Murielle Ålund (she/her)
@muriellealund.bsky.social
Biologist (PhD) Swedish Veterinary Agency (SVA): environment, climate change, disease vectors, animal feed safety
Research @ Uppsala & Michigan State University: evolution reproduction speciation birds fish
Mom of 3
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https://muriellealund.wordpress.com/
Research @ Uppsala & Michigan State University: evolution reproduction speciation birds fish
Mom of 3
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https://muriellealund.wordpress.com/
Very happy to share that I get to continue working as a researcher at the Swedish Veterinary Agency for the foreseeable future, studying the impact of climate change on animals & humans in a One Health perspective, including vector surveillance & work towards safe food & water in a changing world.
November 7, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Very happy to share that I get to continue working as a researcher at the Swedish Veterinary Agency for the foreseeable future, studying the impact of climate change on animals & humans in a One Health perspective, including vector surveillance & work towards safe food & water in a changing world.
What a pleasure to host @erynmcfarlane.bsky.social for the first IEG seminar of the semester @animecol-uu.bsky.social , telling us about her lab's theoretical and empirical work on the replicability of hybrid zones and their outcomes.
August 20, 2024 at 12:25 PM
What a pleasure to host @erynmcfarlane.bsky.social for the first IEG seminar of the semester @animecol-uu.bsky.social , telling us about her lab's theoretical and empirical work on the replicability of hybrid zones and their outcomes.
Congratulations to Jing Jonavan Leong on defending his master thesis looking at effects of environmental factors on early and late growth rate in nestling collared, pied and hybrid flycatchers!!! It was fun working with you on this project! @qvarnstromlab.bsky.social @animecol-uu.bsky.social
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May 23, 2024 at 9:43 AM
Congratulations to Jing Jonavan Leong on defending his master thesis looking at effects of environmental factors on early and late growth rate in nestling collared, pied and hybrid flycatchers!!! It was fun working with you on this project! @qvarnstromlab.bsky.social @animecol-uu.bsky.social
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Sometimes I wish I had the confidence level of an AI program...
March 8, 2024 at 2:53 PM
Sometimes I wish I had the confidence level of an AI program...
I had a blast visiting the applied zoology department of @tudresden.bsky.social where I gave a seminar.Huge thanks @martingarlovsky.bsky.social & Klaus Reinhardt's group for hosting me & sharing a bit of all the cool research that's going on in the group! I even got to see my 1st live bedbug mating!
March 6, 2024 at 3:24 PM
I had a blast visiting the applied zoology department of @tudresden.bsky.social where I gave a seminar.Huge thanks @martingarlovsky.bsky.social & Klaus Reinhardt's group for hosting me & sharing a bit of all the cool research that's going on in the group! I even got to see my 1st live bedbug mating!
Congrats to Jing Jonavan Leong on presenting his master thesis research on the effect of temperature on growth rate in collared, pied and hybrid flycatcher nestlings.
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February 16, 2024 at 7:08 PM
Congrats to Jing Jonavan Leong on presenting his master thesis research on the effect of temperature on growth rate in collared, pied and hybrid flycatcher nestlings.
@qvarnstromlab.bsky.social @animecol-uu.bsky.social 🧪🪶🌍🐛🌡️📈 evolution
@qvarnstromlab.bsky.social @animecol-uu.bsky.social 🧪🪶🌍🐛🌡️📈 evolution
We are closing this annual revolution with some hardcore genomics: Gabriel David uses long read sequencing to quantify structural variants in rock ptarmigans and Jacob Höglund, surprisingly not talking about birds, convinces us of the benefits of a new reference genome for the clouded apollo. 🧪🪶🦋
February 16, 2024 at 2:50 PM
We are closing this annual revolution with some hardcore genomics: Gabriel David uses long read sequencing to quantify structural variants in rock ptarmigans and Jacob Höglund, surprisingly not talking about birds, convinces us of the benefits of a new reference genome for the clouded apollo. 🧪🪶🦋
Moving on to more recent divergence, Joshua Hufton compares gene expression between cichlids with different jaw types, and Per Alström walks us through complicated patterns of genomic & phenotypic divergence in Yellow and Citrine Wagtails.
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February 16, 2024 at 2:15 PM
Moving on to more recent divergence, Joshua Hufton compares gene expression between cichlids with different jaw types, and Per Alström walks us through complicated patterns of genomic & phenotypic divergence in Yellow and Citrine Wagtails.
