Darina Khimich

EDUCATION

College / University

Medical Lyceum Kiev
National Medical University Kiev

Highest Degree

Diploma of General Physician (general doctor, June 2000)

Major Subjects

Medicine

Country

Ukraine

Lab Experience

Different electrophysiological techniques: extracellular recordings with sharp electrode, patch-clamp whole-cell recordings, fluorometrical intracellular Ca2+ measurement with Fura, slice preparations, acute neurons isolation.

Projects / Research

1999 - 2000: Research assistant at the Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology, Dept. of Cellular Membranology, Prof. Dr. Krishtal
1998 - 1999: Assistant in the Dept. of the Chemical Purification of Water, Kiev psychoneurological hospital No.3
Effects of hyperforin and other substances on P-type Ca2+ channels in rat cerebellum Purkihje neurons; inactivating effects of prolonged glutamate application on excitatory synaptic transmission in CA1 and CA3 zones of hippocampal slices using extracellular recordings of spike activity

Scholarships / Awards

Scholarships University Olympiads: Histology and Physiology

SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS AND GOALS

Cognitive neuroscience.
I wish to be a scientist because the discoveries in neuroscience will be the basis of medicine and treatment of many human diseases.