Welcome to Paulina Schnur, our new postdoctoral researcher. She has a background in in-vivo electrophysiology and will be working on the Autophagy and Sleep project, forming a collaboration between the Boccara and Knævelsrud lab

1 January 2025

Our lab and the institute enjoyed the Christmas party at Oslo Science Park. Happy Holidays!

6 December 2024

Our lab went on a cabin trip in Østmarka, where we enjoyed nice walks in the forest, card games and cozy time together.

29 November - 1 December 2024

Welcome to Ekin Kaya, our new research assistant! She has a background in in vivo electrophysiology and she will work on metabolic and cognitive development.

8 November 2024

Charlotte has shared our lab's research on sleep and cognitive development during a week-long visit to the UK. She gave a seminar entitled "Different dynamics of learning in entorhinal and hippocampal cortices" as part of the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience Adrian Seminar series at the University of Cambridge (more info here). This was followed by a networking event at University College London. She then participated in the Cortex Club, a student-led society based at the University of Oxford, with her talk "Hippocampal and Cortical Dynamics Across Learning and Development".

27 October - 2 November 2024

We hosted a 2 weeks PhD course on Molecular Medicine at NCMM with 2 days devoted to neurosciences. We heard great talks from a wide range of persepctives in Neuroscience from Giorgio Gilestro (Imperial College London), Jørgen Sugar (UiO), Solomiia Korchynska (UiO), Andrew Macaskill (UCL), Peter Petersen (KU - Copenhagen), Joel Glover (UiO), Marcus Stephenson- Jones (UCL), Antoine Bergel (McGill/ESPCI Paris), Rune Enger (UiO) and Charlotte Boccara (UiO).

Thank you to all our speakers for their valuable insights and inspiring presentations!

14 - 25 October 2024

Congrats to Sandra for obtaining the new PhD position with the SmartSense Project! She has a background in neuroscience from her Master's thesis, where she studied how perineuronal net perturbations affect plasticity in learning. Her project will focus on the effects of adolescent sleep deprivation/disturbances on metabolic health.

15 October 2024

Congrats to Solveig for winning the Best Academic Poster Award for the summer research projects from UiO:Life Science!
Solveig's award-winning presentation, titled "Behavioral Methods to Infer Cognitive Development in Rodents", showcased the results of her summer research. This project was supervised by Charlotte and Brijesh. Well done, Solveig!

Read more here.

15 October 2024

Our lab made its debut at the ESRS conference, with Charlotte delivering three insightful talks. Collaborating with Letizia and Solomiia, she presented on:

Ane recently spent 10 days in Hungary, hosted by the Zoltan Fekete Lab at NeuroMEMS and supported by the Sleep Oscillations Research Group in Péter Barthó's lab.
Supervised by Dr. Ágoston Csaba Horváth, Ane learned to prepare and test in vivo recordings using a multimodal biosensor. This technology allows for the simultaneous recording of electrophysiological and temperature data from the brain.

9 - 20 September 2024

NCMM is part of the EMBL nordic network and this year it was our turn to organize the conference in Oslo!
We had 3 days of talks and posters with a keynote from Rosa Cossart and a nice dinner at the Oslo Opera.
Our lab was well represented with 2 posters from Damien and Sandra, as well as a plenary talk from Solomiia titled "Sleep dynamics across development". The cherry on top: Sandra won the first price at the Best poster award! Congratulations to Sandra and the Smartsense team!

Read more here.

16 - 19 September 2024

Our lab enjoyed one of the last summer (and very windy) days at the beach in Langøyene, one of the islands in the Oslo fjord. We enjoyed a picnic and played football and volleyball.

24 August 2024

Our lab and the institute enjoyed the summer party at Oslo Science Park!

22 August 2024

Our lab was pleased to host Johanne Bjørndal Iversen for a summer internship. During her time with us, Johanne concentrated on the detection of sleep spindles.

July-August 2024

Our lab visited NeuroMEMS lab, led by Dr. Zoltan Fekete and focusing on design and fabrication of flexible surface probes. During the visit, Charlotte presented the ongoing projects in the lab and participated in demonstration of flexible EEG/ECoG probes in rodents. This new collaboration will enable us to obtain large-scale electrophysiological data from rat pups to uncover neural signatures of sleep maturation and cognitive development.

