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Papers, grants, people, videos and events, newest first. Lab life gathers our talks, posters, teaching and journal clubs.

2026

  1. EventNew

    Anthony Vernon inaugurated as Honorary Skou Professor

    Anthony Vernon of King's College London was inaugurated as Honorary Skou Professor at Aarhus University on 8 October 2026, the day after his pre-inaugural lecture, “From Brain to Cell and Back”, on 7 October.

    Anthony Vernon giving his pre-inaugural lecture, 7 October 2026.

  2. Lab lifeNew

    Frederik Gudmundsen teaching

    Frederik Gudmundsen taught a session on PET tracers, with [¹¹C]raclopride as the example of a reversible tracer.

    Frederik Gudmundsen teaching, in front of a slide on reversible PET tracers with [11C]raclopride as the example.

  3. Lab lifeNew

    Arezou Fathalizadeh Alamdari's TNU lecture: GPR6 in neurodevelopment

    Arezou Fathalizadeh Alamdari gave a lecture at TNU: “GPR6 in Neurodevelopment: Consequences for Brain Maturation and Behavior”.

    Arezou Fathalizadeh Alamdari presenting her title slide, 'GPR6 in Neurodevelopment: Consequences for Brain Maturation and Behavior'.

  4. PaperNew

    Collaborator paper: [³H]5-MOP, a selective radiotracer for CSF1R

    Iavazzo C, et al. describe [³H]5-MOP, a novel and selective radiotracer for the colony stimulating factor-1 receptor (CSF1R), in EJNMMI Research (published 5 October 2026). Jens D. Mikkelsen is the senior author; Annie Landau is one of the co-authors.

  5. PeopleNew

    Welcome, Arezou Fathalizadeh Alamdari

    Welcome to Arezou, who joins the lab as a new PhD student, and congratulations on being awarded a PhD stipend.

  6. VideoNew

    New teaching video: What makes a good PET tracer?

    A 14-minute narrated lecture that follows [¹¹C]UCB-J through seven steps, from a research question to studies in people, using the lab's own rat and minipig data, with five pause-and-think questions.

  7. EventNew

    The Wandering Nerve: the lab's vagus nerve research at Hearts & Minds

    At Folkeuniversitetet's Hearts & Minds festival at Dokk1 in Aarhus, the exhibit “The Wandering Nerve” highlighted the lab's research on transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation. In a workshop with Dokk1's science communicator Matilda Tjellden, participants built a large model of the vagus nerve, which stayed on display over the weekend for visitors to draw on and around.

    PaperTranscutaneous vagus nerve stimulation and SV2A in the rat brain · Binda et al., Psychophysiology 2025

    The exhibit at Dokk1: a large hand-made model of the vagus nerve, its branches spread across several tables.

  8. Lab life

    Elisa Mazzoleni's journal club: a thermogenic target in the dorsal raphe nucleus

    Elisa Mazzoleni presented Moura-Assis A, et al. (2026), “Identification of a thermogenic target in the dorsal raphe nucleus for weight management in mice”, Nature Communications.

    Elisa Mazzoleni presenting a journal club on a paper about a thermogenic target in the dorsal raphe nucleus.

  9. Lab life

    Miriam Fiorino's journal club

    Miriam Fiorino presented Parrella E, et al. (2025), “Sex-related differences in phenotype and nigro-striatal degeneration of c-rel-/- mouse model of Parkinson's disease”, Biology of Sex Differences.

    Miriam Fiorino smiling next to her 'Thank you' slide after presenting at journal club.

  10. Lab life

    Posters at the TNU educational seminar

    Members of the lab presented posters at the TNU educational seminar's poster day.

    A lab member strikes a joyful pose between two posters in a sunny glass hall at the poster session.

  11. Event

    Invited lecture: Davide Folloni, “Non-invasive ultrasound technologies to understand deep brain circuits”

    Davide Folloni, a former ERASMUS student in the lab and now an ERC Starting Grant holder at UniSR (Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele), spoke at TNU about using neuroimaging and focused ultrasound to study deep brain circuits for mood, learning and decision-making.

    Davide Folloni beside his title slide during his invited lecture at TNU.

  12. Lab life

    Celine Knudsen's autoradiography presentation

    Celine Knudsen, a former research assistant in the lab and now a PhD student in Betina Elfving's group, gave a presentation on autoradiography, including how the BeaQuant real-time autoradiography instrument works.

    Celine Knudsen presenting, with a slide explaining how the BeaQuant real-time autoradiography instrument works.

  13. Lab life

    Annie Landau's talk at the Turku PET Centre PET Seminar

    Annie Landau presented virtually in the Turku PET Centre's PET Seminar: “Translational PET Imaging in Minipig Brain: a Platform for Neuromodulation and Disease Modeling”.

2025

  1. People

    Anthony Vernon appointed Honorary Skou Professor

    Professor Anthony Vernon of King's College London joins the Translational Neuropsychiatry Unit as an Honorary Skou Professor at Aarhus University. Annie Landau is his champion at AU.

  2. Grant

    AUFF Nova grant for research on GPR6

    The Aarhus University Research Foundation awarded Annie Landau DKK 720,000 for "G Protein-Coupled Receptor 6: A Potential Biomarker and Drug Target for Depression".

2024

  1. Grant

    Lundbeck Foundation Ascending Investigator Grant

    DKK 6 million from the Lundbeck Foundation for "Exploring the Role of GPR6 in Developing New Therapeutics for Depression".