Virginia Meskenaite
Senior Scientist
Institute of Physiology
Interface group
Switzerland
Biography
Dr. Virginia Meskenaite is currently a senior researcher in The Interface Group at the Institute of Physiology in University of Zurich. Her main research focuses on cellular mechanisms of mechanosensing in the cerebral cortex. Previously, she was a research fellow in the lab. of prof. Hans-Peter Lipp at the Institute of Anatomy UniZH where she studied magneto- and graviception in avian navigation. Before that, at institutes of Biochemistry and Neuroinformatics UniZH/ETH her research centered on synaptic and perisynaptic receptors, proteases and other signaling proteins in context of neuronal microcircuitry of the cerebral cortex in health and disease. She acquired postdoctoral training in the labs of Prof. Peter Somogyi, F.R.S., MRC Anatomical Neuropharmacology Unit, Oxford Uni, UK and Prof. Tomas Freund, Semmelweis Univ. Medical School, Budapest. She obtained the Candidate of Biological Sciences (Ph.D. equivalent) in Histology & Embryology and Neuroscience under supervision of Prof. V.A. Otellin in I.P. Pavlov’s Institute of Physiology and Institute of Experimental Medicine of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. She completed her M. Sc. in Biochemistry at Vilnius University, Lithuania.
Research Interest
Biological Sciences
