StratNeuro Infrastructure
On this page we have listed the facilities that have received support from StratNeuro.
The Animal Behavior Core Facility (ABCF)
Core facility at Karolinska Institutet for behavioral studies in mice and rats.
ABCF is designed to provide optimal environment, state-of-the-art instrumentation and technical/educational support to perform behavioral tests ranging from basic phenotype characterization to advanced analyses.
The Animal behavior core facility consists of two nodes, Node KM-B in Solna and Node PKL in Flemingsberg. Users can book laboratory space and equipment at both nodes.
Contact
E-mail: abcf@ki.se
Phone: +46 (0)8-524 887 04
Gilberto Fisone
Scientific DirectorDepartment of Neuroscience
National Magneto EncephaloGraphy center (NatMEG)
Magnetoencephalography (MEG) is a functional neuroimaging technique for mapping brain activity by recording magnetic fields produced by electrical currents occurring naturally in the brain, using very sensitive magnetometers. Applications of MEG include basic research into perceptual and cognitive brain processes, localizing regions affected by pathology before surgical removal, determining the function of various parts of the brain, and neurofeedback. The new MEG was installed during autumn 2013. The unit serves the whole Swedish human electrophysiology community.
Christoph Pfeiffer
Assistant ProfessorNeuroinformatics
The mission is to support StratNeuro researchers with regard to neuroinformatics, mainly computational neuroscience and analysis of large brain imaging datasets (fMRI, PET, and M/EEG). The neuroinformatics platform has access to recently acquired dedicated supercomputers (Cray XE30) for experimental work.
Anders Lansner
Professor, KTHSpatial Transcriptomics
Spatial transcriptomics technology can examine the expression of a large number of genes in cells while maintaining spatial information. Researchers at KI have core facilities with equipment that allows an unbiased, whole-transcriptome profiling approach (10x Genomics CytAssist at the Single Cell Core Facility Flemingsberg (SICOF)) and a FISH-based, targeted gene-panel-focused approach (Vizgen MERSCOPE at the Biomedicum Imaging Core Facility (BIC)).
Per Uhlén
Director of BICuMOVE
uMOVE core facility offers a state-of-the-art platform to study movement and behavior. It provides services such as project design support, data collection and analysis using a wide range of motion analysis systems - from lab measurements to free-living assessment of daily activities, including cognitive functions and emotions on motor control. Their mission is to bring new knowledge about different perspectives of human movement control, for example by studying the impact of cognitive functions and emotions on movement control and activity in daily life.
Erika Franzén
Scientific DirectorZebrafish Core Facility
The Zebrafish Core Facility is a state-of-the-art facility at Karolinska Institutet, and the largest such facility in Sweden. It houses fish in a continuously monitored environment and all staff are qualified animal technicians. Researchers are provided with fish from wild-type lines and they also can bring in mutant/transgenic fish lines of interest from other laboratories. The facility has, in collaboration with researchers from Karolinska Institutet, developed protocols for a wide range of techniques, including modification of gene expression using antisense technology, whole-mount in situ hybridisation, electron microscopy and immunofluorescence assays. There are already zebrafish models established for a number of human diseases, for example muscular dystrophy and Parkinson’s disease.