Lisa Benrejdal

How is health affected by stress and… personality?? And how a small fish helps us understand it!

✓ På plats

✓ Åk f-3

✓ Åk 4-6

✓ Åk 7-9

✓ Gymnasiet

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✓ Engelska

✓ Biologi

Hi, I’m Lisa, a final-year PhD student at Karolinska Institutet and my focus is on how stress affects health and immunity. After a fantastic first experience with Låna en Forskare last spring, I decided to sign up this time as well to hopefully share the excitement for science again with others and the younger generation! I’m super interested in the field of psychoneuroimmunology and I would be very happy to give an introduction to the field and to research! (I worked with quite diverse topics in the past years so we can always adapt to the group’s interest too! ).

In my current project we use a very small fish called zebrafish, which is widely used in research and is very helpful to investigate and discover lots of various biological mechanisms. In our study, we compare two groups of zebrafish with different personalities (yes personalities!), shy or bold. More precisely, we looked at their coping ability in a stressful condition and how this impacted their health. It is truly fascinating how such a small organism can show so much complexity and how humans can actually relate to it in many ways… More about it in the presentation!