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Jennifer Oraha, PhD student

In 2024, Jennifer moved from Sydney, Australia to Lund, Sweden to start her PhD studies at the TNU, supervised by Pof. Åsa Petersén. In utilizing novel AAV-vectors and crossbreeding of animal models, Jennifer’s project aims to elucidate the specific hypothalamic circuitries important for the control of metabolism and emotion, with relevance to Huntington’s Disease, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Frontal Temporal Dementia. Since 2021, she has been working as a full-time research assistant, wherein her first original research article was published in Natures International Journal of Obesity Journal titled “Sex-specific changes in metabolism during the transition from chow to high-fat diet feeding are abolished in response to dieting in C57BL/6J mice” (Cites 16, FWCI 2.54, 89th percentile).

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Education

2024-Current: PhD studies in Neurosciences, Lund University, Sweden.
Title: The role of metabolism- and emotion-regulating hypothalamic circuitries in Huntington disease and the spectrum of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontal temporal dementia disorders.
Thesis Supervisor: Åsa Petersén MD PhD, Maria Björkqvist, MD PhD Lund University.

2020-2021: Master of Brain and Mind Sciences, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
Thesis: Modelling the aversive state produced by repeated Opioid withdrawal to discover therapies for Opioid Use Disorder.
Supervisor: Nicholas Everett, PhD and Michael Bowen, PhD, The University of Sydney.

2015-2018: Bachelor of Science, majoring in Neuroscience, The University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Employment

2022-2024: Research Assistant in the Lee Laboratory at the Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.

2021-2022: Research Assistant in the Neuroscience/Eating Disorders laboratory at the Garvan Insititute of Medical Research.

Publications

Oraha, J., Enriquez, R. F., Herzog, H., & Lee, N. J. (2022).
Sex-specific changes in metabolism during the transition from chow to high-fat diet feeding are abolished in response to dieting in C57BL/6J mice.
International journal of obesity (2005), 46(10), 1749–1758. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41366-022-01174-4

Lee, N. J., Oraha, J., Qi, Y., Enriquez, R. F., Tasan, R., & Herzog, H. (2023).
Altered function of arcuate leptin receptor expressing neuropeptide Y neurons depending on energy balance.
Molecular metabolism, 76, 101790. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molmet.2023.101790

8 May 2024