By Jenny [dot] Mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 7 March 2012 The link between neurodegeneration and energy metabolism is the focus of not only TNU:s research but also for the international colleagues Drs Patrick Weydt, Ulm University, Germany, and Luc Dupuis, Strasbourg University, France. They have now written a letter entitled Progranulin bridges energy homeostasis

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/petersen-co-authors-letter-cell-metabolism-march-2012 - 2025-04-25

Published 10 May 2012 Sanaz Gabery, PhD student in TNU, was awarded the prize for best presentation at the poster session of the Neuroscience Day, May 2012, in Lund.Barbara Baldo, postdoctoral fellow in TNU, received a grant of 55 000 SEK from the Segerfalk Foundation for her work on the role of orexin neurons in Huntington's disease, which also was announced at the Neuroscience Day.Congratulation

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/gabery-wins-prize-best-presentation-and-baldo-receives-grant-segerfalk-foundation - 2025-04-25

By Jenny [dot] Mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 13 June 2012 We would like to welcome Natalie Adlesic back to TNU! Natalie is returning to our group on Monday June 18th on a summer stipend. She will work with us for the next eight weeks.

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/welcome-back-natalie - 2025-04-25

By Jenny [dot] Mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 19 June 2012 Petersén and Gabery has written an invited review entitled Hypothalamic and limbic system changes in Huntington's disease in the first issue of Journal of Huntington's Disease.Link to the article

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/tnu-publishes-review-hypothalamic-changes-hd-first-issue-journal-huntingtons-disease - 2025-04-25

By Jenny [dot] Mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 26 July 2012 An International summer camp for young adults in families with HD visits TNU on July 27, 2012. The camp is organized by Riksförbundet Huntingtons Sjukdom and European Huntington Association (EHA) with Carina Hvalstedt in charge, and takes place at Hotel Båstad for one week.30 young adults from the ages of 15

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/international-summer-camp-young-adults-hd-families-visits-tnu-and-bagadilico - 2025-04-25

By Jenny [dot] Mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 30 July 2012 On Friday the 27th of July TNU and Bagadilico had visitors from the International summer camp for young adults in families with HD. The regional newspaper Skånskan Dagbladet published an article on the visit, describing the symptoms of HD and how life in a family with HD can be. Link to the article on Skånsk

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/article-skanska-dagbladet-visit-tnu-lab - 2025-04-25

By Jenny [dot] Mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 19 September 2012 TNU members attended the 7th EHDN Plenary Meeting in Stockholm, Sweden, September 14-16 2012. The TNU team presented posters on the development of assays to measure huntingtin and studies investigating the underlying mechanisms of depression, anxiety and metabolic changes in HD. Petersén chaired one of

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/tnu-attends-ehdn-plenary-meeting-stockholm - 2025-04-25

By Jenny [dot] Mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 6 November 2012 Petersén begins her tenured faculty position as Senior Lecturer (universitetslektor) in medical research with specialization in Neuroscience at the Medical Faculty of Lund University in November 2012 after three years with a position as senior researcher (forskaretjänst) in psychiatry at 50% appointed by

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/petersen-appointed-senior-lecturer-neuroscience-lund-university - 2025-04-25

By Jenny [dot] Mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 3 December 2012 The Network of European CNS Transplantation and Restoration (NECTAR) held its annual meeting in Lund Nov 29-30 2012 with around 130 participants. Petersén was invited to give an overview of mouse models in HD, and Soylu and Sajjad were selected to present their recent research findings in the data blitz s

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/tnu-members-give-talks-annual-nectar-meeting - 2025-04-25

Published 28 January 2013 Congratulations to Sofia Hult Lundh who received one of the five stipends of 2012 from the Swedish Lundbeckfoundation at a ceremony at Trolleholm castle on the 17th of January 2012. The stipend will be used to investigate molecular mechanisms underlying depressive- and anxiety-like features in mice with Huntington's disease.

