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DevRes2024 - inspiring, diverse, and multidisciplinary!
Inspiring, diverse, and multidisciplinary! DevRes2024, hosted by Lund University, brought together 200 researchers and practitioners from 16 different countries, for a two-day conference in October. DevRes 2024 was hosted by Lund University on 21 - 23 October, and the conference theme was “Reaching the Sustainable Development Goals in a polarized world”. DevRes is a bi-annual conference gathering
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/devres2024-inspiring-diverse-and-multidisciplinary - 2025-12-09
New article in The Conversation: How dramatic daily swings in oxygen shaped early animal life
In a newly published study in Nature Communications, Emma Hammarlund and her research team at Lund University detail how daily fluctuations in oxygen levels influenced the rise of animal life. Their findings offer new insights as to how dramatic daily shifts in oxygen availability and stress may have played a central role in the evolution of complex organisms on Earth. “Now, when we explore animal
Exploring Genomic Dark Matter: Christopher Douse Awarded $1.2M Grant by Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Christopher Douse, a new group leader at the Faculty of Medicine at Lund University, has been awarded the Ben Barres Early Career Acceleration Award by The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. This award includes a $1.2 million grant to support his lab’s exploration of the repetitive portion of the human genome, so-called ‘genomic dark matter’, and its role in human brain development and degeneration. Repe
The war between bacteria and their virus
There is a constant war between bacteria and their viruses, bacteriophages, where both try to outsmart each other. An international study led by Lund University provided an important missing bit to the puzzle of how the bacteria defend themselves against phages. This is an important stepping stone towards developing effective phage-based therapies to be used as an alternative to antibiotics. Bacte
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/war-between-bacteria-and-their-virus - 2025-12-09
Auto-regulating channels supply our cells with magnesium
An international team of researchers, led by scientists at Lund University, has uncovered how magnesium enters mitochondria. Magnesium is a vital mineral that plays a key role in numerous biological processes in the body. Among other functions, it is crucial for the mitochondria—the power plants of our cells—to produce and utilize ATP, the body’s primary energy molecule. When mitochondrial functio
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/auto-regulating-channels-supply-our-cells-magnesium - 2025-12-09
Summary of ClimBEco summer meeting 2021 - Food and.....everything else
At this ClimBEco summer meeting, mostly held online but with parallel in-person workshops in Gothenburg, Lund and Malmö, was themed around one of humanities ultimate equalizers; that of food. The way we produce, move and use food globally has important implications on just about every challenge we currently face in the world, reflected in the overall title of the summer meeting. To start off the e
https://www.merge.lu.se/article/summary-climbeco-summer-meeting-2021-food-andeverything-else - 2025-12-09
EU funding for killer cells that fight cancer
As certain tumor cells are able to conceal themselves in the body, it often means that patients with aggressive cancers experience a recurrence of the cancer after treatment. By programming genetically modified killer immune cells to seek and destroy the hiding tumor cells and tumor stem cells, it is hoped that we can develop more effective treatment options. An international research project, wit
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/eu-funding-killer-cells-fight-cancer - 2025-12-09
Fashion, textile care, cryptocurrency and seaweed at the CCT Conference
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 - 2025-12-09
Governing sex work. New way of categorizing prostitution policy may be the standard for years to come
Social anthropologist Petra Östergren’s research rethinks prostitution policies and receives international response and praise. Her chapter "From zero-tolerance to full integration. Rethinking prostitution policies" has now been published in The Sage Handbook of Global Sexuality. According to professor Hendrik Wagenaar at Kings College in London it is a "seminal typology of prostitution policies"
The Faculty's quality conference wants to engage more people in teaching quality
Are you curious about or want to share experiences about the evaluation of education and get more tools and inspiration? Register for the Faculty's annual quality conference, no later than 1 November. Jenni Erlandsson, Quality Coordinator, who is involved in arranging the Faculty's annual quality conference, Forum Kvalitet, tells us more about the conference and the Faculty's quality assurance wor
https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/facultys-quality-conference-wants-engage-more-people-teaching-quality - 2025-12-09
NordicESM Meeting
On February 24th and 25th, the kick-off meeting for the NordicESM project took place in Oslo. The aim of NordicESM is to enhance the collaboration on the field of Earth System modelling within the Nordic Countries. The project therefore involves all Nordic research groups working with the Earth System models NorESM and EC-Earth. Amongst other institutes in Europe, Lund University has an active rol
https://www.merge.lu.se/article/nordicesm-meeting - 2025-12-09
Ukraine First Deputy Minister of Education back in Lund for a day
“Being new in the government of Ukraine is like learning to ride a bike that is broken, while someone is throwing stones at you, and you are trying to fix the bike at the same time”, said Inna Sovsun, Ukraine’s First Deputy Minister of Education and a former Lund University student. She was only 29 when she was asked to join the new Ukrainian government as First Deputy Minister of Education. Since
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/ukraine-first-deputy-minister-education-back-lund-day - 2025-12-09
Meet IIIEE researcher Kes McCormick
Governance of Urban Sustainability Transitions: Getting the most out of Urban Living Labs A new trans-European project aims to better define and evaluate the concept of Urban Living Labs. One goal is to understand what can be shared and learned in order to advance urban sustainability transitions.Across Europe, so-called Urban Living Labs are being developed as a response to the need to understand
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/meet-iiiee-researcher-kes-mccormick - 2025-12-09
Climathon in Lund 2018
“Solutions to limit the climate impact of plastics” was the topic of this years Climathon in Lund. The 24 hour hackathon gathered 54 participants and was thereby one of the larger among the 113 Climathons held simultaneous all around the world. Climathon in Lund was organised by a consortia of five very different organisations, Lunds Universitet, Lunds Kommun, Sysav, Ideon Innovation, EIT Climate-
https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/climathon-lund-2018-0 - 2025-12-09