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Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience

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A leading brain research centre aiming to understand the emergence of higher brain functions. Hosted by NTNU in Trondheim. Lead by Nobel Laureates @m-bmoser.bsky.social & @edvardmoser.bsky.social Tweets by @elmkvist.bsky.social

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Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience @kavlintnu.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
What is "a connectivity profile" and why is it important for behaviour and cognition? 🤔 Find out in this short thread about our latest preprint from the @soledad-gcogno.bsky.social group, which you can find here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵 1/6
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Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience @kavlintnu.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Warm congrats to @matteoguardamagna.bsky.social, selected for the @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series 2026/27 🎆 On November 26 he’s in London asking where our sense of space comes from and what 🍩-shaped #gridcell networks are already doing before we ever explore
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Edvard I Moser @edvardmoser.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Out now in @science.org : How does the brain rapidly scan space to guide navigation? We found that the brain’s internal map is continuously retuned from moment to moment, focusing neural activity on what matters most. 🧵1/8 👉 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Adaptive modulation of theta sweeps in the brain’s navigation circuit
Efficient navigation requires prioritizing information from behaviorally relevant locations. In rats, such selective sampling may arise from theta-paced sweeps in grid and place cell populations, whic...
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Abraham Zelalem Vollan @azvollan.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Now in Science: How does the brain’s navigation system allocate its limited representational resources during behavior? We found that grid cells sweep toward locations of interest, providing a potential mechanism for allocating spatial attention in the cognitive map.🧵 science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Edvard I Moser @edvardmoser.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This research was made possible by the support of Norges forskningsrad, @erc.europa.eu via #KiloNeurons, @embo.org and @kavlifoundation.org 🧵8/8
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Edvard I Moser @edvardmoser.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This work would not have existed without the insight, creativity and persistence of @azvollan.bsky.social , @rjgardner.bsky.social , @mschellenberger.bsky.social , @m-bmoser.bsky.social and the rest of the team at @kavlintnu.bsky.social Proud of you all. 🧵7/8
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Edvard I Moser @edvardmoser.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
And if you’d rather watch than read, here’s what the discovery looks like. 🎬 youtu.be/vyFWD6U7Bn8 🧵6/8
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The Brain's Searchlight: A short visual story about a spectacular brain discovery
YouTube video by Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience
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Edvard I Moser @edvardmoser.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Her også på norsk 👉🇳🇴 gemini.no/2026/08/ny-m... 🧵5/8
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Ny Moser-forskning: Har funnet en form for oppmerksomhet
Gittercellene skulle bare fortelle hjernen hvor den var. Nå viser det seg at de også peker mot hvor den vil.
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Edvard I Moser @edvardmoser.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
For the story behind the data, including how we got here, what we think it means, and what it actually felt like to find this, @elmkvist.bsky.social put together this feature: 👉🇬🇧 norwegianscitechnews.com/2026/08/ 🧵4/8
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Edvard I Moser @edvardmoser.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The dynamic retuning is reminiscent of active sensing. Rather than pointing to a fixed goal, the brain reallocates its internal spatial scan from moment to moment toward whatever matters most, right now. 🧵3/8
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Edvard I Moser @edvardmoser.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
#Gridcells generate rhythmic theta sweeps 🧹 across the brain’s internal map. We show these #sweeps are not rigid - they retune from moment to moment according to behavioral demands. They can narrow and lock onto prey, reverse during backward movement, and persist even during REM sleep. 🧵2/8
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Jo Carpenter @jocarpenter.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The Moser Group is presenting our work on Wednesday afternoon at #FENS2026! •Mechanism for L-R sweeps •Attention modulation of sweeps •Grid/place remapping rules & dynamics •”Mega torus” as a hi-capacity memory space •Moving the grid bump •Development of tori & rings •RSC/HC pops. in a spatial task
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Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience @kavlintnu.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Congratulations to @weijianzong.bsky.social, our Neurophotonics group leader and a new 2026 #FENSKavliScholar. He builds the #Mini2P microscopes that let us watch the living brain at work. @fens.org @kavlifoundation.org @alleninstitute.org @ntnudiscovery.bsky.social @fkne-scholars.bsky.social
Poster showing a portrait of and a quote by Weijian Zong.
