Published 15 December 2014 RESEARCHER OUTREACH: In 2015, Johannes Stripple will head an Advanced Study Group entitled The Decarbonisation Laboratory, that will focus on the development of new methdologies in that field. Learn more...

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Published 16 December 2014 RESEARCHER OUTREACH: Johannes Stripple organises Destination Decarbonisation, the closing event for Harriet Bulkeley as she ends her tenure as the King Carl XVI Gustaf professor in Environmental Science at Lund University (December 16). Learn more...

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Published 17 December 2014 PROJECT SUPPORT: Malena Rosén Sundström and Hanna Bäck have been granted 5 mn SEK by the Marianne and Marcus Wallenbergs foundation in support of the project Political Participation among young people - from party democrats to social media activists. The department extends its congratulations!Malena Rosén SundströmHanna Bäck 

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/funding-political-participation-among-young-people - 2025-07-01

Published 18 December 2014 Petter Narby defended his dissertation ”Time of Crisis: Order, Politics, Temporality.” yesterday at one o'clock in Edens Hörsal, The Department of Political Science, Lund. Discussant: Kimberly Hutchings, London School of Economics. AbstractCrises are common and problematic features of contemporary politics. Thought as moments in time when order is undermined by flux and

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Published 19 December 2014 Lund University's advent calendar Merry Quizmas features Johannes Lindvall's research today. Every day you have a chance to enter the competition by sending a message (comment). Indicate the correct answer to today’s question in the message/comment: 1, X or 2.Today's quiz-question:There are various theories about what parties benefit in an election that takes place short

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/lindvall-quiz-question-todays-advent-calendar - 2025-07-01

Published 6 December 2014 Roger Hildingsson defended his dissertation "Governing Decarbonisation. The State and the New Politics of Climate Change" yesterday in Edens Hörsal, The Department of Political Science, Lund. Roger HildingssonDiscussant: Professor James Meadowcroft.AbstractThis dissertation examines the “new climate politics of decarbonisation” and the role of the state as a site for prog

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/roger-hildingsson-defended-his-thesis - 2025-07-01

Published 20 December 2014 Annika Fredén writes about the government crisis on the international election blog "Making Electoral Democracy Work". The post is authored together with Elina Lindgren and Patrik Öhberg at Gothenburg University. Read post: Sweden: An unprecedented crisis in a (lost?) political stability heavenAnnika Fredén

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/freden-about-government-crisis - 2025-07-01

Published 21 December 2014 Two postdoc positions with STANCE (Lund). Apply by 2015-02-20. The project STANCE (State-Making and the Origins of Global Order in the Long Nineteenth Century and Beyond) announces a call for two postdocs in Political Science with a Specialization in Comparative Politics and/or International Relations.Read more.   

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/two-postdoc-positions-political-science - 2025-07-01

By Alexander [dot] Doyle [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexander Doyle) - published 1 March 2021 A high power microscopy image of a neuron (blue) in which the epigenetic silencing of ERVs are lost, resulting in abundant ERV proteins (red). Photo credit: Marie Jönsson. Researchers from Lund Stem Cell Center highlight the importance of controlling viral elements that reside in the genome and how their

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/activation-ancient-viruses-during-brain-development-causes-inflammation - 2025-07-01

By Alexander [dot] Doyle [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexander Doyle) - published 3 March 2021 Image of breast cancer cells expressing a stem cell marker (CD44, green signal) and sporting richly interwoven mitochondrial networks (red). Image credit Maciej Ciesla. Researchers from Lund University in Sweden have identified a new layer of gene regulation mediated by changes in ribonucleic acid metabo

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/regulation-rna-splicing-reveals-unique-clinical-features-aggressive-breast-cancers - 2025-07-01

By Alexander [dot] Doyle [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexander Doyle) - published 9 March 2021 Shelby Shrigley defends her PhD thesis on Friday 12th March 2021. During her PhD studies Shelby Shrigley has been exploring patient-specific cell replacement therapy for Parkinson's disease. Defending her PhD thesis on March 12th, here Shelby tells us about her research within the Developmental and Regen

