Welcome to this year's MultiPark retreat that will take place from Thursday, September 3 to Friday, September 4 at Hotel Öresund in Landskrona!
Program
Day 1 - Thursday, September 3| Time | Session |
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| 8:30 | Busses depart from Forum Medicum/BMC (Sölvegatan 19) |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Arrival at the venue, name tag pickup, and coffee |
| 9:30 - 9:40 | Welcoming address by MultiPark’s coordinator
Angela Cenci Nilsson |
| 9:40 - 10:40 | Tandem student talks
Chair: Pomme Rigter - Using Structural MRI to Detect Hippocampal Sclerosis of Aging: From Postmortem Signatures to In Vivo Biomarkers
Xiao Yu & Gustaf Rådman - Diagnostic value of proteomics-AI for neurodegenerative diseases
Narjes Goshtasbi & Lijun An
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| 10:40 - 11:15 | Coffee and poster setup |
| 11:15 - 12:15 | Data blitz!
Chair: Malin Wennström - Indirect Striatal Projection Neurons Drive a D2 Receptor-Dependent Pathway to Dyskinesia and Dystonia
Teodor Nyman - CT and MRI in the Primary Care Work-Up of Cognitive Impairment
Josef Barbosa Djärf - Prediction of longitudinal cognitive decline in preclinical Alzheimer’s disease
Sophie Mastenbroek - Robust and coordinated multicellular response to AD pathology
Gabrielle Vilkaite - Meningeal immune cell dynamics in Huntington´s disease
Alina Blusch - Crossroads of clinical ALS and Huntington disease in the emotion- and metabolism-regulating ventromedial hypothalamus
Jennifer Oraha
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| 12:15 - 13:30 | Lunch & final poster setup |
| 13:30 - 14:10 | The path to clinical implementation: two successful examples
Chair: Ruben Smith - Implementation of tau biomarkers in primary care
Sebastian Palmqvist - The PD-pal project: palliative care in the most advanced stages of PD
Per Odin
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| 14:10 - 16:30 | Poster session with refreshments
Location: Klippern, Jollan, and Barken Presenters have been assigned to a one-hour time slot, either - Session A: 14:20 - 15:20 or
- Session B: 15:30 - 16:30
See poster session information for session assignments.
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| 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
Location: Fregatten
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| 19:00 - 20:30 | Dinner |
| 20:30 - 21:30 | Optional activity: Team music quiz (right after dinner in the dining area) |
Day 2 - Friday, September 4| Time | Session |
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| 6:30 - 9:00 | Breakfast and hotel checkout |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | United 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 - From classical to AI image processing and advanced visualization
Emanuel Larsson (CIPA) - snRNAseq
Julia Bräunig (Center for Translational Genomics) - Multielectrode arrays
Claire Piochon & Jenny Wickman (Joint Electrophysiology Core Facility)
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| 10:30 - 11:00 | Fika and poster teardown |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Showcasing multidisciplinarity in MultiPark: bring on our chemists!
Chair: Gunnar Gouras - Chaperone action in amyloid solubility enhancement
Sara Linse - Martin Hjort
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| 12:00 - 13:30 | Lunch & coffee |
| 13:30 - 14:30 | Project funding awardees (2025) present
Chair: Oxana Klementieva - Cell type-specific neuronal activation in sensorimotor cortex in L-DOPA-induced dyskinesia
Markus Aldén - Uncovering Galectin-3-mediated molecular signatures in amyloid-beta pathology
Yiyi Yang - Direct Conversion of Alzheimer Patient Fibroblasts to Astrocytes and Neurons for AD Modelling
Alicja Krawczun-Rygmaczewska
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| 14:30 - 15:00 | Best poster award, acknowledgements, and closing address |
| 15:15 | Busses depart for Lund |
