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Kjell Lindgård

Associate Professor

Telefon (+47)
776 44688

E-mail
kjelll@fagmed.uit.no

Qualifications:

Gymnasium, Narvik, Norway, 1978
B. Sc., University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway, 1983
M. Sc., University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway, 1986
Ph.D., University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway, 1996
Previous employment:
Research assistant/doctoral research scientist/Ph.D. student, Department of Arctic Biology, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway, 1986 - 1996

Research assistant, Department of Experimental Pathology and Anatomy, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway, 1995 - 1996

Associate professor, Department of Experimental Pathology and Anatomy, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway, 1997-1998

Present employment:
Associate professor, Department of Experimental Pathology and Anatomy, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway

Field of interest:
Mechanisms underlying body mass regulation, e.g. role of leptin and other hormones.

Teaching:
My main job is (and has been since 1995) to teach biology students in Human/Medical biology (Bio-104) and Histology (Bio-373).

Publications:
1) Stokkan, K. A., K. Lindgård and E. Reierth (1995). Photoperiodic and ambient temperature control of the annual body mass cycle in Svalbard ptarmigan. J. Comp. Physiol. B 165: 359-365

2) Lindgård, K., S. Näslund and K. A. Stokkan (1995). Annual changes in body mass in captive Svalbard ptarmigan: role of locomotor activity and food intake. J. Comp. Physiol. B 165: 445-449