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Dr Igor Kraev

Profile summary

  • Academic Related Staff
  • Laboratory Manager (EM & Imaging)
  • Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics
  • STEM Deanery
  • Laboratory Support
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Professional biography

I have joined the Open University as the Leverhulme Trust Research Fellow in September 2008 for 1 year. After that I got Postdoctoral Research Associate position in Prof Michael Stewart's lab. Prior to that I was working as a Research Fellow at the Institute of Cell Biophysics (ICB) of  Russian Academy of Sciences (Pushchino, Russia).

Research interests

My main research interests are focused on synaptic plasticity in brain.

  • 3-dimenstional ultrastructural study of effect of stress and learning on synapses in hippocampus region of the brain.
  • Effect of aging on synaptic plasticity in brain.
  • Study of structural interaction between synapses and astroglial processes.
  • Investigation of the role of novel synaptic cell adhesion molecules (CAMs) in memory loss on ultrastructural level.
 

GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS

  • The Royal Society short visit grant (2007)
  • PENS Summer school travel grant (2007)
  • Russian President grant for young career researchers (2007, for 2 years). Investigation of structural interactions between synapses and astroglia.
  • The Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship (2008, for 1 year). Investigation of the role of novel synaptic cell adhesion molecules (CAMs) in memory loss on ultrastructural level.
 

Current project

High resolution 3-D reconstructions from brain tissue via Field Emission scanning electron microscopy in back scattered electron (BSE) imaging mode.

Current project is about development of long-time used in our lab 3-dimensional reconstruction method. 

Funded by BBSRC with collaboration with JEOL.

Research groups

NameTypeParent Unit
Biomedical Research Network (BRN)NetworkFaculty of Science
Neuroscience Research GroupGroupFaculty of Science