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Last week the new batch of LUMES students had their first field day for the course Earth Systems Science in Lund’s botanical garden. We took the opportunity to talk to three of them about the course and their impressions of the LUMES programme, so far. Earth Systems Science is one of the first courses of the LUMES programme. The course focuses on the physical, chemical, and biological aspects of t

https://www.lumes.lu.se/article/field-day-earth-systems-science-course - 2025-11-17

In the autumn, Sara Törnros from Batch 17, returned to the the LUMES programme – this time as a lecturer at the Resilience and Sustainable Development course. We took the opportunity to talk to her about her job as a climate change and resilience advisor at Plan International - and her best memories from the LUMES programme. Tell us more about your job, what do you do as a climate change and resil

https://www.lumes.lu.se/article/lumes-alumni-sara-tornros-path-climate-change-and-resilience-advisor-plan-international - 2025-11-17

Students within the master’s programme in Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science (LUMES) have created a card came for children about the different sustainability issues connected to the lake Vombsjön and its surroundings. The game was developed within the course, Knowledge to Action (K2A), where students get to apply their knowledge to real world problems. – We developed a card game whic

https://www.lumes.lu.se/article/student-innovation-teaches-children-about-sustainability - 2025-11-17

Laura Betancur Alarcón graduated from LUMES in 2019. Today she is pursuing a PhD at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin at the Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems (IRI THESys). For the last nine years she has worked in the environmental sector in various roles as researcher, writer, lecturer, and journalist for different organisations in academia, media, and i

https://www.lumes.lu.se/article/lumes-alumni-laura-betancur-alarcon-now-phd-student-investigating-social-ecological-relations - 2025-11-17

Protein Production Sweden (PPS), which LP3 is part of, has now reached its second birthday: two years of successful operation and PPS is growing! In 2023, the research infrastructure received a whopping 197 project applications, a 40% increase from the previous year. The number of principal investigators applying for projects increased to 137, representing a 30% growth. And that’s not all - PPS pr

https://www.lp3.lu.se/article/ppss-first-two-years - 2025-11-17

EATRIS ERIC is the European infrastructure for translational medicine and brings together resources and services for research communities. EATRIS (see external web page) provides access to a vast array of pre-clinical and clinical expertise and facilities that are available from over 150 top-tier academic centers across Europe. PPS (Protein Production Sweden, see external homepage) is now part of

https://www.lp3.lu.se/article/pps-now-associated-academic-centre-eatris - 2025-11-17

LP3 outreach at the 27th Swedish Conference on Macromolecular Structure & Function (SWEPROT) Sweprot (see external homepage) is the annual meeting of the Swedish society for biochemistry, biophysics and molecular biology (SFBBM, see external homepage), a section of the Swedish Chemical Society and organized in collaboration with a major Swedish university, this year Uppsala University.Dr. Celeste

https://www.lp3.lu.se/article/lp3-conference-tallberg - 2025-11-17

PPS, including LP3, attended the P4EU meeting earlier this summer at the Helmholtz Center for Infection Research in Braunschweig, Germany. P4EU (Protein Production and Purification Partnership in Europe, see external webpage) is a professional network, whose members engage in various aspects of protein expression, purification and characterization in academic settings such as universities or resea

https://www.lp3.lu.se/article/pps-p4eu-conference - 2025-11-17

The distributed national research infrastructure Protein Production Sweden (PPS), where LP3 is included, met for its third annual staff retreat at Skeppsviks Herrgård near Umeå. The 23 staff researchers of PPS attending used the two day meeting to discuss and reflect about the first 2.5 years of PPS operations supporting more than 450 user projects so far, present new method developments in PPS an

https://www.lp3.lu.se/article/lp3-participated-annual-pps-retreat-umea - 2025-11-17

LP3 is one of three major university research infrastructures selected as university platforms by our rector. The appointment signals that these research infrastructures have high strategic importance for the entire university. The appointments are based on a number of criteria, for example the research infrastructures must have contributed to excellent research, offered broad accessibility for us

https://www.lp3.lu.se/article/lund-university-has-selected-lp3-become-university-platform - 2025-11-17

