Alexei Verkhratsky Position: Ph.D., Professor of Neurophysiology at the School of Biological Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK; Visiting Professor, Institute of Experimental Medicine, ACSR, Prague, Czech Republic; Professor consultant, IQERBASQUE (Basque Country Research Foundation). Address: 1.124 Stopford Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PT, UK Phone: +44 161 2755414 Home page: go to >> E-mail: alex.verkhratsky<AT>manchester.ac.uk

1986 Ph.D. in Physiology, Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine.

1993 Doctor of Medical Sciences in Physiology, Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine.


Research interests:

• mechanisms of calcium signalling in neurones and glial cells
• physiology of neuronal-glial interactions, and mechanisms of intercellular signalling in the CNS

Professional membership:

The Physiological Society, UK (1994)

            1994 - Member of International Committe;

            2002 - Member of Council.

Member of Academia Europaea (2003)

            Chairman of the Physiology and Medicine Section of the Academia Europaea;

            Member of the Council (2006 - ).

Society for Neuroscience (2005)

Member of editorial boards:

Cell Calcium (Editor-in-chief) (2000 - )
Acta Pharmacologica Sinica (2005 - )
Journal of Molecular & Cellular Medicine (2005 - 2009)
Acta Physiologica (Oxford) (2006 - )
Pflugers Archiv European Journal of Physiology (2006 - )
Glia (2008 - )
Frontiers in Neuropharmacology (2009 - )
Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience (2009 - )
Membrane Transport & Signalling - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews (Editor-in-chief) (2009 - )
Cell Death and Disease (Receiving editor, memeber) (2010 - )
Purinergic Signalling (2010 - )


Selected publications:

1. J. J. Rodríguez, M. Olabarria, A. Chvatal & A. Verkhratsky (2009): Astroglia in dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. Cell Death & Differentiation, v. 16, p. 378 - 385.
2. A. Verkhratsky & A. Butt (2007): Glial neurobiology. A textbook. Wiley & Sons.
3. D. Burdakov, L. Fugger, L. T. Jensen, R. Williams, H. Alexopoulos, I. Fearon, I. O'Kelly, O. Gerasimenko & A. Verkhratsky (2006): Tandem-pore K+ channels mediate inhibition of orexin neurons by glucose. Neuron, v. 50, p. 711 - 722.
4. U. Lalo, Y. Pankratov, F. Kirchhoff, A. North & A. Verkhratsky (2006): NMDA receptors mediate neuron to glia signalling in mouse cortical astrocytes. Journal of Neuroscience, v.26, p. 2673 - 2683.
5. A. Verkhratsky (2005): Physiology and pathophysiology of the calcium store in the endoplasmic reticulum of neurons. Physiological Reviews, v. 85, p. 201 - 279.
6. D. Brough, R A. Le Feuvre, R. D. Wheeler, N. Solovyova, S. Hilfiker, N. J. Rothwell & A. Verkhratsky (2003): Ca2+ stores and Ca2+ entry differentially contribute to the release of IL-1B and IL-1a from murine macrophages. Journal of Immunology, v. 170, p. 3029-3036.
7. N. Solovyova, N. Veselovsky, E.C. Toescu & A. Verkhratsky (2002): Ca2+ dynamics in the lumen of the endoplasmic reticulum in sensory neurones: direct visualisation of Ca2+-induced Ca2+ release triggered by physiological Ca2+ entry. EMBO J., v. 21, p. 622 - 630.
8. A. Verkhratsky, R.Orkand & H.Kettenmann (1998): Glial calcium: homeostasis and signalling function. Physiological Reviews, v. 78, p. 99 - 141.