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Newly awarded research grants in 2024!

We congratulate all researchers of Lund University and SLU Alnarp who received funding for plant and agriculture-related research projects. 

 

In total, both institutions in these particular fields received 43 MSEK from VR and 28 MSEK from Formas. The newly funded projects are:

 

Swedish Research Council, VR; Awarded grants for natural and engineering sciences

Magne Friberg, LU

Adaptiva och icke-adaptiva drivkrafter för diversifiering av komplexa karaktärer

4.16 million SEK

 

Sissi Lozada Gobilard, LU

Förare av urval på blommattribut i en rumslig-temporär kontext

4.4 million SEK

 

Maria Vilain Rørvang, SLU

SmellWell: Uppklara den förbisedda länken mellan lantbruksdjurens luktsinne och positiva känslor

4.4 million SEK

 

Swedish Research Council, VR; Grant for interdisciplinary research environments

Edith Hammer, LU with co-applicant Ramesh Vetukuri (SLU)

Markmikrobernas dynamik i tid och rum avslöjas genom underjordisk mikroskopi

30 million SEK

 

Formas Annual Open Call 2024 – Research projects for researchers early in their career:

Chloë Raderschall, SLU

StripES: Strip cropping for harnessing ecosystem services – a farm-scale system design

6.1 million SEK

 

Loenie Schönbeck, SLU

Trees under stress – revealing inter- and intraspecific variation of heat and drought tolerance for climate-smart forest management in Europe

6.1 million SEK

 

Bjørn Dueholm, SLU

Expanding the functional genomics toolbox: uncovering mechanisms of cooking-quality defects in pea and common bean

6.1 million SEK

 

Ronja Wonneberger, SLU 

Identification of genes conferring resistance to bird cherry-oat aphid in Hordeum spontaneum

4.5 million SEK

 

Lanhui Wang, LU 

Rewilding effects on ecosystem resilience to droughts and wildfires across Europe

5.2 million SEK

 

Congratulations to all of you!

PS: If we have missed someone on the list, please contact anna.manourova@slu.se