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Evgeny S. Nikitin

Leading Scientist, D.Sc. in Biology

Laboratory of Cellular Neurobiology of Learning
Scopus ID
35614218800
ORCID ID
0000-0003-0149-2054
Web of Science ResearcherID
E-8330-2013

Group "Biophotonics" 

The group “Biophotonics” has been established with the support of the program of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences “Molecular and Cell Biology”. The field of research was the employment of high-speed scanning confocal microscopy in combination with classical intracellular electrophysiology to measure fast neuron activity in studies of the mechanisms of neuronal plasticity underlying the adaptation of behavior and learning. Currently, the main activity of the group is aimed at studying the regulation of excitability of neocortical pyramidal neurons  and the mechanisms of self-tuning of neuronal firing by potassium and other ion channels of the brain. These studies require the use of complex molecular-optical instruments, so the group's projects are running in collaboration with leading biochemists for the development and implementation of new genetically encoded probes of neuronal activity.

Biography 

2003 PhD, IHNA & NP, Moscow 

2003-2006 Research Fellow, University of Sussex, UK 

2006-2008 Senior Researcher, Institute of Higher Nervous Activity, Moscow Russia 

2007… 2013 Short Term Visiting Scholar, University of Connecticut, USA 

2009-present Head of Imaging Group, Institute of Higher Nervous Activity, Moscow Russia

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