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The role of biogeophysical feedbacks and their impacts in the arctic and boreal climate system is the name of Wenxing Zhangs thesis, which he defended on February 6 2015. On February 6th Wenxin Zhang defended his thesis The role of biogeophysical feedbacks and their impacts in the arctic and boreal climate system. Opponent was Laxmi Sushama.In the thesis Wenxin Zhang presents findings from studies

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/role-biogeophysical-feedbacks-and-their-impacts-arctic-and-boreal-climate-system - 2025-10-27

ClimBEco is a two-year graduate research school that promotes young scientists to engage in interdisciplinary research on climate, earth system and society in a changing world. Application to ClimBEco is open right now until the 14th of April. The Research School is open to students who are already enrolled as PhD students. Priority will be given to PhD students enrolled at Nordic Universities eng

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/apply-climbeco-graduate-research-school-2015-2017 - 2025-10-27

DataGURU is a tool for researchers to disseminate and find climate, land use, biodiversity and related data. The tool can also be of value as open data strategy in future applications for research funding. This work has been commissioned by the strategic research areas MERGE and BECC. The team, led by researcher Veiko Lehsten, developed a tool for the dissemination of the research data that can be

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/dataguru-new-tool-disseminating-and-finding-spatial-temporal-data - 2025-10-27

The Strategic Research Area initiative for research funding was launched by the Swedish Government in the research and innovation bill of 2008. 43 Swedish strategic research areas (SRA’s) was funded by the Swedish government from 2010-2014. MERGE is one of the SRA’s that now have been evaluated. Today the evaluation, together with recommendations for the future, was published and we are happy to a

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/positive-evaluation-merge - 2025-10-27

Tropical rainforests have long been considered the Earth’s lungs, sequestering large amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and thereby slowing down the increasing greenhouse effect and associated human-made climate change. Scientists in a global research project now show that the vast extensions of semi-arid landscapes occupying the transition zone between rainforest and desert dominate th

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/new-article-science-shows-savannahs-slows-climate-change - 2025-10-27

On May 11-13 an international LUsTT/BECC/MERGE workshop was organized in Landskrona, with around 60 leading researchers within the field of dynamic vegetation modelling. Report from the LUsTT/BECC/MERGE Workshop: “Dynamic global vegetation modelling: towards a third generation”.LPJ-GUESS is a Dynamical Global Vegetation model (DGVM) maintained and further developed at the Department of Physical Ge

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/report-dynamic-global-vegetation-modelling-towards-third-generation - 2025-10-27

On February 24th and 25th, the kick-off meeting for the NordicESM project took place in Oslo. The aim of NordicESM is to enhance the collaboration on the field of Earth System modelling within the Nordic Countries. The project therefore involves all Nordic research groups working with the Earth System models NorESM and EC-Earth. Amongst other institutes in Europe, Lund University has an active rol

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/nordicesm-meeting - 2025-10-27

A recently published report is a revision and expansion of the 2008 edition of the BACC book. Several MERGE researchers has contributed to this work. The Second Assessment of Climate Change for the Baltic Sea Basin (BACC II), a recently published report, serves as a revision and expansion of the 2008 edition of the BACC book.“The current publication for the Baltic Sea area is a regional variant on

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/new-report-consolidates-knowledge-climate-change-baltic-sea-region - 2025-10-27

On 15-16 June 2015 MERGE's annual spring/summer meeting was held at Örenäs Castle in Glumslöv. MERGE researchers and PhD students got together for two days of discussions, scientific presentations and beautiful walks around the castle area. You can find the presentations from the meeting here. Markku Rummukainen, coordinator of MERGE, started the meeting with a background on MERGE's development as

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/merge-summer-meeting-2015 - 2025-10-27

A new working group, lead by MERGE board member Marie-José Gaillard, will work with global reconstructions of anthropogenic land-cover change over the last 6000 years for climate models. PAGES (Past Global Changes) supports research aimed at understanding the Earth’s past environment in order to make predictions for the future.The new PAGES working group "LandCover6k" has the goal to produce globa

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/new-pages-working-group-will-produce-global-recontructions-anthropogenic-land-cover-change - 2025-10-27

