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Huntington Disease Center in Lund is inviting you to an information evening on 7 April 2025, 18.00-20.30 in the Belfrage lecture hall on BMC D15 in Lund. The evening will include update on clinical trials and current research status in Sweden and internationally, as well as talks on different aspects on Huntington disease: from social interaction to difficulty swallowing, dysphagia. Representative

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/save-date-hd-information-evening-7-april-2025 - 2025-12-19

Sign up for the Information Evening on HD! If you wish to attend the Information Evening on Huntington Disease on 7 April 2025, sign up latest on 27 March 2025.All talks are in Swedish. Find out more on the Huntington Disease Center's page: Huntington Disease Center

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/information-evening-hd-7-april-2025 - 2025-12-19

The European Huntington’s disease network (EHDN), with more than 3000 members, gather healthcare professionals, researchers and families with Huntington’s disease. Petersén was elected to the Executive Committee in 2022 and is now Deputy Chair.Link to the EHDN webpage: EHDN.org

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/petersen-elected-deputy-chair-ehdn - 2025-12-19

Development of international guidelines for treatment of psychiatric symptoms in advanced Huntington's disease is in progress within the European Huntington's Disease Network (EHDN). The working group focusing on "Behavioural Phenotype” in Huntington's disease is addressing these guidelines. As part of the work, some members of the group recently met in Amsterdam, together with colleagues from USA

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/work-progress-international-guidelines-treatment-psychiatric-symptoms - 2025-12-19

The month of May is Huntington’s Disease Awareness Month and 15 May was Huntington Awareness Day. Åsa Petersén was invited to take part in a podcast about the disease, together with Jozefine, who is a carrier of the gene and related to a person diagnosed with HD.The podcast is produced by YTAN, Young Together Against Neurodegenerative Diseases, a digital platform for young relatives of persons wit

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/podcast-about-being-young-relative-hd-patient - 2025-12-19

The protein TDP-43 is involved in different neurodegenerative diseases, and Åsa Petersén and Sofia Bergh have investigated whether the protein harms the hypothalamus. Investigating if augmenting the quantity of the protein TDP-43 in the hypothalamus would lead to changes in the hypothalamus, emotional changes and metabolic problems was the aim of the new article from the TNU research group.Read mo

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/new-paper-tnu-published - 2025-12-19

Åsa Petersén and Mahmoud A Pouladi are guest editors of the Special Issue: Glia and non-neuronal cells in Huntington's disease that was published now in August. The Special issue on Glia and non-neuronal cells in Huntington's disease holds six expert review articles. The understanding how glial and other non-neuronal cells shape HD pathology is expanding amongst researchers in the field.The topics

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/petersen-guest-editor-journal-huntingtons-disease - 2025-12-19

Petersén will give a talk on her work on Huntington disease at a symposium on neurodegenerative disorders at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada on September 8, 2025. There will also be a meeting for Petersén and other partners in the JPND funded delCAA-HD research team to discuss progress of the international collaborative research efforts.

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/petersen-gives-talk-symposium-neurodegenerative-disorders-vancouver-canada-sept-8-2025 - 2025-12-19

When in Sweden for their annual meeting, members of the European Huntington Association paid a visit to Lund on 28 August 2025. There they met with Åsa Petersén and Camilla Svensson, registered nurse, also working at the HD Clinic at Skåne University Hospital (SUS) in Lund, together with Åsa. Åsa showed them around the lab, demonstrated samples and talked about her research. The EHA team also got

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/visit-european-huntington-association - 2025-12-19

On 9-11 September 2025 the Arturo Falaschi Conference “2nd biennial conference on TDP-43 function and dysfunction in disease” will be held in Trieste, Italy. Sofia Bergh will present her poster with the findings published earlier this summer in the article “TDP-43 overexpression in the hypothalamus drives neuropathology, dysregulates metabolism and impairs behavior in mice”.Link to the conference

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/sofia-bergh-will-present-poster-tdp-43-conference - 2025-12-19

Åsa Petersén will give several talks at the conference, including one on emotions and behavior in HD, and she will also chair a session on clinical trials.The conference is arranged by the patients' organization, the European Huntington Association, and is open to all.Find out more about the conference on EHA:s webpage (opens in a new window).

