Earlier meetings 2020 - 2023
Morning coffees are short seminars to meet NVS colleagues and learn more about their ongoing research and projects.
The meetings started to overcome social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic, and have been ongoing weekly since 2020.
2023
Meetings fall 2023:
September
September 5 at 2.30 pm.
Wiesje van der Flier, Alzheimer Center Amsterdam.
"Towards personalized medicine for Alzheimer鈥檚 disease".
September 13
No morning coffee. CAR will be at VasCog 2023 in Gothenburg.
September 20
No morning coffee. CAR will be at the Mayo 鈥 KI Annual Scientific Research Meeting - Neurodegeneration Session.
September 27 at 3.30 pm (please note time!)
Bengt Winblad, Division of Neurogeriatrics
"Now available immunotherapy treatment for AD"
Milica Kramberger, Division of Neurogeriatrics
"How to diagnose AD patients 鈥 are blood biomarkers of help?"
October
October 4 at 9.00 am
Mariola Zapater Fajari, Division of Clinical Geriatrics
"Biomarkers of Alzheimer's and cerebrovascular disease in relation to depressive symptomatology in individuals with subjective cognitive decline"
October 11 at 9.00 am
Gemma Garcia Lluch, University Cardenal Herrera, Spanien and Division of Clinical Geriatrics
"The link between antidiabetic drugs and Alzheimer麓s disease biomarkers"
October 18 at 9.00 am
Seminarium arranged by the Department of Clinical Neuroscience
Petr茅nsalen, Nobels v盲g 12 B, campus Solna.
9.00. Ricardo Bru帽a:
鈥淗ow to estimate brain synchronization from neurophysiological data鈥
10.00. Fernando Maestu:
"Hypersynchronization as a MEG biomarker for tracking AD continuum"
October 25 at 9.00 am
Hosted by Sex and Gender differences in dementia work group
Emer McGrath, University of Galway
"Reproductive Factors in Women and Risk of Brain Aging and Dementia"
November
November 1
No morning coffee - fall break/h枚stlov
November 8 at 14.00 pm - please note time!
Neuroscience seminar series for doctoral students with Professor Dr. Volker Haucke, FMP, Berlin
鈥淗ow the presynapse forms and functions鈥
Organized by PhD students in neuroscience, with support from the Doctoral Programme in Neuroscience, KI
Campus Solna, Biomedicum, room Eva & George Klein
November 15 at 9.00 am
Ljerka Dela膷, Division of Neurogeriatrics
"Phenotype characterization of APP knock-in mouse model OE CYP46A1"
November 22 at 9.00 am
Makoto Shimozawa, Division of Neurogeriatrics
"The role of autophagy in Tau pathology development and spreading"
November 29 at 9.00 am
Hosted by Sex and Gender differences in dementia work group
Anna Inguanzo Pons, Division of Clinical Geriatrics
"Atrophy trajectories in Alzheimer's disease: how鈥痵ex鈥痬atters"
December
December 6 at 9.00 am
Anna Rennie, Division of Clinical Geriatrics
"The Cholinergic system in dementia with Lewy bodies"
December 13 at 9.00 am
Martina Valletta, Division of Aging Research Center
"Blood biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease in the community: insights into genetic predisposition, disease burden and inflammation"
December 20 at 9.00 am
Hosted by Sex and Gender differences in dementia work group
Manasa Shanta Yerramalla, Division of Clinical Geriatrics
"Associations between sleep, telomere length and cognition: Findings from FINGER Randomized Controlled Trial: Investigation of sex differences"
Meetings spring 2023:
January
January 11 at 9.00 am
Helena Karlstr枚m, Division of Neurogeriatrics
"Immunotherapy for misfolded proteins in the vasculature with the small vessel disease CADASIL as an example鈥
January 18 at 9.00 am
Ingrid Ekstr枚m, Division of ARC, psychology
鈥淲hat predicts smell loss in older age? Findings from the SNAC-K population study鈥
January 25 at 9.00 am
Erika Laukka, Division of ARC
鈥淢arkers of olfactory dysfunction and progression to dementia鈥
February
February 1 at 9.00 am
Federico Tucci, Division of Clinical Geriatrics and Universita麓 Sapienza, Italy
鈥淎bnormal reactivity of resting-state EEG alpha rhythms during eyes open in patients with AD and LBD鈥
February 8 at 9.00 am
Johan Rehnberg, Division of ARC, Socio-gerontology
鈥The association between education and cognitive performance varies at different levels of cognitive performance: a quantile regression approach"
February 15 at 9.00 am
Patrizia Mecocci, University of Perugia and Division of Clinical Geriatrics
"Aging, cellular senescence, and cognitive impairment"
Hybrid: Erna M枚ller, Neo
February 22 at 9.00 am
Yuanjing Li, Division of ARC
鈥淭ransition in the cognitive continuum from normal cognition to dementia: the interplay of lifelong cognitive reserve with brain aging and genetic predisposition鈥
March
March 1
No morning coffee - winter break
March 7 at 15.15 - 17.15 (Tuesday)
3rd WORKSHOP SAGE
鈥淪ex-differences in cognitive aging鈥擶hich are the key mechanisms?鈥
Speakers: (1) Rachel F. Buckley, Assistant Prof., Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA; (2) Timothy J. Hohman, Associate Prof, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, USA; and (3) Kristen Zuloaga, Associate Prof, DNET, Albany Medical College, USA.
