Seminar

Neuro-SysMed Junior Scientist Symposium October 17, 2025

Welcome to NEUROSYSM910, the Neuro-SysMed Junior Scientist Symposia!

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Explore new frontiers with the young Neuro-SysMed researchers in this excellent arena to obtain valuable skills in presentation techniques, engage in scientific discussions, and take advantage of peer reviews and comments. Learn about current research within MS, Parkinson’s disease, dementia, and ALS! Senior researchers are also welcome. Lunch is included.

Place: Auditorium 4, BB building (campus Haukeland University Hospital)

Time: Friday, October 17, 2025, at 09.00-13.00

Registration: through this link. Students who would like to have ECTS for their participation need to register in Studentweb as well, for the subject NEUROSYSM910 for the fall term. The deadline in Studentweb for all subject codes for the fall term is September 1. Find more information about the course code on the student pages.

Responsible: Shamundeeswari Anandan and Yola Gerking are academically responsible for the symposium series. Feel free to contact them if you have any questions: Shamundeeswari (Sam) Anandan: samanandhan@gmail.com or Yola Gerking: yola.gerking@uib.no

Coordinators: Håkon Olsen and Casper Eugen Sandvik

Lecture language: English

Who: mainly intended for PhD candidates and other students, but also available for other researchers who would like to listen to the lectures.

Program

Chair of the session: Håkon Olsen (Neuro-SysMed – UiB)

09:00 – 09:10 Welcome and introduction

09:10 – 10:10 “Bioengineering of Extracellular Vesicles for Regenerative Medicine” by Carlos Jesus, PhD candidate at the faculty of Medicine of the University of Coimbra & Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology - University of Coimbra (SNEV-ISEV Society)

10:10 – 10:30 Coffee break

10:30 – 10:55 Elisabeth Claire Evjenth: “Ultra-rapid elimination of B cells directly after intravenous infusion of anti-CD20 therapy”

10:55 – 11:20 Julia Nienhuis: “Finding a diagnostic biomarker for Parkinson's disease”

11:20 – 12:00 Lunch (included)

12:00 – 12:25 Connor Langworth-Green: “Immune Dysregulation and Innate-Adaptive Interplay Across Parkinson’s Disease: From Biomarker Discovery to Targeted Immune Intervention”

12:25 – 12:50 Max Korbmacher: “Accelerated grey matter degeneration in relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis”

12:50 – 13:00 Concluding remarks

Welcome!

Seminar

17.10.2025 - 09.00–13.00

Auditorium 4, BBB

Yola Gerking

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NEUROSYSM910 Neuro-SysMed Junior Scientist Symposium

The objective of the symposium series is to provide the PhD candidates with valuable skills in oral presentation techniques while presenting their own research as well as dissemination of the research of others, provide opportunities to engage in scientific discussions, and to take advantage of peer reviews and comments to strengthen the scientific quality of own research and scientific thinking. A main ambition is also to strengthen the scientific networks and to encourage candidates to establish relations to scientists.

The symposia are organized 4 times annually, twice every semester. Each symposium is organized with a keynote lecture initially (45 min), followed by 4 PhD candidates/postdoctoral researchers who present their work (25 min each including the oral presentation and discussion). Subsequently, there will be final discussions. The presentations will be of own research with special attention to presentation techniques and quality. The symposia are chaired by coordinators recruited from postdocs and PhD candidates within Neuro-SysMed. The first Junior Scientist Symposium has its kick-off January 18, 2023. Attendance provides 3 ECTS if the candidate has participated in minimum 4 symposia, written and submitted 4 scientific reports of scientific presentations at the symposia, and presented own research at one of the symposia. See coming symposia in the Neuro-SysMed calendar.

Other researchers are also welcome to attend the symposia!

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