1 - 3 July 2024

Our lab participated with two posters at FENS conference in Vienna:
Solomiia presented: "Microstructure of sleep and sleep oscillation dynamics across the lifespan"
Brijesh presented: "Maturation of Sharp Wave Ripples and Cortical Dynamics during Developmental Sleep"

Read more here.

26 - 29 June 2024

Congrats to Adrian for successfully defending his master's thesis at University of Copenhagen, Denmark. His project, titled "The effects of in utero exposure to antidepressants on sleep architecture development", focused on understanding the relationship between monoaminergic neurotransmitter concentrations during development, and sleep architecture postpartum.
To celebrate this milestone, the lab organized a trip to Denmark to attend Adrian's defense and enjoy a group visit to Copenhagen.

21 - 22 June 2024

Charlotte and Brijesh participated in the inaugural edition of the Hippocampus Green Meeting in London, a two-day conference focused on hippocampal physiology, network dynamics, and the phenomenon of replay in freely behaving animal models. On this occasion, Charlotte presented the research conducted in our lab.

Read more here.

10 - 11 June 2024

Solomiia received the Anders Jahre's fond for a project on the developmental of social memory. This seed money will help her to develop a new line of research in the lab.
Congrats!

11 June 2024

Our lab enjoyed a great two-day retreat at the Oscarborg Fortress in the Oslo fjord, filled with scientific discussions and networking.
Charlotte, Letizia, Solomiia, Florian, and Mats showcased our lab's latest work through a team presentation, with the help of our new collaborator on autophagy, Helene Knævelsrud.

Big congratulations to Solomiia for winning the best scientific poster award!

Read more here.

3-4 June 2024

This year, our lab came together to celebrate Norwegian Constitution Day on May 17. We enjoyed a traditional Norwegian breakfast hosted by Henriette!

17 May 2024

Florian and Charlotte received funds to manufacture neural probes based on SU-8 and to offer a more biocompatible alternative to widespread silicon probes.
Compliant polymer neural interfaces enable reliable long-term in vivo recordings of brain activity by limiting tissue damage during implantation and by mitigating chronic inflammation.

Read more here.

14 May 2024

NCMM and Simula Research Laboratory held a seminar together to create an arena for researchers from the two organizations to connect and identify common interests for cross-disciplinary collaborations.
Thanks to Charlotte, Marte Julie Sætra and Mikkel Lepperød, for making it happen!

Read more here.

2-3 May 2024

Congrats to Mats and Solveig for receiving funding for their summer research projects by UiO:Life Science!

Read more here.

21 March 2024

Dr. Clifford Kentros from the Kavli Institute of Systems Neuroscience, NTNU, presented on "Using Molecular Genetics to Investigate the Neural Circuitry of Memory and its Disorders" at NCMM International Seminar.
Thank you for the inspiring talk and great discussion with our lab members!

27 Feb, 2024

Welcome to Andreas who joins as a PhD student at STAMI (National Institute of Occupational Health). His research focuses on investigating the effects of night work and seasonal variations on alertness, sleepiness and circadian rhythms.

1 Feb, 2024

The lab organized a symposium featuring talks from:
Charlotte Boccara: ( Title: Maturation of sleep neural dynamics across development )
Celia Kjaerby: ( Title: The influence of norepinephrine driven sleep micro structure on memory consolidation )
Rune Enger Letten: ( Title: The role of astrocytes and the gliovascular interface in sleep )
Hanna Maria Ollila: ( Title: Melatonin receptor controls timing of glucose levels. )

Group Photo: Symposium speakers with Rosa Cossart, Plenary Speaker and Director of Mediterranean Neurobiology Institute (INMED), Marseille, France

19 Jan, 2024

We had a fun evening playing shuffleboard and arcade games at Tilt, Oslo

19 Jan, 2024

Welcome to Letizia Signorelli, an italian mathematical engineer who joins the lab as a data analyst!