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/phd-defence-interview-shelby-shrigley - 2025-07-01

By Asa [dot] Hansdotter [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Åsa Hansdotter) - published 10 March 2021 Image depicting the structure of an IgG antibody. In recent years, therapeutic antibodies have transformed the treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases. Now, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have developed a new, efficient method based on the genetic scissors CRISPR-Cas9, that facilitates antib

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/new-method-developing-antibody-based-drugs - 2025-07-01

By Agata [dot] Garpenlind [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Agata Garpenlind) - published 12 March 2021 The fight against COVID-19 continues. In Lund, researchers are working to identify a compound that could be used to prevent viral infection, and thus save lives. “This model that has been developed with our collaborators will fill an important gap for current and future drug screening efforts for the

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/new-model-human-airways-speeds-battle-against-covid-19 - 2025-07-01

Published 13 August 2018 A recent article in Nature Nanotechnology by NanoLund researchers show that a quantum dot-based heat engine can convert heat into work with an efficiency similar to that of similar machines with moving parts. As quantum dot-based engine has no moving parts it may be useful in applications such as nanotechnology and remote sensing. To Chemistry World, Heiner Linke explains:

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Published 2 July 2018 Calle Preger was awarded with ”Best Poster Award” at the conference Aerosol Technology in Bilbao for his poster “Using COMSOL Multiphysics as a Tool to Predict Aerosol Deposition Spot Size of an Electrostatic Precipitator (ESP)”

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/best-poster-award-calle-preger - 2025-07-01

Published 2 July 2018 NanoLund PhD student Mohammad Karimi has been selected to receive the SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship for his potential contributions to the field of optics, photonics or related field.SPIE is the international society for optics and photonics, an educational not-for-profit organization founded in 1955 to advance light-based science, engineering, and technolog

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/mohammad-karimi-receives-spie-scholarship - 2025-07-01

Published 24 August 2018 NanoLund researcher Jesper Wallentin has been granted an ERC starting grant. His project will investigate whether semiconductor nanowires can be used as high resolution X-ray detectors. Wallentins group have some initial results that show that they can get a measurable electric current from single nanowires that are exposed to X-rays. Long term, the hope is that nanostruct

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/jesper-wallentin-gets-erc-starting-grant - 2025-07-01

Publicerad 4 december 2014 Improvisationsteater är rena vitamininjektionen för kreativiteten. Dessutom gynnar övningarna inte bara den enskilda medarbetaren utan hela organisationen, skriver Svenska dagbladet. – Improvisationsteater går ut på att testa gränser och att våga slänga ur sig obearbetade idéer. Det är häftigt att övningarna påverkar kreativiteten med så pass mycket som 30 procent, säger

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Publicerad 4 december 2014 På "Hjärndagen 2014", arrangerat av Forskning & Framsteg och Modern Psykologi, pratade professor Mikael Johansson om minnen och om ”Mentala tidsresor". "Episodiskt minne innebär mentala tidsresor som ger oss möjlighet att återuppleva tidigare händelser och att tänka om framtiden. Professor Mikael Johansson ger en bild av hur detta resande går till i hjärnan och fo

https://www.psy.lu.se/artikel/psykologiprofessor-pratade-minnen-pa-hjarndagen-2014 - 2025-07-01

Publicerad 11 december 2014 Att motion kan förbättra vårt minne vet forskarna. Men exakt på vilket sätt, och hur man kan skräddarsy de mest effektiva träningsprogrammen, tar man reda på just nu i Lund, skriver Sydsvenskan. Lennart Rydberg kämpar på till max på testcykeln. Han har en stor blå andningsmask över mun och näsa, en massa sladdar till EKG-mätare på bröstet och en blodtrycksmanschett runt

https://www.psy.lu.se/artikel/battre-flas-ska-ge-ett-battre-kom-ihag - 2025-07-01