BBB seminar
Jonathan Whitlock from the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience at NTNU, will give a talk entitled “Cortical representation of 3D posture and behavior in posterior parietal cortex and beyond”.
Position: Associate Professor at Kavli Institute for System Neuroscience, NTNU
Research: Whitlock’s research focus is on unraveling how higher motor systems in cortex coordinate natural behavior and permit social learning. His group studies these phenomena by combining quantitative behavioral tracking with neuronal ensemble recordings in freely behaving rats and mice. The group uses optogenetics and neuroanatomical methods to better understand the function and connectivity of relevant circuits and has both local and international collaborations toward the development of statistical and machine learning-based analyses of high-dimensional neural and behavioral data.
Main achievements: His group started at the Kavli Institute in 2014 under the auspices of an ERC starting grant, prior to which he was a Kavli post-doctoral fellow with Edvard and May-Britt Moser, studying navigational representations across parietal and entorhinal cortices. Prior to moving to Trondheim, he was a graduate student of Mark Bear at Brown University and MIT, with his thesis work demonstrating that synaptic connections in the hippocampus grew stronger as a consequence of single-trial learning in rats.
Thursday, November 17, 14:30
CCBIO seminar
Donald Gullberg from the Department of Biomedicine, University of Bergen, will give a talk entitled “Advances in fibroblast biology”.
Position: Professor, group leader of the Matrix Biology research group and PI at the Center for Cancer Biomarkers (CCBIO)
Research field: The study of integrin α11 in the context of tissue and tumor fibrosis. Major projects within the group aim to further understand the role of the collagen receptor α11β1 and other fibroblast integrins during health and in disease.
Seminar focus: In the past year a number of interesting publications relating to fibroblasts biology, of relevance to both fibrosis and cancer biology, have been published. In my lecture I will discuss these new findings and relate them to our own research on a major collagen-binding integrin present fibroblast, alpha11beta1.
Thursday, November 24, 14:30