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29

Sep

MultiPark Annual Retreat 2025

29 September 2025 08:30 | 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):

Day 1 (Monday, September 29)

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

Tandem PI talks

  1. Parkinson’s Disease: Unmet Medical 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 - 11:30Fika
11:30 - 12:30

Tandem PI talks

  1. Alzheimer’s Disease: Protein Aggregation and Beyond
    Tomas Deierborg (Preclinical PI)
    Niklas Mattsson-Carlgren (Clinical PI)
  2. Acquired Brain Injury
    Karsten Ruscher (Preclinical PI)
    Niklas Marklund (Clinical PI)
12:30 - 13:30Lunch
13:30 - 14:00TBA
14:00 - 15:00

Tandem student talks

  1. Human brain cell-type-specific aging clocks based on single-nuclei transcriptomics 
    Jennifer Oraha (Popular science background)
    Chandramouli Muralidharan (Paper presentation)
  2. TBA
15:00 - 17:30Poster session, hotel check in, and fika
17:30 - 19:00Free time/optional activity (Sip&Paint, requires registration)
19:00 - 20:30Dinner
20:30Free time/optional activity (karaoke competition, all are welcome!)

Day 2 (Tuesday, September 30)

6:30 - 9:00Breakfast and checkout
9:00 - 10:30Expanding the Reach of Your Research: a workshop led by Tove Smeds (Communications Officer in the Medical Faculty)
10:30 - 11:00Fika, poster teardown, and final hotel checkout
11:00 - 12:00

[CONCURRENT]

  • ParkinsonLund presents
  • PI-only meeting
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. To understand the molecular basis of X-Linked Dystonia-Parkinsonism
    Vivien Horvath
  3. Title TBA
    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