Gaute T. EinevollEinevoll, Gaute T.

Professor

E-mail: gaute.einevoll@umb.no

Phone: +47-6496-5433

Present positions: Professor, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, UMB; Guest Professor (20%) at Center for Molecular Biology and Neuroscience (CMBN), UiO

Degrees: Dr. Ing. in theoretical physics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, 1991.

Professional background: Postdoc., Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego  (1991-1994); Associate Professor (1994-1995) and Professor (1995-1996) of Physics, University of Tromsø, Professor of Physics at IMT, UMB (1996-). Visiting Professor at NMR Center, Department of Radiology, Harvard University (2003). Guest Professor (20%) at Center for Molecular Biology and Neuroscience (CMBN), UiO (2007-)

Research experience: Computational neuroscience: Modelling of biological neural networks (early visual system, somatosensory cortex, hippocampus, generic networks). Modelling of interaction between astrocytes and neurons. Development of new methods for interpretation of extracellular potentials recorded in neural tissue.

Experience in R&D management: Leader of Computational Biology Research Group at IMT, UMB since 2005. Leader of the Research School for Systems Biology at UMB since 2006. Leader of the Norwegian node of the International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF) since 2007. Member and chair (2002-2003) of board of Nordic Institute of Theoretical Physics (1999-2007). Supervisor of 5 graduated PhD-students

Selected publications:
  • G.T. Einevoll: Sharing with Python, Frontiers in Neuroscience (2009)
  • P. Blomquist, A. Devor, U.G. Indahl, I. Ulbert, G.T. Einevoll, and A.M. Dale: Estimation of thalamocortical and intracortical network models from joint thalamic single-electrode and cortical laminar-electrode recordings in the rat barrel system, PLoS Computational Biology 5: e1000328 (2009)
  • I. Østby, L. Øyehaug, G.T. Einevoll, E. Nagelhus, E. Plahte, T. Zeuthen, C. Lloyd, O.P. Ottersen, and S.W. Omholt: Astrocytic mechanisms explaining neural-activity-induced shrinkage of extraneuronal space, PLoS Computational Biology 5, e1000272 (2009)
  • K.H. Pettersen, E. Hagen, and G.T. Einevoll (2008) Estimation of population firing rates and current source densities from laminar electrode recordings. Journal of Computational Neuroscience 24, 291--313 (2008)
  • K.H. Pettersen and G.T. Einevoll (2008) Amplitude variability and extracellular low-pass filtering of neuronal spikes, Biophysical Journal 94: 784-802.
  • G.T. Einevoll, K. Pettersen, A. Devor, I. Ulbert, E. Halgren and A.M. Dale (2007) Laminar Population Analysis: Estimating firing rates and evoked synaptic activity from multielectrode recordings in rat barrel cortex, Journal of Neurophysiology  97, 2174-2190.
  • J. Wyller, P. Blomquist and G.T. Einevoll (2007) Turing instability and pattern formation in a two-population neuronal network model, Physica D 225, 75-93.
  • T. Solstad, E.I. Moser and G.T. Einevoll (2007) From grid cells to place cells: A mathematical model, Hippocampus 154, 1026-1031. 
  • K. Pettersen, A. Devor, I. Ulbert, A.M. Dale and G.T. Einevoll (2006) Current-source density estimation based on inversion of electrostatic forward solution: Effects of finite extent of neuronal activity and conductivity discontinuities, Journal of Neuroscience Methods 154, 116-133.
  • P. Blomquist, J. Wyller and G.T. Einevoll (2005) Localized activity patterns in two-population neuronal networks, Physica D 206, 180-212 (2005). 
  • G.T. Einevoll and H. E. Plesser (2002) Linear mechanistic models for the dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus of cat probed using drifting-grating stimuli, Network: Comput. Neural Systems 13, 503-530.
  • G.T. Einevoll and P. Heggelund (2000) Mathematical models for the spatial receptive-field organization of nonlagged X cells in dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus of cat, Visual Neuroscience 17, 871-886.