Neuro-SysMed Junior Scientist Symposium October 17, 2025
Welcome to NEUROSYSM910, our Junior Scientist Symposium!
The objective of the symposium series is to provide the PhD candidates with valuable skills into oral presentation techniques of own research, as well as dissemination of others research, 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.
Academic responsible: Shamundeeswari Anandan and Yola Gerking
Coordinators: Håkon Olsen and Casper Eugen Sandvik
Time: Friday October 17, 2025 at 09.00-13.00 (A light lunch will be served!)
Place: Auditorium 4, BB building (campus Haukeland University Hospital)
Registration through this link (external link).
Students who would like to have ECTS for their participance, need to register in Studentweb (external link) 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.
Language: English
Program
Chair of the session: Håkon Olsen (NeuroSysMed – 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
Contact: Feel free to contact Shamundeeswari (Sam) Anandan if you have any questions: samanandhan@gmail.com or Yola Gerking: yola.gerking@uib.no