Austin J. Leikvoll

Education:  
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
Genetics, Cell Biology and Development major
B.S., 2019

Austin is currently in the second year of Medical School training and is rotating through labs while preparing to select a thesis advisor.

Publications: 

For work prior to the UMN MSTP

Yu CH, Yu Y, Adsit LM, Chang JT, Barchini J, Moberly AH, Benisty H, Kim J, Young BK, Heng K, Farinella DM, Leikvoll A, Pavan R, Vistein R, Nanfito BR, Hildebrand DGC, Otero-Coronel S, Vaziri A, Goldberg JL, Ricci AJ, Fitzpatrick D, Cardin JA, Higley MJ, Smith GB, Kara P, Nielsen KJ, Smith IT, Smith SL. The Cousa objective: a long-working distance air objective for multiphoton imaging in vivo. Nat Methods. 2024 Jan;21(1):132-141. PMCID: PMC10776402

Leikvoll A, Kara P. High fidelity sensory-evoked responses in neocortex after intravenous injection of genetically encoded calcium sensors. Front Neurosci. 2023 May 12;17:1181828. PMCID: PMC10213453

Leikvoll A, Kara P. High fidelity sensory-evoked responses in neocortex after intravenous injection of genetically encoded calcium sensors. bioRxiv [Preprint]. 2023 Mar 10:2023.03.09.531938. PMCID: PMC10028972

Cho S, Roy A, Liu CJ, Idiyatullin D, Zhu W, Zhang Y, Zhu XH, O'Herron P, Leikvoll A, Chen W, Kara P, Uğurbil K.Neuroimage. Cortical layer-specific differences in stimulus selectivity revealed with high-field fMRI and single-vessel resolution optical imaging of the primary visual cortex. 2022 May 1;251:118978. PMCID: PMC9048976