Something to announce

https://www.cgbkansli.lu.se/en/article/testnews - 2025-10-27

The Young Academy of Sweden, an interdisciplinary academy for a selection of the most prominent younger researchers in Sweden, has launched "A Beginner’s Guide to Swedish Academia", a guide for international researchers, to help navigate Swedish academia and remove time-consuming obstacles. The Young Academy of Sweden (YAS) is an independent platform that provides young researchers with a strong v

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/beginners-guide-swedish-academia - 2025-10-27

The WCMM centre has got yet another new doctor! Roberta Battistella, PhD student in the Lundgaard lab, successfully defended her thesis this month. Roberta Battistella, PhD student in the Lundgaard lab and part of MultiPark, defended her PhD thesis entitled “Methods to study glymphatic system in rodents´ brain during physiological and pathophysiological processes” on the 1st of December. Roberta w

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/new-wcmm-doctor-0 - 2025-10-27

Karin Tran Lundmark was awarded funding from the Heart-Lung Foundation for the project "Synchrotron-based imaging to decipher cardiovascular pathobiology". The funding includes 800.000 SEK per year for 3 years. The main purpose of this project is to find novel treatments for pulmonary hypertension. To achieve this, Karins group aims to:  Use synchrotron-based imaging combined with other methods to

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/karin-tran-lundmark-receives-heart-lung-foundation-grant-24-million-sek - 2025-10-27

The first pair of WCMM ScienceBrew popular science talks was a success. Stay tuned for the many exciting plans we have for our popular science talks series! Thanks to all the speakers for their fantastic performance at Café Ariman! At the inaugural WCMM ScienceBrew we heard from: Luís, on turning skin into immune cells to fight disease. Zackarias, on the "sweet" science of sugars that decorate our

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/two-wcmm-sciencebrews-down-many-more-come - 2025-10-27

The SciLifeLab & Wallenberg National Program for Data-Driven Life Science (DDLS) is the is one of the latest research initiative funded by Knut and Alice Wallenberg foundation. Lund University has successfully recruited two DDLS Fellows starting now in the beginning of 2023. The practice of life science is continuously becoming more data-dependent. The amount and complexity of data is growing expo

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/scilifelab-wallenberg-national-program-data-driven-life-science - 2025-10-27

Filipe Pereira was awarded the ERC Proof-of-Concept grant covering €150.000 for a period of 18 months for the idea to identify cancer neoantigens with dendritic cell reprogramming (NeoIDC). The ERC Proof-of-Concept (PoC) grant aims at facilitating the exploration of the commercial and social innovation potential of ERC-funded research. The project, for which Filipe Pereira got the grant, aims to e

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/filipe-pereira-awarded-erc-proof-concept-grant - 2025-10-27

Gesine Paul-Visse and consultant neurologist and clinical fellow Robert Carlsson received 3 million SEK of funding by Cancerfonden covering 3 years for their project. The already ongoing project entitled “Modulating key targets in pericytes: impact on tumor infiltration and immune evasion in glioblastoma” will investigate if and how modulation of previously selected targets in pericytes antagonize

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/gesine-paul-visse-receives-3-million-sek-cancerfonden - 2025-10-27

SciLifeLab, Science for Life Laboratory, is a joint organisation for the advancement of molecular biosciences in Sweden. What started off as a joint effort between Stockholm-based universities is now a national collaboration with operations at 11 universities. In 2022, SciLifeLab site Lund was started. SciLifeLab, Science for Life Laboratory, is a joint organisation for the advancement of molecula

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/scilifelab-national-resource-unique-technologies-and-expertise - 2025-10-27

The WCMM centre has got yet another new doctor! Cecilia Skoug, PhD graduate from Joao Duartes group, defended her thesis “Bioactive lipids as neuroprotective targets in type 2 diabetes” on the 1st of March in Belfragesalen at BMC. In her thesis, Cecilia has explored the change in the lipidome and the consequences for brain function in type 2 diabetes (T2D). In metabolic diseases, such as obesity a

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/new-wcmm-doctor-1 - 2025-10-27