Lisa Benrejdal

How to study the effects of stress and personality on health… In fish!

Hi, I’m Lisa, a final year PhD student at Karolinska Institutet and my focus is on how stress affects health and immunity. I’m super interested in the field of psychoneuroimmunology and I am excited to give the younger ones an introduction to the field and to research! In this 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!

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Stockholm

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Karolinska institutet

Institutionen för laboratoriemedicin

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