Andreas Heuer
Associate Professor in Neuroscience
Scopus ID: 37121979900
Orcid: 0000-0003-0300-7606
Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Andreas_Heuer
TEAM
Andreas studied Psychology (BSc) at the University of Maastricht, the Netherlands and Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia. After obtaining a MSc in Neuropsychology at Maastricht University, Andreas conducted his doctoral research at Cardiff University in the Brain Repair Group under the tutelage of Steve Dunnett and Anne Rosser where he used simple and complex behavioural tasks to assess lesion-induced deficits and graft-induced behavioural recovery in a rodent model of Parkinson's disease. Andreas has conducted two post-doctoral periods at Lund University, with Malin Parmar (working on the preclinical assessment of dopaminergic human ES cell grafts) and Martin Lundblad (working on the detection of Dopamine release from transplants) from 2013-2016 , and Tomas Björklund (using chemogenetics to manipulate cell activity) from 2016-2018 focussing on the selective and reversible modulation of cell activity using chemogenetics.
Andreas was awarded a post-doc stipend by the Swedish Society for Medical Research (SSMF) and subsequently an establishing grant by the Swedish Research Council (VR) to start his independent research group in June 2018 focusing on brain-behaviour relationships and disase modelling.
Francesco Gubinelli
Post doctoral researcher
Scopus ID: 57213690991
Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Francesco_Gubinelli
Francesco got his Undergraduate degree in Applied Clinical Psychology and Medicine in University of Rome - La Sapienza working on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). He completed a MSc in Molecular Biotechnology at Jagiellonian University, Kraków - Poland working on stem cells derived extracellular vesicles (EVs) for cardiac regeneration.
In December 2019 he obtained his PhD in Neuroscience within the CEA-MIRCen laboratory of Paris-Saclay University, Paris – France, under the EU Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action fellowship for early stage researchers; in this framework, Francesco worked on the in vivo characterization of an injectable in situ polymerizing collagen hydrogel system for enhancing cells therapy in Parkinson’s disease. In addition, Francesco also investigated the neurotoxic relationship between two protein known to be crucial in the development and progression of Parkinson’s disease – alpha synuclein and LRRK2.
Francesco joined BNL in February 2020 for his post-doctoral research project. He will focus on the characterization of our novel AAV-vector based preclinical rodent model of Parkinson's disease, using behavioural, electrochemical and optogenetic techniques.
To know more about Francesco’s research, click here.
Matilde Negrini
PhD student
Scopus: 57201472074
Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Matilde_Negrini
Matilde has studied Biotechnology at the University of Padua (Italy). Then she has completed her Master degree in Cellular and Molecular Biotechnology at the University of Trento (Italy) and the practical part as a research placement at Lund University (Sweden), in the Translational Neurogenetics Group. She has since completed the preparatory PhD course "Human Biology" financed by a grant form the Parkinsonsfonden. Matilde's project involves the generation and characterisation of a novel alpha-synuclein overexpression model of Parkinson's disaese.
In August 2018 Matilde started her doctoral studies on the assessment of non-motor deficits in a novel alpha-synuclein overexpression model. Her current projects involve the use of molecular biology, AAV vector production, complex behavioural testing, electrochemical recordings and opto/chemogenetics.
Yunus is an electrical engenieer who has recently obtained his MSc degree at Mersin University, Turkey. Yunus will apply Artificial Intelligence using CNNs to quantify cell populations in the brain.
Chiara is conducting a her MSc thesis working on histopathological assessment of AAV-vector based overexpression of alphasynuclein.
Diego is conducting a research internship at BNL working on gene therapy in Parkinson's disease. Diego use our AAV vector model to assess motor and non-motor deficits in rats and assess whether the overexpression of neurotrophic factors can alleviate the histoppathological and behavioural impirments.
Irene is conducting a research internship at BNL working on gene and cell replacement therapy in Parkinson's disease. Irene will investigate the histopathological chanes of AAV-aSYN overexpression and the therapeutic effect of our treatments.
Febe is conducting a research internship at BNL working on the expression levels of AAV vectors for gene therapy.
