Dagens tandem talk stod Emily Baird och Edith Hammer för. De hade inte träffat varandra tidigare men hade (mer …)
Flygande drönare och krigande svampar
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.
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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.
Another new postdoc – Zhanfeng Liu
My name is Zhanfeng Liu. I am working with Professor Håkan Wallander as a visiting researcher supported by Swedish Institute Scholarship. My project in Sweden will investigate how soil microbial community responds to natural thermal gradients in natural grasslands of Iceland.
New postdoc – Tao Wang
My name is Tao Wang. I am a postdoc under the supervision of Profs. Anders Tunlid and Per Persson from the Microbial Ecology group. My work focuses on the extraction and decomposition of soil organic matter in order to achieve a mechanistic understanding of soil carbon sequestration at a molecular scale.
Shakhira Zakhrabekova – new postdoc
My name is Shakhira Zakhrabekova and I am PostDoc at the Department of Biology, group of Professor Mats Hansson.
Originally I am from Azerbaijan. During last 15 years I have been working in Sweden at Lund University and at Gothenburg University and in Denmark at Carlsberg Laboratory.
My project focuses on identification of genes deficient in barley mutants. Currently, I am trying to identify genes regulating plant architecture.
We have previously identified four different genes and I will now characterize the gene products through more biochemical experiments.
In my private life I am very interested in music, playing piano and cooking.
Torbjörn von Schantz på plats på riktigt
Igår på Lunds universitets födelsedag och allt installerades Torbjörn von Schantz under en högtidlig ceremoni i Universitetsaulan. Det var en alldeles (mer …)
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