KISN — Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience
Overview
The Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience is a dedicated systems neuroscience institute at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, supported by the Kavli Foundation. The institute has maintained an open data sharing policy since its earliest publications. Foundational grid cell recordings from the early 2000s were among the first in vivo electrophysiology datasets released publicly in systems neuroscience, predating purpose-built archives, and are now formally archived on DANDI Archive in NWB format. The Centre for Neural Computation (CNC), co-located with KISN at NTNU, develops statistical tools for high-dimensional neural population data that are freely released under open-source licences. KISN serves as the scientific director hub of the NORBRAIN4 Norwegian Brain Initiative and hosts the EBRAINS Norway national node.
Notable datasets
KISN grid cell and systems neuroscience recordings are archived on DANDI Archive in NWB format. The original grid cell datasets (2005, 2006) were released before purpose-built neuroscience data archives existed and have been widely used in computational and systems neuroscience research.
Connections
- registeredIn: DANDI Archive (grid cell and systems neuroscience datasets archived in NWB format)
- implements: NWB (primary data format for all KISN electrophysiology deposits)
- relatedTo: EBRAINS (KISN hosts the EBRAINS Norway national node via NORBRAIN)
- relatedTo: NORBRAIN (KISN is the scientific director hub of NORBRAIN4)
- relatedTo: Sainsbury Wellcome Centre (named BrainGlobe Initiative partner)
- relatedTo: INCF (KISN active in INCF governance; Norwegian INCF node now integrated into EBRAINS Norway)