IRINA N. BELOOZEROVA
(pronounced:
Erena Below-oh-zero-va)
INTERESTS:
Organization and function of motor systems. Neuronal mechanisms of locomotion and posture. Control, adaptation and plasticity of motor behaviors in natural environments.
DEGREES:
1989 - Ph.D. in neuroscience ‑
PhD
thesis: "Role of motor cortex in control of locomotion".
1981 - M.S. in physiology ‑
1979 - B.S. in biology -
ACADEMIC POSITIONS:
2008- - Associate Professor
Barrow
Neurological Institute,
2000-2008 - Assistant Professor
Barrow
Neurological Institute,
1995-2000 - NIH Postdoctoral Fellow,
1993-1995 - Postdoctoral Fellow,
1991-1992 - Postdoctoral Fellow,
1989‑1993 - Senior Scientist, Institute of Biomedical
Problems, Moscow,
Russia
1985‑1989 - Research Scientist, Institute of
Biomedical Problems,
1981-1985 - Junior Scientist,
Institute of Biomedical Problems,
Kozlovskaya)
1980-1983 - Research Assistant,
HONORS AND AWARDS:
2018 - Three-year NSF grant “Cortical control
of locomotion”
2000 - Four-year NIH R01 grant “Motor cortex and
thalamo-cortical network in locomotion”
1996 -
Three-year NIH National Research Service Award, “Subpopulations
of motor cortical
neurons in
locomotion”
1993 - Two-year grant from Fonds de la Recherche
en
activity of dorsal root filaments”
1991 - One-year
fellowship, The Royal Physiological
Society, UK
1985 - The Third
Prize at the Exhibition of National Economic Achievements, USSR
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:
Regular member of: Society for Neuroscience
American Physiological Society
Society for the Neural Control of
Movements
STUDY SECTIONS and EDITORIAL POSITIONS:
Reviewer for:
NIH special panel on Musculoskeletal
rehabilitation (ZRG1 MOSS), fall 2009; summer 2010; spring 2011;
NIH Neurotoxicology and Alcohol study section
(ZRG1 IFCN-H), winter 2010 (ad hoc);
National Science Foundation (BIO, ad hoc);
J. Neurosci., J. Neurophysiol.,
Cerebral Cortex, Eur. J. Neurosci., Exp. Brain Res., Neurosci.
PUBLICATIONS:
57
research papers in referred journals and 10
book chapters/reviews.
