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Panel 12 – science bio/geo
teaching and research should be strongly resisted. However, there should
also be enough time for research, and administrative duties for research
personel including professors should be kept at a minimum. That in
the text provided by the department such a statement was noteworthy,
actually shows that indeed imbalances exist. Usually such imbalances do
affect the research output.
1.5 Evaluation of future plans
and future potentials and possibilities
It is very clear that the Lund Vision Group with its already existing and
planned activities into the field of biorobotics will be a real stronghold in
the foreseeable future. It is a splendid idea to combine aspects of neurobiology
and engineering in a teaching program (Master program) in
neurobiology and robotics. We are convinced that this unique endeavour
will be very attractive for students and hold enormous future potential.
If such a master program is implemented fast this certainly would be a
“first”, and correspondingly would attract talented students with special
interests in this field. (Outstanding).
In our opinion a similar high potential for the future have the groups in
neurobiology that deal with brain-machine interfaces. We feel that they
should closely relate to the biorobotics groups and interactions between
the CAMVIS program and the groups that are involved in attempts to
study brain-machine interfaces should be strongly encouraged. Such
studies also have enormous future potentials although, at the moment,
they may still be only at the very beginning and, perhaps, less advanced
than many of the biorobots that use vision or mechanical senses for orientation.
Nevertheless, these groups will definitely contribute to further
research progress. (Very good).
The department also points out cellular signaling as one of its future
research areas, and we completely agree to its goals outlined in the provided
material. Indeed, cellular signaling, which in many ways deals with
basic principles in many different organisms, can act as a unifying theme
for a lot of diverse groups. This diversity of approaches and systems is, of
course, the result of a certain history. Although we do sympathize with
this diversity, as it is still important for the purpose of teaching and can
also bring in views and perspectives from other usually distant disciplines,
we could imagine a more coherent organisation with respect to this topic.
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