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A workshop was organized September 30th in order to start a bioinformatics network at Lund University. Notes from the bioinformatics network meeting 30th Summary: The workshop to start a bioinformatics network at Lund University took place at Segerfalkssalen, the 30th of September 2020. It was organized by the department of Laboratory medicine and the coordinator for bioinformatics at the facult
https://www.lubi.lu.se/article/workshop-start-lubi - 2025-12-17
How do you become a good manager? During IKVL's inspiration day for managers, various challenges linked to the managerial role were discussed – and how to achieve recovery. A good manager is responsive, clear and listening. Having a good manager creates security, gives employees freedom and prerequisites to do their work. But how do you do it? Around 50 Heads of Division and some research group le
https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/ikvls-managers-day-about-being-manager-and-recovery - 2025-12-17
SASNET organizes a conference entitled ”Modern Matters: Negotiating the Future in Everyday Life in South Asia” from 20 – 22 September 2016 at Lund University. The conference will explore what it means to consider oneself modern or outside the limits of modernity, in an extremely diverse region. It will also examine how the notion of modernity is experienced, contested, and negotiated in South Asia
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/papers-invited-sasnet-2016-conference-modernity-south-asia - 2025-12-17
An international research team led by Lund University in Sweden has managed to study the flight behaviour of the mysterious black swift. They found, among other things, that the black swift rises to extreme heights during a full moon, seemingly catching insects in the moonlight. And, during a lunar eclipse, the birds simultaneously lost altitude. The results are published in Current Biology. The b
https://www.science.lu.se/article/black-swifts-descended-rapidly-during-lunar-eclipse - 2025-12-17
Katarina Hedlund, BECC PI and Professor at the Department of Biology at Lund University, is one of the authors of the first Global Soil Biodiversity Atlas mapping the soil biodiversity of the entire planet. This unique Atlas provides a detailed analysis of soil organisms and the threats to soil biodiversity at global scale. The Atlas was launched by the JRC (Joint Research Centre) at the 2nd UN E
https://www.becc.lu.se/article/new-atlas-illustrates-global-soil-biodiversity-and-threats-soil-organisms - 2025-12-17
CMES researcher Lisa Strömbom has co-authored the article "The Abraham Accords’ implications for peace in the Middle East" together with Anders Persson (Linnaeus University) published (in Swedish) in Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift. English Title "The Abraham Accords’ implications for peace in the Middle East" Swedish Title "Abrahamavtalens implikationer för fred i Mellanöstern" English Abstract The A
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/abraham-accords-and-peace-middle-east - 2025-12-17
Anna Munke has been nominated as a candidate for the Faculty of Science nominating committee. The role of the nominating committee is to prepare nominations and propose members for the faculty board and the electoral college. The nominating committee also proposes a dean and deputy dean. In the interview below, Anna shares more about herself and what she could contribute to the committee’s work. T
https://www.science.lu.se/internal/article/meet-anna-munke-candidate-faculty-nomination-committee - 2025-12-17
The Distinguished Professor programme was created by the Swedish Research Council to allow the most prominent researchers to conduct long-term, ground-breaking research which has great potential for achieving scientific breakthroughs. The Distinguished Professor programme is awarded to at least 2 scientists every second year between 2019-2029 by the Swedish Research Council. It was created to allo
https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/malin-parmar-awarded-distinguished-professorship-swedish-research-council - 2025-12-17
The 34th Beckers Art Award - a grant of 200 000 SEK - will this year be awarded to Malmö-based artist Youngjae Lih, born in 1984 in Seoul, South Korea. He graduated from Malmö Art Academy in 2016 and now works as a junior lecturer at the school. Congratulations to the Beckers Art Award, how will you invest the grant? -Thank you. I will invest all of my scholarship into the production of my works.
