Sanna Lensu
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General description
Postdoctoral Researcher, JYU, Dept. of Psychology, Jyväskylä, Finland, Group of docents Markku Penttonen & Miriam Nokia. Studying hippocampal neurophysiology and memory processes, especially targeting dentate gyrus using AAV-vector and Ca2+-imaging in vivo. My interest is especially connect this line of research with physical activity and exercise training. I have expertise in experimental neuroscience, but also exercise physiology, pharmacology, and toxicology (PhD in toxicology).
Active JYU affiliations
- Department of Psychology, Postdoctoral Researcher
Previous, inactive or other affiliations
- Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences (University of Jyväskylä), Grant Researcher, Ended
- Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences (University of Jyväskylä), Project Researcher, Ended
- Department of Psychology (University of Jyväskylä), Postdoctoral Researcher, Ended
- Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences (University of Jyväskylä), Grant Researcher, Ended
Research interests
My research interests are in neurobiology and metabolism, and especially studying how physical activity affects brain health, memory, and cognitive skills. More precicely, I am studying how training, physical activity, or (inherited) aerobic running capacity links with inflammation, neurogenesis, and cellular activity in hippocampus, and are these factors associated with behavioral output and cognitive skills. Currently I am involved in studying the cellular activity involved in memory processing in hippocampus, using novel (Ca2+) in vivo techniques for imaging. We also conitnue studying the links between gut microbes, brain health, physical activity, and learning. I am also interested in the development of an individual, how early life stressors or factors like physical activity - or lack of it -affect the later outcome (the phenotype and disease risk factors) at adulthood.
Fields of science
Personal keywords
Gut microbiota, GM, Fecal microbial transplantation, FMT, Physical activity, PA, rat, brain development, metabolism, neurogenesis, neurotransmitters
Projects as Principal investigator
- Reversing the genetic predisposition to the inactivity and development of Type 2 diabetes with fecal
transplants and gut microbiota ablation- Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation
Projects as Team Member
- The reorganization of memory representations during rest and sleep
- Xu, Weiyong
- Academy of Finland
- Optimizing learning - synchrony of the brain and body as a tool?
- Nokia, Miriam
- Academy of Finland
- Dentate gyrus - the gateway to memory?
- Penttonen, Markku
- Academy of Finland
- Hippocampal representation of temporal information
- Nokia, Miriam
- Academy of Finland