Previous lab members:
Manuela Rizzi
ERASMUS training
Trento University, Italy
Celeste Tahershamsi
Medical exchange student
Canada
Armelle Gesnik
MSc student
CPE Lyon, France
Christine Wang
Medical exchange student
Canada
Giuseppe Tomasello
MSc student
Catania University, IT
David von Rosen
BSc student (Medical Program)
Lund University
Klara Esbo
BSc student (Biomedical)
Lund University
Cecile Adant
MSc student
University of Brussels
Danish Anwer
MSc student
University of Dresden
Nuran Caz
MSc student
Hasselt University, Belgium
Iva Pavicic
MSc student
University of Rijeka
Luca Cimino
MSc student
Trento University, Italy
Naomi King
MSc student
Nottingham University, UK
Anita Mehrdadian
Project student
Lund University
Swantje Hauser
BSc student
Vienna University, Italy
Sarah Malandra
Guest Researcher
University of Catania
(Lab)life
Lab Christmas dinnend goodbye of Noelia
Alex defended his PhD - Congrast Dr. Svanbergsson
Outreach activity at ProCivitas Highschool in Lund
All hands on deck for mounting
MultiPark Lunchtime seminar
PhD defense at University College Cork of Martina Mazzocchi.
Presenting at NECTAR meeting at Edinburgh and visiting former student.
Never get tired of taking confocal images of neurons...
Goodbye Iva
Goodbye Cecile
Goodbye Giovanna
Bouncy ball office... :-)
Goodbye Klara
Turkish night with delicious food
Some slice recordings of our transplants with the Ledri lab
Marcus producing AAV vectors
Ready for a week of brain surgery
Alex passed his PhD half-time
New objective, camera and condenser-rings arrived today :-)
DIS student (virtual) visit. First outreach activity of the year :)
Goodbye Giuseppe and merry christmas
Tough day of writing ;-)
Next generation of BNLers taking over histology
Paper celebration! Thanks to all co-authors for their efforts!
NECTAR conference 2020 - Francesco presenting his work in a Datablitz and Pizza conference dinner :-)
Some impressions from our 2020 Labretreat in Småland
Our residence: The Davidssons Family summer house
Cannoeing and BBQ-lunch
Smålands dinner: Kroppkakor + Crayfish and 5h game of Catan.
Early commitment to LU :-)
Anita bringing gifts from Greece :-)
New BNL labcoats
Christmas came early this year!!! Many thanks to Steve Marsh from Marshdesigns for two acrylic rodent cages for our optogenetic and electrochemistry studies.
Very happy with our new RaspberryPi HQ 12MP colour camera, which is now hooked up to our microscope. Many thanks to the OpenFlexure Team for providing all the code on Github for free.
First protocol published from the lab! Well done Mati and Marcus!
Our new Leica inverted DMi8 is all set up. Thanks to Peter for being amazing from start to finish as well as the Crafoord foundation for supporting our research and making this possible.
First installment of coding club has finished. Thank you so much for the lovely card and gifts!
Finally I have someone to talk to. #RubberDuckDebugging.
Naomi's last day: Beer & Dumplings.
Ice-cream reward after histology marathon.
#Teamwork #53brainstilllunchtime
Photoshoot for our new AAV-production methods submission.
Successfull implantation of an optrode for the new fiber-photometry system.
Coding club continues on zoom
Luca graduated in Italy! BRAVO Luca!
UniStem Day 2020
Happy 21st Birthday!!!
Floor christmas party
DIS student exchange vistit to BMC - Naomi and Matilde explaing histology and electrochemistry
BNL at NECTAR 2019 in Cardiff
Hello World : BMC Coding club in action
Parkinsonskåne visits Lund University
Last day of summer BBQ
Marcus in the news!!!
First year as PhD student and still smiling :-)
Welcoming our 2 Candian exchange students, great to have you in the lab!
Labretreat: Day at the beach joined with the Ottoson lab
Two legends of dopamine
Look who's back :)
Barry Everitt visiting :-)
Woman in STEM
Introducing our work to the BMC
Easterbunny visit to BNL
CPR Training 2019
Whiteboardart 2019
Pizza Night
Pancake day
Optogenetics team
Spontaneous afterwork
First Echem recordings in mice! #Teameffort
The Queen of BMC has left! Good luck at KAVLI Vale!
First IHC
Fokuserade
Electronmicroscopy
Happy Birthday Marcus
Traditional Christmas dinner with the Bourgine lab and BNL
Christmas time at BNL
Luca building optrodes
Dissecting embryos
ERC training camp 2018
Need for sugar
Goodbye Marcus!
Matilde's first day as PhD student: Let the journey begin
The new equiptment has arrived: Optogenetics, Soldering, Operant boxes
Great new colleagues
korvhuset
Italian Sunday lunch
Matilde welcoming the newst team member
The new labspace
#Lablife
Literature search
Nailing of Thesis: Dr. Davidsson
Cake or Death! #Fika
Summer BBQ 2018