19 Jan, 2024

Welcome to Ane Gaupseth Mæstad and Solveig Horn, who are purusing their Master's in Bioscience at University of Oslo.

19 Jan, 2024

This year, we celebrated the end of the year festivities twice! A traditional Julebord organized at NCMM with all our colleagues there and a more intimate potluck at Charlotte’s where each lab member brought dishes from their own country.

19 Dec, 2023

Congrats to Adrian for securing funding from University of Copenhagen's Support Foundation for students of pharmaceutical science!

19 Dec, 2023

Our lab enjoyed bouldering at Oslo Klatresenter in Skullerud Park.

19 Dec, 2023

We hosted a 2 weeks PhD course on Molecular Medicine at NCMM with 2 days devoted to neurosciences. We heard great talks from a wide range of persepctives in Neuroscience from Julie Jezequel (KCL), Cliff Kentros (NTNU), Cathrin Canto (NIN), Hua Hu (UiO), Jean-Luc Boulland (UiO), Joel Glover (UiO), Rune Enger (UiO) and Charlotte Boccara (UiO).

19 Dec, 2023

In connection with receiving the ERC Starting Grant, our research was featured in a news story in the national newspaper VG (read more here) and in Khrono (read more here).

04 Oct, 2023

Sandra Bryne joins the lab as a research assistant
She completed her MSc in Neuroscience from the University of Oslo and has background in animal handling, histology and molecular biology


04 Oct, 2023

A new paper from Smartsense project titled Adipose tissue characterization with electrical impedance spectroscopy and machine learning is now out in IEEE Sensors Letters

Electrical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) is a technique that allows to analyze a material by measuring its response to small electrical signals. In this work, we show that EIS can be used to discriminate different types of mouse fat tissue from one another. This is a first step towards complementing traditional tissue analysis methods in order to gain further insight on the structure and properties of various fat tissues.
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29th Sept, 2023

Our lab participated with posters and a talk at EMBL conference in Helsinki.
Solomiia and Adrian presented a poster and Charlotte delivered a talk at the conference!

20th Sept, 2023

We are happy to share that lab has secured European Research Council's Starting Grant for the project 'SleepCog'. This will allow us explore the role of sleep in healthy cognitive development.

15th Sept, 2023

Welcome to Jie, our new postdoctoral researcher on the Smartsense project. He is supervised by Ørjan G. Martinsen at the Department of Physics and co-supervised by Charlotte Boccara. She aims to focus her research on biosensors and sleep scoring using state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms

1st Sept, 2023

Our lab and the institute enjoyed the roof-top summer party at Oslo Science Park.

1st Sept, 2023

Congrats to Adrain for securing a fellowship from Denmark's Dagmar Marshall Fonden. This fellowship will support his stay in Oslo during his research in our lab.

1st Sept, 2023

Our lab will host 2 summer internships from UIO Life Science Summer Internship Programme.
Congrats to Henriette Myrland and Sunniva Segtnan for securing the internship!

1st August, 2023

Congrats to Ruchi Saigal for successfully defending her master's thesis at Oslo Met University, Norway.

1st August, 2023

Congrats to Laure for successfully defending her master's thesis at Sorborne University, France. Her project focused on the effects of sleep deprivation on adipose tissue.

Laure was supervised by Dr. Charlotte Boccara, Dr. Nolwenn Briand and Dr. Damien Dufour

1st August, 2023

The lab enjoyed a relaxing retreat at Strömstad Spa & Resort in Sweden.

Congrats to Damien on a great presentation on Adolescence, a critical window of adipose tissue remodelling

22nd June, 2023

Congrats to Mats for securing the Forsklinjen Fellowship. This will allow him to follow research track simultaneously during his medical studies! We look forward to having you in our lab!

22nd June, 2023

Congrats to the lab: A small grant from the Anders Jahres fond til vitenskapens fremme for our CRIPSR project

22nd June, 2023

Our lab attended Spring Hippocampus Conference in Verona, Italy. Solomiia presented her latest work on "Maturation of sleep architecture across development", whereas Brijesh and Eis unvieled a new tool for benchmarking sharp wave ripple detection algorithms. Lastly, Charlotte presented her crucial work on memory consolidation done in collaboration with Dr. Jozsef Csicsvari at IST, Austria

4th June, 2023

We were lucky to have Dr. Jérôme Epsztein visiting us in Oslo. Thank you Jérôme for 2 (!) great talks and many inspiring scientific conversations!

