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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 the sessions.
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/tnu-attends-ehdn-plenary-meeting-stockholm - 2025-11-19
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 the Swedish Research Council.
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/petersen-appointed-senior-lecturer-neuroscience-lund-university - 2025-11-19
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 sessions.
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/tnu-members-give-talks-annual-nectar-meeting - 2025-11-19
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.
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 of hypothalamic dysfunction for non-motor aspects of Huntington's disease.
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/tnu-welcomes-dr-rachel-cheong-group - 2025-11-19
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 - 2025-11-19
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 - 2025-11-19
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 summer research project with a stipend received from the Medical Faculty.
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/tnu-welcomes-max - 2025-11-19
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 website in the near future:HDYO website Update: See the film!
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/hdyo-visited-tnu-film-lab-tour-about-our-hd-research - 2025-11-19
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 Molecular Genetics in May 2013 and got covered in media and on the web:Lund University websiteRead
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/inactivation-mutant-huntingtin-hypothalamus-prevents-depression-hd-mice - 2025-11-19
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 - 2025-11-19
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 - 2025-11-19
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 familjeläger med senaste forskningen
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/petersen-and-gabery-give-talks-summer-camp-hd-families-bastad - 2025-11-19
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 Lundin has been the main supervisor and Associate Professor Petersen and Professor Tom O'Dell have
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/congratulations-niclas-hagen-your-phd - 2025-11-19
The Swedish Research Council has awarded a grant of 6.5 million SEK over 5 years to Petersen's research project entitled Critical hypothalamic circuitries controlling depression and anxiety in Huntington disease.
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/65-million-sek-petersen-swedish-research-council - 2025-11-19
Rachel Cheong and Sanaz Gabery receive in total 120 000 SEK from Kungliga Fysiografiska Sällskapet i Lund for their research. Congratulations!
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/cheong-and-gabery-receives-grants-kungliga-fysiografiska-sallskapet - 2025-11-19
PhD student Sanaz Gabery is featured in this month's newsletter from the Department of Experimental Medical Sciences at the Medical Faculty. In the article, Sanaz describes her interesting findings of hypothalamic changes in clinical HD. emvnewsletterjanuary2014.pdf
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/gabery-featured-emvs-newsletter - 2025-11-19
Petersén, Gabery and Hagen give talks about psychiatric symptoms in HD, as well as about their ongoing research projects, at the National meeting on Huntington disease (HD) in Gothenburg on March 28 2014. The meeting is organised by the National patient organization for HD. They will also give talks and participate at the National youth week-end for individuals in families with HD in Gothenburg, M
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/tnu-members-give-talks-national-hd-meeting-gothenburg - 2025-11-19
Sofia Hult Lundh is the first PhD student from TNU who will defend her thesis. It is entitled Psychiatric and metabolic disturbances in experimental models of Huntington's disease and will be defended May 28 2014 at 13.00 in Segerfalksalen. It consists of three published papers in Cell Metabolism, Human Molecular Genetics and PLOS ONE with Sofia as first author.Main supervisor is Åsa Petersén. Fac
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/first-phd-thesis-tnu-has-been-traditionally-nailed-may-7 - 2025-11-19
Congratulations Dr Cheong to the prize for best poster at the Neuroscience Day at Lund University 2014! The poster was entitled Behavioral characterization of the psychiatric phenotype in the BACHD mouse model of Huntington disease.
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/dr-cheong-receives-prize-best-poster-neuroscience-day-lund-university - 2025-11-19
