Polina V. Lishko

Polina V. Lishko (born 1974) is an American cellular and developmental biologist. She was a 2015 Pew biomedical scholar.[1] She is a 2020 MacArthur Fellow.[2][3] She is currently an associate professor at the University of California, Berkeley[4] as well as an adjunct professor at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging.[5]

Polina V. Lishko
Born1974 (age 48–49)
Kyiv, Ukraine
Alma materBogomoletz Institute of Physiology
SpouseYuriy Kirichok
AwardsMacArthur Fellowship
Scientific career
FieldsPhysiology
InstitutionsUC Berkeley
Doctoral advisorProfessor Oleg Alexandrovich Krishtal
Other academic advisorsProfessor Vadim Arshavsky and Professor Rachelle Gaudet
Websitewww.lishkolab.org

Early life and education

Polina V. Lishko was born in Kyiv, Ukraine in 1974. Her parents were chemists who worked at Taras Shevchenko National University.[6] In 1996, Lishko graduated with a Specialist degree from Taras Shevchenko National University. She completed her Ph.D. in 2000 under the supervision of Oleg Alexandrovich Krishtal at the Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology in Ukraine.[7] At the Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology, she met Yuriy Kirichok, whom she would later marry.[6]

Career

After obtaining her Ph.D., Lishko was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University in the Rachelle Gaudet lab.[8] From 2006 to 2011, she worked at the University of California, San Francisco. Since 2012, she has taught at the University of California, Berkeley and holds the position of associate professor.

She was the first person to successfully perform electrophysiology on human sperm.[9] Her lab currently focuses on sperm ion channels, sperm mitochondrial uncoupling, steroid hormones and ovarian aging, and bioactive lipid signalling in the choroid plexus.[10] In 2016, her lab discovered the mechanism for how progesterone activates spermatozoa through the protein ABHD2.[11] In 2022 she was awarded the Senior Cranefield Award[12] by The Journal of General Physiology and The Society of General Physiologists for her work on sex steroids on potassium channels.

References
  1. "Pew Funds Six Teams to Pursue Cutting-Edge Biomedical Research". www.prnewswire.com (Press release). Retrieved 2020-10-11.
  2. "Polina V. Lishko - MacArthur Foundation". www.macfound.org. Retrieved 2020-10-11.
  3. "Stanford and Berkeley researchers among MacArthur 'genius grant' recipients". The Mercury News. 2020-10-06. Retrieved 2020-10-11.
  4. "Polina V. Lishko, Ph.D." Pew Trusts. Retrieved 2020-10-11.
  5. "Faculty". BUCK. Retrieved 2020-10-20.
  6. Sanders, Robert (2020-10-06). "Contraceptive researcher Polina Lishko receives MacArthur "genius" award". Berkeley News. Retrieved 2020-10-20.
  7. "Polina Lishko – 10th World Conference of Science Journalists, San Francisco 2017". wcsj2017.org. Retrieved 2020-10-11.
  8. "Rachelle Gaudet". projects.iq.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2020-10-20.
  9. Kirichok, Yuriy; Lishko, Polina V. (August 2011). "Rediscovering sperm ion channels with the patch-clamp technique". Molecular Human Reproduction. 17 (8): 478–499. doi:10.1093/molehr/gar044. ISSN 1360-9947. PMC 3136206. PMID 21642646.
  10. "Research". Lishko Lab at Berkeley. Retrieved 2020-10-19.
  11. Miller, Melissa R.; Mannowetz, Nadja; Iavarone, Anthony T.; Safavi, Rojin; Gracheva, Elena O.; Smith, James F.; Hill, Rose Z.; Bautista, Diana M.; Kirichok, Yuriy; Lishko, Polina V. (2016-04-29). "Unconventional endocannabinoid signaling governs sperm activation via the sex hormone progesterone". Science. 352 (6285): 555–559. Bibcode:2016Sci...352..555M. doi:10.1126/science.aad6887. ISSN 0036-8075. PMC 5373689. PMID 26989199.
  12. Eisner, David A. (2022-02-18). "2022". Journal of General Physiology. 154 (3). doi:10.1085/jgp.202213123. ISSN 0022-1295. PMC 8906280. PMID 35179559.


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