(h) Stefan Leutgeb

 

Title: Ph.D.

Institution: Centre for the Biology of Memory, Trondheim

Address: Medical-Technical Research Centre, Olav Kyrres gate 3, 7489 Trondheim, Norway

Telephone: -47-73590468; fax: -47-73598294

E-mail stefan.leutgeb@cbm.ntnu.no               

Place and Date of Birth, Nationality: Wels, Austria; 16 August 1969; Austrian

 

Present position:                    2002 −: Post-doc and research fellow, Centre for the Biology of Memory

 

Previous positions:                         2000 − 2002: Post-doc, Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany

1995 – 2000: Ph.D. student, Univ.of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA (Mizumori)

 

Guest professor                                       2006: University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria

                                                                      

Major research interest:                       The organization of memory in distributed networks, understanding computations in hippocampal cell populations, learning-related synaptic plasticity

                                                                      

 

Selected publications (* = reviews)

 
*Leutgeb S, Leutgeb JK, Moser M-B, Moser EI (2005). Place cells, spatial maps and the population code for memory. Curr Opin Neurobiol 15, 738-746. 
 
Leutgeb JK, Leutgeb S, Treves A, Meyer R, Barnes CA, McNaughton BL, Moser
M-B, Moser EI (2005). Progressive transformation of hippocampal neuronal representations in "morphed" environments. Neuron 48, 345-358. 
 
Leutgeb S, Leutgeb JK, Barnes CA, Moser EI, McNaughton BL, Moser M-B (2005). 
Independent codes for spatial and episodic memory in hippocampal neuronal ensembles. Science 309, 619-623. 
 

Leutgeb S, Leutgeb JK, Treves A, Moser M-B, Moser EI (2004) Distinct Ensemble Codes in Hippocampal Areas CA3 and CA1. Science 305, 1295-1298.

 

Leutgeb S, Mizumori SJY (2002) Context-specific spatial representations of lateral septal cells. Neuroscience 105, 655-663.

 

*Mizumori SJY, Leutgeb S (2001) Directing place representations in hippocampus. Rev Neurosciences 12, 347-63.

 

Ragozzino KE, Leutgeb S, Mizumori SJY (2001) Simultaneous recordings of dorsal striatal head direction cells and hippocampal place cells during spatial performance by rats. Exp Brain Res 139, 372-376.

 

Leutgeb S, Ragozzino KE, Mizumori SJY (2000) Convergence of head direction and place information in the CA1 region of hippocampus. Neuroscience 100, 11-19.

 

*Mizumori SJY, Ragozzino KE, Cooper BG, Leutgeb S (1999) Hippocampal representational organization and spatial context. Hippocampus 9, 444-451.

 

Leutgeb S, Mizumori SJY (1999) Excitotoxic septal lesions result in spatial memory deficits and altered flexibility of hippocampal single-unit representations. J Neurosci 19, 6661-6672.

 

Schmolesky MT, Wang Y, Hanes DP, Thompson KG, Leutgeb S, Schall JD, Leventhal AG (1998) Signal timing across the macaque visual system. J Neurophysiol 79, 3272-3278.