LUDC Early Career Network Day

Please contact Abrar Ahmad or Leonie Mieke Engelhard if you would like to register for the event. You need to register by December 2. 

Email addresses: 
abrar [dot] ahmad [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (abrar[dot]ahmad[at]med[dot]lu[dot]se) 
leonie_mieke [dot] engelhard [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se

Programme

13.00 
Registration

13.15 
Welcome and introduction to the LUDC Early Career Network (LUDC ECN)
Lucas Maurin

13.25 
LUDC Early Career Network PhD student grant
Sabrina Ruhrmann

Session 1

Chair: Sara Bsharat

13.30 
Industry career talk
Alexander Hamilton, PhD, Gubra

14.00 
Investigating the role of GTPases and GTPase-related proteins in metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease
Gabrielé Sakalauskaite, PhD student, Metabolic Disorders and Liver Disease, Lund University/LUDC

14.15 
Fika

Session 2

Chair: Sweta Raikundalia

14.45 
Real world BMI trajectories and cardiometabolic biomarkers
Luis Coral, PhD student, GAME Unit/Diabetic Complications, Lund University/LUDC

15.00 
Impact of low birth weight on adult organ-sizes role in health and disease
Victoria Linde, PhD student, Steno Diabetes Center, Denmark

15.15 
The role of ANKLE2 in pancreatic β-cell function
Lisa Nocquet, postdoctoral fellow, Diabetes – Molecular Metabolism, Lund University/LUDC

15.30 
Break

Session 3

Chair: Leonie Mieke Engelhard

16.00 
Open discussion session

16.30 
Academia career talk
Andreas Edsfeldt, MD, Associate professor, Cardiovascular Research – Translational Studies, Lund University/LUDC 

17.00 
Closing remarks
Abrar Ahmad

17.30 
Pizza and drinks in the Faculty Club