Group members

Knut Petter Lehre
Researcher, MD PhD
knutle@medisin.uio.no

- Localization and quantification of glutamate and GABA transporters around synapses.

- Computer simulation of transmitter diffusion in the extracellular space.

- Laboratory automation and databasing.

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 student
silviah@ulrik.uio.no

- Antibody production and specificity testing.

- Quantitative distribution of glutamate transporters around synapses.

- Production and characterization of conditional EAAT2 knock-outs.

Anne-Catherine Lehre
PhD student
acwgl2@tiscali.no

- Gender differences

Katia Real
PhD student
katia.real@medisin.uio.no

- Production and characterization of conditional EAAT2 knock-outs.

- Distribution of glutamate transporters in MNTB

Lars Petter Bjørnsen
Medical student
l.p.b.w.bjornsen@medisin.uio.no

- GABA and glutamate transporters in neurological disorders

- Production of antibodies to splice-variants of glutamate transporters

- Laboratory automation

Nina J. Grutle
Medical student
ninajg@studmed.uio.no

- Glutamate transporter function

Yun Zhou
Master student
yun.zhou@imbv.uio.no

- The source of extracellular glutamate in ischemia

- Glutamate transporter function

Henning Beckstrøm
PhD student, MD
henninbe@hotmail.com

- GABA and glutamate transporters in neurological disorders.

Virginie Martin
PhD student
v.v.martin@medisin.uio.no

- The distribution of the glutamate-cystine exchanger

Marcin Wojewodzic
PhD student
marciw@medisin.uio.no

- Glutamate transporter structure-function

- Modulation of transporter function

Aisha Qureshi
Medical student
aishaq@student.matnat.uio.no

- Nerve terminal uptake of glutamate

Nagore Puente
Visiting PhD student
onbpubun@lg.ehu.es

- Distribution of glutamate transporters in the medial nucleus of the trapezoid body (MNTB)