Labour Party promises NOK 80 million to Moser research
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Brain Science Discoveries at KISN
Say hello to Mini2P - the brain explorer!
Mini2P is an open-source miniature 2-photon microscope brain explorer for fast high-resolution calcium imaging in freely-moving mice.
Get to know Mini2P.
A framework in your brain for organising the order of things
Scientists at NTNU’s Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience have discovered a pattern of activity in the brain that serves as a template for building sequential experiences.
A framework in your brain for organising the order of things (Norwegian SciTech News).
Minute-scale oscillatory sequences in medial entorhinal cortex (Nature)
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Stories from KISN
The Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience were hosting a delegation from the Norwegian Labour Party on 9 August.
Edvard Moser said something today that made a real impression. He told me that in doing fundamental research, he had come across doors leading into knowledge on dementia and Alzheimer's disease, and that he feels a moral obligation to follow up on these discoveries. Then we in the Labor Party have a responsibility to fund it.
Jonas Gahr Støre, leader of the Norwegian Labour Party
Støre promised an annual support of NOK 20 million for four successive years for Alzheimer related research at the Kavli Institute, should the Labour Party win the election.
I found today’s meeting with Jonas Gahr Støre very encouraging. The promised funding will give us an opportunity to invest our knowledge and research in the global mission of unravelling Alzheimer’s disease. Støre expressed a pronounced understanding for the essential role that basic science would have to play in solving the Alzheimer’s challenge. This left me especially optimistic.
Edvard Moser
The grid cells discovered by the Mosers in 2005 are among the first affected in very early development of Alzheimer’s disease, and they are the first to die as the disease progresses.
From left: Trond Giske, Edvard Moser, Ragnhild Jacobsen and Jonas Gahr StøreTwo years ago, the Pauline Braaten family donated USD 50 million to the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience for research related to Alzheimer's disease. The gift led to the founding of The Egil and Pauline Braathen and Fred Kavli Centre for Cortical Microcircuits at the Kavli Institute the same year.
During their visit, the Labour party learned about the plans for a Nordic network of brain research, as well as a national network for research on Alzheimer's disease, triggered by the new Braathen-Kavli Centre.
The promised funding is part of Støres' plan to make Trondheim a “Capital of Health” and becoming internationally leading in dementia and brain research.
Trondheim will therefore not only create the future of health for Norway's population, but for the whole world.
Jonas Gahr Støre.
Photo credits: Dave Rowland/ Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience
Published August 2017, by Rita Elmkvist Nilsen
Events
Events at NTNU, Trondheim 5th of Sept. 2024.
KISN Extended workshop
Take a look at the highlights from this summer's workshop: Theories of neural computation in the era of large-scale recordings, 1-10 July in Trondheim by Soledad Gonzalo Cogno, Rainer Friedrich and Yoram Burak.
Thank you to all our wonderful speakers, poster presenters, attendees, & staff for making this event a great success!
National PhD conference in Neuroscience
This year's NRSN conference at the beautiful Jegtvolden Fjordhotell! Don't miss out on the chance to develop your presentation skills, listen to exciting keynote lectures, network with other neuroscientists, and fun social activities 
Also open for postdocs and MSc students!
Register now by the 20th of August!
Read more on our website.
Selected media
The scientists at the Kavli Institute take part in various activities for communicating science to the public. The tools of the trade for communicating within the science community, like peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings, are not good sources of knowledge for the public. Rather it’s through popular media, like online video platforms, television, social media, radio, podcasts, newspapers and magazines, as well as popularized talks and debates taking place in the public, that the majority of citizens gain knowledge and advice about science.
Popular science communication demands a translation of both complexity, language and dissemination form, without compromising central scientific aspects. By explaining scientific relationships in a straight-forward language and contextualizing scientific facts within issues of public interest and concern, our scientists aim at not only translating information and facts into publicly accessible knowledge and understanding, but also at providing a vocabulary that allows the broader public to engage in and join discourses about local and global issues that involve both risks and benefits, and in which every citizen is a stakeholder.
These insights represent the fundament for the institute's public outreach activities and science communication plan.
Starmus represents an innovative approach to boosting public understanding of science, inviting citizens to engage with and participate in scientific discourses, by bringing together the very best of science and art into a weeklong popular science dissemination festival. The festival is pulling thousands of visitors, and is covered by major media houses across the world.
In 2016 Edvard Moser participated in the Starmus festival III held in Tenerife, with a popular science lecture on grid cells. Edvard and May-Britt Moser have since been instrumental in bringing the Starmus initiative to Trondheim (2017).
Popular speakers at the Starmus III festival in Tenerife (2016). Edvard Moser, sixth from left. Photo credits: Max Alexander"The Grand Narrative" is an animated story about how we find our way in the environment, and why navigation is essential for life.
Into Whiteness is a story of how your ability to find your way in the environment and to remember your history, arise from activity in neural circuits deep within your brain. It is also the story of what happens when these neurons that underpin memory and navigation start dying in Alzheimer’s disease. Learn more about Into Whiteness
New York Times A Sense of Where You Are
Nature Neuroscience: Brains of Norway
Huffington Post The Incredible True Tale Of “The Queen Of Neuroscience” And Her Nobel Prize
Neurosciencestuff A "light switch" in the brain illuminates neural networks
Science Magazine Beam me up, Ratty
Science news Meet 10 scientists who are making their mark
The Guardian How the brain navigates: science Nobel prize special (podcast, 52:20)
Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience A journey into the entorhinal cortex (video, 2:51)
Körber Prize May-Britt and Edvard Moser – Winner of the Körber European Science Prize 2014 (video, 9:29)
Skavlan Medicinpriset Maj-Britt och Edvard Moser hos Skavlan (video)
New York Times A Brain's GPS (video, 6:47)
Edvard Moser's Nobel Lecture Grid Cells and the Entorhinal Map of Space
May-Britt Moser's Nobel Lecture Grid Cells, Place Cells and Memory
Grid cells for Young Minds
Frontiers for Young Minds: Can grid cells help us understand the brain?
SUPPORT THE BRAIN RESEARCH
You are most welcome to support the brain research at the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience led by May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser.
The Research Fund of the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience has the sole purpose of providing direct financial support for the brain research.
Donate by Vipps
The Kavli Institute’s Vipps:
696680 (Hjerneforskningsfondet / UNIFOR)
