FENS-IBRO - Balaban, Pavel

Balaban, Pavel

FENS-IBRO European Neuroscience Schools Programme Committee Member

Prof. Dr. Pavel Balaban
Inst. Higher Nervous Activity
Russian Academy of Sciences, Butlerova 5A
Moscow 117485
Russia
Phone: +7-495-3344151
e-fax (via USA): +1-(617)-687-3051
E-mail: balaban@ihna.msk.ru

Personal

Date and place of birth: July 4, 1951, Nizhni Novgorod, U.S.S.R.
Citizenship: Russian

Present position

Director, Head of the Laboratory of Cellular Neurobiology of Learning, Institute of Higher Nervous Activity + Neurophysiology of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Curriculum Vitae

Education

1973 B.A. Moscow State University, Major: Physiology
1977 Ph.D. Institute of Higher Nervous Activity of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Lab.of Conditioned Reflexes, Thesis supervisor Dr. Eugene N. Sokolov
1989 Dr. of Physiology, Institute of Higher Nervous Activity of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Positions

1973-1984
Reseacher in Institute for Biological Testing of Chemicals
1984-1988
Senior Scientist
1989-
Head of the Laboratory of Cellular Neurobiology of Learning, Institute of Higher Nervous Activity + Neurophysiology of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Honors and Awards

1989 - Visiting Scientist, Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal (NSERC Award)
1991- McArthur Foundation travel Award
1993 - Visiting Scientist, Dept. Psychology, Princeton University (McDonnel Foundation Collaborative Award)
1993 - Travel Award of the Physiological Society
1995 - Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Award
1996 - State stipend for distinguished scientists
1998 - State diploma of Professor
1999 - Herbert Rand (USA) award for distinguished foreign scientists
2000 - Elected as a member of Council of the International Union of Physiological Sciences
2004 - Elected as a Vice-President of the I.P.Pavlov Physiological Society
2005 - Elected as a Chair of IBRO Commission on Eastern Europe

Selected Publications

  • Storozhuk MV, Ivanova SY, Balaban PM, Kostyuk PG. Possible role of mitochondria in posttetanic potentiation of GABAergic synaptic transmission in rat neocortical cell cultures. Synapse. 2005 Oct;58(1):45-52
  • Nikitin ES, Zakharov IS, Samarova EI, Kemenes G, Balaban PM.Fine tuning of olfactory orientation behaviour by the interaction of oscillatory and single neuronal activity. Eur J Neurosci. 2005 Dec;22(11):2833-44
  • Gainutdinova TH, Tagirova RR, Ismailova AI, Muranova LN, Samarova EI, Gainutdinov KL, Balaban PM. Reconsolidation of a context long-term memory in the terrestrial snail requires protein synthesis. Learn Mem. 2005 Nov-Dec;12(6):620-5
  • Bravarenko N.I., Onufriev M. V., Stepanichev M.Yu , Ierusalimsky V.N., Balaban P.M., Gulyaeva N.V. Caspase-like activity is essential for long-term synaptic plasticity in the terrestrial snail Helix. Eur J Neurosci. 2006 Jan;23(1):129-40.
  • Balaban PM, Guliaeva NV Commonality of molecular mechanisms of neuroplasticity and neuropathology: integrative approach. Ross Fiziol Zh Im I M Sechenova. 2006 Feb;92(2):145-51. Review. Russian
  • Ivanova JL, Leonova OG, Popenko VI, Ierusalimsky VN, Korshunova TA, Boguslavsky DV, Malyshev AY, Balaban PM, Belyavsky AV. Intracellular Localization of the HCS2 Gene Products in Identified Snail Neurons In Vivo and In Vitro. Cell Mol Neurobiol. 2006 Mar;26(2):127-44
  • Balaban PM. Cellular mechanisms of behavioural plasticity in simple nervous systems Ross Fiziol Zh Im I M Sechenova. 2007 May;93(5):521-30
  • Lemak MS, Bravarenko NI, Bobrov MY, Bezuglov VV, Ierusalimsky VN, Storozhuk MV, Malyshev AY, Balaban PM. Cannabinoid regulation in identified synapse of terrestrial snail. Eur J Neurosci. 2007 Dec;26(11):3207-14
  • Nikitin ES, Korshunova TA, Zakharov IS, Balaban PM. Olfactory experience modifies the effect of odour on feeding behaviour in a goal-related manner. J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol. 2008 Jan;194(1):19-26. Epub 2007 Nov 17
  • Volgushev M, Malyshev A, Balaban P, Chistiakova M, Volgushev S, Wolf F. Onset dynamics of action potentials in rat neocortical neurons and identified snail neurons: quantification of the difference. PLoS ONE. 2008 Apr 9;3(4):e1962
  • Malyshev AY, Norekian TP, Balaban PM. Neural control of heartbeat during two antagonistic behaviors: whole body withdrawal and escape swimming in the Mollusk Clione limacina. J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol. 2008 Oct;194(10):899-906. Epub 2008 Sep 2
  • Korshunova TA, Bravarenko NI, Balaban PM. Impairment of Context Memory by beta-Amyloid Peptide in Terrestrial Snail. Front Behav Neurosci. 2008;2:3. Epub 2008 Sep 2
  • Malyshev AY, Balaban PM. Buccal neurons activate ciliary beating in the foregut of the pteropod mollusk Clione limacina. J Exp Biol. 2009 Sep 15;212(18):2969-76
  • Samarova E, Balaban P. Changes in frequency of spontaneous oscillations in procerebrum correlate to behavioural choice in terrestrial snails. Front Cell Neurosci. 2009;3:8. Epub 2009 Aug 27