Jan Tonnesen, PhD, is currently a group leader at the Achucarro Basque Center for Neuroscience and University of the Basque Country in Bilbao, Spain. His lab is applying super-resolution STED microscopy and patch-clamp electrophysiology to understand the structure-function relationship of dendritic spines, as well as the structure and dynamics of the brain extracellular space and how this shape signalling and metabolite clearance in health and disease. In 2018 Dr. Tonnesen was awarded the Great French Advances in Biology prize from the French Academy of Sciences for his work spearheading the super-resolution shadow imaging (SUSHI) approach as a new approach to visualise the extracellular space in live mouse brain slices. In his previous work Dr. Tonnesen was an early adopter of optogenetics and provided the first proof of principle for optogenetic control of epileptiform activity. Dr. Tonnesen earned his PhD from Lund University.
Jan Tonnesen, PhD
Achucarro Basque Center for Neuroscience | Leioa, Spain
Jan Tonnesen, PhD, is currently a group leader at the Achucarro Basque Center for Neuroscience and University of the Basque Country in Bilbao, Spain. His lab is applying super-resolution STED microscopy and patch-clamp electrophysiology to understand the structure-function relationship of dendritic spines, as well as the structure and dynamics of the brain extracellular space and how this shape signalling and metabolite clearance in health and disease. In 2018 Dr. Tonnesen was awarded the Great French Advances in Biology prize from the French Academy of Sciences for his work spearheading the super-resolution shadow imaging (SUSHI) approach as a new approach to visualise the extracellular space in live mouse brain slices. In his previous work Dr. Tonnesen was an early adopter of optogenetics and provided the first proof of principle for optogenetic control of epileptiform activity. Dr. Tonnesen earned his PhD from Lund University.
