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Rana Soylu Kucharz successfully defended her PhD thesis at Lund University on Thursday January 28! Congratulations Dr Rana Soylu Kucharz!
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/congratulations-dr-rana-soylu-kucharz - 2025-12-27
In the magazine Reflex (1/2016), issued by Neuroförbundet, an article on the TNU research on Huntington's disease is highlighted. Three PhD theses have been published during 2014-2016 in the TNU group; all focusing on different aspect of the disease. Read the article here (in Swedish): artikel_i_reflex_1_2016.pdf
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/tnus-research-highlighted-reflex - 2025-12-27
Petersén is invited to give a talk entitled "Huntington disease - in the crossroads of neurology and psychiatry" at the Swedish Psychiatry Congress in Stockholm, March 16-18 2016.
On Friday April 15 2016 Åsa Petersén hosted a national HD meeting in Lund for health care personnel. 50 participants from different parts of Sweden attended the meeting. program_nationellt_hd-mote_lund_15_april_2016.pdf
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/petersen-hosts-national-hd-meeting - 2025-12-27
Åsa Petersén was appointed Professor in Neuroscience at the Faculty of Medicine at Lund University on March 16 2016.
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/petersen-now-appointed-professor-lund-university - 2025-12-27
Former TNU PhD student Sanaz Gabery was awarded Best Neurobiology section PhD thesis 2015 for her thesis New perspectives on pathology in Huntington's disease - characterization of hypothalamic changes.Congratulations, Sanaz!
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/gabery-awarded-best-neurobiology-section-phd-thesis-2015 - 2025-12-27
Dr Rachel Cheong is awarded Svenska Sällskapet för Medicinsk Forsknings (SSMF) stipend for post doctoral studies. The stipend of 600 000 SEK during two years allows Rachel to conduct research aiming to understand the neuropsychiatric aspects of HD. A greater understanding of the underlying pathophysiology of HD will clearly help to develop novel therapeutic strategies to treat this debilitating di
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/cheong-receives-ssmf-post-doc-stipend - 2025-12-27
Petersen and Cheong were awarded a 500 000 SEK grant for a project on the oxytocin system as a therapeutic target for HD!Brain Foundation's webpage (in Swedish)
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/swedish-brain-foundation-grant-petersen-and-cheong - 2025-12-27
Drs Baldo, Cheong and Soylu-Kucharz present their recent research findings at the 10th FENS Forum of Neuroscience in Copenhagen, July 2-6 2016.More about FENS:FENS website
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/tnu-members-present-research-fens-copenhagen - 2025-12-27
Dr Cheong presents her recent work at the HDF (Hereditary Disease Foundation) “The Milton Wexler Celebration of Life” symposium in Boston, August 3-6 2016.
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/dr-cheong-presents-her-research-hdf-meeting-boston - 2025-12-27
Dan Metcalfe has written a perspective piece in Science about a recently published paper. Dr Dan Metcalfe at the department has written a perspective piece in Science about a featured paper. The paper itself looked at the effect of 26 years of continual experimental warming on soil microbial populations and carbon cycling. The authors found that over extended periods of warming the soil microbial
A large "curtain" is being installed in order to reduce water input to parts of the forest. NBC News recently covered the ongoing activities associated with a VR-Uforsk funded project coordinated by Dr Dan Metcalfe. The project is installing a 30 metres high, 40 metres wide curtain in the middle of pristine cloud forest in Peru. The purpose is to reduce cloud water inputs to a portion of the fores
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/dan-metcalfe-coordinating-project-cloud-forest-peru - 2025-12-27
Anders Lindroth featured in several media outlets. Anders Lindroth, professor emeritus at the department, was interviewed in several media outlets about new research showing that earlier springs increase the forests’ ability to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Among other things, Lindroth explains that spring now arrives eight days earlier than 35 years ago.
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/earlier-spring-increases-forests-carbon-uptake - 2025-12-27
The COP23 climate change summit in Bonn will host a session during which Margareta Johansson will present the impacts of thawing permafrost. Warming at almost twice the global average rate, the Arctic is a key region for understanding wider climate change impacts. Mitigation and adaptation strategies in the Arctic are thus an integral part of the EU’s wider efforts to combat climate change and to
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/margareta-johansson-will-give-talk-cop23 - 2025-12-27
Petter Pilesjö, Andras Persson, Ali Mansourian, and Micael Runnström have, together with researchers at the Eduardo Mondlane University (EMU) in Mozambique, received a grant to develop educational programmes at EMU as well as training for PhD students in Sweden. Petter Pilesjö (professor), Andreas Persson (senior lecturer), Ali Mansourian (senior lecturer) and Micael Runnström (senior lecturer) ha
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/researchers-granted-sek-18-million-collaboration-project - 2025-12-27
The carbon and nitrogen losses attributable to forest fires are much larger than was previously thought. This has now been shown by an extensive study that has compiled fire experiments from around the world. It is not just vegetation that is lost in forest fires. When a forest burns, there is also an impact on the soil, through the loss of carbon and other nutrients. This loss of nutrients can ne
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/forest-fires-cause-unexpectedly-large-nutrient-losses - 2025-12-27
Two new research projects will shortly begin at Lund University in Sweden to investigate how particle emissions from spruce forests affect the climate. The trees’ emissions of reactive hydrocarbons are thought to have a cooling effect on the climate. Almost 70 per cent of land in Sweden is covered with forest, mainly commercially managed coniferous forest. The forests play a central role in affect
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/researchers-set-study-particle-emissions-coniferous-trees - 2025-12-27
Lund University is, together with Stockholm University, offering graduate school for upper secondary school teachers, focusing on climate and the environment. The initiative will benefit not only the teachers, but also their students. Upper secondary school teachers who want to increase their research skills will soon be able to graduate in sciences and geography. After four years of part time stu
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/upper-secondary-school-teachers-offered-research-training - 2025-12-27
Markku Rummukainen has recently been featured in a number of media outlets because of unusually high temperatures in the Arctic. He was also recently mentioned in Effekt News Magazine because of his participation in the newly launched Swedish Climate Policy Council. Markku Rummukainen, Professor at the Department, has been interviewed in several media after unusually high temperatures have been me
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/markku-rummukainen-interviewed-about-high-arctic-temperatures - 2025-12-27
Tomsk State University is offering a summer course for young scientists For the fifth summer in a row, Tomsk State University offers a summer course for students, PhD students or Faculty aged 18-35. The course is called "Natural and human environment of Arctic and Alpine areas: relief, soils, permafrost, glaciers, biota and life style of native ethnic groups in a rapidly changing climate" and it c
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/summer-course-offered-tomsk-state-university - 2025-12-27
