The brain across scales
This session is designed to surface unexpected overlaps and spark new collaborations. Whether you work on the brain yourself or simply want to understand what your colleagues down the corridor are doing, this is the seminar for you.
We bring together investigators who approach the brain through psychiatric epidemiology, clinical neuroimmunology, molecular genetics, bioelectronic medicine, neuro-oncology, neuroimaging, and developmental neurobiology.
Part 1: Introduction and overview
11:00 Johan Lundström (Dept. of Clinical Neuroscience)
Part 2: Risk, resilience, and the living brain
This block moves from population-level patterns through genomic risk architecture to clinical neuroscience, focusing on the brain as it develops risk, gets sick, and responds to intervention in living humans.
11:10 Johan Åhlén (Dept. of Global Public Health)
Preventing mental health problems before they start: from population screening to early intervention in children and adolescents
11:20 Brenda Cabrera-Mendoza (Dept. of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics)
Genomics of suicidal behavior: from polygenic risk architecture to biological mechanism across diverse populations
11:30 Susanne Palmcrantz (Dept. of Clinical Sciences, Danderyd Hospital)
The recovering brain: how neurotechnology-assisted rehabilitation restores motor function after stroke
11:40 Karin Jensen (Dept. of Clinical Neuroscience)
How the brain builds and regulates pain: expectation, conditioning, and placebo mechanisms studied with fMRI in healthy subjects and chronic pain patients
Part 3: From genomes to mechanisms
This block zooms into the molecular and cellular level, showcasing how researchers use bioelectronic devices, genomics, organoids, and animal models to understand what goes wrong in the brain, and how to fix it.
11:50 Peder Olofsson (Dept. of Medicine, Solna)
The vagus nerve as a therapeutic lever: bioelectronic medicine and neural control of inflammation
12:00 Kristiina Tammimies (Dept. of Women's and Children's Health)
From genome to neuron: decoding autism and language disorders through clinical genomics and iPSC-derived cell models
12:10 Martin Lundberg (Dept. of Molecular Medicine and Surgery)
Lithium, organoids, and bipolar disorder: molecular psychiatry from bedside to dish and back
12:20 Susanne Schlisio (Dept. of Oncology-Pathology)
When neural crest development derails: lineage plasticity and tumor evolution in neuroblastoma