LightRail Seminars
The LightRail Seminar series aims to bridge basic and and clinical inflammation & infection research at Aarhus University and Aarhus University Hospital.
Upcoming LightRail Seminars
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Dates for upcoming LightRail Seminars, all held at Aarhus University Hospital:
26th May 2026: Topic: TBA, Hosts: TBA @ 14.30-17.00, Auditorium J116-113
17th September 2026: Topic: TBA, Hosts: TBA @ 14.30-17.00, Auditorium J116-113
12th November 2026: Topic: TBA, Hosts: TBA @ 14.30-17.00, Auditorium J116-113
2026
12th November 2026 - LightRail Seminar
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17th September 2026 - LightRail Seminar
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26th May 2026 - LightRail Seminar
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2025
6th November 2025 - LightRail Seminar - Inflammatory particles and chronic diseases
Inflammatory particles and chronic diseases
Hosts: Thomas Vorup-Jensen and Vivi Schlünssen
Speakers:
- Innate Immunity and particle-induced inflammation - Thomas Vorup-Jensen, Department of Biomedicine, AU
- The non-intuitive behaviour of particles in the blood stream - Jens Vinge Nygaard, Department of Biological and Chemical Engineering, AU
- The inflammatory potential of drinking water - Jörg Schullehner, Department of Public Health, AU
- Inflammawork – bridging environment, inflammation and cardiovascular disease - Zara Ann Strokholm, Dept. of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, AUH and Dept of Clinical Medicine, AUH
- DNA-protein complexes by nanoparticle tracking analysis and systemic lupus erythematosus - Anne Troldborg, Department of Rheumatology AUH and Department of Biomedicine, AU
- Molecularly imprinted polymer (MIP) particles used for medicinal treatment of phenylketonuria (PKU) - Malgorzata Maria Pakula, Department of Biomedicine, AU
2nd September 2025 - LightRail Seminar - Macrophages in inflammation and cancer
Host: Holger Jon Møller
Speakers:
- The haptoglobin-hemoglobin receptor (CD163) a link between iron metabolism and inflammation
- Søren K. Moestrup, Department of Biomedicine, AU - Targeting macrophages in inflammation and cancer
- Anders Etzerodt, Department of Biomedicine, AU - Tumor-associated macrophages and biomarkers of macrophage activation in cancer
- Morten Nørgaard Andersen, Departments of Clinical Medicine, AU and Hematology, AUH - Targeting macrophage phagocytosis
- Kristian Wiborg Antonsen, Departments of Clinical Medicine, AU and Clinical Biochemistry, AUH - Microglia and monocytes in Alzheimers/brain inflammation
- Kristian Juul-Madsen, Department of Biomedicine, AU - Role of Kupffer-cells in chronic inflammatory liver diseases
- Henning Grønbæk, Departments of Clinical Medicine, AU and Hepatology & Gastroenterology, AUH
23rd June 2025 - LightRail Seminar - How understanding molecular drivers of inflammation aids the development of targeted therapeutics for inflammatory diseases
Host: Rune Hartmann
14 30 Welcome
14 35 Connecting neuronal signaling to gut inflammation in zebrafish? Gilles Vanwalleghem
14 55 Reducing the inflammatory effect of innate immune activation while maintaining antiviral effect, defining the fundamentals. Rune Hartmann
15 05 How STING activate NFkB signaling part one. Anna Christensen,
15 20 How STING activate NFkB signaling part two. Aneta Jurkiewicz
15 40 Coffee and networking
16 10 Why does inflammation increase with aging? Tinna Stevnsner
16 30 Diseases caused by Autoimmune Induced Nucleotide Sensing. Bent Deleuran
16 50 Concluding remarks and discussion
15th May 2025 - LightRail Seminar - Infection and Cancer
Hosts:
Trine Mogensen, Holger Brüggemann & Torben Steiniche
Speakers:
- Infection and colon cancer by Thomas F. Meyer, Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology Christian Albrecht’s University of Kiel and University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany
- Virus and cancer by Torben Steiniche
- HPV sublineages in Danish cervical cancer screening samples detected by NGS by Karoline Andersen
- CRISPR/Cas9-Engineered In Vivo Tumor Models for Studying Cancer Immunity by Martin Thomsen
- Circulating Human papillomavirus – diagnostic value and clinical implications in cervical cancer patients by Sara Bønløkke Lindved
- HPV-related head and neck cancer by Nicolaj Andreassen
2024
3rd December 2024 - LightRail Seminar - Kidney inflammation: Insights, challenges and therapeutic approaches
Host: Rikke Nørgaard
- Inflammation and fibrosis - driver or consequence of progressive kidney disease? - Ina Schiessl, Department of Biomedicine
- The complement system in diabetic kidney diseases - Jacob Appel Østergaard, Steno Diabetes Center Aarhus, Department of Clinical Medicine
- Early inflammation and antimicrobial peptides in the susceptibility for UTI's in renal transplant recipients - Helle Prætorius, Department of Biomedicine
- Organoids and Organs: Modelling and translating kidney inflammation through large scale data - Markus Rinschen, Department of Biomedicine
- Large animal models in transplantation and kidney diseases - the final preclinical step? - Anna Keller, Department of Clinical Medicine
10th October 2024 - LightRail Seminar - Measuring Inflammation in Health and Disease
Host: Christian L. Hvas
- Inflammation in the healthy: Data from 175,000 healthy blood donors - Bertram Dalskov Kjerulff, Department of Clinical Immunology
- Measuring systematic inflammation in plasma; Methodological considerations - Betina Elfving & Anne Catrine Daugaard Mikkelsen, Department of Clinical Medicine
- Synovial organoids to measure anti-inflammatory drug responses - Tue Wenzel Kragstrup, Department of Biomedicine
- Organ-specific inflammation measured in plasma - the calprotectin case - Anne-Birgitte Garm Blavnsfeldt, Department of Clinical Biochemistry
- Immunophenotying using spectral flow: results from a melanoma cohort - Martin Roelsgaard Jakobsen, Department of Biomedicine
13th May 2024 - LightRail Seminar - Friend or foe: The connection between inflammation and cancer
Host: Torben Steiniche
Friend or foe: the connection between inflammationa and cancer
- Torben Steiniche, Dept. of Clinical Medicine, AU
- Anne Helene Køstner, Dept. of Clinical Medicine, AU
- Henrik Schmidt, Lund University, Sweden
- Christian Lodberg Hvas, Dept. of Clinical Medicine, AU
- Louise Bønnelykke-Behrndtz, Dept. of Clinical Medicine, AU
18th January 2024- LightRail Seminar - Neuroimmunological and infectious diseases in the brain
Host: Trine Mogensen
Neuroimmunological and infectious diseases in the brain - clinical spectrum and disease mechanisms
- Marina Romero-Ramos, Dept. of Biomedicine, AU
- Trine Mogensen, Dept. of Biomedicine, AU / Infectious Diseases, AUH
- Søren Paludan, Dept. of Biomedicine, AU
- Christian Brandt, Zealand University Hospital, Roskilde
- Helle Al-Hakem Falk, Dept. of Neurology, AUH
2023
8th February 2023 - LightRail Seminar - Human Microbiome
Host: Thomas Vorup Jensen
Human Microbiome
- Associate Professor, Sebastian Schlafer, Department of Dentistry and Oral Health
- Mette Hejlby Hansen, Department of Hepatology and Gastroenterology, AU & AUH
- Holger Brüggemann, Department of Biomedicine, AU
- Gregers Wegener, Department of Clinical Medicine, AU