Published 19 May 2022 After many years, a research team led by Lund University in Sweden has sequenced and characterized the entire genome of oats. This opens up for breeding healthier oats with even better nutritional content, and growing oats in a more environmentally sustainable way. The detailed genetic analyzes also strengthen the evidence that oats are safe in a gluten-free diet. The results

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/entire-oat-genome-mapped - 2025-07-05

Published 23 May 2022 Olivier Van Aken and Essam Darwish (Photo: Johan Joelsson) A 30-year-old genetic mystery has been solved. It has previously been established that touch can trigger stress reactions in plants. However, the molecular models for explaining this process have been quite spartan so far. Now researchers at Lund University in Sweden have found genetic keys that explain how plants res

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/what-happens-when-plants-have-stress-reactions-touch - 2025-07-05

Published 25 May 2022 Charlotte Ling (Photo: Kennet Ruona) A new study by researchers at Lund University supports the notion that patients with type 2 diabetes patient should be divided into subgroups and given individualised treatment. The study demonstrates that there are distinct epigenetic differences between different groups of patients with type 2 diabetes. The epigenetic markers are also as

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/epigenetic-markers-predict-complications-patients-type-2-diabetes - 2025-07-05

Published 30 May 2022 Photo: Charlie Cornwallis The ostrich is genetically wired to adapt to rising or falling temperatures. However, when the temperature fluctuates more often, as it does with climate change, the flightless bird with a 40-gram brain finds it much more difficult. A research team at Lund University has shown that the ostrich is very sensitive to fluctuating temperatures in terms of

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Published 7 June 2022 Illustration: ESA/ATG medialab The emergence of a mysterious area in the South Atlantic where the geomagnetic field strength is decreasing rapidly, has led to speculation that Earth is heading towards a magnetic polarity reversal. However, a new study that pieces together evidence stretching back 9,000 years, suggests that the current changes aren’t unique, and that a reversa

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/earths-magnetic-poles-not-likely-flip-study - 2025-07-05

Published 9 June 2022 The year is 2072, and the worst storm in two hundred years is about to hit Scania, in the south of Sweden. In Skanör-Falsterbo, a family is celebrating Christmas when the storm alarm sounds. The waves draw closer to the house, and the family dash towards the nearby church. What happens next is the result of many decades of decisions: did we work together, or did the lines of

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Published 10 June 2022 Two galaxies merging (Illustration: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva) Astronomers at Lund University in Sweden have found a group of stars in the Milky Way disk, that are most likely remnants from an unknown baby galaxy that was swallowed by the Milky Way over 10 billion years ago. Nothing like it has been discovered in the galaxy disk before. Af

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Published 26 January 2018 Although Lund University’s 350th anniversary celebrations are drawing to a close, some projects will live on, along with the working method known as the jubilee model. Carina Jensen, soon to step down from her role as jubilee coordinator, talks about Sunday’s big kick-off for the future, which is open to all. “It will start with an open house event in the main University

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Published 31 May 2018 Large science publisher Elsevier does not meet the requirements of Swedish universities and research institutes. The agreement will be cancelled 30th of June. This means that employees and students at Lund University will not have access to journal articles published by Elsevier after June 30, 2018. However, one can still read Elsevier articles published between 1995 and 30 J

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By asa [dot] hansdotter [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Åsa Hansdotter) - published 31 October 2018 Carita Håkansson. Photo: Åsa Hansdotter LUM managed to sneak in an interview with Carita Håkansson before she packs her bags for a hiking trip in Greece. For the first time in many years she has the chance once more to do what she loves the most – to experience nature and landscapes on foot. Thanks to a

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/she-got-new-liver-and-new-life - 2025-07-05

By kristina [dot] lindgarde [at] kansli [dot] lth [dot] se (Kristina Lindgärde) - published 31 October 2018 Christian Hulteberg. Photo: Kennet Ruona The expression “Sweden’s green gold” has a new meaning. Forests are now not only to provide timber and paper – but also save the climate. Chemical engineering researcher Christian Hulteberg has managed to transform a residual product from pulp manufac

