Biological Complexity, Brain, and Mind

Presentations by Young Scientists

Wednesday, 1 July 2026
17:00 - 18:30 CEST

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Inselhalle

Main Hall

When Soft Meets Sweet: How Sugars Shape the Developing Brain
Sarah Fritsche
Max-Planck-Zentrum für Physik und Medizin, Germany

When Stress Does Not Break You: A Modifiable Mechanism Behind Human Resilience
Papoula Petri-Romão
Leibniz Institute for Resilience Research, Germany

Modeling Alzheimer’s Disease in Human Brain Organoids
Michael Fitzgerald
University of California, San Diego, United States of America

The Making of Health Anxiety: From Early Life Experiences to Lifelong Consequences
Charlotte Steen Duholm
Aarhus University, Denmark

The Anxiety of Developing Cancer
Maike Klett
Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Germany

How the Brain Adapts From Routine to Conflict Decisions
Odilia Lu 
University of California, Berkeley, United States of America

The Role of Heart-Brain Interactions in Conscious Perception
Ege Kingir
University of Göttingen, Germany

How Radiation Affects Brain Immune Cells in Young Cancer Survivors
Efthalia Preka
Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

When Blindness Protects: What Sensory Experience Can Teach Us About Mental Health
Dominika Radziun
Radboud University, Netherlands

Moderator: Thomas Perlmann
The Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, Sweden