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MultiPark Annual Retreat 2026

3 September 2026 08:30 to 4 September 2026 15:00 | Conference
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Welcome to this year's MultiPark retreat that will take place from Thursday, September 3 to Friday, September 4 at Hotel Öresund in Landskrona!

Click here to jump to the poster session information.

Program

Day 1 - Thursday, September 3
TimeSession
8:30Busses depart from Forum Medicum/BMC (Sölvegatan 19)
9:00 - 9:30Arrival at the venue, name tag pickup, and coffee
9:30 - 9:40Welcoming address by MultiPark’s coordinator
Angela Cenci Nilsson
9:40 - 10:40

Tandem student talks
Chair: Megg Garcia-Ryde

  1. Using Structural MRI to Detect Hippocampal Sclerosis of Aging: From Postmortem Signatures to In Vivo Biomarkers
    Xiao Yu & Gustaf Rådman
  2. Diagnostic value of proteomics-AI for neurodegenerative diseases
    Narjes Goshtasbi & Lijun An
10:40 - 11:15Coffee and poster setup
11:15 - 12:15

Data blitz!
Chair: Malin Wennström

  1. Indirect Striatal Projection Neurons Drive a D2 Receptor-Dependent Pathway to Dyskinesia and Dystonia
    Teodor Nyman
  2. CT and MRI in the Primary Care Work-Up of Cognitive Impairment
    Josef Barbosa Djärf
  3. Prediction of longitudinal cognitive decline in preclinical Alzheimer’s disease
    Sophie Mastenbroek
  4. Robust and coordinated multicellular response to AD pathology
    Gabrielle Vilkaite
  5. Meningeal immune cell dynamics in Huntington´s disease
    Alina Blusch
  6. Crossroads of clinical ALS and Huntington disease in the emotion- and metabolism-regulating ventromedial hypothalamus
    Jennifer Oraha
12:15 - 13:30Lunch
13:30 - 14:10

The path to clinical implementation: two successful examples
Chair: Ruben Smith

  1. Implementation of tau biomarkers in primary care
    Sebastian Palmqvist
  2. The PD-pal project: palliative care in the most advanced stages of PD
    Per Odin
14:10 - 16:30Poster session with refreshments
16:30 - 19:00

Free time for mingling, concurrent with

  • 17:00 - 19:00 - Spa open (optional free time activity; limited space for 45 – 50 people)
  • 17:45 - 19:00 - PI-only meeting
19:00 - 20:30Dinner
20:30 - 21:30Optional activity: Team music quiz (right after dinner in the dining area)
Day 2 - Friday, September 4
TimeSession
6:30 - 9:00Breakfast and hotel checkout
9:00 - 9:30United Neuroscience Campus Lund - Rostock (UNC): update and research presentation
"Subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation in a preclinical model of early Parkinson’s disease"
Chair: Per Odin
Alexander Storch
9:30 - 10:30

Making sense of complex data – collection and analysis of large data sets
Chair: Johan Jakobsson

  1. From classical to AI image processing and advanced visualization
    Emanuel Larsson (CIPA)
  2. snRNAseq
    Julia Bräunig (Center for Translational Genomics)
  3. Multielectrode arrays
    Claire Piochon & Jenny Wickman (Joint Electrophysiology Core Facility)
10:30 - 11:00Fika and poster teardown
11:00 - 12:00

Showcasing multidisciplinarity in MultiPark: bring on our chemists!
Chair: Gunnar Gouras

  1. Chaperone action in amyloid solubility enhancement
    Sara Linse
  2. Martin Hjort
12:00 - 13:30Lunch
13:30 - 14:30

Project funding awardees (2025) present
Chair: Oxana Klementieva

  1. Cell type-specific neuronal activation in sensorimotor cortex in L-DOPA-induced dyskinesia
    Markus Aldén
  2. Uncovering Galectin-3-mediated molecular signatures in amyloid-beta pathology
    Yiyi Yang
  3. Direct Conversion of Alzheimer Patient Fibroblasts to Astrocytes and Neurons for AD Modelling
    Alicja Krawczun-Rygmaczewska
14:30 - 15:00Best poster award, acknowledgements, and closing address
15:15Busses depart for Lund

Poster session information

Below, you will also find information relevant to the poster session (Day 1, 14:10 - 16:30). New for this year, poster presenters have been assigned a one-hour time slot during the session during which they must be present at their poster.

All the information below will only be available during the retreat.

Poster #SessionPoster PresenterPoster Title
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32first session (14:20 - 15:20)TBATBA
33N/A (no poster presentation)TBATBA

About the event

Location:

Hotel Öresund, Landskrona

Contact:

diana [dot] jerman [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se