På dagens SACT-seminarium höll vår prefekt Christer Löfstedt sitt ”State of the Union”-tal i en välfylld Blå hall. Han berättade hur läget för institutionen är just (mer …)
Nationens tillstånd är gott – i alla fall institutionens
Masateru Maeda – new researcher
I joined Animal Flight Lab in March 2015. Together with Dr. Per Henningsson, I am going to study the manoeuvring flights of insect and bird in the wind tunnel to assess the performance and cost.
I came from Hao Liu laboratory, School of Engineering in Chiba University, Japan, where I worked on aerodynamics of insect and bird flights (fruit fly, butterfly, hummingbird, etc.). I have utilised a numerical method called computational fluid dynamics (CFD), with which you can obtain three dimensional flow field as well as the instantaneous aerodynamic forces (such as lift and drag) acting on the animal.
New postdoc – Reinder Radersma
I am originally from the Netherlands, but I have worked as a postdoc in the UK for the last few years. My past research focussed on the evolutionary consequences of sibling interactions and the interdependence of genetics and social interactions (in great tits). More on my past research can be found on my website rndr.nl.
I just started in Experimental Evolution, Ecology and Behaviour to work with Tobias Uller on epigenetic inheritance in water fleas (Daphnia). We will investigate the non-genetic inheritance of tolerance to toxins produced by cyanobacteria.
Inspelade föreläsningar ger nöjda studenter
På dagens SACT-föreläsning berättade David O’Carroll om hur de på universitetet i Adelaide började spela in (mer …)
Flygande drönare och krigande svampar
Dagens tandem talk stod Emily Baird och Edith Hammer för. De hade inte träffat varandra tidigare men hade (mer …)
New postdoc – Dimitrios Floudas
I completed my PhD in 2014 in David Hibbett’s lab (Clark University, Worcester, MA). I have been working with mushroom forming fungi (Agaricomycetes) focusing on two different fields. The first is related to taxonomy and diversity of lignicolous Agaricomycetes. The second is related to evolution and function of the mechanisms and enzymatic networks involved in the plant cell wall degradation, using phylogenetics and comparative genomics.
Andrea Adden – new PhD student in the Vision Group
I joined the Vision Group in February 2015 to do my PhD project with Stanley Heinze and Eric Warrant. I will be working on the Bogong moth, Agrotis infusa. These small, nocturnal moths travel many miles from their reproduction site to the cool caves in the Australian alps where they spend the summer months. How these moths find their way, especially considering the very limited amount of visual information available during their nocturnal migration, remains a mystery.
I will attempt to shed light on the neurophysiological basis of navigation in these fascinating insects. I also plan to model the neuronal networks involved in navigation, in a collaboration with Barbara Webb at the
University of Edinburgh.
Before coming to Lund, I completed a Master in neuroscience at the University of Göttingen, Germany.
Investera i dig själv eller hur man låter bli att få ont framför datorn och på labbet
Idag hade SACT bjudit in Matilda Eklund som är ergonom och fysioterapeut på Företagshälsan. Hon berättade om hur kroppen fungerar och (mer …)
BLAM – a success as usual
Yesterday and the day before, it was time for the forth Biology in Lund Annual Meeting BLAM. And as usual it was also BLAM-weather, i.e. the sun shining from a (mer …)
Murödlor och fingerörter på årets första Tandem talk
Idag var det äntligen dags för årets första Tandem talk. Först ut var Tobias Uller som berättade om hur franska och italienska murödlor (mer …)
Anna Honkanen – new postdoc in the Vision group
I joined the Lund Vision Group in February 2015 to work with Stanley Heinze and Eric Warrant. My postdoc project is about characterisation of compass neurones and distance encoding neurones in the central complex of two species of bees, the nocturnal Megalopta genalis and the diurnal Bombus terrestris. I will also try to look into how the path integrator works in bee brains.
Before moving to Lund I did my PhD on the dim-light vision of the American cockroach at the University of Oulu in Finland.
New postdoc in the Microbial Ecology group – Michiel Op De Beeck
My name is Michiel Op De Beeck. I will be working at the Lund University as a post-doctoral researcher in the Microbial Ecology group under professors Anders Tunlid, Per Persson and Tomas Johansson. I will be working on the degradation of soil organic matter by ectomycorrhizal fungi in the “Molecular Interactions Controlling Soil Carbon Sequestration (MICCS)” research program.
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