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/petersen-eha-conference-2025-bucharest - 2025-12-19

The National Board of Health and Welfare in Sweden has published updated information on Huntington disease on its’ webpage. These recent revisions of the text have been made by Professor Åsa Petersén, Lund University.Link to the National Board of Health and Welfare’s webpage – in Swedish only (opens in a new window).

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/updated-information-hd-national-board-health-and-welfares-webpage - 2025-12-19

Professor Petersén comments on the recent positive topline results from a clinical trial with gene therapy in Huntington disease presented in a press release from uniQure. Last week, positive topline results from a clinical trial with gene therapy in Huntington disease were presented in a press release from uniQure. The news hit the headlines and spread fast through the HD community. Read Professo

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/perspective-recent-positive-topline-results-gene-therapy-trial - 2025-12-19

The Swedish channel TV4 published the news on the HD clinical trials that were positively described in media in late September. Professor Åsa Petersén was interviewed about the findings by TV4 and she emphasizes the need for cautiousness when interpreting the results, as they are not yet published in a scientific magazine or reviewed by researchers not involved in the study. Link to the article on

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/tv4-news-piece-hd-gene-therapy-trial - 2025-12-19

Petersén is invited to give a talk at the 2025 Family Gathering for the Scottish Huntington's Association with around 170 attendees on November 8, 2025 in Glasgow.Link to the programme at the association’s webpage (opens in a new window)

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/petersen-gives-talk-scottish-huntingtons-association-meeting - 2025-12-19

A recent study based on data collected by, among others, researchers at our department, finds that climate change is converting permafrost areas from carbon sinks into carbon sources. Frans-Jan Parmentier, Torben Christensen, and former PhD Student Norbert Pirk, have contributed with data to a journal article published in Nature Climate Change.The study shows winter carbon emissions from the Arcti

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/thawing-permafrost-turns-arctic-carbon-sink-carbon-emitter - 2025-12-19

Giuliana Zanchi (INES) and Mark Brady (CEC) have been interviewed about new research that shows the benefits of continuous cover forestry in larger areas compared to intensified biomass utilization. Mark Brady (researcher at CEC) and Giuliana Zanchi (researcher at the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science) were interviewed about new research on the type of forest management that i

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/another-type-forest-management-would-provide-greater-benefits-society - 2025-12-19

Last week, some of our students arranged a GIS day showing cartographic material made by the department's students. Last week, on November 13th 2019, the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science celebrated GIS Day.On this occasion, for the first time in the department's history, students of the department, having the support of EGEA Lund, organized a small exhibition with the theme "

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/students-department-created-exhibition - 2025-12-19

Anders Lindroth, Professor Emeritus, has been interviewed in Swedish TV4 news regarding effects of the 2018 drought. The ICOS research station in Hyltemossa measures, among other things, the exchange of carbon dioxide (CO2) between the forest ecosystem and the atmosphere. During recent years, the forest has been able to increase its capacity to absorb carbon dioxide. But in 2018, that trend showed

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/feedback-loop-anticipated-after-2018-record-drought-decreased-forests-uptake-carbon-dioxide - 2025-12-19

One of our students, Juliano Hanna, is on exchange in Svalbard. He is participating in a project aimed at gathering knowledge about how the Longyear River is slowly changing its path over time. One of our bachelor students, Juliano Hanna, who is on exchange at Svalbard, is featured in a recent article in Næringsliv Norge.The article has been sponsored by UNIS, The University Center in Svalbard, wh

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/exciting-internship-during-exchange-svalbard - 2025-12-19