LP3 now has a demo unit of Fidabio (Fida Neo instrument) for Flow Induced Dispersion Analysis for protein sample quality, which is available for evaluation purposes the next 3 months. The analysis of sample gives an indication of the protein's health, oligomeric state/complex formation, if its monodisperse or aggregated and buffer compatibility etc. If you have any sample that you would like to kn

https://www.lp3.lu.se/article/free-testing-flow-induced-dispersion-analysis-now-lp3 - 2025-11-17

Four of LP3’s staff participated in the first SciLifeLab Lund retreat in Båstad, 14 to 15th November 2024 with the theme: “Achieving Excellence Together”. The retreat was focused on giving the staff from all SciLifeLab site platforms the opportunity to get to know each other through presentations, group exercises and discussions. LP3 presented it’s capabilities in Lund, but also the national resea

https://www.lp3.lu.se/article/lp3-first-scilifelab-lund-retreat - 2025-11-17

The Swedish NMR Centre in Gothenburg will host a workshop on cell-free protein synthesis, with special focus on applications in NMR spectroscopy. The workshop, which is held in Gothenburg 21-23 Jan 2025 will entail both lectures and practical wet lab work. The idea is that participants bring their own plasmid construct for expression, with possible isotope labelling to judge the outcome with 2D NM

https://www.lp3.lu.se/article/cell-free-protein-synthesis-workshop-january-2025 - 2025-11-17

SciLifeLab Lund, which Lp3 is part of, arranges interesting seminars with presentations of its different units and local core facilities together with user presentations. So please take the opportunity to learn more of our different services which could be useful in you research. The SciLifeLab seminars are all given at 3 pm (15.00) in Belfragesalen at BMC D15, Klinkgatan 32, Lund. Most welcome! F

https://www.lp3.lu.se/article/welcome-scilifelab-seminars - 2025-11-17

LP3 was presented at the yearly meeting for MAX IV synchrotron users held in January 2025. Dr. Celeste Sele presented two posters about LP3's capabilities within protein crystallisation/biophysics and structure determination as well as protein production within the national research infrastructure Protein Production Sweden (PPS, see external homepage)

https://www.lp3.lu.se/article/lp3-36th-max-iv-user-meeting - 2025-11-17

In the very last number of LUM, there was a popular science presentation of LP3 and our work. "LP3 has since the start in 2012, produced proteins for around 300 research projects - from drug development to sustainable chemical processes"Read the full article (in Swedish) here on the Lund University Web.

https://www.lp3.lu.se/article/article-about-lp3-lund-university-magazine - 2025-11-17

LP3 will provide capabilities within protein production, biophysical characterization and protein structure determination to help VIGILANT achieve its goals. VIGILANT: Targeting ER Import And Activation Of Viral Glycoproteins: Towards Broad-Spectrum AntiviralsLP3 will provide capabilities within protein production, biophysical characterization and protein structure determination to a new EU resear

https://www.lp3.lu.se/article/lp3-collaborates-new-eu-research-project-vigilant - 2025-11-17

LP3 attended the 28th Swedish Conference on Macromolecular Structure & Function (SWEPROT) in Tällberg last weekend and presented our capabilities through several posters. Several PPS team members visited the meeting with around 130 other participants from the Swedish protein science community.More info on SWEPROT is found on the homepage (external).

https://www.lp3.lu.se/article/lp3-tallberg-conference-2025 - 2025-11-17

Several LP3 members presented our capabilities with a poster at the first conference held in Linxs new facilities. The conference was held to celebrate the opening of the LINXS at Brunnshög in the newly build Loop (more info here on Linxs homepage). Several staff members of PPS visited the opening with many national and international participants interested in X-ray and neutron applications.

https://www.lp3.lu.se/article/lp3-inagural-conference-new-linxs - 2025-11-17

More than a hundred participants from all over Europe attended the three-day program with workshops, lectures and vendor presence to share knowledge in the field of protein production and purification. The P4EU (Protein Production and Purification Partnership in Europe; see external homepage) is a professional network, whose members engage in various aspects of protein expression, purification and

https://www.lp3.lu.se/article/lp3-staff-co-organised-21st-p4eu-meeting-gothenburg-sweden-25-27th-august-2025 - 2025-11-17