World Ophthalmology & Optometry Congress
World Ophthalmology & Optometry Congress
Russian Academy of Sciences
Russia
Dr., Prof. Mikhail
Ostrovsky is a physiologist, known internationally for his work in vision and
biology. He is a Full Member (Academician) of the Russian Academy of Sciences,
a Professor of Lomonosov Moscow State University. He is President of Pavlov
Physiological Society of Russia. He is Head of Laboratory at the Institute of
Bio-Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Head of Department of
Molecular Physiology at Biological Faculty of M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University
and Head of Laboratory of Molecular Physiology and Visual Pathology at the
Institute of Eye Microsurgery in Moscow. Since 1994 to 2001, he used to work as
a Visiting Professor or a Visiting Researcher in the US at University of
Maryland at College Park and at National Institute of Standard and Technology
(NIST) and at National Institutes of Health (NIH). He also, used to work as a
Visiting Researcher in the UK at Institute of Ophthalmology, University College
London and at Strathclyde Institute for Biomedical Sciences, University of
Strathclyde, Glasgow, and in Finland at Tvarminne Zoological Station,
University of Helsinki. Mikhail Ostrovsky graduated with honors from Moscow
State University, received his Ph.D. in Physiology from the Institute of Higher
Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology of the Russian Academy of Sciences and a
degree of Doctor of Science in Biophysics from the Institute of Biological
Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He teaches now day’s graduate and
undergraduate courses in physiology of vision at Moscow State University.
Mikhail Ostrovsky published books "Molecular mechanisms of visual
reception” (with G.R.Kalamkarov) (2002), “Spectral corr