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Lund University has collected the top research of the university's twelve strategic reseach environments in a new book. MERGE is one of these environments. In 2008, the Swedish Government designated 20 ‘Strategic Research Areas’ (SRAs) in its research-policy bill. Within these 20 areas, 43 research environments were chosen for specific funding in a special evaluation in 2009. They were all conduct
https://www.merge.lu.se/article/todays-great-explorers - 2025-12-15
Today, Monday 26 January, the new report "Klimatsäkrat Skåne" will be launched. The report is a knowledge review and analysis of Skåne's climate work including opportunities and challenges. The launch event focuses on three panel discussions on how we should make our society less vulnerable to climate change, how we use ecosystem services and the implications of climate change for business. Markku
https://www.merge.lu.se/article/new-report-about-regional-climate-challenges-and-adaptation-skane - 2025-12-15
The role of biogeophysical feedbacks and their impacts in the arctic and boreal climate system is the name of Wenxing Zhangs thesis, which he defended on February 6 2015. On February 6th Wenxin Zhang defended his thesis The role of biogeophysical feedbacks and their impacts in the arctic and boreal climate system. Opponent was Laxmi Sushama.In the thesis Wenxin Zhang presents findings from studies
https://www.merge.lu.se/article/role-biogeophysical-feedbacks-and-their-impacts-arctic-and-boreal-climate-system - 2025-12-15
ClimBEco is a two-year graduate research school that promotes young scientists to engage in interdisciplinary research on climate, earth system and society in a changing world. Application to ClimBEco is open right now until the 14th of April. The Research School is open to students who are already enrolled as PhD students. Priority will be given to PhD students enrolled at Nordic Universities eng
https://www.merge.lu.se/article/apply-climbeco-graduate-research-school-2015-2017 - 2025-12-15
DataGURU is a tool for researchers to disseminate and find climate, land use, biodiversity and related data. The tool can also be of value as open data strategy in future applications for research funding. This work has been commissioned by the strategic research areas MERGE and BECC. The team, led by researcher Veiko Lehsten, developed a tool for the dissemination of the research data that can be
https://www.merge.lu.se/article/dataguru-new-tool-disseminating-and-finding-spatial-temporal-data - 2025-12-15
The Strategic Research Area initiative for research funding was launched by the Swedish Government in the research and innovation bill of 2008. 43 Swedish strategic research areas (SRA’s) was funded by the Swedish government from 2010-2014. MERGE is one of the SRA’s that now have been evaluated. Today the evaluation, together with recommendations for the future, was published and we are happy to a
https://www.merge.lu.se/article/positive-evaluation-merge - 2025-12-15
Tropical rainforests have long been considered the Earth’s lungs, sequestering large amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and thereby slowing down the increasing greenhouse effect and associated human-made climate change. Scientists in a global research project now show that the vast extensions of semi-arid landscapes occupying the transition zone between rainforest and desert dominate th
https://www.merge.lu.se/article/new-article-science-shows-savannahs-slows-climate-change - 2025-12-15
On May 11-13 an international LUsTT/BECC/MERGE workshop was organized in Landskrona, with around 60 leading researchers within the field of dynamic vegetation modelling. Report from the LUsTT/BECC/MERGE Workshop: “Dynamic global vegetation modelling: towards a third generation”.LPJ-GUESS is a Dynamical Global Vegetation model (DGVM) maintained and further developed at the Department of Physical Ge
https://www.merge.lu.se/article/report-dynamic-global-vegetation-modelling-towards-third-generation - 2025-12-15
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 - 2025-12-15
A recently published report is a revision and expansion of the 2008 edition of the BACC book. Several MERGE researchers has contributed to this work. The Second Assessment of Climate Change for the Baltic Sea Basin (BACC II), a recently published report, serves as a revision and expansion of the 2008 edition of the BACC book.“The current publication for the Baltic Sea area is a regional variant on
https://www.merge.lu.se/article/new-report-consolidates-knowledge-climate-change-baltic-sea-region - 2025-12-15
On 15-16 June 2015 MERGE's annual spring/summer meeting was held at Örenäs Castle in Glumslöv. MERGE researchers and PhD students got together for two days of discussions, scientific presentations and beautiful walks around the castle area. You can find the presentations from the meeting here. Markku Rummukainen, coordinator of MERGE, started the meeting with a background on MERGE's development as
https://www.merge.lu.se/article/merge-summer-meeting-2015 - 2025-12-15
A new working group, lead by MERGE board member Marie-José Gaillard, will work with global reconstructions of anthropogenic land-cover change over the last 6000 years for climate models. PAGES (Past Global Changes) supports research aimed at understanding the Earth’s past environment in order to make predictions for the future.The new PAGES working group "LandCover6k" has the goal to produce globa
Interested in progress on large-scale production of living brain cells? Are you interested in progress on large-scale production of living brain cells? You can find out more in our latest paper REST suppression mediates neural conversion of adult human fibroblasts via microRNA-dependent and -independent pathways.
