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Events/A RSS feed provided by The Department of Ecology and Environmental Science en-usSat, 02 May 2026 02:23:00 +0200/en/events/light-sceleton-interactions-in-coralline-algae222_12171761/EMG-seminar - Sarah VollertTitle: Conservation planning – what’s mathematics got to do with it? Wed, 06 May 2026 13:00:00 +0200A seminar in the Department of Ecology, Environment and Geoscience's (EMG) seminar series.Title:Conservation planning – what’s mathematics got to do with it?<a href="https://umu.zoom.us/j/3772972611">Zoom link</a>  Fjället - KBG501 and ZoomSeminar/en/events/light-sceleton-interactions-in-coralline-algae222_12171761/2026-05-06T13:00:00+02:002026-05-06T14:00:00+02:00/en/events/icelab-lunch-pitch-verena-kohler-preeti-moar-and-par-bystrom_12167443/IceLab Lunch Pitch: Verena Kohler, Preeti Moar and Pär ByströmThe Integrated Science Lab invites you to meet, and explore collaboration opportunities with Verena Kohler, Preeti Moar and Pär Byström.Wed, 20 May 2026 12:00:00 +0200The Integrated Science Lab invites you to join the conversation at a Lunch Pitch. More information about what Verena Kohler, Preeti Moar and Pär Byström will pitch about will be available soon.  <h2>Join the conversation - everyone is welcome!</h2>To encourage cross pollination of ideas between researchers from different disciplines, IceLab hosts interdisciplinary research lunches with the vision of allowing ideas to meet and mate. During the Lunch Pitch Season, the creative lunches take place at KBC (Glasburen) on a Wednesday.<h3>Registration</h3>Register to come to the pitch and reserve your lunch by Monday, 18 May at 10am.IceLab Lunch Pitch registration will open two weeks before the event.  Note! The default lunch option is a vegetarian falafel sandwich. You can choose an alternative lunch in a separate form that will be emailed to you once you have registered.  <h2>Who is pitching about what?</h2><h3> Pitch 1: Verena Kohler, Assistant professor at Department of Molecular Biology</h3>Scaling Up Yeast Stress Biology: From Manual Annotation to AutomationWhat we do: We use yeast as a high‑throughput model to study how cells respond to stress during ageing. Using robotic screening and several fluorescently tagged libraries, we can monitor thousands of strains in parallel and follow protein behaviour across conditions. We have established pipelines to measure growth and have manually scored microscopy datasets, creating a curated, high-quality annotated resource from epifluorescence imaging (with confocal data coming soon).Where we want help: We now want to scale this further by systematically analysing protein localisation, aggregation, and changes in organelle shape under stress, where we expect to uncover new phenotypes and compare them to published data. To achieve this, we want to automate both image processing and phenotype scoring—and are looking for ideas and expertise to make this faster, more robust, and scalable.<h3>Pitch 2: Preeti Moar, Postdoc at Department of Clinical Microbiology</h3>Early life immune programming and infection riskFrequent infections in early childhood impose a substantial and largely preventable burden on children, families, and healthcare systems. Yet even in settings with relatively uniform healthcare access and high vaccination coverage, children show striking differences in how often they are sick. Why some get infections repeatedly while others remain resilient remains poorly understood. Leveraging the NorthPop birth cohort, we address this question by integrating early‑life immune data with detailed registry‑based information on prenatal, environmental, and socioeconomic exposures. The biological focus is on early immune programming, including immune factors transferred from the mother as well as the child’s developing mucosal immune system, which serves as the first line of defense against infections. The analytical focus is on modeling how these immune processes interact with environmental context over time and on identifying how divergent infection trajectories, together with vulnerability or resilience, emerge from these interacting systems in early life.Interested in: Collaborations around innovative analytical methods for complex data analysis.<h3>Pitch 3: Pär Byström, Professor, Department of Ecology, Environment and Geoscience</h3>Information about Pär's pitch is coming soon<h2>Where is it?</h2> KBC Glasburen, near the KBC café. Find your way to the venue (<a href="https://link.mazemap.com/9dsf42gT">mazemap link</a>) IceLab Lunch Pitches are made possible through funding from KBC for the venue and from Stress Response Modeling at IceLab for their coordination and lunches. KBC GlasburenSeminar/en/events/icelab-lunch-pitch-verena-kohler-preeti-moar-and-par-bystrom_12167443/2026-05-20T12:00:00+02:002026-05-20T13:00:00+02:00