Jon Vidar Helvik
Professor
Department of Biology
Marine Developmental Biology
Title: Professor
Phone: +47 55 58 43 71
E-mail: Vidar.Helvik@mbi.uib.no
Visiting address: HIB - Thormøhlensgt. 55
Jon Vidar Helvik has worked on developmental biology in fish since the end of the 1980s. His main research interest is development of the light sensory and nervous systems in fish, with special focus on marine fish and adaptation to light in the marine environment. Currently he is working on photoreceptors in the eye and development of colour vision, as well as nonvisual photoreceptors in the brain regulating light driven biological rhythms. The study include fish species like cod, halibut, herring and salmon as well as the use of zebrafish for gene regulatory and functional studies.
Previously he has worked on the hatching process in fish (Department of Fisheries Biology/Department of Biochemistry; University of Bergen 1986-1992). Helvik has been employed by Uni Research (1992-2007) working at Laboratory of Molecular Marine Biology, and later at Department of Molecular Biology, where he has been project manager on several research projects related to sensory and nervous system development in fish. During 1996-2000 he was partly working at Department of Zoology at University of Lund. In 2003 he had a temporary position as associated professor at Department of Molecular biology. From 2007 he has been a full professor at Department of Biology.
His supervision include 4 drs at UoB
Jon Vidar Helvik holds a MSc in Fisheries Biology (1988) and a PhD also in Fisheries Biology from UoB
Helvik JV, Rødahl E, Drivenes, O and Haarr L (2009) Identification and Characterization of Two Zebrafish Nectin-1 Genes That Are Differentially Expressed in the Developing Eye and Brain Developmental dynamics 238(1): 43-55
Xiao-Feng Z, Fjose A, Larsen N, Helvik JV and Drivenes O (2008) Treatment with small interfering RNA affects the microRNA pathway and causes unspecific defects in zebrafish embryos FEBS Journal 275(9) 2177-2184
Hoppmann V, Wu JJ, Søviknes AM, Helvik JV, and Becker, TS. (2008). Expression of the eight AMPA Receptor Subunit Genes in the Developing Central Nervous System and Sensory Organs of Zebrafish Developmental Dynamics J237(3):788-799
Karlsen, M., Nylund, A., Watanabe, K., Helvik, J.V., Nylund, S. and Plarre, H. (2008) Characterization of ‘Candidatus Clavochlamydia salmonicola’: an intracellular bacterium infecting salmonid fish. Environmental Microbiology 10 (1), 208–218
Kamisaka, Y., Drivenes, Ø., Kurokawa, T., Tagawa, M., Rønnestad, I., Tanaka, M., and Helvik, J.V. (2005) Cholecystokinin mRNA in Atlantic herring, Clupea harengus - molecular cloning, characterization, and distribution in the digestive tract during the early life stages PEPTIDES 26 (3): 385-393
Head supervisor: BIO370 Cell- and developmental biology; MAR350 Advanced aquaculture