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/phd-student-sofia-hult-lundh-received-prestigious-stipend-swedish-lundbeckfoundation - 2025-04-25

By Jenny [dot] Mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 1 February 2013 Dr Rachel Cheong starts a postdoctoral fellowship in TNU 1st of February 2013. Dr Cheong is from Singapore and has a PhD in Neuroscience from University of Otago, New Zealand. Her PhD thesis was entitled Effects of estradiol on gonadotropin-releasing hormone neurons. In Lund she will investigate the role

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/tnu-welcomes-dr-rachel-cheong-group - 2025-04-25

Published 11 March 2013 The Swedish patient organization for Huntington's disease organises a one-day meeting in Gothenburg. Petersén will speak about research as well as about early stages of the clinical disease.

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/petersen-lectures-national-huntington-meeting-gothenburg - 2025-04-25

By Jenny [dot] Mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 13 May 2013 The annual Neuroscience Day in Lund takes place on May 16. Rana Soylu will give a talk with the title Long-term metabolic effects of huntingtin expression in the hypothalamus.

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/soylu-presents-her-research-neuroscience-day-lund-may-2013 - 2025-04-25

By Jenny [dot] Mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 20 May 2013 Maximilian Tufvesson Alm is a Bachelor student in Biomedicine at Lund University who has recently joined the lab to work with us on a research project for his bachelor thesis, supervised by Dr Barbara Baldo. After the completion of this achievement Max will continue in the group for eight more weeks for a sum

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/tnu-welcomes-max - 2025-04-25

By Jenny [dot] Mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 27 May 2013 A team from HDYO (Huntington's disease youth organisation) visited TNU on May 24 2013. The filming project involved touring the HD research lab in Lund, meeting researchers and seeing what they are doing in the lab. It was a great day and we are looking forward to the film that will be posted on the HDYO webs

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/hdyo-visited-tnu-film-lab-tour-about-our-hd-research - 2025-04-25

By Jenny [dot] Mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 29 May 2013 Our article entitled Hypothalamic expression of mutant huntingtin contributes to the development of depressive-like behavior in the BAC transgenic mouse model of Huntington's disease with the authors Sofia Hult Lundh, Nathalie Nilsson, Rana Soylu, Deniz Kirik D and Åsa Petersén was published in Human Molecula

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/inactivation-mutant-huntingtin-hypothalamus-prevents-depression-hd-mice - 2025-04-25

By Jenny [dot] Mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 30 May 2013 Barbara Baldo has received a grant of 150 000 SEK from the Blanceflor Boncompagni-Ludovisi foundation to do research about the role of orexin dysfunction in HD. Congratulations!

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/baldo-receives-150-000-sek-grant-orexin-project - 2025-04-25

By Jenny [dot] Mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 8 July 2013 The Gordon Research Conference, GRC, on CAG Triplet Repeat Disorders took place in Waterville Valley June 23-28 2013. Petersén was invited to give a talk and Baldo, Gabery and Soylu presented posters. Also, Soylu was selected to give a talk about her work at the Gordon Research Seminars just before the GRC. 

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/tnu-presents-research-gordon-research-conference-waterville-valley-usa - 2025-04-25

By Jenny [dot] Mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 21 August 2013 The national patient organisation for HD with Carina Hvalstedt organised a camp for families with HD in Båstad in July 2013. Petersen and Gabery were invited to talk about the disease and to give an update on the ongoing research. This article was published in the newspaper Helsingborgs Dagblad:Nytt familj

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/petersen-and-gabery-give-talks-summer-camp-hd-families-bastad - 2025-04-25

By Jenny [dot] Mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 8 October 2013 Niclas Hagen at the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences of the Faculties of Humanities and Theology at Lund University defended his doctoral dissertation entitled Modern Genes; Body, rationality and ambivalence on October 4 2013. The focus of the thesis is Huntington's disease. Professor Susanne Lundi

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/congratulations-niclas-hagen-your-phd - 2025-04-25