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On February 24th and 25th, the kick-off meeting for the NordicESM project took place in Oslo. The aim of NordicESM is to enhance the collaboration on the field of Earth System modelling within the Nordic Countries. The project therefore involves all Nordic research groups working with the Earth System models NorESM and EC-Earth. Amongst other institutes in Europe, Lund University has an active rol
https://www.merge.lu.se/article/nordicesm-meeting - 2025-11-21
A recently published report is a revision and expansion of the 2008 edition of the BACC book. Several MERGE researchers has contributed to this work. The Second Assessment of Climate Change for the Baltic Sea Basin (BACC II), a recently published report, serves as a revision and expansion of the 2008 edition of the BACC book.“The current publication for the Baltic Sea area is a regional variant on
https://www.merge.lu.se/article/new-report-consolidates-knowledge-climate-change-baltic-sea-region - 2025-11-21
On 15-16 June 2015 MERGE's annual spring/summer meeting was held at Örenäs Castle in Glumslöv. MERGE researchers and PhD students got together for two days of discussions, scientific presentations and beautiful walks around the castle area. You can find the presentations from the meeting here. Markku Rummukainen, coordinator of MERGE, started the meeting with a background on MERGE's development as
https://www.merge.lu.se/article/merge-summer-meeting-2015 - 2025-11-21
A new working group, lead by MERGE board member Marie-José Gaillard, will work with global reconstructions of anthropogenic land-cover change over the last 6000 years for climate models. PAGES (Past Global Changes) supports research aimed at understanding the Earth’s past environment in order to make predictions for the future.The new PAGES working group "LandCover6k" has the goal to produce globa
Läs här om ett samarbete mellan lundaforskarna Johan Jakobsson och Malin Parmar som har lett till en ny metod för att studera åldersrelaterade hjärnsjukdomar. https://www.lu.se/artikel/ny-forskningsmodell-ska-ge-svar-om-huntingtons-sjukdom
https://www.molecular-neurogenetics.lu.se/article/ny-forskningsmodell-ska-ge-svar-om-huntingtons-sjukdom - 2025-11-21
Would you like to learn more about our research on X-Linked Dystonia-Parkinsonism? To read the full article please go to the following link: Exploring the Role of 'Jumping Genes' in X-Linked Dystonia-Parkinsonism
https://www.molecular-neurogenetics.lu.se/article/lund-stem-cell-centers-interview-dr-vivien-horvath - 2025-11-21
Patricia Gerdes, a postdoctoral researcher specializing in transposable elements and their impact on the human genome, has been awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) program. To read the full article on Patricia Gerdes' MSCA Fellowship, please go to the Lund Stem Cell Center website via the following link: https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/cracking
I en studie ledd från Lunds universitet kan forskarna för första gången visa att traumatiska hjärnskador aktiverar vilande endogena retrovirus som under årmiljonernas gång infogats i människans DNA. Att dessa aktiveras kan vara drivande för att starta en inflammation som förvärrar hjärnskadan. Studien är publicerad i Cell Reports. Läs artikeln här: Single-cell transcriptomics of human traumatic br
https://www.molecular-neurogenetics.lu.se/article/svart-hjarntrauma-aktiverar-vilande-kroppsegna-retrovirus-i-hjarnan - 2025-11-21
"Tack vare ny teknik har Storbritannien precis godkänt en behandling som botar två genetiska sjukdomar. Nu ligger vägen öppen för att behandla andra sorters lidande." "– Vi kommer att kunna utveckla botande behandlingar för många ovanliga sjukdomar som inte går att bota i dag, säger Johan Jakobsson."För att läsa artikeln, vänligen gå till Dagens Nyheter: https://www.dn.se/varlden/nya-behandlingar-
Today we congratulate Dr. Raquel Garza on defending her thesis! Dr. Raquel Garza's thesis "Transposable Elements in the Healthy and Diseased Human Brain" is available online.For an interview with Dr. Raquel Garza please visit Multipark's website.
