At our TiDE group meeting this week we celebrated the positive outcome from the last grant applications to the Royal Physiographic Society of Lund, where Sinan, Guadalupe, Tom and Chris were all awarded! Congratulations!
We also had an excellent and very interesting presentation from invited speaker Joshua Tabh, from Andreas Nord’s lab at Evolutionary Ecology!
The symposium ‘Cancer, multicellularity and complex systems’ was held as planned at the Grand Hotel in Lund, as mentioned in the previous blog post: Symposium ‘Cancer, multicellularity and complex systems’ 5-7 September 2022.
We think the symposium was a great success, and it was such a privilege that magnificent talks and thoughts were mixed in a discussion on the conundrums of cancer and multicellularity!
The symposium was funded by the Royal Physiographic Society and its partners at Lund University Cancer Center, Lund Stem Therapy, Lund Stem Cell Center and the Geological Department.
Below are photos from some of the presentations.
Recently we had a wonderful TiDE party, including both our groups and families. The accomplished Party Planning Committee organized fun games, excellent home-made food and appropriately named wines!
Paula, Sinan and Sofie attended the 5th Paradifference meeting in beautiful Marstrand last week. Sinan gave an excellent presentation that sparked a great discussion of our work and the HIF-2a field in general!
Celebrating summer, two new MSc degrees in the lab (congrats Enrika and Ophélie!), paper submission and grant award notifications to both labs this week 🎉
Yesterday Enrika splendidly defended her MSc thesis “The chick embryo as a model to study the initiation and growth of neuroblastoma”! Congratulations!
Last week we had much appreciated visit by Dr Ken Pienta, Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, to discuss PACCs and speciation events.
Earlier this week we had the pleasure to host a lab exercise for geology students taking the GEOM09 course.
In this lab exercise the students get to test the role of hypoxia for chick development. Before starting a 72h incubation, a group of eggs get small hole in their shell while the control group of eggs are normal.. The students then open up the eggs and measure the number of surviving embryos and the size of the vasculature for living embryos. The students also calculate if the differences are significant.
Want to find out more on what results to expect? Check out our article from last year!
The rise of multicellularity on Earth and the rise of cancer within the human body are critical events that we do not fully understand. It seems clear, however, that these events are joined by how they result from complex ecological and evolutionary processes. To unravel these processes, it also seems clear that we have to gather expertise from several scientific disciplines. Only by seeking the evolutionary and complex origins of tumor formation, can we improve our ability to predict and target cancer early.
Here, we gather experts from the fields of evolutionary, tumor and stem cell biology, as well as geobiology, virology, and physics to discuss what we collectively do – and do not yet – know about cancer and multicellularity from an evolutionary perspective.
In celebration of over 250 years of support for interdisciplinary collaboration within the realm of science, this symposium is funded by the Royal Physiographic Society and its partners at Lund University Cancer Center, Lund Stem Therapy, Lund Stem Cell Center and the Geological Department.
The organizing committee consists of Jessica Abbott, David Gisselsson Nord, Johan Jakobsson, Håkan Axelsson, Per Alm, Kristian Pietras, Charlie Cornwallis and Emma Hammarlund. Warmly welcome!
Symposium ‘Cancer, multicellularity and complex systems’ 5-7 September 2022 (invajo.com)
FOTCIENCIA aims to bring science and technology closer to society through scientific photography with the publication of a catalog and the production of an exhibition that will visit around twenty locations throughout Spain.
This picture taken by Guadalupe shows a cryosection of the retina of a bird, the timor zebra diamond, where the presence of photoreceptors (in green) has been revealed through immunohistochemical techniques, which allow us to see the colors of the world (cones) or visualize objects in low light (rods). In red, the outer segments of the photoreceptors are marked, which contain different pigments that vary from one class of vertebrates to another. In blue, the nuclei of all the cell types that make up the retina are marked, thus giving a view of the location of the photoreceptors in the tissue.
On Wednesday we had an extended duo lab meeting working on team building and how to improve research. Describing and building Lego Duplo models, having salads for lunch and playing applicant vs. funding agency. A very productive and fun meeting!
We welcome new MSc student Laura Solé to the Mohlin group! Laura is studying Biological Engineering at the Engineering School Polytech Clermont-Ferrand in France. She will do a 4-month Erasmus internship working closely with Guadalupe on establishing a human-chick chimera model.
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