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Programme BLAM 2024

4–5 April 2024

Thursday 4 April

09.00 Workshops

At the Department of Biology

12.15 Lunch och registrering

At Palaestra.

13.15 Öppning

13.30 Plenar 1

Vivek Nityananda, Newcastle University, United Kingdom (external website)Unraveling the Insect Emotions

14.45 Poster presentation introductions

14.45 Poster session 1 and fika

  1. The tempo and mode of toxicant resistance evolutionIain Moodie
  2. Microbial resistance and resilience across a European climate gradientSara Winterfeldt
  3. Polarized light pathways in the bumblebee brainJanka Kluge
  4. The impact of peatland ditching on the transport of dissolved organic carbon into surface waters – The role of fungi – Antonios Myridakis
  5. The evolution of the immune system in rodentsLucia Ximena Alva Caballero
  6. Production of terpene derived pheromones in plantsAbraham Ontiveros
  7. Landscape-scale land-use composition effects on invertebrate herbivory in semi-natural grasslandsYuanyuan Quan

16.00 Oral presentation session 1

Full talks, 12 minutes

  1. Pollinator diversity in Arabis alpina populations of diverging scent compositionHanna Thosteman 
  2. How microstructures of flight feathers affect aerodynamic performanceFrida Alenius
  3. Nutrient utilisation strategies explain the coexistence of unicellular and multicellular green algaeQinyang Li
  4. Enzymes as a strategy for oomycetes biocontrolJorge Yaniquez Vedia

18.00 – 20.00 Dinner and mingle

Lilla Salen in AF-Borgen.

Friday 5 April

09.15 Plenar 2

Vigdis Vandvik, UiB, Norway (external website)Global change impacts on alpine biodiversity and ecosystems - or – the art of not playing shop in the intersection between science, education, and society

10.45 Oral presentation session 2

Full talks, 12 minutes

  1. Are extrachromosomal DNA circles involved in telomere maintenance in Naumovozyma castellii? – Teresa Garibo Domingo 
  2. A matrix of flowers: How ley fields could provide food resources for pollinating insects in intensively managed agricultural landscapesJulia Weber
  3. Large-scale barcoding reveals cryptic species of eulophid waspsEmma Kärrnäs

Flash talks, 3 minutes

  1. Making Circuit Boards With Human NeuronsCarl-Johan Hörberg
  2. Microbial Carbon Pump in SoilXiaojing Yang

12.45 Lunch break

13.00 Oral presentation session 3

Full talks, 12 minutes

  1. Insights from multisensor loggers in a long-distance migratory songbirdPablo Macías Torres
  2. The effects of forest structures on biodiversityLydwin Freija Wagenaar
  3. Phylogenomics of Gelechioidea (Lepidoptera)Etka Yapar

Flash Talk, 3 minutes

  1. Host Range Expansion of Eurasian Spruce Bark Beetle, Ips typographusJana Burchards
  2. New method for measuring visual acuity in insectsDaniel Gutierrez

14.00 Poster presentation introductions

14.00 Poster session 2 and fika

  1. Trichoderma, Chenopodium and Peronospora interactionValeria Denisse Palma Encinas
  2. Effects of Male Limited X-chromosome evolution on sex-specific fitnessDamandeep Kaur
  3. How the conservon proteins contribute to the choreography of polar growth in a gram-positive bacteriumDima Massri
  4. Birds that work harder have higher metabolism but do not perform better at exerciseElana Engert
  5. Lethality of pesticides for hover flies Silvia Rönnaun
  6. Changes in the microbial control of C and N cycling in future subarctic tundra soilsAgnieszka Rzepczynska
  7. Information Flow in Insect Brains at the Synaptic LevelGriffin Badalamente

15.15 Oral presentation session 4

Full talks, 12 minutes

  1. Climb- and sink rates in migrating Great snipesJesper Andersson
  2. Neural crest cell development in the common wall lizardRobin Pranter
  3. Disentangling causes of variation in pollen tube growth ratesLaura Hildesheim

Flash Talks, 3 minutes

  1. Pipeline for quantifying bumblebee behaviourAna Zadel
  2. Fungal movement and spatial ecology in the era of global changeCatharina Neumann

16.00 Closing ceremony

18.30 Mingle and dinner

In the Ecology building.

Contact information

Katie Laschanzky
DoctoralSstudent
Functional Zoology

Telefon: +46 76 875 77 08
E-post: Katie [dot] Laschanzky [at] biol [dot] lu [dot] se

Stanley Heinze
Senior Lecturer
Functional Zoology

Telefon: +46 72 323 24 11
E-post: Stanley [dot] Heinze [at] biol [dot] lu [dot] se

Workshops

All workshops are held on 4 April between 9.00 and 12.00 at the Department of Biology.

Reproducible research & Data management

Led by Dag Ahrén, Nikolay Oskolokov & Giulia Ribeiro

How to become your own best collaborator. Get introduced to some of the most popular tools for organising, documenting and sharing your research files and data with your future self as well as the rest of the scientific community.

How to review a paper

Led by Colin Olito, Emily O'Connors & Johan Nilsson

The workshop will start with a general introduction to scientific publishing from the point of view of the journal. Then, a short talk and demonstration from the point of view of the editor. Finally, a talk about the perspective of the reviewer, and what makes for a good or bad review

CVs, Research Funding, and you: Strategies and best practice

Led by John Phillips

Writing funding applications is a key part of any academic career, and presenting your own achievements in the best possible light is very important for many funders. But what do these funders actually look for in your CV? What is essential, and what is irrelevant? At this interactive workshop, you will learn about how CVs are assessed by funding agencies, how best to present your own, and how to consider the requirements from funders when developing your career. The workshop will include presentations and small group work, and you will need to submit material in advance (details will be made available after registration has closed).

Communicate with posters

Led by Inger Ekström

We focus on how to learn to make and design a scientific poster, a graphic representation capable of explaining briefly and in a pleasant and light way, a project or a scientific experience. The importance of this type of communication and some useful keys. The focus will be on graphic design and typography. 

Ideation: Find new ways and new ideas- with LU Innovation

Led by Lisa Evyr and Vigdis Vandvik

Are you curious about innovation and entrepreneurship but don’t know how to start? Would you like to see your research become implemented in society? Do you wonder how people come up with business ideas? This workshop will give you the knowledge and tools to get started!

During this workshop, you will get insight into different tools and tricks to create ideas, figure out if the idea can work and how you can find your users or customers that can benefit from your research. You do not need to prepare anything before the workshop, nor do you need to have an idea. Join the workshop and get inspired! The innovation developers Lisa Evyr and Peter Franck from LU Innovation are looking forward to meeting you.

How to generate a creative research environment

10.00–12.00, coffee from 09.45. Led by Fredric Carlsson and Helena Westerdahl 

A creative and exciting research-group environment is key to producing creative and successful PhD students. 

How can you as a PI create and maintain such environments, and what can they look like?
How can the department best support your ability to do so?

We will meet researchers with rather different backgrounds and listen to their strategies and thoughts on this topic. One of the invited researchers is the Professor at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Hanna Johannesson, and we can really recommend listening to her ‘Sommarprat 17 August 2023 (in Swedish at Sveriges Radios website)’ for inspiration. Then we will reflect on our own research environments in smaller groups and finally have a panel discussion.