March 15 at 9.00 am
Jakob Norgren, Division of Clinical Geriatrics
鈥淎re APOE4-carriers less adapted to a high carbohydrate diet? Observational analyses on the FINGER sample鈥
March 22 at 9.00 am
Caroline Graff, Division of Neurogeriatrics
鈥淗ereditary forms of frontotemporal dementia and new clinical treatment trials"
March 29
No morning coffee - ADPD conference
April
April 4 at 9.30 am (Tuesday)
Hiroki Sasaguri, Riken Center for Brain Science, Japan
鈥淕enerating animal models to defeat Alzheimer's disease - From rodents to primates鈥
Gaurav Chopra, Purdue University, USA
鈥淎myloid 尾 Induces Lipid Droplet-Mediated Microglial Dysfunction in Alzheimer鈥檚 Disease鈥
April 12 at 9.00 am
Emma Custers, Radboud University Medical Center, Donders Institute for Brain Cognition and Behaviour, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
鈥淭he effect of weight loss after bariatric surgery on brain function and structure鈥
April 19 at 9.00 am
Marco Bucci, Division of Clinical Geriatrics
"Determinants of discordant profiles between Visual Read and Quantification of Amyloid PET images"
April 26 at 9.00 am
Katrine Dahl Bj酶rnholm, Division of Neurogeriatrics
"Single cell RNA sequencing analysis of cerebral vasculature from mouse models of AD, CADASIL, and TBI"
May
May 3 at 9.00 am
Hybrid: Campus Solna, Biomedicum, Eva & Georg Klein, floor 3 and online via Zoom.
Followed by coffe and mingle 10.00 - 10.30
Michal Schwartz, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
鈥淔rom a transformed understanding of brain immunity to immunotherapy to defeat Alzheimer鈥檚 disease and other forms of dementia鈥
May 10 at 9.00 am
Jie Guo, Aging Research Center
"Olfactory function trajectories preceding incident mild cognitive impairment and dementia: the role of brain pathologies"
May 17 at 9.00 am
Hosted by Sex and Gender differences in dementia work group
Ruth Stephen, Division of Clinical Geriatrics
"Biomarkers in the FINGER trial 鈥 Are there any sex differences?"
May 24 at 9.00 am
Michelle Dunk, Aging Research Center
"The role of lipids in APOE-related dementia risk"
May 31
No morning coffee - StratNeuro retreat May 29-30.
June 7 at 9.00 am
KI - TOHOKU meeting
Key lecture: Ryuta Kawashima, professor, Tohoku University, Japan
鈥淐ognitive interventions for smart ageing鈥
Hybrid: Campus Solna, BioClinicum, J3:06 Ulf von Euler och via Zoom
June 14 at 9.00 am
Melinda C. Power, George Washington University
"Epidemiologic methods challenges and solutions in dementia research"
June 21
No morning coffee, NVS summer lunch
2022
Meetings fall 2022:
September 28 at 9.00 am
Maria Ankarcrona, Division of Neurogeriatrics
鈥滿odels for testing small molecules as mitochondrial enhancers in Alzheimer鈥檚 disease鈥
October
October 5 at 9.00 am
Xin Xia, Aging Research Center (ARC)
鈥淥rthostatic Hypotension And Dementia: The Role Of Cardiovascular Diseases鈥
October 12 at 9.00 am
Hosted by Sex and Gender differences in dementia work group
Alexandra Cooper, IMM, Unit of Integrative epidemiology
鈥淎ssociations between metabolic syndrome and marker of brain pathologies: the role of sex-differences鈥
October 19 at 10.00 am
Organized by PhD students at 探花精选.
