På terminens första Tandem Talk berättade Dan Nilsson och Emma Kritzberg om sin forskning. Efter slantsingling började Dan med att (mer …)
Brunt vatten och ögon stora som basketbollar
Charlotta Löfström – new Senior Lecturer
My name is Charlotta and I´m a new lecturer in the Molecular Cell Biology unit. During the autumn 2015 semester I will work as a teacher in microbiology and molecular cell biology, e.g. in the BIOR18 Microbiology course.
I´m a food microbiologist with an MSc in Chemical Engineering (1999) and a PhD in Applied Microbiology (2005) from the Faculty of Engineering (LTH) at LU. During 2007-2015 I worked as a teacher and researcher at the National Food Institute at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). My area of research is microbial food safety and especially development and implementation of nucleic acid based methods (qPCR, NGS etc.) for detection and characterization of foodborne zoonotic bacteria.
Café Marina fyller 10 år
Idag firade Café Marina att den har funnits i Ekologihuset i 10 år. Ruza hade slagit på stort och bjöd på en (mer …)
Jerker Vinterstare – new PhD-student
Hi! My name is Jerker and I recently started my PhD-studies at the Aquatic ecology unit.
I will study predator-induced plasticity under the supervision of Christer Brönmark and Anders Nilsson. To gain a deeper understanding of the ultimate and proximate mechanism behind inducible defences, I will base my research on a common cyprinid – the crucian carp (see pic.). This fish provided the first example of an inducible morphological defence in a vertebrate. Its morphological and behavioural responses to predators are very distinct and easy to quantify, and hence, an excellent model organism for this project.
I am born and raised in Östersund, Jämtland from where I migrated to Skåne for the study of biology in year 2009. I have been working at the unit of aquatic ecology with diverse research project since June 2014, when I received my master in aquatic ecology.
I love fishes, science and to drink clean water, and thus, I am very glad for the opportunity to perform future research at this superb unit!
Lysande instrumentmakare avtackad
Idag var det avtackning av Stefan Sydoff. Han går nu i pension efter en lång (mer …)
New postdoc – Nicoletta Faraone
Hello! I am a new postdoc in the Pheromone group under Olle Anderbrandt and Christer Löfstedt. I am an organic chemist (MSc 2008) with a PhD (2012) in Chemical Ecology.
Before moving to Lund in June 2015, I worked for three years as a postdoc in the Entomology group at Dalhousie University Agricultural Campus, Nova Scotia (Canada). My work was focused on the host-marking pheromone of blueberry fruit fly and the use of essential oils as bio-pesticides in innovative IPM techniques.
With the Pheromone group, I will work on the identification of pheromones and host plant volatiles for seed-eating weevils, and on the use of these compounds to develop environmentally friendly methods for monitoring and control of weevil populations in clover seed fields.
I am very happy for this great opportunity!
Esa-Ville Immonen – new postdoc
Hi! My name is Esa-Ville, but everybody calls me by my nickname, Ekku. I’m a new postdoctoral researcher working in the Lund Vision Group, under Marie Dacke and Basil el Jundi.
Before moving to Lund in May 2015 I was working for a few months as a postdoc in Matti Weckström’s Neuronal Signalling research group at the University of Oulu. This also where I finished my MSc (2009) and PhD (2014) in biophysics. During my studies I was supposed to focus on doing in vitro electrophysiology from cockroach photoreceptors, but, as it often turns out in science, every now and then I deviated from my path, and ended up doing recordings from photoreceptors of various insect species. More specifically, what I actually recorded from them was ionic currents and responses to intensity-modulated light stimuli.
Today, here in Lund, I’ll be working on the integration of environmental cues in the dung beetle brain. In this multidisciplinary project, I get to do brain anatomy, in vivo electrophysiology from the central brain neurons, behavioural experiments, and dung handling. How could I refuse?
New postdoc – Antonio Cordero
I am a new postdoc in the research group of Tobias Uller. Broadly speaking, my work will aim to address important conceptual gaps concerning the role of developmental plasticity in ecology and evolution of reptilian systems. I recently completed my PhD at Iowa State University, USA, where I studied the developmental basis of phenotypic innovation and repeatability in turtles. My work integrated embryology, genetics, phylogenetics, and morphometrics. In Lund, I plan to continue using a multidisciplinary approach to address compelling questions in ecological and evolutionary developmental biology.
Hanna Laakkonen – new research technician
I’m a research technician / lab manager in Experimental Evolution, Ecology and Behaviour in Tobias Uller’s group. My tasks include assistance in all the research related things, administrative tasks, and also the research itself.
I’m from the Finnish Museum of Natural History (Helsinki University), where I’ll defend my PhD this autumn. In my thesis I studied phylogeny of boreal and arctic marine invertebrates and fishes. The focus was on trans-Arctic dispersal between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans in the timescale of past 5 Million years, and on the phenomena resulting from that (e.g. genetic diversity, cryptic species, introgression following secondary contacts). With my background in phylogeography, I’m especially fascinated by the evolutionary and ecological consequences of dispersal and adaptation to new environments.
New PhD student – Inga Turminaite
Hello! My name is Inga and I’m a new PhD student in the Nose/Vision group. I’m supervised by Prof. Ronald Kröger and, as it sometimes might seem, his dog Kevin. During my years here I will be studying mammalian
thermosensitivity and the function of the rhinarium (naked nose tip). I
will be using a variety of approaches including molecular biological
methods, bioinformatics, physiological and morphological studies. I have
received both my Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees here in Lund and I am very happy to continue working in this great university.
SACT toad excursion
European fire-bellied toad (Bombina bombina) 26 May 2015 16.00-19.30.
Svartskylle (55°32’05.9″N 13°47’02.5″E)
Very windy and non-optimal, but we heard several toads (like half a
cuckoo!), enjoyed the lovely landscape and found a slope covered with early
purple orchids (Orchis mascula) on the way back.
Written and photographed by Honor Prentice
Sommargyllingar bland sommargyllen
I morse vid halv fem-tiden gav sig en tapper skara på 11 personer iväg på SACTs fågelexkursion till (mer …)
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