https://www.molecular-neurogenetics.lu.se/article/congratulations-dr-raquel-garza - 2025-11-21
Researchers from the Jakobsson Group at Lund University have discovered how a hidden piece of DNA, known as a transposable element, disrupts normal gene function in a disease called X-Linked Dystonia-Parkinsonism (XDP). Published in Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, their findings uncover the epigenetic processes that lead to changes in gene expression linked to XDP, offering new insights i
https://www.molecular-neurogenetics.lu.se/article/how-hidden-genetic-elements-trigger-rare-neurodegenerative-disorder - 2025-11-21
Interested in how we work with cutting out bad genes and pasting in new, healthy ones? In this case, you might find the below article on new gene techniques and our research very intersting! På svenska: Är du nyfiken på hur vi arbetar med att klippa ut de dåliga generna och klistra in nya friska gener? Då kan den följande artikeln om ny genteknik och vår forskning vara mycket intressant!På svenska
https://www.molecular-neurogenetics.lu.se/article/om-att-klippa-och-klistra-i-dna-how-cut-and-paste-gene-sequence - 2025-11-21
Läs här om vår senaste publikation som presenterar en direkt länk mellan Huntingtons sjukdom och en grundläggande process som kallas autofagi. Publikation: Huntingtin Aggregation Impairs Autophagy, Leading to Argonaute-2 Accumulation and Global MicroRNA Dysregulation
https://www.molecular-neurogenetics.lu.se/article/nya-ron-om-huntingtons-sjukdom-publiceras - 2025-11-21
Interested in progress on large-scale production of living brain cells? Are you interested in progress on large-scale production of living brain cells? You can find out more in our latest paper REST suppression mediates neural conversion of adult human fibroblasts via microRNA-dependent and -independent pathways.
https://www.molecular-neurogenetics.lu.se/article/new-paper-large-scale-production-living-brain-cells - 2025-11-21
New publication! Please click here to read about our latest publication TRIM28 Controls a Gene Regulatory Network Based on Endogenous Retroviruses in Human Neural Progenitor Cells.Also, please click here to go to a short presentation of this research in Science: Science
https://www.molecular-neurogenetics.lu.se/article/viruses-genome-are-important-our-brain - 2025-11-21
We're very happy to announce that our former PhD student Rebecca Petri has received the Best Thesis Award 2017 from the Neurobiology Section of Lund University. Well done, Rebecca!
https://www.molecular-neurogenetics.lu.se/article/best-thesis-award-2017-goes-rebecca-petri - 2025-11-21
2019-04-09. Today we celebrated the official nailing of Per Ludvik Brattås' thesis entiteled "The Epigenetic Impact of Transposable Elements in Human Brain Development". Per's defence will take place on April 26th at 13 o'clock at the Segerfalk lecture hall (BMC, A10) - you are most welcom to join us!
https://www.molecular-neurogenetics.lu.se/article/ludviks-thesis-officially-nailed - 2025-11-21
We are very happy to announce that Per Ludvik Brattås has successfully defended his thesis entitled "The Epigenetic Impact of Transposable Elements in Human Brain Development". Congratulations, Dr. Brattås!
https://www.molecular-neurogenetics.lu.se/article/congratulations-dr-brattas - 2025-11-21
We're happy to present our most recent publication "Activation of neuronal genes via LINE-1 elements upon global DNA demethylation in human neural progenitors" published on July 18th. Our study sheds light on the darker parts of our genetic heritage. To find out more please click on the below link.Lund University's press release Nature Communications: Activation of neuronal genes via LINE-1 elemen
https://www.molecular-neurogenetics.lu.se/article/new-publication-nature-communications - 2025-11-21
Läs den spännande debatten om den nya gentekniken Crispr, skriven av forskare från gruppen Crispr ideas vid Pufendorfinstitutet, Lunds universitet, på SvD Debatt. SvD Debatt: ”Vi måste ta ställning till nya gentekniken” Aftonbladet: "Den nya gensaxen måste diskuteras" Om debattörerna: Karin Broberg, professor i arbets- och miljömedicin Ingrid Dunér, doktorand i idéhistoria Kristofer Hansson, doc
https://www.molecular-neurogenetics.lu.se/article/pa-svenska-nya-gentekniken-kraver-en-bred-debatt - 2025-11-21
