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Härom veckan fylldes Belfragesalen med sistaårsstudenter, naturvetare på Katedralskolan, som lyssnade på Medfaks unga forskare som berättade om sina forskningsprojekt. De inbjudna gymnasieklasserna kom från Katedralskolan i Lund och läser sista året på naturvetenskapliga programmet och har valt medicinsk orientering som inriktning. Besöket tajmades med tidpunkten då eleverna just läst neurovetensk
Vilka forskare berättar om forskning så att det blir begripligt och spännande? Nominera till priser för framstående forskningskommunikation senast, 17 november (The Hamrin Foundation). Mats Eriksson, Lena Nordlund och Stefan Jansson fick förra årets priser för framstående forskningskommunikation som delas ut av Örebro universitet och The Hamrin Foundation.Det största priset på 100 000 kronor delas
https://www.intramed.lu.se/artikel/ar-din-kompis-en-fena-pa-att-formedla-forskning-nominera-ara-cash-i-potten - 2025-12-18
Docent och överläkare Christine Kremer, en av de vetenskapligt ansvariga för 2024 års Forskningens dag, menar att detta är ett fint tillfälle att visa upp vår forskning och uppfylla samverkansuppgiften. OBS! Deadline: 14 januari 2025. Se en kort film om årets Forskningens dag och läs mer om dagen som handlade om könets betydelse för hälsan här. Anmäl ett ämnesförslag till Forskningens dag här & l
Seminariet Human Diversity hålls på engelska den 7 november i Forum Medicum. Mycket hörvärt, enligt Intramed, som fick ett smakprov vid Forskningens dag. Professor Stefánsson kommer att dela med sig av sina insikter från sin mångåriga, världsledande genetiska forskning på Island.– Genetik är det enda sättet att systematiskt studera den mänskliga naturen. Så vi kom fram till att sättet att studera
https://www.intramed.lu.se/artikel/seminarium-med-mottagaren-av-eric-k-fernstroms-pris-2024-kari-stefansson - 2025-12-18
Swedish Foundations’ Starting Grant Fellows for 2017 were announced and Jesper Wallentin is one of the three new fellows. The grant is given for one year at a time and awards the amount applied for from the ERC up to 1,5 M EUR over five years.Jesper will develop ultra-high resolution X-ray detectors based on semiconductor nanowires, whose spatial resolution will be radically better than the curre
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/jesper-wallentin-gets-starting-grant-fellowship - 2025-12-18
A warmer global climate can cause mutations to have more severe consequences for the health of organisms through their detrimental effect on protein function. This may have major repercussions for an organisms’ ability to adapt to, and survive in, the altered habitats of the future. This is shown in a new research study now published in the scientific journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Na
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/warmer-climate-may-make-new-mutations-more-harmful - 2025-12-17
When the snow is gone, it does not take too long before a familiar spring sound reappears - the bumblebee buzz. Since bumblebees are well adapted to cold climates, many of the species are negatively affected by a warmer climate. Researchers at Lund University now ask for the public's help in reporting the first bumblebee queens of the spring, to be able to map how earlier springs affect bumblebees
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/find-first-bumblebee-spring - 2025-12-17
Many species of bee are threatened by global warming, but not all. The buff-tailed bumblebee is the world’s most common bee and will likely remain that way, as researchers from Lund University have discovered that this species benefits from a warmer climate. Through research into buff-tailed bumblebees collected by amateurs and researchers over a period of 150 years, biologists and climate researc
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/warmer-climate-making-worlds-most-common-bumblebee-even-more-common - 2025-12-17
Boreal peatlands store large amounts of carbon, but warmer and drier conditions caused by climate change may turn these ecosystems into carbon sources. Equipped with drones and thermal cameras Julia Kelly, who recently received her doctorate at the Centre for Environmental and Climate Science (CEC), has studied what factors affect the CO2 fluxes in peatland ecosystems. Boreal forests and peatlands
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/drones-offer-new-insights-boreal-peatland-co2-emissions - 2025-12-17
The forest is currently at the centre of an intense debate. It concerns, in simplified terms, which climate benefits the forest can provide, either by sequestering carbon in standing forest, or by being used to substitute fossil fuels and fossil-intensive materials. In a new literature review from the Centre for Environmental and Climate Science (CEC) at Lund University in Sweden, Markku Rummukain
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/climate-benefits-forest-balancing-act-prioritisation - 2025-12-17
