Supervisor’s research interests

Neurobiological investigation of learning and memory with the aim to understand molecular mechanisms of epigenetic regulation of neuronal functioning.

Research highlights

Unique complex of behavioral, electrophysiological and molecular biological approaches in one lab.

Main publications

• Xu C, Li Q, Efimova O, Jiang X, Petrova M, K Vinarskaya A, Kolosov P, Aseyev N, Koshkareva K, Ierusalimsky VN, Balaban PM, Khaitovich P. Identification of Immediate Early Genes in the Nervous System of Snail Helix lucorum. eNeuro. 2019 May 21;6(3). pii: ENEURO.0416-18.2019. doi: 10.1523/ENEURO.0416-18.2019.
• Roshchin M, Ermakova YG, Lanin AA, Chebotarev AS, Kelmanson IV, Balaban PM, Zheltikov AM, Belousov VV, Nikitin ES, Thermogenetic stimulation of single neocortical pyramidal neurons transfected with TRPV1-L channels, Neurosci Lett. 2018 Nov 20;687:153-157. doi: 10.1016/j.neulet.2018.09.038.
• Balaban, P. M. Molecular Mechanisms of Memory Modification. Neuroscience and Behavioral Physiology 2018, 48(6), pp. 734-740. • DOI: 10.1007/s11055-018-0624-2
• Borodinova A.A., Kuznetsova M., Alekseeva V., Balaban P.M. “Histone acetylation determines transcription of atypical protein kinases in rat neurons” Sci Rep. 2019 Mar 13;9(1):4332. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-40823-z