https://www.arts.lu.se/article/youngjae-lih-receives-beckers-art-award - 2025-12-17
Lund University's employees have access to member discounts in the Medicon Valley Alliance (MVA) for events and conferences, including the Future of Swedish, Danish Life Science, Nordic Life Science Days and Bio Europe. Lund University and its employees can take advantage of the discounts that MVA has negotiated for member companies and register for free/at a discount for the following upcoming ev
https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/dont-miss-out-medicon-valley-alliance-discounts-interesting-event-dates - 2025-12-17
Last Tuesday (28 June), a meeting was held between the City of Malmö and Lund University, focusing on the issue of Malmö Art Academy’s premises and the planning of a joint location for the three academies of the Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts. The meeting was attended by the Mayor of Malmö Jan-Inge Ahlfridh and Director of City Planning in Malmö Christer Larsson. Representing Lund University
https://www.khm.lu.se/en/article/new-discussions-malmo-art-academys-premises - 2025-12-17
The first evidence was recently presented demonstrating how the immune system can be controlled by directly reprogramming connective tissue cells into immune cells. The discovery provides the opportunity to develop an entirely new strategy for targeted immunotherapy against cancer. One characteristic of cancer is its ability to avoid detection by the body’s immune system. Tumour cells accumulate a
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/research-project-develop-innovative-strategy-cancer-therapy - 2025-12-17
You will recognize them by the black uni tees, the 15 young summer workers now on site at BMC (mainly) who work hard to put all in place after the intense moving carousels. On the command bridge: Joel Johansson and Zippo Prajz, both at Medservice. Sure are busy and hot summer work days for 15 hard-working extra workers at Medfak right now. – They´re doing work at HSC as well as in buildings E, F,
https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/swarm-summer-workers-putting-life-medfak-order - 2025-12-18
In October, all Lund University School of Economics and Management’s (LUSEM) doctoral students were invited to an afternoon dedicated to exploring career opportunities outside academia. To explore career opportunities outside academia, the doctoral students were presented with information from potential employers, from Lund University School of Economics and Management’s (LUSEM) Professor of Pract
https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/exploring-non-academic-career-paths - 2025-12-18
Giant Cell ArthritisA new study is pblished where we present a detailed evaluation of the safety regarding visual function and patient tolerability in healthy subjects, and define the spectral signature in the healthy temporal artery. Photoacoustic imaging did not affect the best corrected visual acuity, colour vision (tested with Sahlgren's Saturation Test or the Ishihara colour vision test) or t
https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/new-publications - 2025-12-17
With over 40 exhibitors and thousands of visitors, this year’s ATLAS Career Fair was the largest to date! The annual career fair, organised by LUNA – the Science Student Union – with support from the Faculty of Science, brings together students, PhD candidates, companies and organisations with a shared focus: creating opportunities for the natural scientists of the future.ATLAS offers undergraduat
https://www.science.lu.se/internal/article/record-interest-years-atlas-career-fair - 2025-12-17
The most common form of childhood cancer is acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL). Together with Karolinska Institutet, SciLifeLab and the University of Cambridge, researchers at Lund University have conducted the largest ever analysis of ALL at protein level by studying activity in more than 8,000 genes and proteins. The results of the study show a deviant folding of the DNA strand which in turn af
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/first-large-scale-study-proteins-patients-all - 2025-12-17
CCT, Consumer Culture Theory, annually arrange an international conference on consumer culture. This year it was organized on 27-30 June by the School of Economics and Management at Lund University. The conference was attended by 317 participants from 25 different countries. Four researchers from Service Studies contributed to the conference. Dystopia or utopia – how does it affect consumer behavi
https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/fashion-textile-care-cryptocurrency-and-seaweed-cct-conference - 2025-12-17
Bling is associated with expensive, ostentatious accessories and “bad taste”. This contrasts with the prevailing aesthetic values of the design world. But what happens when bling and design are brought together? A new thesis in industrial design from the Faculty of Engineering (LTH), Lund University in Sweden, shows that provocations – such as breaking convention with the help of the bling subcult
https://www.industrialdesign.lth.se/article/challenging-design-conventions-key-more-vibrant-design - 2025-12-17