An international research team has found a new method for predicting entire pollen seasons, something that can help healthcare and allergy sufferers plan to reduce problems. No similar tool has previously been used in the area. The researchers also show that pollen seasons may be 60 per cent more severe in the future due to climate change. For about one in four Swedes, the arrival of spring and su
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/new-method-predicts-severity-grass-pollen-season-allergy-sufferers - 2025-12-17
By changing from action-based to result-based environmental payment, farmers are financially encouraged to implement conservation measures, such as buffer strips and organic farming, where they are most beneficial for the environment and not, as today, where they least disrupt the production. This according to William Sidemo Holm, who recently defended his dissertation on biodiversity and ecosyste
The Centre for Environmental and Climate Science (CEC) now announces funding for one doctoral studentship, where the doctoral student is admitted to the PhD programme in Environmental Science at the Faculty of Science, and is enrolled in the Agenda 2030 graduate school. The Centre for Environmental and Climate Science (CEC) is responsible for the interdisciplinary PhD programme in Environmental Sc
This summer, Lund University doctoral student Sofia Blomqvist will be investigating how pollinating insects such as bumblebees and solitary bees are faring in flower-rich roadside habitats. However, there is one problem: bumblebee nests are very difficult to find. Now she hopes to be able to train Ylle the dog to help her. Sofia Blomqvist’s objective is to repeat a previously criticized scientific
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/bumblebee-detection-dog-research-duty - 2025-12-17
They become smaller as urbanisation increases. Troublesome, according to researcher Helena Hanson, because urban private gardens affect both cities’ biodiversity and human wellbeing by functioning as social green spaces. Now she strikes a blow for gardens in the urban planning. Green spaces, such as parks and allotment gardens, have a major impact on our physical and mental health and wellbeing –
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/urban-private-gardens-promote-biodiversity - 2025-12-17
Two Lund University climate scientists, Kimberly Nicholas, who has acted as an observer at two global climate summits, and Markku Rummukainen, Sweden’s IPCC representative, talk about what comes next following the recent IPCC report. What do you view as the next steps following what was concluded in the IPCC report? Kimberly: Something the report makes absolutely clear is that to stop warming, hum
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/what-comes-next-after-ipcc-climate-change-report - 2025-12-17
Farming practices that result in higher levels of carbon in agricultural soils could protect both wheat and barley harvests in a future changed climate. This is what emerges from a new study from Lund University in Sweden. However, the practices required are more costly for farmers in the short term, according to the researchers who argue for targeted environmental payments. Ongoing climate change
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/more-carbon-soil-could-protect-harvests-future-climate - 2025-12-17
On October 31st, representatives from across the globe will gather in Glasgow for two weeks to attend the UN climate change conference COP26. Expectations are high following last year's canceled conference, and the IPCC report released in August. As part of the Paris Agreement in 2015, it was decided that all nations would renew their climate pledges or national climate plans, so-called NDCs (Nati
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/glasgow-climate-summit-what-it-about-and-why-does-it-matter - 2025-12-17
Primitive stoves and diesel engines produce soot particles, besides being bad for your health, have a negative effect on the climate. By affecting the atmosphere’s ability to form cloud droplets and ice particles, soot can dislodge the radiation balance. This according to doctoral student John Falk, who is currently working on his dissertation about cloud droplet and ice particle formation in clou
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/ice-particles-clouds-can-affect-climate - 2025-12-17
Lack of habitats and climate change – parameters that scientists know affect the number of pollinators in the world. But exactly how big is the effect and what else contributes to the decline of bees and bumblebees? This has Maria Blasi i Romero tried to find out in her dissertation which will be presented on November 26. A sure sign of spring is the buttery yellow rapeseed fields that every year
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/modelling-survival-bumblebees - 2025-12-17
