Research activity

Current external students

Current external students

  • Katrine Sjaastad Hansen, PhD candidate, Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, NTNU. Developing a novel platform to study Alzheimer ́s disease-relevant neuronal networks in vitro
  • Trym Lindell, PhD candidate, Department of Computer Science, OsloMet; Neural reservoirs and hybrid computing
  • Kristine Heiney, OsloMet, PhD candidate, Department of Computer Science, OsloMet. Self-Organizing Models of Artificial learning in neural substrates, toward strategies to restore perturbed dynamics
  • Sidney Pontes-Filho, PhD candidate, Department of Computer Science, OsloMet. EVODynamic: Evolution of discreet dynamic systems for modelling computational systems based on self- organisation through local interactions
  • Martinius Knudsen, PhD candidate, Department of Engineering Cybernetics, NTNU. Training and modeling of biological networks

Alumni

Alumni

  • Ulrich Stefan Bauer, INB, NTNU. PhD in Medicine and Health Sciences. Advanced Cellular Models for the Recapitulation and Study of Neuropathology. ISBN 978-82-326-5590-8
  • Christiana Bjørkli, INB, NTNU. PhD in Medicine and Health Sciences. The Inside-Out of Alzheimer´s Disease. ISBN 978-82-326-5894-7
  • Emily Karabeika, MSc in Neuroscience, INB, NTNU. Co-culture of humanized Apolipoprotein E astrocytes with primary entorhinal cortex neurons from adult mice and hippocampal neurons from embryonic rats
  • Salome Nora Niethammer, MSc in Neuroscience, Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, NTNU. Extraction and co-culturing of adult hippocampal and entorhinal neurons from Alzheimer model-animals (co-supervised project)
  • Åste Brune Tomren, MSc in Nanotechnology, Department of Physics, NTNU. Using microfluidics and 3D surfaces to increase the physiological translatability of in vitro neural networks (co-supervised project)
  • Nora Cecilie Ebbesen, INB, NTNU. MSc in Neuroscience. Inhibiting the neuronal region with initial neurodegeneration in a mouse model of Alzheimer´s disease; effects on neuropathology and behaviour
  • Mary Elizabeth Hemler, INB, NTNU. MSc in Neuroscience. Using microdialysis to administer and assess drugs aimed at attenuating Alzheimer´s disease neuropathology
  • Sondre Valentin Jordbræk, INB, NTNU, MSc in Neuroscience. Self-organized Criticality in engineered in vitro networks; A balance of excitation and inhibition
  • Nienke Laura de Jong, Department of Physics, NTNU, MSc in Nanotechnology. Specialization project: Developing an in vitro microfluidic neural network model with unidirectional axonal growth (co-supervised project)
  • Leik Bjelland Isdal, Department of Physics, NTNU, MSc in Nanotechnology. Developing nanoscale surface topography on a brain-on-chip platform to mimic the physiological conditions of the in vivo brain (co-supervised project)
  • Edevard Brekke Hvide, Dept. of Physics, NTNU. MSc in Nanotechnology, Sikorski group. Unidirectional axon growth in vitro (co-supervised project)

Salvatore Castelbuono, MSc in Computer Science, Barberi group, Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Development of statistical models of neurons able to characterize their firing activity (co-supervised project

  • Vibeke Devold Valderhaug, INB, NTNU, PhD in Medicine. Structure-function relationships in biological neural networks and the influence of neurodegenerative processes on such dynamics. ISBN 978-82-326-4506-0
  • Ola Huse Ramstad, INB, NTNU, PhD in Medicine. Neural Disorder at the Edge-of-Chaos. ISBN 978-82-326- 4924-2
  • Anna Mikalsen Kollstrøm, INB, NTNU, MSc in Neuroscience. How does ALS pathology spread to affect healthy neurons? Recapitulation of disease progression in multi-nodal neural networks in vitro
  • Isak Kyrre Lichtwarck Bjugn, INB, NTNU, MSc in Nanomedicine. Structural effects on the computational capacity of neural networks
  • Rikke Bie, INB, NTNU, MSc in Neuroscience. Micro- and mesoscale neuroplasticity of in vitro cortical neuronal networks
  • Marit Trones Rem, INB, NTNU, MSc in Neuroscience. Generating neural networks from ependymal cells harvested after spinal cord injury
  • Nicolai Winter-Hjelm, IKOM, NTNU, MSc in Nanotechnology. Development of next-generation microfluidic microelectrode arrays (co-supervised project)
  • Riccardo Levi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, MSc in Computer Science. Development of statistical models of neurons able to characterize their firing activity (co-supervised project)
  • Torvald Ask, IKOM, NTNU, MSc in Neuroscience. Functional connectivity in in vitro models of X-linked intellectual disability (co-supervised project)
  • Rosanne van de Wijdeven, IKOM, NTNU, PhD in Medical Technology. Tailored microfluidic platforms for advanced neurobiology, neuroengineering, and electrophysiology. NTNU;2019:135 (co-supervised project)
  • Irene Busti, PhD in Neuroscience, Institute of Neuroscience, CNR, Pisa, Italy. Project: Development of in vitro modelling platform to investigate the neural network response to ischemic injury (7- month research stay, INB, NTNU)
  • Janelle Shari Weir, INB, NTNU, MSc in Neuroscience. Structural and functional dynamics of healthy and perturbed neural networks in vitro
  • Katrine Sjaastad Hanssen, Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, NTNU, MSc in Neuroscience. Establishing lateral entorhinal cortex layer II- neuron cultures as a tool for the investigation of early Alzheimer ́s disease related changes (co-supervised project)
  • Sigrún Jarlsdóttir, INB, NTNU, MSc in Neuroscience. Investigation of axonal and synaptic plasticity in an in vitro model of spinal cord injury and repair
  • Guillaume Vignolle, MSc in Computer Science, Erasmus programme student, ENSTA ParisTech, France. Project: Evolution in Materio paradigm for solving a simple computational task (3-month research stay; co-supervised project)
  • Ingrid Lovise Augestad, INB, NTNU, PhD in Neuroscience. In situ tissue engineering and induced plasticity in experimental stroke. ISBN 978-82-326-3080-6
  • Vanessa Crain, INB, NTNU, MSc in Neuroscience. Replicating ischemic stroke in vitro
  • Jonas Haldoupis, INB, NTNU, MSc in Neuroscience. Modelling pathophysiological features of spinal cord injury in 2D and 3D cell cultures
  • Nikolas Haldoupis, INB, NTNU, MSc in Neuroscience. In vitro mimicking and targeting of neurodegenerative mechanisms relevant to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
  • Ola Huse Ramstad, INB, NTNU. MSc in Neuroscience, Developing long-term in vitro microculture for neuropathology modelling
  • Peter Aaser, Department of Computer Science, NTNU. MSc in Computer Science. Investigating in-vitro neuron cultures as computational reservoir (co-supervised project)
  • Barbora Svobodova, PhD in Neuroscience, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. Project: In situ tissue engineering strategies for spinal cord repair (visiting student; 3-month research stay)
  • Kristina Karova, PhD in Neuroscience, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. Project: In situ tissue engineering strategies for spinal cord repair (visiting student; 3-month research stay)

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Group leaders

Axel Sandvig
Professor
axel.sandvig@ntnu.no
Ioanna Sandvig
Professor
ioanna.sandvig@ntnu.no

The MemAD Study

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Sandvig group members