28th March, 2023

Welcome to Damien to the smartsense team. Damien will be postdoctoral researcher supervised by Dr. Nolwenn Briand at Molmed and co-supervised by Charlotte. His aim is to understand how sleep affects adipose tissue physiology and to investigate the physiological process of adipose tissue post-natal development. He did his PhD at the Clermont Auvergne University, in France, working on the different pathways involved in the differentiation of the adrenal cortex, one of the key organs of the stress response. Before that, he worked on the effects of dietary restriction on the ageing of visceral adipose tissue at the University of Newcastle in the UK.

1st January, 2023

Our lab had a blast at our institute christmas party hosted at Oslo Science Park, Norway

20th December, 2022

Welcome to Brijesh, our new postdoctoral researcher, who comes from India. Brijesh completed his Ph.D work in Italy with Prof. Enrico Cherubini and Dr. Francesco Battaglia. His main focus in the lab will be on sleep recordings and computational analysis of large scale electrophysilogical data.

1st October, 2022

Welcome to Florian, our new Ph.D student, who is a mechatronics engineer from France. He is supervised by Ørjan G. Martinsen at the Department of Physics and co-supervised by Charlotte Boccara within the SmartSense project. His main focus is to develop new implantable biosensors to study the brain-adipose tissue crosstalk in mouse models.

1st September, 2022

Our lab participated in FENS conference in Paris. Solomiia and Eis presented their posters on their latest work on maturatio of sleep oscillations across development

15th July, 2022

Our team enjoyed a lovely evening in a tiny and cosy restaurant that serves traditional French dishes.
It was nice to have an afterwork wine glass and a plate of delirious food. It was also a good opportunity to get to know better our new lab members in informal and relaxing atmosphere.

6th May, 2022

Welcome to Lina, our new research assistant, who comes from Ukraine. Given the difficult situation in her country, we are happy to invite her to our lab and provide her a safe and friendly working environment.
Her work will consist of lab managing tasks, technical assistance with histology, preparation of solutions, rodent colonies management, rodent behaviour and preparation of electronics aim at brain chronic recordings.

27th April, 2022

Welcome to Ela, who is a new Master’s student intern and will stay during 3 months. She comes from France where she just completed an internship in another lab where she worked on levodopa-induced dyskinesia in Parkinsonian mice.
During her stay in Oslo, she will mainly work on sleep analyses and building ultra-light recording devices adapted to pups.

27th April, 2022

Join the RELIGHT symposium taking place April 7, where I will participate in a panel discussion about the path to research excellence!

Follow the event here

6th April, 2022

We can host scientist at all levels. We have postdoc, PhD and lab tech funded positions available. In addition, there may be shot-term fellowship available trough EMBO. We can also help with housing. Do not hesitate to contact us directly if you are interested.

6th March, 2022

After 6 months with us, Coralie returns to her beautiful Neuchâtel in Switzerland. We will miss her so much!
Her smile has lighten up our winter!! We wish her all the best on her new position. She will stay a friend of the lab :))

18th February, 2022

Finally the restrictions in Oslo were relaxed which allowed us to celebrate in person Eis's birthday! On this occasion, Eis shared with us his Italian origin by cooking a delicious homemade tiramisu.

14th February, 2022

We are extremely happy to announce that, together with Torkel Hafting and SINTEF, we received a large funding from the Norwegian Research Council to finance a joined project to engineer tools to diagnose & analyse sleep and associated disorders (NeuroProbe-on-a-chip – NFR convergence).

18th February, 2022

Our lab is glad to announce that we are looking for new collaborators!! We currently have two postdoctorals positions available for both neuroscience and computational backgrounds.Regardless of your level (medical student, master, PhD), if you are interested in our work, don't hesitate to send us a spontaneous application! Read more about the call here

10th February, 2022