Scope of my research interest includes investigating first step of visual perception in photoreceptor cells of the retina. I study non-canonical mechanisms regulating phototranduction cascade and light adaptation in vertebrate photoreceptors. In addition, I deal with the mechanisms of generating dark noise in the retina. Over recent years, I got interested in discovering mechanisms of […]
phototransduction
Polyanovsky A
Field of research: sensory transduction (photo-, mechano-, chemo-) in insects; biogenesis of the cell center and ciliogenesis in a Drosophila model; molecular evolution of regulatory peptides. Major achievements: participation in the complete revision of the then commonly accepted paradigm of phototransduction in microvillar photoreceptors by demonstrating that this process in Drosophila photoreceptors does not require […]
Rotov A
Scientific interests: photoreception mechanisms of rods and cones of vertebrates: features of regulation of the phototransduction cascade; the mechanism of the magnetic compass in the retina of migratory birds; retinal degeneration mechanisms in hereditary diseases and optogenetic prosthetics of visual function. Methods: electrophysiology – registration of the current of single photoreceptors with suction pipette method […]
