User:Marnold23/Iryna Ethell

Iryna Ethell is a neuroscience researcher at University of California Riverside (UCR). Her work focuses on studying the development of neuronal networks in the brain. She is currently a professor of biomedical sciences and serves as the associate dean of academic affairs in the School of Medicine at UCR.

Education
Ethell completed her undergraduate studies at Dnipro National University in Ukraine, where she graduated in 1988 with a Red Diploma (summa cum laude equivalent). From there, she continued at Dnipro National University to complete her Ph.D., which she earned in 1991.

Research and career
Ethell's first postdoctoral fellowship position was held in Canada at the Montreal Neurological Institute at McGill University. She worked there for two years, before moving to Munich, Germany in 1995 to complete her second postdoctoral fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry. One year later, she moved to La Jolla, California to work as a research associate at The Burnham Institute. She worked there from 1996-2001, until she started her lab at UCR.

Currently, Ethell is a professor in the department of biomedical sciences at the University of California Riverside School of Medicine. She is also affiliated with the Institute for Integrative Genome Biology and the Center for Glial-Neuronal Interactions at UCR.

In 2012, a team of researchers led by Ethell Identified the relationship between a protein called Beta-arrestin and short-term memory that could lead to new therapies for neurological diseases like Alzheimer's.

Awards and honors
Fraxa breakthrough award

In 2018, Ethell was one of fifty UC administrators selected to participate in the UCOP Experienced Leader Collaborative.

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Notable publications
Anna O. Kulinich, Sarah M. Reinhard, Maham Rais, Jonathan W. Lovelace, Veronica Scott, Devin K. Binder, Khaleel A. Razak, Iryna M. Ethell. Beneficial effects of sound exposure on auditory cortex development in a mouse model of Fragile X Syndrome. Neurobiology of Disease, 2019; 104622 DOI: 10.1016/j.nbd.2019.104622

Crystal G. Pontrello, Min-Yu Sun, Alice Lin, Todd A. Fiacco, Kathryn A. DeFea, and Iryna M. Ethell. Cofilin under control of β-arrestin-2 in NMDA-dependent dendritic spine plasticity, long-term depression (LTD), and learning. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2012. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1118803109

Henkemeyer M, Itkis OS, Ngo M, Hickmott PW, Ethell IM. Multiple EphB receptor tyrosine kinases shape dendritic spines in the hippocampus. J Cell Biol. 2003;163(6):1313‐1326. doi:10.1083/jcb.200306033