Sahlgrenska Academy Junior Researcher Symposium
Welcome to the website for the third Sahlgrenska Academy Junior Researcher Symposium (SAJRS). This two-day event will be held at the Wallenberg Conference Centre on 27 and 28 January 2025. Future Faculty arranges the symposium. Attendance is free and open to all Sahlgrenska Academy researchers. A limited amount of places are available for researchers from other departments of the University of Gothenburg and Chalmers.
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The symposium will provide a forum to share your research and learn what others around you are doing. There will be selected oral presentations over the two days and extensive poster sessions. The presenters will mainly comprise junior researchers (broadly defined as post-graduate students through to junior faculty), but the event is open to all. Don’t miss this opportunity to showcase your research and connect with the vibrant Sahlgrenska Academy community!
We are excited to announce that this year’s symposium will feature two keynote speakers: Professor Jenny Nyström, Dean of the Sahlgrenska Academy, and Professor Michael Schöll, who will share insights and experiences relevant to biomedical science.
A new meeting place
In addition to Sahlgrenska Academy researchers, you will have the opportunity to interact with representatives from a range of bio- and med-tech companies and representatives of the Sahlgrenska Academy Research Support Office.
Registration
Registration for poster and oral presentations is closed, but we still accept late registrations. We hope to see as many of you there as possible. There will be fantastic prizes for oral and poster presentations! There will be ample opportunities for networking in the form of poster sessions and an evening social event. Attendance is FREE to all Sahlgrenska Academy researchers.
Program 27 January
13:00 Opening by Future Faculty
13:15 Keynote lecture: Michael Schöll (Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology)
14:00 Neuroscience session
Chairs: Luisa Klahn and Maryam Ardalan
- 14:00 Andrew Naylor – The differential and temporal effects of a single or dual inflammatory insult on microglial activation states
- 14:15 Stamatia Karagianni – One modality to rule them all? Comparison of amyloid, tau, and FDG PET for the prediction of decline in different cognitive domains
- 14:30 Christina Heiss – Neurofilament light chain clearance through microglia and the implications of microglial states for biomarker interpretation
- 14:45 Melis Çelik – Unraveling the Impact of CACNA1C and Its Risk Variant on Neural Development in Bipolar Disorder
15:00 Poster session 1
Fika and sponsor exhibitions
16:00 Research session 1
Chair: Rossella Crescitelli and Bingqing He
- 16:00 Sara Berggren – Frequent pain is common among 10-11-year-old children with symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
- 16:15 Daniel Schmidt/Emilio Rudbeck – Advancing Clinical Microbiology: The Role of Bioinformatics in Data-Driven Insights and Public Health
- 16:30 Lucia de Miguel Gomez – Preconditioning scaffolds for uterus bioengineering with metalloproteinases: does it affect cytocompatibility and immunogenicity?
- 16:45 Wing Ki Chan – Perinatal exposure to Staphylococcus epidermidis as a potential factor contributing to autism later in life
17:30 Social event at Zamenhof
Program 28 January
09:00 Research session 2
Chairs: Francesco Longo and Lina Jonsson
- 09:00 Fadi Askar – Women with knee osteoarthritis: the role of progesterone in a post-menopausal age window
- 09:15 Andreas Törnell – NOX2 activity may determine disease progression in Parkison’s disease
- 09:30 Daniel Schmitz – Nallo: A Nextflow pipeline for comprehensive human long-read genome analysis
- 09:45 Noor Hassan – The role of oxytocin in the development of social preference in zebrafish
10:00 Sponsor presentation – AH Diagnostics
10:30 Fika and sponsor exhibitions
11:00 Cancer session 1
Chair: Elin Bernson and Reshed Abohlaka
- 11:00 Ella Äng Eklund – Equalizing prognostic disparities in KRAS-mutated stage III NSCLC patients: addition of durvalumab to combined chemoradiotherapy improves survival
- 11:15 Lijuan Yu – Prostate cancer extracellular vesicles delivered miRNAs may intelligently regulate bone metastasis
- 11:30 Kerryn Elliott – Mechanistic basis of atypical TERT promoter mutations
11:45 Research Support Office
11:50 Poster session 2, lunch and sponsor exhibitions
13:15 Keynote lecture: Jenny Nyström (Dean at Sahlgrenska Academy)
14:00 Cancer session 2
Chairs: Kerryn Elliott and Martina Sundqvist
- 14:00 Sanchari Paul – Targeting murine metastatic cancers with adjuvanted cancer antigen vaccines
- 14:15 Mustafa Kaya – NRF2 Signaling in EMT and Macrophage Polarization
14:30 Fika and sponsor exhibitions
15:00 Sponsor presentation – BD
15:30 Prize ceremony and closing
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