Sahlgrenska Academy Junior Researcher Symposium
Welcome to the website for the third Sahlgrenska Academy Junior Researcher Symposium (SAJRS). This two-day event will be held at the Wallenberg Conference Centre on 27th and 28th of January 2026. Future Faculty arranges the symposium. Attendance is free and open to all Sahlgrenska Academy researchers. A limited amount of places are available for researchers from other departments of the University of Gothenburg and Chalmers.
The symposium will provide a forum to share your research and learn what others around you are doing. There will be selected oral presentations over the two days and a poster session on the 27th. The presenters will mainly comprise junior researchers (broadly defined as post-graduate students through to junior faculty), but the event is open to all. Don’t miss this opportunity to showcase your research and connect with the vibrant Sahlgrenska Academy community!
We are excited to announce that this year’s symposium will feature keynote speaker Professor Fredrik Bäckhed, who will share insights and experiences relevant to biomedical science.
A new meeting place
In addition to Sahlgrenska Academy researchers, you will have the opportunity to interact with representatives from a range of bio- and med-tech companies and representatives of the Sahlgrenska Academy Research Support Office.
Registration is now closed.
There will be fantastic prizes for oral and poster presentations! There will be ample opportunities for networking in the form of poster session and an evening social event on the 27th January. Attendance is FREE to all Sahlgrenska Academy researchers.
Tuesday 27th January
| 13:00 Opening by Future Faculty and the Dean of Sahlgrenska Academy, Professor Jenny Nyström | |
| 13:15 Keynote lecture: Professor Suzanne Dickson | |
14:00 Chairs: Kerryn Elliott, Christina Heiss | 14:00 Andreas Göteson – Toward molecular staging of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder using cerebrospinal fluid proteomics 14:15 Laia Montoliu-Gaya – P-tau205 is a biomarker linked to tau-PET abnormality: A cross-sectional and longitudinal study |
| 14:30 Research support office, FIK and GU Ventures | |
| 14:40 Fika, networking and sponsor exhibitions | |
15:10 Chairs: Abi Ghifari, Caitlyn Myers | 15:10 Ajay Pradhan – Enzymatic electrochemical biosensors reveal fusion pore dynamics of glutamatergic synaptic vesicles in hiPSC-derived neurons 15:25 Caitlyn Myers – Peripheral inflammaging drives neurodegeneration via extracellular vesicles 15:40 Vibha Gupta – Improving Equity in ECG-Based MI Detection Using Age-Aware Deep Learning 15:55 Neha Kanduri – Spermidine supplementation reprograms cardiac proteostasis in human iPSC-CMs and aged C57BL/6J mice |
| 16:10 Sponsor presentation: Miltenyi | |
| 16:30 Poster session 1 | |
| 17:15 – 19:00 Social networking event at the conference venue | |
Wednesday 28th January
09:00 Chairs: Roshan Vaid, Mustafa Kaya | 09:00 Nuttida Issdisai – NOX2 inhibition enhances NK cell function and restrains distant metastasis in murine pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma 09:15 Tomás Gómez Vecchio – Healthcare professionals’ perspectives on improving quality of care for patients with malignant glioma and their informal caregivers 09:30 Elin Hilpold Berntsson – An scRNA-seq analysis workflow to characterize WNT-modulated mesodermal and hematopoietic trajectories in human gastruloids 09:45 Kerryn Elliott – UV-mutational signal metrics as predictors of melanoma specific survival |
| 10:00 Sahlgrenska Academy International Office and Core Facilities | |
| 10:30 Fika and sponsor exhibitions | |
11:00 Chairs: Anna Linder, Luisa Klahn | 11:00 Tanmoy Dutta – Di-lineage liver organoids from human donors recapitulate steatotic liver disease 11:15 Sofia Hammarstrand – Associations between high serum levels of perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and reproductive hormones in children and adolescents, a Swedish cohort study 11:30 Melania Aluia – Jejunal Anti-Incretin Pathway in Diet-Induced Diabetes: GLP-1–Targeted Therapies to Mimic Gastric Bypass 11:45 Julia Wängberg Nordborg – Endo-SOFT: Study Protocol for a National Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial: First-Line Surgery vs. First-Line Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Patients with Advanced Endometriosis |
| 12:00 Lunch, networking and sponsor exhibitions | |
| 12:45 Keynote lecture: Professor Fredrik Bäckhed | |
| 13:45 Poster Session 2 | |
14:45 Chairs: Erna Islamagic, Elzbieta Rembeza | 14:45 Adhara Gaminde-Blasco – Modeling neuronal hyperexcitability with PTZ reveals microglial activation and impaired microglia–oligodendrocyte interactions in zebrafish larvae 15:00 Lenka Nováková – Patients experiencing early PIRA show signs of disturbed remyelination 15:15 Neele Levin & Ghadah Al-Wassiti – Unmasking C5aDesArg as a Functional Mediator of Human Neutrophil Activation 15:30 Jordan Popovic – Comparative Proteomics Reveal Eosinophilic Protein Enrichment in CD177pos Neutrophils |
| 15:45 Prize ceremony and closing remarks | |
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