OAK meeting
Join us in Aalborg for the 23. annual OAK meeting
Aalborg University
Rendsburggade 14,
9000 Aalborg
Lecture hall 2.145
22.05.2026 Kl. 10:00 - 18:00
Tilmeldingsfrist: 20.05.2026
English
On location
Aalborg University
Rendsburggade 14,
9000 Aalborg
Lecture hall 2.145
22.05.2026 Kl. 10:00 - 18:00
Tilmeldingsfrist: 20.05.2026
English
On location
OAK meeting
Join us in Aalborg for the 23. annual OAK meeting
Aalborg University
Rendsburggade 14,
9000 Aalborg
Lecture hall 2.145
22.05.2026 Kl. 10:00 - 18:00
Tilmeldingsfrist: 20.05.2026
English
On location
Aalborg University
Rendsburggade 14,
9000 Aalborg
Lecture hall 2.145
22.05.2026 Kl. 10:00 - 18:00
Tilmeldingsfrist: 20.05.2026
English
On location
In case of late registration, please sign up by sending an email to Thomas Alrik Sørensen at alrik@ikk.aau.dk, stating whether you wish to join lunch and/or dinner (both free of charge), and whether you would like to give a presentation.
The meeting is sponsored by
The sponsor event will be at Aalborg University just outside the 2.145 lecture hall from 11 AM–12:30 PM and 2–5 PM and is open for everyone who is interested in their products even if they are not attending the OAK meeting, so please come by and say hi to our sponsors.
Tentative Program
10.00
10.20
Registration
10.20
10.30
Welcome to OAK 2026 in Aalborg by Anders Olsen
10.30
11.30
OAK talk
Expertise Shapes Perception: Synaesthesia and Individual Differences in Cognition by Thomas Alrik Sørensen – Chair Jens Randel Nyengaard
11.30
11.45
Coffee Break
11.45
12.45
Session 1: Chair Bente Finsen
Investigating calmodulin variants in neurodevelopmental disorders by Simone Karlsson Terp & Helene Halkjær Jensen
Calmodulin mutations and their impact on amyloid β aggregation and toxicity in C. elegans by Annika Fugl Aaskoven, Magnus Tudsborg Frantzen, Helene Halkjær, & Anders Olsen
Can Dynamic Information Be Inferred from a Static Connectome? by Yewushuang Chen, Guangwei Si, & Anders Olsen
Sponsor flashtalks
12.45
13.15
Lunch
13.15
14.00
Poster session
Graphemesia in Grapheme-Color Synesthetes by Julie Holmen, Clara Elise Dueholm Kristensen, & Thomas Alrik Sørensen
14.00
15.00
Session 2: Chair Trevor Owens
Targeting the CSF1R in Alzheimer’s Disease by Julie Hansen, Julie Niemann Holm-Jacobsen, Christinna Krogh Hørstrup, Majken Thomsen, Annie Landau, Bente Finsen*, & Ove Wiborg*
The impact of gut bacterial extracellular vesicles on Alzheimer’s disease pathology by Zuzanna Stachowiak, Caspar Bundgaard-Nielsen , Louise Søndergaard Rold, Ove Wiborg, & Suzette Sørensen
Phosphoinositides: Unravelling Their Role in Parkinson’s Disease by Fatemeh Yarmahmoudi & Jens Randel Nyengaard
Systemically administered viral gene therapy for treatment of brain diseases by Bartosz Laczek
15.00
15.30
Coffee break
15.30
16.30
OAK keynote
Can metabolically active neurons maintain physiological function under anoxic conditions? by Jens Randel Nyengaard – Chair Kim Ryun Drasbek
16.30
16.45
Wrap-up and prices for best presentations by Ove Wiborg
16.45
17.45
Buisness meeting in the Friday bar
18.00
Conference dinner at Restaurant Textur
Organising Committee
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