Christian Haass, LMU Munich, Germany
"Alzheimer's disease - from amyloid generation to microglial contributions"
October 26 at 9.00 am
Hosted by Sex and Gender differences in dementia work group:
Marta Mil脿 Alom脿, University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
鈥淔luid biomarker profiles in preclinical Alzheimer's Disease and sex differences in their diagnostic and prognostic properties鈥
November
November 2
No morning coffee - h枚stlov/fall school holiday
November 9 at 10 am
Organized by ARC, Serhiy Dekhtyar.
Rachel Whitmer, UC Davis School of Medicine, USA
鈥淒isparities in brain health: What can we learn from life course studies鈥
November 16 at 9 am
Mozhu Ding, Institute of Environmental Medicine, KI
鈥淟ipid levels in midlife and risk of atrial fibrillation over 30 years鈥
November 23 at 9 am
Bonnie Y.K. Lam, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
鈥淭he burden of cerebral small vessel disease in low- and middle-income countries鈥
November 30 at 9 am
Hosted by Sex and Gender differences in dementia work group
Annegret Habich, Division of Clinical Geriatrics
鈥淪ex differences in brain atrophy in dementia with Lewy bodies鈥
December
December 7 at 9 am
Clare Tazzeo, Aging Research Center
鈥淵ears of life spent with frailty: Secular trends in older Swedish adults鈥
December 14 at 9 am
Vilma Alanko, Division of Neurogeriatrics
"Feasibility of implementing a multimodal lifestyle intervention in mice to learn about dementia prevention mechanisms"
December 21 at 9 am
Bengt Winblad, Per Nilsson and Maria Ankarcrona, Division of Neurogeriatrics
"Report from CTAD 2022 鈥 Positive clinical outcome of Lecanemab immunotherapy and other promising therapeutic approaches for Alzheimer鈥檚"
Previous meetings
2022
January
January 12 at 9.00 am
Emerald Heiland, Uppsala University
"What is the association between vascular-related brain disease and future walking speed in older adults?鈥
January 19 at 9.00 am
Abigail Dove, Aging Research Center
鈥淐ardiometabolic disorders, cognitive decline and dementia鈥
January 26 at 9.00 am
Hosted by Sex and Gender differences CAR working group.
Silvia Maioli, Division of Neurogeriatrics
鈥淪ex differences in different mouse models of aging and neurodegeneration"
February
February 2 at 9.00 am
Rosaleena Mohanty, Division of Clinical Geriatrics
鈥淢apping Alzheimer's disease heterogeneity from in-life to autopsy鈥
February 9 at 14.30 - 15.40 please note the time!
Sex/Gender differences in Dementia - Webinar
Maria Teresa Ferretti, Women's Brain Project, Switzerland.
"The Women鈥檚 Brain Project: Bringing Swiss precision to medicine鈥.
Michelle Mielke, Mayo Clinic, USA
鈥 Considering sex and gender differences in Alzheimer鈥檚 disease鈥
February 16 at 9.00 am
Division of Neurogeriatrics
鈥淭rafficking of functional mitochondria via extracellular vesicles in a model of Alzheimer麓s disease鈥
February 23 at 9.00 am
Ruchi Gera, Division of Clinical Geriatrics
鈥淣euro-immune crosstalk: Cholinergic modulation of immune function in health and disease鈥
March
March 2
No morning coffe - winter break
March 9 at 9.00 am
Pre-ADPD morning coffee
Various speakers
March 16
ADPD - no morning coffee
March 23 at 9.00 am
Giulia Grande, Aging Research Center
鈥淎ir pollution and dementia: exploring the biological underpinnings鈥
March 30 at 9.00 am
Coffee hosted by the Sex and gender differences CAR working group
Lieza Exalto, UMC Utrecht, The Netherlands
鈥淰ascular cognitive impairment: does sex matter?鈥
April
April 6, at 9.00 am
Anna Giani, Department of Medicine, KI
鈥淎ortic valve stenosis, COVID-19 and cognitive impairment: a triplet to keep in mind?鈥
April 13
No morning coffee - Easter break
April 20, at 9.00 am
No morning coffee - instead 2nd Swedish Meeting for Alzheimer Research 21 April
April 27 at 9.00 am
Coffee hosted by Sex and Gender differences CAR working group
Francesca Eroli, Division of Neurogeriatrics
"Investigation of outcomes related to long term exposure to polypharmacy in a mouse model of Alzheimer麓s Disease"
May
May 4 at 9.00 am
Juan Reyes, Link枚ping University
鈥淎ccumulation, transmission, and clearance of Parkinson鈥檚 and Alzheimer's related pathology within the brain and peripheral tissues鈥
May 11 at 9.00 am
Maryam Rahmati, Gothenburg University
鈥淚s genetic robustness involved in Alzheimer鈥檚 disease?鈥
May 18 at 9.00 am
Makrina Daniilidou, Division of Clinical Geriatrics
鈥淏iomarkers of stress, neuroinflammation and synaptic loss in a memory clinic cohort鈥
May 25 at 9.00 am
Coffee hosted by Sex and Gender differences CAR working group
Anna Rennie, Division of Clinical Geriatrics
鈥淚ntroduction to sex and gender differences in Dementia with Lewy bodies鈥
Juni
June 1 at 9.00 am
Igor Camargo Fontana, Division of Clinical Geriatrics
鈥淎ssessing reactive astrogliosis in the pre-amyloid phase of Alzheimer's disease鈥
June 8 at 9.00 am
Sofia Bergstr枚m, SciLifeLab, KTH
鈥淧rotein profiles in cerebrospinal fluid associated to Alzheimer's disease鈥
June 15 at 9.00 am
Charlotte Johansson, Division of Neurogeriatrics
鈥淏lood-based clues in presymptomatic Alzheimer disease鈥
June 22
No morning coffee - NVS Retreat
June 29
Summer break - morning coffee will return in August
Happy Summer!
