Martin Johnsson

@mrtnj.bsky.social

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PhD in genetics. Associate professor (docent) at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Uppsala. The Jar Jar Binks of animal genomics. Writes in English, svenska & gruntings. he/him

Pictures of chickens from three populations representing broilers from the 1950s, 70s and 2000s, side by side at different ages, illustrating the massive difference in body mass and growth.
Colourful papers, scissors and tape, used as teaching materials for genetics.
Elin Hernlund presenting in front of a slide that shows 3D models of a human, a horse, a dog and a cow.
Maria Knutson Wedel talking in front of a audience of SLU colleagues and students.
A whiteboard with DNA sequence of microsatellites and a circuit diagram, half erased, on top of each other.
Blue skies over Borlänge, and a hydroelectric dam.
A slide that explains the "two minutes rule" that there are 2 minutes between talks to switch speakers.
Ida Hansson presenting her PhD thesis, standing in front of a projector screen at SLU, campus Ultuna.
Mohammd Sallam and Christine Baes discussing Sallam's thesis.
Lecture room, Lennart Kennes sal at Ultuna campus, set up for PhD defence.
Sallam's thesis, with an analysed keel bone X ray image on the cover.
Sheep behind a fence.
Signs pointing to Audhumla and Dvalin, two lecture rooms at Ultuna campus.
Blue flowers (Anemome hepatica) by the road.
Calle Rubin, standing in front of his title slide for a talk about sex determination in flatfish.
The sign outside Science fiction-bokhandeln, book store in Stockholm: a dragon and a rocket
Pizza with pumpkin, onion, and parsley just out of the oven.