AutNetKI Annual Meeting 2026

AutNetKI is a multidisciplinary research network that aims to advance autism research through interdisciplinary collaboration at KI. The annual meeting serves as a platform for researchers and stakeholder organisations to connect, share experiences, methods and knowledge, and to strengthen transdisciplinary collaboration across disciplines and career stages at Karolinska Institutet.

Program

• Information from the AutNetKI Steering Committee, Kristiina Tammimies and Mark Taylor

  Animal and cellular models for autism research at KI 

• Judith C. Kreutzmann, Department of Clinical Neuroscience
  Offensive Behaviour in Mouse Models of Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Jatin Sharma, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology
  Behavioral phenotypes in zebrafish models
• Diana Tikhomirova, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology
  Fetal brain organoids for environmental exposure research
• Michelle Watts, Department of Women’s and Children’s Health
  Resolving effects of ASD-associated variants in ciliary gene networks
• Anna Lindstrand, Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery and Karolinska University Hospital
  Characterizing CTNND2-related disorder

• Rochellys Diaz Heijtz, Department of Neuroscience
  Microbiota–Gut–Brain Axis in Neurodevelopment: Insights from Human Studies and Experimental Models

  Autism research and media

• Renee Gardner
  Researchers’ experiences of communicating research findings in autism on a debated topic
• Themis Karaminis, City St George’s, University of London
  Media coverage of autism and autism research: insights from British newspapers
• Rebecka Sterry, Autistica
  Media communication guide from Autistica

• Discussion: autism and autism research in the media

  Closing

• Mingle and poster presentations (aula area in front of Samuelssonsalen)