2021
December
December 1 at 9.00 am
Linnea Sj枚berg, Aging Research Center (ARC)
鈥淭he National E-infrastructure for Aging Research (NEAR)鈥
December 8 at 9.00 am
Caroline Dartora, Division of Clinical Geriatrics
鈥淎ssessment of cognitive decline through brain imaging鈥
December 15 at 9.00 am
Soyon Hong, University College London, UK
鈥淢ore than bystanders, learning how microglia eliminate synapses in the Alzheimer brain鈥 - Opponent lecture
December 22
No morning coffee
November
November 3
No morning coffe
November 10 at 9.00 am
Louise Sundberg, Aging Research Center (ARC)
鈥淭rends in disability-free life expectancy in the aging population of Sweden鈥
November 17 at 9.00 am
Xin Xia, Aging Research Center (ARC)
鈥淚deal cardiovascular health and transitions across cognitive states in older adults鈥
November 24 at 9.00 am
Coffee hosted by Sex and Gender differences CAR working group:
Sara H盲gg, Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, KI
鈥淪ex differences in biological aging鈥
Oktober
October 6 at 9.00 am
Simone Tambaro, Division of Neurogeriatrics
鈥淎 novel therapeutic target to prevent and counteract neuroinflammation and amyloid-尾 pathology in Alzheimer's disease鈥
October 13 at 9.00 am
Sumonto Mitra, Division of Clinical Geriatrics
鈥淎lzheimer's disease therapy using neurotrophins (NGF, BDNF and GDNF) - An overview鈥
October 20 at 9.00 am
Amaia Calder贸n, Aging Research Center
鈥淏ody mass trajectories and multimorbidity in old age: 12-year results from a population-based study鈥
October 27 at 9.00 am
Sex and Gender Differences CAR working group
September
September 1 at 9.00 am
Sophie Lay茅, University of Bordeaux.
"Dietary polyunsaturated fatty acids role in mood and cognitive disorders鈥
September 8 at 9.00 am
CAR working group on Sex and Gender differences in dementia.
Ivan Nalvarte, BioNut.
鈥淪ex hormones, risks and protective factors in AD鈥
September 15 at 9.00 am
Theofanis Tsevis, Division of Clinical Geriatrics.
"Alcohol and Dementia"
September 22 at 9.00 am
"NVS at the Mayo-KI Annual Meeting - Highlights from the Neurodegeneration session"
September 29 at 9.00 am
Erik Hjorth, Division of Neurogeriatrics.
"A human microglial model based on monocytes from patient blood"
January
January 13 at 9.00 am
Linus J枚nsson, Division of Neurogeriatrics
What is the value of diagnosing and treating neurodegenerative disease?
