Group members

Yun Zhou
PhD
yun.zhou@medisin.uio.no

- Localization and quantification of glutamate and GABA transporters around synapses.
- Conditional knockout mice
- Glutamate transporter function

Yvette Dehnes
PhD student
yvette.dehnes@medisin.uio.no

- Localization and quantification of glutamate transporters around synapses. Currently focusing on nerve terminal uptake of glutamate

- Structure-function of dopamine transporters

Silvia Holmseth
PhD

- Antibody production and specificity testing.

- Quantitative distribution of glutamate transporters around synapses.

- Production and characterization of conditional EAAT2 knock-outs.

Lars Petter Bjørnsen
MD

- GABA and glutamate transporters in neurological disorders

- Production of antibodies to splice-variants of glutamate transporters

- Laboratory automation

Knut Petter Lehre
MD PhD

- Localization of glutamate transporters

- Laboratory automation