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Flycatchers next: Yishu Zhu showed exciting results on mitochondrial performance in relation to competition in nestlings & I spoke about the molecular basis of interactions between sperm & reproductive tract fluid in these hybridizing birds @qvarnstromlab.bsky.social @animecol-uu.bsky.social 🧪👩🏼🔬🪶🌡️🐛
February 16, 2024 at 2:03 PM
Flycatchers next: Yishu Zhu showed exciting results on mitochondrial performance in relation to competition in nestlings & I spoke about the molecular basis of interactions between sperm & reproductive tract fluid in these hybridizing birds @qvarnstromlab.bsky.social @animecol-uu.bsky.social 🧪👩🏼🔬🪶🌡️🐛
Next, highlights on @animecol-uu.bsky.social star model species: the seed beetle with Göran Arnqvist on sex specific gene expression& Alex Hart on heat, growth & reproduction (given by @dbergerbiol.bsky.social) & @martynazwoinska.bsky.social harvesting the power of outcrossing nematodes C.remanei🧪🧬👩🏼🔬
February 16, 2024 at 1:06 PM
Next, highlights on @animecol-uu.bsky.social star model species: the seed beetle with Göran Arnqvist on sex specific gene expression& Alex Hart on heat, growth & reproduction (given by @dbergerbiol.bsky.social) & @martynazwoinska.bsky.social harvesting the power of outcrossing nematodes C.remanei🧪🧬👩🏼🔬
Lots happening at the department of Ecology & Genetics of Uppsala Uni today! The @animecol-uu.bsky.social symposium is taking a break to listen to Linnéa Smeds defending her PhD thesis on the genomics of Swedish wolves. Impressive work!
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February 16, 2024 at 12:44 PM
Lots happening at the department of Ecology & Genetics of Uppsala Uni today! The @animecol-uu.bsky.social symposium is taking a break to listen to Linnéa Smeds defending her PhD thesis on the genomics of Swedish wolves. Impressive work!
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Kicking off day 2 of our Revolution @animecol-uu.bsky.social with a fantastic talk by Luc Bussière, both a wake up call on the urgency to address monoculture practices in huge food producers, and some hope in more "resistance-proof" biological pest control methods if evolution is accounted for.🧪🌍🌿🐛🦋
February 16, 2024 at 11:06 AM
Kicking off day 2 of our Revolution @animecol-uu.bsky.social with a fantastic talk by Luc Bussière, both a wake up call on the urgency to address monoculture practices in huge food producers, and some hope in more "resistance-proof" biological pest control methods if evolution is accounted for.🧪🌍🌿🐛🦋
Anna Qvarnström @qvarnstromlab.bsky.social presents: "inheritance of wealth" (territory quality) in collared flycatchers.We looked at phenotypic & genomic predictors of resource acquisition over 20years on Öland. Work under review together with @erynmcfarlane.bsky.social & many others.
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February 15, 2024 at 2:57 PM
Anna Qvarnström @qvarnstromlab.bsky.social presents: "inheritance of wealth" (territory quality) in collared flycatchers.We looked at phenotypic & genomic predictors of resource acquisition over 20years on Öland. Work under review together with @erynmcfarlane.bsky.social & many others.
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Congratulations to Nicholas Ruello for successfully defending his master thesis, done last Spring with the @qvarnstromlab.bsky.social at Uppsala on neophobia in flycatchers, and receiving the top grade from the University of Bologna! It was really fun working with him on this project! 🧪🌍🪶#evolution
December 12, 2023 at 12:35 PM
Congratulations to Nicholas Ruello for successfully defending his master thesis, done last Spring with the @qvarnstromlab.bsky.social at Uppsala on neophobia in flycatchers, and receiving the top grade from the University of Bologna! It was really fun working with him on this project! 🧪🌍🪶#evolution
UU Animal Ecology alumnus Ivain Martinossi visits from NTNU (Norway) to talk about how temperature affects operational sex ratio, courtship behaviour & other mating dynamics across two-spotted goby populations. Does latitude & climate affect how & when the sexes compete over mating?🧪🦑🐟#evolution
December 11, 2023 at 1:58 PM
UU Animal Ecology alumnus Ivain Martinossi visits from NTNU (Norway) to talk about how temperature affects operational sex ratio, courtship behaviour & other mating dynamics across two-spotted goby populations. Does latitude & climate affect how & when the sexes compete over mating?🧪🦑🐟#evolution
New #openAccess article: we tracked flycatcher hybrid viability across life stages, hatchling,nestling,fledgling & life long survival using 17 years monitoring of a Swedish natural population, pinpointing evolution of incompatibilities essential to understand speciation doi.org/10.1093/evol...
