What´s up in Multipark
We would like to welcome you back from the summer vacation, and also give you an update on upcoming activities within MultiPark. Note that the "MultiPark Newsletter” will remain on hold at least until next year. Instead, we will inform you about important activities via e-mail and our website on a regular basis.
Ongoing and planned activities:
• Communication via social Media (X, LinkedIn)
PhD student Emma Nyberg is responsible for our social media (X, LinkedIn).
To do: We ask all PIs to add the following information on your LinkedIn profile under “experiences/erfarenhet”: Principal investigator, MultiPark, Lund University.
• The second Infrastructure seminar will take place on 12 September from 12:00 to 13:00. We will be presenting two infrastructures: the Pre-GMP Facility presented by Elias Uhlin and the Clinical Parkinson Research Platform presented by Elisabeth Jirström. Additional infrastructure seminars are being planned with an approximately monthly frequency (for further information, please contact our infrastructure manager Linda Eliasson, linda [dot] eliasson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se).
• Do not miss to attend our Frontiers in Neuroscience seminars with prominent lecturers like Prof. Bart de Strooper from VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research on November 5, and Prof. Thomas Perlmann from Karolinska Institutet on November 28.
• The MultiPark mailing list is updated on a rolling basis. If any PI would like to add some new group member to the MultiPark mailing list, please contact diana [dot] jerman [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se.
• We are also very happy to report that our communications officer Martina Svensson is now back at work at 25%.
• An internal evaluation of MultiPark is ongoing to guide new activities and strategies. Before the summer break, all senior researchers had been invited to provide input using both an electronic survey and a free-text survey (a Word file with questions was distributed for this purpose). The survey closed last week, by which 25 senior researchers had responded to the electronic survey, and 11 of them had also provided free-text input using the Word template. A working group has been appointed to analyse the results obtained. A summary of the process and the results obtained will be presented at the MultiPark Retreat (Oct 24-25).
• New educational initiatives
MultiPark will arrange a digital EUGLOH course (advanced level) with the following title: “Multidisciplinary course on health focusing on Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease (pathology, diagnostics, prognostics, and treatments)”. The course will take place in winter 2025-2026, but we will start the preparatory work this Fall.
- we will initiate a pedagogical working group to develop this new course. We need at least one person who is experienced in developing course curriculum at the advanced level or above. We will prioritize persons who are close to applying for a position or promotion.
Are you interested?
Send a motivation (including stating your career phase and briefly summarize your pedagogical merits) to Diana Jerman. Maximum 1 page. Deadline: 1st of September! Those selected will be notified in September (or at the latest in October).