APR 28 - APR 29 2018 AT INTERCONTINENTAL DOHA


Signaling at Membrane Contact Sites

ADVANCING DISCOVERY IN CELL SIGNALING

Ilya Bezprozvanny, PhD

Ilya Bezprozvanny

Professor of Physiology
Carl J. and Hortense M. Thomsen Chair in Alzheimer’s Disease Research
Department of Physiology
UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
Dallas, TX, USA

Ilya Bezprozvanny received M.Sci in Physics (1989) from the St Petersburg Polytechnical University and a Ph.D. in Cell Biology (1992) from the Institute of Cytology Russian Academy of Sciences (scientific advisors - Alex P. Naumov and Galina N. Mozhayeva). As a part of his training, Ilya worked with Barbara E. Ehrlich (1990-1994) at the University of Connecticut Health Center at Farmington, Connecticut and then with Richard W. Tsien (1994-1996) in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology at Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, California. In 1996, Ilya joined the faculty of the Physiology department in UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. Since 2007 Ilya is a Professor in the Department of Physiology in UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and since April 2011 he is holding the Carl J. and Hortense M. Thomsen Chair in Alzheimer’s Disease Research. His main research interests are focused on understanding the role of deranged calcium signaling in pathogenesis of neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease, Huntington’s disease and spinocerebellar ataxias.