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November 27, 2023 at 8:44 AM
New #openAccess article: we tracked flycatcher hybrid viability across life stages, hatchling,nestling,fledgling & life long survival using 17 years monitoring of a Swedish natural population, pinpointing evolution of incompatibilities essential to understand speciation doi.org/10.1093/evol...
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Florencia Camus @fcamus.bsky.social gives today's seminar at the department of Ecology & Genetics, Uppsala University, presenting some exciting results on the sex-specific links between diet, mitochondrial pathways and reproduction in Drosophila and digging into mito-nuclear interactions.
November 1, 2023 at 1:23 PM
Florencia Camus @fcamus.bsky.social gives today's seminar at the department of Ecology & Genetics, Uppsala University, presenting some exciting results on the sex-specific links between diet, mitochondrial pathways and reproduction in Drosophila and digging into mito-nuclear interactions.
One thing I'm very happy we got to discover while living in the US with the kids is American Halloween!!! Not quite to the same level here but happy the tradition is living on!
October 31, 2023 at 8:13 PM
One thing I'm very happy we got to discover while living in the US with the kids is American Halloween!!! Not quite to the same level here but happy the tradition is living on!
The autumn light and colours on this street just a few meters away from work !!!
October 12, 2023 at 7:45 AM
The autumn light and colours on this street just a few meters away from work !!!
Very thankful for the continued support from the Foundation for Zoological Research,without which field work & long term monitoring of the flycatchers would simply not be possible.
This year the grants were announced during the annual dinner, after a day of fascinating science. Congrats to all!!!
This year the grants were announced during the annual dinner, after a day of fascinating science. Congrats to all!!!
October 9, 2023 at 8:43 AM
Very thankful for the continued support from the Foundation for Zoological Research,without which field work & long term monitoring of the flycatchers would simply not be possible.
This year the grants were announced during the annual dinner, after a day of fascinating science. Congrats to all!!!
This year the grants were announced during the annual dinner, after a day of fascinating science. Congrats to all!!!
Science mom pro tip: you don't need to buy your kids any expensive toys, an empty falcon tube will entertain them for hours!
#skysci #academicsky #womeninSTEM #womeninscience #academicmom
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October 8, 2023 at 5:47 PM
Science mom pro tip: you don't need to buy your kids any expensive toys, an empty falcon tube will entertain them for hours!
#skysci #academicsky #womeninSTEM #womeninscience #academicmom
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Change of gears this afternoon with Dr Asheeta Prasad , telling us about dopamine and the #neurobiology of reward, addiction and Parkinson's disease.
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October 6, 2023 at 12:50 PM
Change of gears this afternoon with Dr Asheeta Prasad , telling us about dopamine and the #neurobiology of reward, addiction and Parkinson's disease.
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Today we celebrate the zoological foundation at Animal Ecology at Uppsala University!Dr Gabriel Jamie gives the Hemborg lecture:"The #evolution of ornamented offspring" highlighting impressive diversity in mouth ornamentation across African finches & some of the hypotheses behind it.
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October 6, 2023 at 8:58 AM
Today we celebrate the zoological foundation at Animal Ecology at Uppsala University!Dr Gabriel Jamie gives the Hemborg lecture:"The #evolution of ornamented offspring" highlighting impressive diversity in mouth ornamentation across African finches & some of the hypotheses behind it.
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New paper out!
"Anthropogenic Change & the Process of Speciation"
We review how human activities promote & hinder divergence & highlight both short term negative effects on biodiversity & the power of studying well dated events to understand speciation
m.cshperspectives.cshlp.org/content/earl...
"Anthropogenic Change & the Process of Speciation"
We review how human activities promote & hinder divergence & highlight both short term negative effects on biodiversity & the power of studying well dated events to understand speciation
m.cshperspectives.cshlp.org/content/earl...
October 5, 2023 at 8:22 AM
New paper out!
"Anthropogenic Change & the Process of Speciation"
We review how human activities promote & hinder divergence & highlight both short term negative effects on biodiversity & the power of studying well dated events to understand speciation
m.cshperspectives.cshlp.org/content/earl...
"Anthropogenic Change & the Process of Speciation"
We review how human activities promote & hinder divergence & highlight both short term negative effects on biodiversity & the power of studying well dated events to understand speciation
m.cshperspectives.cshlp.org/content/earl...