Bengtssons och Torbjörn Sälls bok Understanding Population Genetics. Författarna bjöd på förfriskningar och tilltugg i Biologihuset för (mer …)
Stressade växter och flyttande fåglar
Blå hallen var nästan full på terminens första Tandem talk med Olivier Van Aken och Staffan Bensch som (mer …)
Tobias Hartman – new intern
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.
Humberto Itriago – new PhD student
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.
Rachel Thomson – new intern
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.
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