https://www.molecular-neurogenetics.lu.se/article/new-paper-large-scale-production-living-brain-cells - 2025-12-15
New publication! Please click here to read about our latest publication TRIM28 Controls a Gene Regulatory Network Based on Endogenous Retroviruses in Human Neural Progenitor Cells.Also, please click here to go to a short presentation of this research in Science: Science
https://www.molecular-neurogenetics.lu.se/article/viruses-genome-are-important-our-brain - 2025-12-15
We're very happy to announce that our former PhD student Rebecca Petri has received the Best Thesis Award 2017 from the Neurobiology Section of Lund University. Well done, Rebecca!
https://www.molecular-neurogenetics.lu.se/article/best-thesis-award-2017-goes-rebecca-petri - 2025-12-15
2019-04-09. Today we celebrated the official nailing of Per Ludvik Brattås' thesis entiteled "The Epigenetic Impact of Transposable Elements in Human Brain Development". Per's defence will take place on April 26th at 13 o'clock at the Segerfalk lecture hall (BMC, A10) - you are most welcom to join us!
https://www.molecular-neurogenetics.lu.se/article/ludviks-thesis-officially-nailed - 2025-12-15
We are very happy to announce that Per Ludvik Brattås has successfully defended his thesis entitled "The Epigenetic Impact of Transposable Elements in Human Brain Development". Congratulations, Dr. Brattås!
https://www.molecular-neurogenetics.lu.se/article/congratulations-dr-brattas - 2025-12-15
We're happy to present our most recent publication "Activation of neuronal genes via LINE-1 elements upon global DNA demethylation in human neural progenitors" published on July 18th. Our study sheds light on the darker parts of our genetic heritage. To find out more please click on the below link.Lund University's press release Nature Communications: Activation of neuronal genes via LINE-1 elemen
https://www.molecular-neurogenetics.lu.se/article/new-publication-nature-communications - 2025-12-15
Läs den spännande debatten om den nya gentekniken Crispr, skriven av forskare från gruppen Crispr ideas vid Pufendorfinstitutet, Lunds universitet, på SvD Debatt. SvD Debatt: ”Vi måste ta ställning till nya gentekniken” Aftonbladet: "Den nya gensaxen måste diskuteras" Om debattörerna: Karin Broberg, professor i arbets- och miljömedicin Ingrid Dunér, doktorand i idéhistoria Kristofer Hansson, doc
https://www.molecular-neurogenetics.lu.se/article/pa-svenska-nya-gentekniken-kraver-en-bred-debatt - 2025-12-15
Today we celebrated official nailing of Daniela Grassi's thesis "Development and Applications of in vitro Models to Study Human Brain Evolution and Disease". The defence will take place on Thursday April 23rd at 9.00 o'clock and it will be made availably digitally for you to join!
https://www.molecular-neurogenetics.lu.se/article/nailing-completed - 2025-12-15
