Mellan den 7 och 9 februari var det fullt med ekologer i Lund. Det var det årliga svenska Oikos-mötet. Redan i måndags smygstartade vi (mer …)
Ekologikonferens i dagarna tre
Jan Olsson – new research journalist
Hi everybody!
My name is Jan Olsson and I’ve just started working at the Department of Biology as a research journalist. For many years I worked as a reporter and news editor at different media companies. For the last year I have been a press officer at the Faculty of Science at Lund University. My role at the Department of Biology involves working with text presentations and news for the department’s website.
Catch people’s interest
One of my first tasks is to write web presentations in Swedish for each research group at the department. The goal is to make sure that the public and your colleagues get relevant information presented in an interesting way on each group’s web page. Later, I will also work with individual researchers’ web pages. In other words, I will, in close cooperation with you, write presentations similar to popular summaries.
Make your research known
As well as working with presentations for the web, I’ll also keep my eyes open for news mainly based on your findings and research. The news will be published on the department’s website. In order to do this I will need your help. A lot depends on you as to whether or not your findings will reach out to a wider public. Very often I will not know anything about your research if you do not tell me. So please get in touch!
Rektor delade ut administrativt pris till Monica Pardon
På Lunds universitets 349:e födelsedag den 28 januari fick institutionens administrativa chef Monica Pardon ta emot universitetets administrativa pris 2017. Hon fick priset för sina (mer …)
Xiaoqing Hou – new PhD student
My name is Xiaoqing Hou and I’m a new PhD student in the Pheromone Group since November last year, supported by a scholarship form CSC.
I’m from a small city in the north of China. I received my bachelor’s degree and master’s degree from Nanjing Agricultural University. My master major is Agricultural Entomology and Pest Control, and I focused on exploring the effects of biochar amendment to soil on feeding behavior and life history of Nilaparvata lugens.
The genes encoding olfactory receptors (ORs) are identified in many insects. Some ORs are highly specific and bind only a few odorants, while others are promiscuous, but we are far from understanding where in these receptors selectivity and sensitivity are encoded. In my PhD project I will study the functional significance of sequence variation in insect olfactory receptors (ORs).
Vackra blommor och biologisk mångfald i filmtappning
Idag hade SACT bjudit in Sven G. Nilsson att visa sin film Mandelblom, kattfot och blå viol. Filmen är en (mer …)
Biologins dag i Lund 2017
An English translation follow below.
Lördagen den 8 april är det dags för jubileumsversionen av Biologins dag i Lund. Mellan 12 och 16 har vi öppet hus på institutionen. I år kommer de (mer …)
Markus Lindh – new postdoc
I did my PhD study at the Linnaeus University, Sweden and postdoc at University of Hawaii on microbial ecology and oceanography characterizing distribution patterns and responses to predicted climate change among marine bacterial assemblages. In much of my recent work I applied theoretical ecological frameworks such as metapopulation and metacommunity models to understand biogeography of marine microbes.
Currently I am working with Charlie Cornwallis and Karin Rengefors among others, in a collaborative interdisciplinary project on the genetic mechanisms involved in the evolution of multicellularity in microbes. The goal of this evolutionary ecology project is to determine what genetic factors allow particular unicellular organisms to take the evolutionary leap toward a multicellular life style, in particular in the model organism
Chlamydomonas sp. but also among other unicellular organisms carrying the capacity to become multicellular.
Johanna Yourstone – new PhD student
Hello all! My name is Johanna Yourstone and I am very excited to start my PhD position at the Biodiversity unit, with main supervisor Ola Olsson and co-supervisor Henrik Smith.
I have been studying biology at Lund University the last couple of years (with some breaks for adventures and art studies) and I did my bachelor thesis on the impact of a neonicotinoid on solitary bees. Since then I have been very fascinated by bees and pollination ecology, which together with birding, botany and other nerdy interests brings me out in nature whenever chance is.
In my project I will look at the effect of spatio-temporal flower resource variation (related to agriculture intensity and landscape complexity) on bumblebees. I will go in-depth investigating diet, colony growth, reproduction and morphology and also add a historical aspect by investigating bumblebee-specimen collected during the last century. I hope my research will bring new light to the reasons behind bumblebee declines and provide a foundation for more efficient conservation measures.
See you in the corridors!
Dafne Ram – new PhD student
Hej! My name is Dafne Ram and I am a new PhD student at the Biodiversity Unit. I will study how birds and butterflies are distributed at the forest-farmland interface and how they respond to changes in land use and climate. I will work under supervision of Åke Lindström, Lars Pettersson and Paul Caplat.
I am from the Netherlands, where I completed my bachelor studies on nature and wildlife management. I then did my master degree here in Lund majoring in animal ecology. After my master I have worked on a project on forest bird trends with Åke Lindström and others at the Biodiversity/Monitoring group. I am very excited to continue working in this group as a PhD student!
En riktigt God Jul och ett Gott Nytt År önskas institutionens alla medarbetare!
(An English version may follow, until then:
– Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all coworkers at the Department of Biology.
And please see (mer …)
Rekordstor Luciakonstutställning
Dagens Luciakonstutställning slog alla rekord, både i antal utställare och i antal besökare. Stundtals var det inte (mer …)
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