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High school students enjoyed lectures on brain research, by recipient of Segerfalks grants

Auditorium of people listening to presenter. Photo.
High school students listen to Laura Castilla-Vallmanya's popular science presentation. Photo: Agata Garpenlind.

The other week, the Belfrage Hall was filled with final year high school students, natural scientists from Katedralskolan, who listened to the Faculty´s young researchers presentations about their research projects.

The invited high school students came from Katedralskolan in Lund and are in their final year of the natural science programme and have chosen medical orientation as their specialisation. 

The students are about to apply to the university and the Faculty would like to show them what they could work with in the field of neuroscience research. At the same time, the grant recipients, our young researchers, will have an opportunity to organize a symposium and practice presenting their projects to a wider public. A rewarding half day with nice popular science lectures and many very wise thoughts and questions from the high school students.

Sten Erici and Margareta Amnér. Photo.

Outreach Day presentations

The young researchers, who have been awarded grants from the Thorsten and Elsa Segerfalk Foundation in 2024, gave popular science presentations of their research projects during the half-day, were:

“40 years of MRI in Lund” Presenter: Emelie Lind - Discussants: Finn Lennartsson & Annelise Franciso

“Early brain development, vulnerability and genes” Presenters: Laura Castilla-Vallmanya & Finn Lennartsson - Discussant: Emelie Lind

“Generation of stem cell-based therapies for neurodegenerative disorders” Presenter: Sara Palma-Tortosa - Discussants: Alice Hägg & Annelise Francisco

“Diving into the human brain with single-cell technologies” Presenter: Anita Adami - Discussants: Patricia Gerdes & Alice Hägg