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29

Sep

MultiPark Annual Retreat 2025

29 September 2025 08:30 to 30 September 2025 15:15 | Conference

The date for our annual retreat has been set to September 29-30, and the event will take place at Clarion Hotel & Congress Sea U in Helsingborg. A link to the registration form has been sent via email from Diana Jerman. Please contact Diana (diana [dot] jerman [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se) or Megg (megg [dot] garcia-ryde [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se) if you have not yet received this email. The deadline for registration is June 30.

Please see the schedule below (may be subject to change):

All sessions will be held in the large meeting room (HAV 1&2) unless otherwise stated.

Day 1 (Monday, September 29)

8:30Buses leave BMC
9:30 - 10:00Arrival at the venue - name tag pickup & coffee
10:00 - 10:10Welcoming address by MultiPark's coordinator
Angela Cenci Nilsson
10:15 - 11:15

Tandem PI talks
Chair: Tomas Deierborg

  1. Parkinson’s Disease: Unmet Needs
    Angela Cenci Nilsson (Preclinical PI)
    Per Odin (Clinical PI)
  2. Parkinson’s Disease: Cell and Gene Therapy
    Tomas Björklund (Preclinical PI)
    Gesine Paul-Visse (Clinical PI)
11:15 - 11:30Poster setup & coffee
11:30 - 12:30

Tandem PI talks
Chair: Laura Wisse

  1. Acquired Brain Injury
    Karsten Ruscher (Preclinical PI)
    Niklas Marklund (Clinical PI)
  2. Alzheimer’s Disease: Protein Aggregation and Beyond
    Tomas Deierborg (Preclinical PI)
    Niklas Mattsson-Carlgren (Clinical PI)
12:30 - 13:30Lunch & final poster setup
13:30 - 14:00MultiPark Innovation
Chair: Mia Nilsson
Tadeusz Wieloch & Lars Svensson (LU Innovation)
14:00 - 15:00

Tandem student talks
Chair: Emma Nyberg

  1. Blood-based biomarkers for the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease
    Josef Barbosa Djärf (Popular science background)
    Noëlle Warmenhoven (Research presentation)
     
  2. Human brain cell-type-specific aging clocks based on single-nuclei transcriptomics 
    Jennifer Oraha (Popular science background)
    Chandramouli Muralidharan (Research presentation)
15:00 - 17:00Poster session, room key pick-up, and coffee
17:00 - 19:00

[Concurrent]

  • Free time
  • Sip&Paint (optional activity)
    Guaranteed space only for those who signed up. A few additional spaces may be available (first come, first served basis)
19:00 - 20:30Dinner
20:30

[Concurrent]

  • Free time
  • Karaoke (optional activity)
    All are welcome - no signup needed!

Day 2 (Tuesday, September 30)

6:30 - 9:00Breakfast and checkout
9:00 - 10:30Expanding the Reach of Your Research (workshop)
Tove Smeds (Communications Officer @ MedFak)
10:30 - 11:00Final hotel checkout & coffee
11:00 - 12:00

[CONCURRENT]

  • Parkinson Lund presents
    Chair: Martina Svensson
    Anna-Lena Fällman & Susanne Andersson
  • PI-only meeting @ Small meeting room (UMI 1)
12:00 - 13:30Lunch
13:30 - 14:30

Grant awardee presentations (Recipients of the 2024 call for project support for young researchers)

  1. Liraglutide alleviates L-dopa therapy complications in Parkinson´s disease in association with reversing L-dopa induced maladaptive microvascular and glial changes
    Osama Elabi
  2. Uncovering the molecular mechanisms driving X-Linked Dystonia-Parkinsonism
    Vivien Horvath
  3. Imaging the sense of smell - From healthy brains to Parkinson’s disease
    Charalampos Georgiopoulos
14:30 - 15:00Best poster award, acknowledgements, and closing address
15:15Buses depart for Lund

About the event

Location:

Clarion Hotel & Congress Sea U, Helsingborg

Contact:

megg [dot] garcia-ryde [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se