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Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience @kavlintnu.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Out now in @science.org by @emreyaksi.bsky.social, Anh-Tuan Trinh and colleagues at the Kavli Institute in Trondheim: Hierarchical sensory processing in zebrafish thalamocortical-like circuits doi.org/10.1126/scie...
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Hierarchical sensory processing in zebrafish thalamocortical-like circuits
Thalamocortical projections shape the functional regionalization and parallel sensory computations across the mammalian cortex. However, the principles of thalamocortical computations in non-mammalian...
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Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience @kavlintnu.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Are we born with a sense of space? 🧠 A new preprint from the #MoserGroup suggests that the brain’s internal navigation system 🍩 begins forming before young animals actively explore the world. 🧵(1:5) Have a look at the preprint here 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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torsteinslettmoen.bsky.social @torsteinslettmoen.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
1/6 Do neighboring #PlaceCells in #Hippocampus CA1 map neighboring locations in space? 🧠🗺️ Is there micro-scale spatial topography in the hippocampus? See our latest paper from @kavlintnu now out in @pnas.org www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Place cells in CA1 lack topographical organization of firing locations | PNAS
Topography is a well-described and well-known concept for cortical organization in primary sensory and motor cortices of mammalian brains. Similar ...
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Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience @kavlintnu.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Do #PlaceCells that sit next to each other also represent nearby places in the world? 🧠🤝🗺️ www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Soledad Gonzalo Cogno @soledad-gcogno.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Applications are now open for the summer school: 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐝𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐍𝐞𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 🧠 Apply before March 15: www.compneuronrsn.org 📍 Located in beautiful Eresfjord 🇳🇴 🗓️ Between July 6-24 Supported by the @kavlifoundation.org In collaboration with @kavlintnu.bsky.social
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Mathematical Methods in Computational Neuroscience
Summer school in Eresfjord, Norway (July 8th - 26th, 2024)
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Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience @kavlintnu.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
How does the 🧠-map choose what to sample? Preprint: #Sweeps in #gridcells act as attention-like signal, dynamically biasing the map towards behaviourally relevant locations. By @mschellenberger.bsky.social @azvollan.bsky.social @m-bmoser.bsky.social @edvardmoser.bsky.social + @rjgardner.bsky.social
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Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience @kavlintnu.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
🎉 Gratulerer til vår kollega Magnar Bjørås, kåret til Årets trønder! Ved Kavli-instituttet er vi stolte over Magnars banebrytende forskning på sjeldne sykdommer som barnedemens - forskning som gir håp der det trengs aller mest. Les saken på NRK:
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Årets trønder og Årets hverdagshelt 2025 er kåret
Hun hjelper barn i konfliktområder, mens han forsker på barnedemens. Fredag blir de hedret i Olavshallen.
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Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience @kavlintnu.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
🧠🔬 NOK 12M to #META2P from Kavli & SINTEF! Neurophotonics PI @weijianzong.bsky.social at @kavlintnu.bsky.social is together with NorFab #MiNaLab PI Christopher Dirdal at SINTEF awarded NOK 12 million by the Research Council of Norway to develop the next generation of two-photon microscopes (1:2)
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Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience @kavlintnu.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Today, Harald V King of Norway opened the Norwegian Health Association Centre for Dementia Research, at the Kavli Institute in Trondheim.
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Matteo Guardamagna @matteoguardamagna.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
QQ11: RSC is using the HPC spatial code for good! We observed retrosplenial populations encode task structure when behaviourally relevant cues were present in a hippocampal-dependent spatial task.