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/he-pumps-petrol-trees - 2025-07-05

By asa [dot] hansdotter [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Åsa Hansdotter) - published 31 October 2018 Ill: Shutterstock Ninety thousand people die in Sweden every year. Despite 80 percent of Sweden’s population stating they would like to donate their organs after death, fewer than 200 people actually become organ donors each year. Why? This is due to, among other reasons, our limited legislation and org

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/overstretched-intensive-care-leads-fewer-donations - 2025-07-05

By jenny [dot] loftrup [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Loftrup) - published 31 October 2018 Christine Blomquist. Photo: Jenny Loftrup “Superbosses” are exceptional at attracting talented people and getting them to perform at their best – while also developing them to become new, good leaders. Are superbosses to be found at the University? “I’m convinced that we would also find superbos

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/superbosses-make-others-become-good-leaders - 2025-07-05

By jenny [dot] loftrup [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Loftrup) - published 31 October 2018 Carl Borrebaeck. Photo: Apelöga Long ago, Carl Borrebaeck worked side by side with one of this year’s Nobel Prize winners for chemistry, Sir Gregory Winter, on the publication of an innovative technology within what was then a hot new research field: antibody engineering. In 1989, within the sam

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/hard-heels-nobel-laureate - 2025-07-05

By maria [dot] lindh [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Lindh) - published 31 October 2018 Ill: Henning Larsen Arkitekter A social sciences centre in the Paradis quarter and a continued reinforcement of the Knowledge Highway are priorities in the new premises plan that presents the University’s intended renovations, extensions and new builds for the next five years. “It will be nice to co

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-premises-plan-reveals-universitys-future-building-projects - 2025-07-05

By jenny [dot] loftrup [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Loftrup) - published 31 October 2018 Aleksandra Popovic. Photo: Jenny Loftrup Broke and depressed – that’s how doctoral students risk ending up if they don’t complete their studies in time. The Doctoral Student Ombudsman, Aleksandra Popvic, says supervisors and the University must take more responsibility for the structure of the t

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/stressed-doctoral-students-want-better-support-their-supervisors - 2025-07-05

By kristina [dot] lindgarde [at] kansli [dot] lth [dot] se (Kristina Lindgärde) - published 31 October 2018 Magdalena Bexell and Kristina Jönsson. Photo: Kristina Lindgärde Lund University is investing SEK 64 million in a graduate school focusing on societal challenges and the 2030 Agenda. Kristina Jönsson, associate professor in political science, will be its coordinator. “This is a unique opport

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/sek-64-million-leading-graduate-school - 2025-07-05

By cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] rektor [dot] lu [dot] se (Cecilia von Arnold) - published 31 October 2018 Mine Islar came to Sweden from Turkey to study a Master’s degree in sustainability. Today she is a lecturer at the Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS) and runs the Pufendorf IAS Migration Initiative. Photo: Jenny Loftrup Migration is a talking point everywhere – in poli

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/where-would-academia-be-without-migrants - 2025-07-05

Published 2 May 2013 Bringing together the three academies of music, art and theatre, and sorting out steering documents and routines are important tasks for Solfrid Söderlind, new Dean of the Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts. Solfrid Söderlind is new Dean of Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts. Professor Söderlind has most recently worked on an inquiry for Uppsala University, and prior to that

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Published 2 May 2013 “Researchers and students are mobile in a completely different way from previously, but the regulations haven’t kept up. The EU needs to act to remove the most serious types of obstacle, for example between Sweden and Denmark, and urgently”, says Lund University’s HR director Ingrid Estrada-Magnusson. Sonja Meiby and Ingrid Estrada-Magnusson LERU stands for the League of Europ

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/europe-needs-improve-researcher-mobility - 2025-07-05