20 januari at 9.00 am
Marie Tyrrell
鈥漋oices to remember鈥 (Persons鈥 and family members鈥 experiences of living with neurocognitive disorders and related symptoms)
January 27 at 9.00 am
International speaker: Geert Jan Biessels, UMC Utrecht
鈥淚maging markers of Vascular Cognitive Impairment鈥
February
February 3 at 9.00 am
Helena Karlstr枚m, Division of Neurogeriatrics
"Brain vasculature and neurodegenerative disorders"
February 10 at 9.00 am
Anna Rennie, Division of Clinical Geriatrics
"The MemClin project: an initiative to improve dementia care in Stockholm"
February 17 at 9.00 am
Marc Guitart-Masip, Aging Research Center (ARC)
February 24 at 9.00 am
Nicholas Ashton, King's College London and Gothenburg University
鈥淏lood biomarkers: What are they good for?鈥
March
March 3 at 9.00 am
Various speakers
"Pre-ADPD conference warming up seminar"
March 10 at 9.00 am
Leonie Visser, Division of Clinical Geriatrics
"Medical communication at memory clinics: current state of the art and future directions"
March 17 at 9.00 am
Emilia Schwertner, Division of Clinical Geriatrics
"Radar-AD: Digital technologies to improve the assessment of Alzheimer's Disease"
March 24 at 9.00 am
Shireen Sindi, Division of Clinical Geriatrics
"Sex differences in dementia: Evidence from population鈥恇ased studies and the FINGER lifestyle
March 31 at 9.00 am
Sophie Gaber, Division of Occupational Therapy
鈥淓veryday Technology: A useful servant but dangerous master for older people with dementia鈥檚 participation in society?鈥
April
April 7 at 9.00 am
Marie Tyrrell, Sophiahemmet University
鈥漋oices to remember (Persons鈥 and family members鈥 experiences of living with neurocognitive disorders and related symptoms)"
April 14 at 9.00 am
Una Smailovic, Division of Clinical Geriatrics
鈥淏iomarkers of synaptic dysfunction in Alzheimer鈥檚 disease鈥
April 21 at 9.00 am
Luis Enrique Arroyo-Garcia, Division of Neurogeriatrics
鈥淚nhibition in the brain and Alzheimer's Disease: role in early detection and the unexplored potential鈥
April 28 at 9.00 am
Amit Kumar, Division of Clinical Geriatrics
"Alzheimer's biomarkers beyond amyloid and tau: Where are we heading?鈥
May
May 5 at 9.00 am
Serhiy Dekhtyar, ARC
鈥淐omparing two models of cognitive reserve with respect to cognitive trajectories and dementia鈥
May 12 at 9.00 am
Lisha Wang, Division of Neurogeriatrics
"Hsp90-cochaperone interaction inhibitors as novel drug candidates for Alzheimer's disease鈥
May 19 at 9.00 am
Maria Ankarcrona, Division of Neurogeriatrics
鈥淐hronic kidney disease and dementia鈥
May 26 at 9.00 am
Betty Tijms, International speaker from Amsterdam UMC (The Netherlands)
鈥淒isease heterogeneity in Alzheimer's disease: the spaghetti elephant in the room鈥
June
June 2 at 9.00 am
Marina Boccardi, International speaker from DZNE (Germany)
"Harmonizing cognitive assessment across European memory clinics"
June 9, at 9.00 am
Hong Xu, Division of Clinical Geriatrics
鈥淐hronic kidney disease and dementia鈥
June 16 at 9.00 am
Johannes Attems, International speaker from Newcastle University (UK)
鈥淢ultimorbidity of the Ageing Brain: Implications for clinico-pathological correlative studies and clinical trials鈥
June 23 at 9.00 am
Petr Novak, International speaker from Axon Neuroscience (Slovakia)
August
August 25 at 9.00 am
Maria Eriksdotter, Division of Neurogeriatrics
鈥淭reatment with Cholinesterase inhibitors for Alzheimer麓s disease - better than their reputation!鈥
2020
December 16 at 9:00 am
Alessandra Marengoni, Division of Aging Research Center (ARC), NVS
Geriatric syndromes in the context of COVID-19
December 9 at 9:00 am
Aleksander Rytarowski, Division of Clinical Geriatrics, NVS
Covid-19 and dementia among older adults
November 25 at 9:00 am
Laetitia Lemoine, Division of Clinical Geriatrics, NVS
Regional binding of tau and amyloid PET tracers in Down syndrome autopsy brain tissue
October 14 at 9:00 am
Davide Vetrano, Division of Aging Research Center (ARC), NVS
October 7 at 9:00 am
Pieter Jelle Visser, Division of Neurogeriatrics, NVS
September 30 at 9:00 am
Eric Westman, Division of Clinical geriatrics, NVS
September 23 at 9:00 am
Elena Rodriguez Vieitez, Division of Clinical Geriatrics, NVS
September 16 at 9:00 am
Andre Fisahn, Division of Neurogeriatrics, NVS
September 9 at 9:00 am
Ryuta Kawashima, Tohoku University
Introducing the Smart aging Research Center at Tohoku University