Konstantin began his research career studying the measurement of ion concentrations in the retina using liquid ion selective microelectrodes. A few years later, he received his Ph.D. in arterial pressure and heart rate variability in alert rats from St. Petersburg Institute of Cardiology in 1997. Shortly thereafter, he moved to the Birmingham, Alabama and has been with UAB for over twenty years, where he has studied directional selectivity in ganglion cells and channel rhodopsin.
At the Karl-Ludvig Institute of Physiology in Leipzig, Germany, under Andreas Reichenbach, Ph.D., Konstantin honed his electrophysiology skills by studying ion channels within Muller cells. Since then, he has used electrophysiology to study ganglion cells, rodent brain slices, and isolated retina neurons among many different animal species. He has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Uspekhi Fziologicheskikh Nauk, the Journal of Physiology, and the Journal of Computational Neuroscience.
Konstantin enjoys spending time with his wife, two sons, and many cats.
