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 ‑ Lomonosov University in Moscow, Russia.

PhD thesis: "Role of motor cortex in control of locomotion".

1981 - M.S. in physiology ‑ Lomonosov University in Moscow, Russia.

1979 - B.S. in biology - Lomonosov University in Moscow, Russia.

ACADEMIC POSITIONS:

2008- - Associate Professor

Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ, USA

2000-2008 - Assistant Professor

Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ, USA

1995-2000 - NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, Univ. of Connecticut, USA (with Dr. Swadlow)

1993-1995 - Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Montreal, Canada (with Dr. Rossignol)

1991-1992 - Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Bristol, UK (with Dr. Armstrong)

1989‑1993 - Senior Scientist, Institute of Biomedical Problems, Moscow, Russia

1985‑1989 - Research Scientist, Institute of Biomedical Problems, Moscow, Russia

1981-1985 - Junior Scientist, Institute of Biomedical Problems, Moscow, Russia (with Dr.

Kozlovskaya)

1980-1983 - Research Assistant, Institute of Problems of Information Transmission,

Moscow, Russia (with Dr. Arshavsky and Dr. Orlovsky)

HONORS AND AWARDS:

2007 - Five-year NIH R01 grant “Forebrain 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 Sante du Quebec, Canada, “Antidromic

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); Graduate Research Fellowship Program, panelist, 2016) ;

Israel Science Foundation (ad hoc);

UK Research Councils (RCUK) (ad hoc);

J. Neurosci., J. Neurophysiol., Cerebral Cortex, Eur. J. Neurosci., Exp. Brain Res., Neurosci.

PUBLICATIONS:

58 research papers in referred journals and 10 book chapters/reviews.

My contribution to science, NIH CV format

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