Den 29 september uppmärksammades Cecilias långa gärning vid Lunds universitet med ett avtackningsmingel i Ekologihusets foajé. Det var många (mer …)
Cecilia Lönnqvists går i pension
Inte helt lätt att bemöta härskartekniker
Igår hade Jämställdhetsgruppen och SACT (gruppen för vetenskapliga och sociala aktiviteter) ordnat en workshop om härskartekniker. De hade bjudit in Katarina Billing från MiL att (mer …)
Education Fair 2016
As every autumn we had the Education Fair (29 Sept.) During lunch the students had the possibility to plan and discuss their education together with the teachers and program coordinators. And in the afternoon there was information about the Bachelor´s program, the PhD program and Exchange studies.
Text and photo by Jep Agrell
Nadia Jelvez – new postdoc
My research passion lies in chemical ecology and vector control. My current post-doctoral research involves understanding the attraction of hematophagous insects to blood sources. I will look into olfactory cues used in blood feeding through the use of both chemical ecology and molecular biology.
I received my M.Sc. from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine where I had the opportunity to work on a project based in Brazil where I studied the chemical ecology between sugar sources and sandflies. This led to conducting my PhD studies in the Chemistry and Biotechnology Department at the Federal University of Alagoas in Brazil. Throughout my PhD studies I investigated the olfactory cues that attract Stomoxys calcitrans to livestock and sugarcane mills. In addition to my main project I also had the opportunity to collaborate in other research projects, which led to me joining Marcus Stensmyr’s group at Lund University.
Violeta Kaleskovska – new financial administrator
Hi everybody,
My name is Violeta also known as Viki. I recently started at the Department of Biology where my tasks will include financial administration for the undergraduate level, insurance and much more.
I´ve previously worked at the Department of Business Administration and the Institute of Economic Research where I had varied tasks.
On my spare time I try to do as much as I can like hanging out with friends and family, taking long walks, watching movies and so on.
I am very excited to be here and get to know all of you so if you want come by and say hi please do so. You will find me in the Ecology Building where I sit in The Education Office.
Minnesord över Hadar Emanuelsson
Hadar Emanuelsson, Lund, har avlidit i en ålder av 90 år. Hans närmaste är hustrun Kerstin och barnen Urban och Birger med familjer samt systern Vera. Hadar Emanuelsson var tidigare professor i utvecklingsfysiologi vid zoofysiologiska institutionen och vid sin bortgång professor emeritus vid biologiska institutionen. Han var född i Kristinehamn och uppvuxen i Landskrona.
Hadars kärlek till naturen präglade (mer …)
Pierre Tichit – new PhD student
Hej!
I am a new PhD student at the Lund Vision Group. I spent much of my childhood close to Paris, France, where I began to study Biology in 2008. Two years later, I moved to Lyon to write my Bachelor and Masters theses. I have always been puzzled by the way animals behave, and my previous projects during my Masters led me to Germany, France and Denmark.
The aim of my PhD project is to investigate what kind of visual and flight adaptations bumblebees have, that enable them to manoeuver through the diverse range of environments they inhabit (some live in tropical forests, others in the arctic tundra, and maybe even some of them in your garden!). To do so, my plan is to use information from advanced micro computed tomography techniques to investigate the anatomy of the eyes and peripheral brain structures of several bumblebee species. I will combine those results with behavioural experiments both in the lab and in the field to evaluate the visual flight control abilities of different Bombus species.
Apart from research, I like spending my free time country-skiing (when there is snow) or hiking (when there is sun), as well as buying second hand goods and local products for example… I also enjoy all kinds of cultural adventures, especially when it comes to music from all around the world!
Cheers,
Pierre
Bo Bekkouche – new PhD student
Hello!
I am a new PhD student in the Animal physiology group with David O’Carroll as main supervisor and Elisa Rigosi as co-supervisor.
I did my bachelor and master degrees at the Royal Institute of Techonlogy in Stockholm.
My bachelor project focused on modeling neuropathic pain, and my master thesis on simulations of neuronal networks to analyze spiketrain heterogeneity, and subtypes in mouse striatum using clustering of single-cell RNA-seq data. I have also worked as a software developer for about 2 years at Compugroup medical. Most recently I worked as a research assistant at Karolinska institutet in Stockholm, using a detailed medium spiny neuron model to analyze different classifications and see what parameters control network synchronicity.
Here at Lund University I will analyze the neural mechanisms for target tracking in insects, using electrophysiology, anatomical reconstruction, and
computational modeling.
Matlagning på molekylär nivå
Idag var det dags för gruppen för vetenskapliga aktiviteters (SACT) första seminarium för terminen. Jessica Abbot hade bjudit in kokboksförfattaren och livsmedelsteknologen PO Hegg att (mer …)
Erika Tòth – New post doc in the Pheromone Group
Hi everyone!
I recently joined the Pheromone Group to work with Christer Löfstedt on modelling and molecular engineering of insect enzymes to alter their substrate specificity and to understand how the function of the protein depends on its three-dimensional structure.
I received my M.Sc. in Molecular biology at the University of Szeged (Hungary). As a Master student, I designed a field-applied bioslurping method using biodegradable rhamnolipid to facilitate degradation of crude oil from the capillary zone of a polluted industrial area. During my Ph.D. at the University of Eastern Piedmont (Italy), I focused on the development and potential therapeutic use of recombinant proteins to understand and target the molecular mechanisms underlying the progression of autoimmune diseases and cancer.
I like to spend my free time watching american football or other sport events, hanging out and having good conversations and travel a lot.
See you around!
Erika Tòth
Charlotta Thomaeus – new financial administrator
I’m the substitute for Szidonia Ruggiero during her leave of absence and will work on the department until September 30th 2017.
I worked on Accounts Payable on Sony Mobile Communications AB for 11 years. I share my spare time with my dog, cat and partner.
Atena Malakpour – new PhD student
I am from the northern part of Iran, near the coast of the Caspian Sea. I have always been fascinated by the field of Biology. I studied Microbiology for my undergraduate degree and continued to get a master degree in Molecular Biology at Lund University in autumn 2013. My motivation for being a part of the field of Molecular Biology lies in the fact that it is a foundation of our capability to treat almost all human diseases.
The increasing number of cancer patients in Iran and my family’s experience with this disease were the main reasons why I became interested in cancer research. I got the opportunity to work in this field as my master thesis in order to make a small contribution to the world of cancer therapy. Afterwards, I was accepted as a PhD student under the supervision of Professor Stina Oredsson and Per Fredrik Johansson in Biology department, Lund University in 2016.
Recent findings has shown that cells often exhibit different behaviour when they are separated from their native three dimensional (3D) tissues and confined to a monolayer cell cultures (2D). The development of complex synthetic 3D cell culture models, which can mimic the native extracellular matrix, represents an important step towards a more in vivo-like cell environment. We will work on the development of a 3D cell culture models of nanofiber mashes using different types of polymers such as Polycaprolactone (PCL) and polylactide (PLA). We will also examine the effect of 3D culture systems primarily on various breast cancer cell lines and other cells such as fibroblasts, immune cells and neural cells and co-culture of such cells. The effect of different anti-cancer compounds such as Salinomycin and its analogues on the cancer cells and cancer stem cells proliferation and migration will also be investigated. 3D systems present a novel tool to further decrease the use of animals in cancer research in future.
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