Frontiers in Neuroscience Seminar Series

PROGRAM FOR SPRING 2025

• 23 January, 16:00, Segerfalk lecture hall, BMC A10
  Professor Marina Romero-Ramos, Aarhus University, Denmark
  
  Lecture title: Immune component of Parkinson’s disease: periphery vs. brain
  
  Lecture host: Angela Cenci Nilsson
  
  Marina Romero-Ramos is Professor in Neuroscience at the Dept of Biomedicine at Aarhus University. Her research during the last two decades has focused on the different aspects associated with alpha-synuclein induced neurodegeneration during Parkinson’s disease (PD). In particular her lab has developed studies addressing the immune response during PD and the neuroprotective potential of immunomodulatory strategies in the disease. They have shown the dynamic response of microglia in the brain and the active role of the peripheral immune cells in the neurodegenerative process in the brain. These studies have been developed using animal models of PD but also analyzing biosamples derived from humans with PD. Her current projects are focused on understanding the differential immune response associated with the disease’s stages (prodromal, early and late) and subtypes (considering the brain first / body first theory), while studying sex as a important variable in the immune landscape.

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• 12 February, 16:00, Segerfalk lecture hall, BMC A10
  Professor Thomas Perlmann, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm 
  
  Lecture title: Development and diversity of midbrain dopamine neurons
  
  Lecture host: Angela Cenci Nilsson
  
  Thomas Perlmann is Professor in Developmental Biology at the Karolinska Institute and secretary of the Karolinska Institute Nobel committee. Thomas´ research unravels signaling and transcriptional mechanisms governing the specification, differentiation, and maintenance of dopamine neurons. Research by his group has resulted in the identification of several transcription factors with key roles in these processes, some of which were also found to be altered in Parkinson´s disease. His findings have moreover led to the generation of new genetic models of Parkinson´s disease that have been instrumental to important translational research in our field.  His current projects are focused on understanding both early specification events and maintenance of dopamine neurons in the adult brain, also addressing the response of these neurons during Parkinson´s like pathology and regenerative therapies.   

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• 27 March, 16:00, Segerfalk lecture hall, BMC A10
  Professor Donna Wilcock, Indiana University School of Medicine, USA
  
  Lecture title: To be announced
  
  Lecture host: Niklas Mattsson-Carlgren

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• 24 April, 16:00, Segerfalk lecture hall, BMC A10
  Professor Bill Seeley, UCSF Memory and Aging Center, USA
  
  Lecture title: To be announced
  
  Lecture host: Alexander Santillo