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Matteo Guardamagna @matteoguardamagna.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
QQ10: We see minute-scale population drift, not only in LEC, but also MEC and CA1 in conditions with minimal external stimuli, i.e., when mice are head-fixed on a wheel in darkness! @anelautrup.bsky.social
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Matteo Guardamagna @matteoguardamagna.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Poster QQ9: Theta sweeps can track moving bait and go backwards! In our poster, we describe situations in which the stereotypic left-right alternating theta sweep pattern is modulated to cover behaviorally relevant space @azvollan.bsky.social
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Matteo Guardamagna @matteoguardamagna.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
QQ8: What drives the left–right alternation of theta sweeps? Whether a central-pattern generator (CPG)-like circuit is involved? @rajatsxn.bsky.social
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Matteo Guardamagna @matteoguardamagna.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
QQ7: How do MEC ultraslow dynamics vary across behavioral states. In free foraging, population dynamics organize in ultraslow sequences while in NREM sleep they present as synchronous oscillations.
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Matteo Guardamagna @matteoguardamagna.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
QQ6: By combining large high-NA objective, wide-angle MEMS scanning, SiPM detection, and multi-beam multiplexing, this new 2P miniscope (Mini10K) enables cellular-resolution imaging of thousands of neurons in freely moving mice, surpassing current FOV and throughput limits.
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Matteo Guardamagna @matteoguardamagna.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
QQ5: What is the developmental timeline of the low-dimensional manifolds of the entorhinal cortex? Rings and tori organize at P9-P10 before major sensory-motor milestones, coinciding with other major shifts in MEC cortical dynamics. @me
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Matteo Guardamagna @matteoguardamagna.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
QQ4: QQ4: We study population dynamics across the spatial navigation circuit as a rat moves between 4 rooms. With 4 NPX probes in CA, MEC/PaS, SUB, and dPreSUB, we see how maps switch at a fine timescale and track when each region settles into the correct representation. @jocarpenter.bsky.social
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Matteo Guardamagna @matteoguardamagna.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
QQ3: We observe hexagonal grid cells even in environments with elevation changes! The hexagonal pattern is cleaner on the surface of a ramp and on a dome seen from above, and more distorted on a cone seen from above.
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Matteo Guardamagna @matteoguardamagna.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
QQ2: Where are the grid cells and if so, how many? We find that grid cells form a discrete "hot spot" segregated from other functional cell types in the superficial layers of MEC and PaS. @martipof.bsky.social
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Matteo Guardamagna @matteoguardamagna.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Still at SfN on the last day? During the morning session on the 19th, 8:00AM - 12:00PM, come check out our posters from the Moser, Zong, and Gonzalo Cogno groups in row QQ ('Grid cells and spatially modulated cells'). Ephys, imaging, remapping, development, sweeps and more! 🧠 Detailed thread below 👇
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Jo Carpenter @jocarpenter.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
SFN 2025 let’s gooo!! Moser group posters are held Wednesday morning (QQ), so if you’re leaving early feel free to come find us to chat :)
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Weijian Zong @weijianzong.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Thank @kavlintnu.bsky.social, the research council of Norwayfor the continues support of our work! We will provide more useful tools like #mini2p to the neuroscience!
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Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience @kavlintnu.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Check out this new preprint from @clykken.bsky.social and the Moser Group: Independent phase-shifts across MEC grid modules can generate a vast diversity of hippocampal codes — revealing the mechanism that enables episodic memory. 👇
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Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience @kavlintnu.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
🔁 Fascinating new preprint from the Moser Group! How does the hippocampus achieve its vast memory capacity? 🧠 The answer lies in the flexible combinatorics of grid cells. 📄 Read more in the thread by @edvardmoser.bsky.social 👇
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Ben Kanter @beneuroscience.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Our new paper out now in Science explores how neural activity in the lateral entorhinal cortex (LEC) *drifts* over time - and *jumps* at key boundaries - to help organize events in memory. 🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Here's a quick summary of what we found 🧵👇
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Event structure sculpts neural population dynamics in the lateral entorhinal cortex
Our experience of the world is a continuous stream of events that must be segmented and organized at multiple timescales. The neural mechanisms underlying this process remain unknown. In this work, we...
