The team brings together investigators across multiple disciplines, institutions, career stages, and geographies seeking to tackle key knowledge gaps in the basic mechanisms that contribute to Parkinson’s disease development and progression. The collaborative project aims to unravel the biology of polyamine and glucosylceramide transport systems and how their impaired distribution leads to neurodegeneration.

The paper by Mette Habekost, Arne Lund Jørgensen, Per Qvist and Mark Denham is entitled "MicroRNAs and Ascl1 facilitate direct conversion of porcine fibroblasts into induced neurons".

Tsz Fung Woo will join the Kvitsiani lab to understand how single cortical neurons compute decision variables in a perceptual and value-based decision making tasks.

When Aarhus University starts work on a new passage under Nørrebrogade this autumn, unfortunately four oak trees in the University Park will have to be felled. We want to find a new use for the trees so that they will live on at the university in another form. Calling all bright ideas!

In June 2020, Joseph Lyons was appointed one of the Lundbeck Foundation Fellows 2020, and video interviews with the awardees have now been published. The grant enables Joseph Lyons to establish his own research group to study lipid transport and homeostasis for the next five years at the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics/DANDRITE, Aarhus University.

Cryogenic Electron Microscopy (cryo-EM) has become a truly important technique in molecular cell biology as well as medicine and biotechnology. Together with the University of Copenhagen, Aarhus University has established state-of-the-art cryo-EM facilities in Aarhus and Copenhagen, which will be inaugurated on October 12, 2020. The research infrastructure is expected to strengthen the Danish research in proteins, enzymes and new medicine.

The paper is entitled "Copulation Song in Drosophila: Do Females Sing to Change Male Ejaculate Allocation and Incite Postcopulatory Mate Choice?".