Trygve Brauns Leergaard

Academic interests

• Neuroanatomy, brain connectivity mapping
• Morphological phenotyping
• Neuroinformatics and digital brain atlasing
• Histological validation of neuroimaging methods

Courses taught

MEDSEM3A – macroscopic anatomy

IMB9345 – Neuroscience data integration through use of digital brain atlases

Background

• MD, University of Leiden, The Netherlands, 1996
• PhD, University of Oslo, Neuroscience, 2000

Work experience

• 2006- : Deputy group leader, Neural Systems and Graphics Computing Laboratory, Experimental Division, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo
• 2004- : Deputy associate professor, Department of anatomy, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo
• 2002-2003: Research fellow, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
• 2001-2003: Postdoc fellow, Department of  Anatomy, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo

Positions held

• Guest Associate Editor, Frontiers in Neuroinformatics (2010-2011)
• Member semester board (semesterutvalg) MEDSEM3A (2008- ), Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo
• Member advisory board (programrådet), The Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo (2009- )
• Key advisor for high throughput tissue processing unit at the Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo

Collaboration

• Anders M. Dale, University of California, San Diego, USA
• G. Allan Johnson, Center for In Vivo Microscopy, Duke University Medical Center, USA
• Annemie Van der Linden, Bio-Imaging lab, University of Antwerp, Belgium
• Stephan von Hörsten, Experimental Therapy, Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen, Germany
• Jan Sijbers, Vision Lab, Department of Physics, University of Antwerp, Belgium
• Menno P. Witter, The Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience & Centre for the Biology of Memory, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim