As the founder of Laura Brain Talks, I make science accessible and practical for everyone.🟣 Main Responsibilities: • Making science easy by educating audiences on sleep science, neuroscience, and memory. • Delivering engaging lectures and workshops on sleep science, neuroscience, and memory. • Providing support and consultations to companies researching sleep science, and collaborating with startups. • Writing popular science articles on sleep science, neuroscience, and memory..⭐️ Achievements: • Collaborated with organizations such as YARA, SEB, IKEA, Telia, Staticus, Mantinga, Ignitis, Ernst and Young, Kitron, HAVAS, and more. • Published articles in scientific journals. • Conference speaker. • Host the weekly radio show “Sleep DNR” on Lithuanian National Radio LRT.🧠 Expertise: • Sleep Science: Tips for better sleep and its impact on productivity. • Neuroscience: Effects of external factors on brain function and behavior. • Memory Enhancement: Techniques for improving memory. • Specialized Sleep Studies: Teenagers, seniors, women, men and more.Interested in a seminar for your team or collaboration? Contact me today. 🟣 Let's Make Science Easy.

Thanks to this funding, for three years I will be able to continue working in GliaLab and Letten Center (www.glialab.no) and keep on studying our recently discovered brain blood vessel movements during sleep – the dance of the sleeping arteries – which are important for removing harmful substances from our brain. If not removed in time, these substances can accumulate and increase the risk of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease.Main Responsibilities: • 👩‍🔬 Researching arterial contractions and dilations that occur during sleep and how they are affected by high blood pressure (hypertension). • 🧠 Testing various methods (visual and audio stimulation of various frequencies) to «repair» these „broken“ movements of brain arteries in case of high blood pressure. • 🌟 Aiming to discover novel therapies to help people with high blood pressure and reduce their risk of developing neurodegenerative diseases.Project Overview: • Studying the importance of brain blood vessel movements during sleep for the removal of harmful substances. • Investigating the impact of high blood pressure on these arterial movements. • Developing and testing innovative methods to «repair» the arterial movements and improve brain waste clearance.Interested in learning more about this project or potential collaborations? Let's connect.

Kas savaitinė radijo laida apie miegą “Miego DNR”Weekly Radio Show about sleep “Sleep DNA”

Dėstau keletą paskaitų apie mikro in vivo smegenovaizdos metodus kurse "Smegenotyros metodai". The views and opinions expressed by the author do not represent her official position at University of Oslo and Oslo University Hospital.

The views and opinions expressed by the author do not represent her official position at University of Oslo and Oslo University Hospital and Vilnius University.

Brain waste clearance mechanisms and astrocytic regulation of sleep

The views and opinions expressed by the author do not represent her official position at University of Oslo and Oslo University Hospital.

Bojarskaite, L., Bjørnstad, D.M., Pettersen, K.H. et al. Astrocytic Ca2+ signaling is reduced during sleep and is involved in the regulation of slow wave sleep. Nat Commun 11, 3240 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17062-2Current projects:1) Two-photon imaging of calcium signals in astrocytes during natural sleep. Article published in Nature Communications https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-17062-2 2) Vessel dynamics and astrocytic Ca2+ signaling in endfeet across sleep-wake states3) Brain waste clearance mechanisms

DNA-prepping, monoclonal cell line generation, protein expression and purification, laboratory material data bank maintenance.

In my master project I investigated the interaction between a G protein coupled receptor, beta 1-adrenergic receptor (b1AR), and a scaffold protein, postsynaptic density protein 95 (PSD-95), in mammalian cells with focus on receptor trafficking - internalization and recycling. The project involved establishment and flow cytometry characterization of monoclonal stable cell lines expressing both PSD-95 and b1AR which then were used to investigate PSD-95:b1AR interaction and to quantify receptor internalization in single cells by confocal microscopy and in ensemble assays by homogeneous time resolved fluorescence.Co-authored a paper published in ACS Photonics https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsphotonics.6b00126#

In my bachelor project I established a bimolecular fluorescence complementation based intracellular biosensor, which involved expression, purification and immobilization of sensor elements on biosurfaces.

During my internship I optimized isolation, solubilisation and purification of a G-protein coupled receptor