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Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience @kavlintnu.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
... and those jumps act like barcodes - distinct neural signatures that help the brain tag and retrieve memories. @beneuroscience.bsky.social @clykken.bsky.social @nachopolti.bsky.social @m-bmoser.bsky.social @edvardmoser.bsky.social‬ at the @kavlintnu.bsky.social
May-Britt Moser, Ben Kanter and Edvard Moser right now in Trondheim, photo by Sophie Jessica Larson 26 June at 19:50
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Catherine Dulac @dulaclab.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Delightful visit and dinner today in Trondheim and more tomorrow: thanks again @m-bmoser.bsky.social and @edvardmoser.bsky.social for giving me a chance to present our new data on social and sickness behavior. Looking forward to hearing more about the amazing projects at @kavlintnu.bsky.social
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May-Britt Moser @m-bmoser.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Thank you so much Catherine @dulaclab.bsky.social for a thought-provoking and an eminent talk today at @kavlintnu.bsky.social @edvardmoser.bsky.social
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Weijian Zong @weijianzong.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
It is my great honor to host the visit of Prof. Liqun Luo at the @kavlintnu.bsky.social. The talk was so inspiring with amazingly beautiful discoveries! Thank @m-bmoser.bsky.social and @edvardmoser.bsky.social for joing the host, and Emre and Nathalie for showing the visitor the beauty of Norway:)
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Nathalie Jurisch-Yaksi @nathaliejuya.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
One of the exciting part of science is to celebrate milestones! We are super proud of Fanchon, Hien, Natalia and Aurora, our 4 MSc students who successfully graduated! Congrats once again! And good luck for what is coming next! @emreyaksi.bsky.social @inyoungj88.bsky.social @kavlintnu.bsky.social
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Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience @kavlintnu.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
We are thrilled to share that our freshest research group leaders Soledad Gonzalo Cogno and @weijianzong.bsky.social have been promoted to associate professors at Kavli, NTNU. Congratulations - well deserved!
A poster congratulating Soledad Gonzalo Cogno on being promoted to Associate Professor at NTNUA poster congratulating Weijian Zong on being promoted to Associate Professor at NTNU
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Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience @kavlintnu.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Kudos to Sigrun Aasland, Norway's new Minister of Research and Higher Education @kd.regjeringen.no for recognising the global nature of science! 🌍
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Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience @kavlintnu.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
JOIN US LIVE TODAY for a unique art/science experience! Nobel Laureate @m-bmoser.bsky.social & the musical ensemble @trondheimsolistene.bsky.social play on our neural networks in the @embl.org #KafatosLecture "The Power of Science: Uncovering the Algorithms of the Brain" at @isfit.bsky.social
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Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience @kavlintnu.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
We are thrilled to announce that our #Brain-Machine-Interface team at Kavli is awarded an #NTNUdiscovery Innovation Grant of 200,000 NOK to advance algorithms in brain-machine interface! (1:3)
The BMI team at Kavli: Benjamin Dunn, Pearl Saldanha, Melvin Vaupel, Jonathan Whitlock, and Nicolai Waniek
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Edvard I Moser @edvardmoser.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
I was interviewed by @nature.com about the risk of talent exodus following Norway’s new language law. I hope the new government and science minister will change the internationalisation policy ASAP. @stortinget.no, @uhrno.bsky.social, @forskningspolitikk.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Scientists fight Norway’s language law, warning of talent exodus
Mandatory language courses for foreign researchers could harm Norway’s ability to attract the best talent, Nobel laureate says, as rule prompts legal challenge.
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Edvard I Moser @edvardmoser.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Grid cells have a geometry in time. Thanks to @azvollan.bsky.social l & @rjgardner.bsky.social for this heroic discovery. @ercresearch.bsky.social #KiloNeurons @m-bmoser.bsky.social @kavlintnu.bsky.social @nature.com @kavlifoundation.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Left–right-alternating theta sweeps in entorhinal–hippocampal maps of space - Nature
A study in rats proposes a mechanism for how the brain maps the surrounding environment, including places it has never seen, by alternating left and right forward sweeps in successive theta cycles.
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