Iraklis Petrof, PhD
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About Iraklis Petrof, PhD
Titles
Practice Manager
Awards and Honors
- Postgraduate Scholarship Grant, Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council
- 2007, Postgraduate Scholarship, School of Psychology & Neuroscience, University of St Andrews
- 2003, First Class Honors Distinction, BSc, Psychology. University of Wales
- 2003, National Undergraduate Thesis Award. Welsh Branch of the British Psychological Society
- 2003, Ysgol Seicoleg Top Student Award, Department of Psychology, University of Wales
Editorial and Academic Positions
Editorial Positions
2015-present, Editorial Board, Journal of Neurology and Experimental Neural Science
Education & training
Undergraduate Degree
BSc in Psychology - University of Wales, Bangor, United Kingdom
Graduate Degree
PhD in Psychology/Behavioral Neuroscience - University of St Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom
Fellowship
Research Administration Fellowship, Clinical Research Administration - Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Publications
Publications
2019
Fu C-H, Iascone DM, Petrof I, Hazra A, Zhang X, Pyfer MS, Tosi U, Corbett BF, Cai J, Lee J, Park J, Iacovitti L, Scharfmann HE, Enikolopov G, Chin J (2019). Early seizure activity accelerates depletion of hippocampal neural stem cells and impairs spatial discrimination in an Alzheimer’s disease mouse model. Cell Reports, 27(13):3741-3751.
2018
Yun S, Reynolds RP, Petrof I, White A, Rivera PD, Segev A, Gibson AD, Suarez M, Desalle MJ, Ito N, Mukherjee S, Richardson DR, Kang CE, Soler I, Chetkovich DM, Kourrich S, Coulter DA, Eisch AJ (2018). Stimulation of entorhinal cortex-dentate gyrus circuitry is antidepressive. Nature Medicine 24:258-266.
2017
You J, Park J, Muralidharan K, Petrof I, Pyfer MS, Corbett BF, LaFrancois J, Zheng Y, Zhang X, Mohila C, Yoshor D, Rissman R, Nestler E, Scharfman H, Chin J (2017). Epigenetic suppression of hippocampal calbindin-D28k by ΔFosB drives seizure-related cognitive deficits. Nature Medicine 23(11):1377-1383.
Mo C*, Petrof I*, Viaene A, Sherman SM (2017). Synaptic properties of the lemniscal and paralemniscal pathways to the mouse somatosensoty cortex. PNAS 114(30): E6212-6221. *Authors contributed equally
Corbett B, You J, Zhang X, Pyfer M, Tosi U, Iascone D, Petrof I, Hazra H, Fu A, Ashok A, Aschmies S, Zhao L, Neslter EJ, Chin J (2017). ΔFosB mediates epigenetic suppression of cFos expression in models of epilepsy and Alzheimer’s disease. Cell Reports 20(2):344-355.
2015
Liu T, Petrof I & Sherman SM (2015) Modulatory effects of metabotropic glutamate receptors activation on GABAergic circuits in mouse thalamus. J Neurophys. 113(7) 2646-52
Petrof I, Viaene AN & Sherman SM (2015) Properties of the primary somatosensory cortex projection to primary motor cortex in the mouse. J Neurophys. 113(7) 2400-7
2014
Liu T, Petrof I & Sherman SM (2014). Modulatory effects of activation of metabotropic glutamate receptors on GABAergic circuits in the mouse cortex. J Neurophys. 111(11): 2287-97
2013
Petrof I & Sherman SM (2013). Functional significance of synaptic terminal size in glutamatergic sensory pathways in thalamus and cortex. J Phys. 591(13):3125-31
Viaene AN, Petrof I & Sherman SM (2013). Activation requirements for metabotropic glutamate receptors. Neurosci Lett. 541:67-72
2012
Petrof I, Viaene AN & Sherman SM (2012). Two populations of corticothalamic and interareal corticocortical cells in the subgranular layers of the mouse primary sensory cortices. J Comp Neurol. 520(8):1678-86
2011
Viaene AN, Petrof I & Sherman SM (2011). Properties of the thalamic projection from the posterior medial nucleus to primary and secondary somatosensory cortices in the mouse. PNAS. 108(44):18156-18161
Viaene AN, Petrof I & Sherman SM (2011). Synaptic properties of thalamic input to the subgranular layers of primary somatosensory and auditory cortices in the mouse. J Neurosci. 31(36):12738-47
Viaene AN*, Petrof I* & Sherman SM (2011). Synaptic properties of thalamic input to layers 2/3 and 4 of primary somatosensory and auditory cortices. J Neurophys. 105(1):279-92 *Authors contributed equally
2010
Petrof I & Brown VJ (2010). Attention to visual, but not tactile, properties of a stimulus results in activation of FOS protein in the visual thalamic reticular nucleus of rats. Beh Br Res. 211(2)-248-252
2009
Petrof I & Sherman SM (2009). Synaptic properties of the mammillary and cortical afferents to the anterodorsal thalamic nucleus in the mouse. J Neurosci. 29(24):7815-9
2005
Petrof I & Marí-Beffa P (2005). Flanker-like interference and response-based mechanisms of selective attention. An ERP study. The Psychologist in Wales / Y Seicolegydd yng Nghymru. 18: 35-42