Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience (KISN)

Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience (KISN)

Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience (KISN) is a leading research centre aiming to understand the emergence of high-level brain functions.

KISN

  • Photo by Geir Mogen/KISN

    This is a grid cell. Grid cells are located in the brain's enthorinal cortex. They help humans and other mammals find our way. This grid cell is captured by Menno Witter at KISN.
  • Image by Richard Gardener/KISN.

    The grid cells are known as the brain's GPS. To find your way, you need to know where you are, where you are going and how to get there. These grid cells are recorded by Richard Gardner at KISN using Neuropixels probes.
  • Photo by Julie Gloppe Solem/KISN.

    Grid cells were first discovered in rats by the Moser Group in 2005. Grid cells have since been discovered in species as diverse as bats, monkeys and humans. They are part of a navigational system that evolved in the pre-mammal brain hundreds of millions of years ago.

CENTRES AT KISN

CENTRES AT KISN

Kavli Leader Team

 

Edvard Moser. Photo: Geir Mogen
Edvard Moser
Scientific Director
May-Britt Moser. Photo: Geir Mogen.
May-Britt Moser
Scientific Director
Bjarne Foss. Photo: Geir Mogen.
Bjarne Foss
Administrative Director

Groups at KISN

Groups at KISN

 

May-Britt and Edvard Moser. Photo.May-Britt and Edvard Moser
Moser Group:

Space and memory
Jonathan Whitlock. Photo: Geir Mogen.
Whitlock Group:

Cognitive motor function
Clifford Kentros. Photo: Geir Mogen.
Kentros Group:

Transgenic investigation of neural circuits
Emre Yaksi. Photo: Geir Mogen.
Yaksi Group:

Sensory computations
Tobias Navarro Schröder. Photo: Geir Mogen
Navarro Schröder Group:

Vision and navigation
Giulia Quattrocolo. Photo: Geir Mogen
Quattrocolo Group
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Circuit development
Maximiliano Nigro. Photo: Geir Mogen.
Nigro Group:

Perception and cognition
Maryam Ziaei. Photo: Geir Mogen.
Ziaei Group:

Aging Neuroscience
Soledad Gonzalo Cogno. Photo: Geir Mogen.
Gonzalo Cogno Group:

Neural dynamics and computation
Weijian Zong. Photo: Geir Mogen.
Zong Group:

Neurophotonics

Visiting Professors

Visiting Professors

 

Menno Witter. Photo.
Menno Witter

Professor Emeritus
WP3: Early-stage pathology in entorhinal cortex of rodent AD models, K.G. Jebsen Centre for Alzheimers Disease
Silhouette. Illustration
Yoram Burak

Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
WP4A: Continuous attractor network models in space-coding brain systems, Centre for Algorithms in the Cortex

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