Oleg Krishtal

Oleg Oleksandrovych Krishtal (born in 1945, Kyiv) is a scientist in the field of biophysics, a full member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, a member of Academia Europaea (1990), Doctor of Biological Sciences (1981), and professor (1983).

Biography

Oleg Krishtal was born on July 5, 1945, in Kyiv, which made it possible to study their electrophysiological properties. He also discovered two fundamentally new receptors in nerve cells: acid-sensing ion channels and ionotropic receptors for ATP.

He is a member of the editorial board of the journals "Fiziologichnyi Zhurnal" (Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology), "Neurophysiology" (Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology and Springer-Nature), and "Membranes: Membranes in Life Sciences" (MDPI).

For many years, research of Oleg Krishtal has focused on the role of membrane proteins, mainly ion channels and metabotropic receptors, in the functioning of single neurons, neural networks, and whole organs. The current research topics of his department "Homunculus" ("Moi et mon double") "To the Singing of Birds" "I and WE: An Optimistic Scenario" Essay "Mozart's Window"

Public activity

Krishtal serves as the president of the Ukrainian Scientific Club, the Ukrainian Physiological Society named after P.G. Kostiuk, and the Ukrainian Society for Neuroscience. He gives many popular science lectures and appears as a guest on radio and television programs.