Nataliya Matiytsiv

Position: Associate Professor, Genetics and Biotechnology Department

Scientific degree: Candidate of Biological Sciences

Academic status: Associate Professor

Phones (Office): (032) 296-42-53, (032) 296-47-68

Email: nataliya.matiytsiv@lnu.edu.ua

Google Scholar profile: scholar.google.com.ua

ORCID profile: orcid.org

ResearchGate profile: www.researchgate.net

Research interests

Morphological and Genetic Regulation of Drosophila Brain Degeneration,

Search for Preventive and Therapeutic Agents,

Genetics of Aging,

Behavioral Genetics.

Publications

Matiytsiv N., Raspopina A., Dronska Kh., Novosiadla Z. Сerebrolysin® influences in Sod- and sws-dependent neurodegenerative models of Drosophila melanogaster // Studia Biologica. – 2023. Vol.17(2). – P. 3-14. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.30970

Ryabova EV, Melentev PA, Komissarov AE, Surina NV, Ivanova EA, Matiytsiv N, Shcherbata HR, Sarantseva SV. Morpho-Functional Consequences of Swiss Cheese Knockdown in Glia of Drosophila melanogaster //  Cells. – 2021. Vol. 10. – P. 529. doi: 10.3390/cells10030529. PMID: 33801404; PMCID: PMC7998100.

Serga, S.V., Maistrenko, O.M., Matiytsiv, N.Pet al. Effects of Wolbachia infection on fitness-related traits in Drosophila melanogaster // Symbiosis. – 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13199-020-00743-3.

Matiytsiv N. P., Ya.I. Chernyk Drosophila melanogaster as a Model System for the Study of Human Neuropathy and the Testing of  Neuroprotectors  // Cytol. Genet. – 2020. – Vol. 54. – P. 243–256. DOI: 10.3103/S0095452720030081.

Dronska K.A., Vitushynska M.V., Chernyk Y.I., Makarenko A.N., Matiytsiv N.P. Neuroprotective effects of a new nootropic agent Mitochondrin-2 // Fiziol. Zh. – 2020. – Vol. 66. – P. 3-9. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15407/fz66.01.003

Matiytsiv N., Dronska Kh., Makarenko O. New nootropic preparation from blood plasma (Adement): lack of therapeutic influence on Drosophila neurodegenerative model // Visnyk of the Lviv University. Series Biology. – 2018. – V.77. – P. 76-82.

Vitushynskа M.V., Matiytsiv N. P. and Chernyk Y. I. Influence of Tissue_Specific Superoxide Dismutase Gene Expression in Brain Cells on Drosophila melanogaster Sensitivity to Oxidative Stress and Viability // Cytol. Genet. – 2015. – V.49, №2. – Р. 21-28.

Chad M., Artymovych N., Makarenko O., Matiytsiv N. Effects of Mitochondrin-2 on the Dynamics of Degeneration of Brain Tissues in Drosophila with an Altered Function of the swiss cheese Gene // Neurophysiology. – 2014. – V.6. P. 519–524.

Biography

2012 – present time – Associate Professor at the Department of Genetics and Biotechnology, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv.
2006 – 2012 – Lecturer at the Department of Genetics and Biotechnology, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv.
2002 – 2006 – Ph.D. student, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv.
2001 – 2002 – teacher of chemistry, Lviv Secondary School №86.
1996 – 2001 – Biology Student, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv.

Scientific degree

2009 – Candidate of science (Genetics), Thesis: “Molecular-Genetic Analysis of Drosophila melanogaster Neurodegenerative Mutations Localized in X Chromosome”

Academic rank

2014 – Associate Professor of Department of Genetics and Biotechnology

Since 2002 – Member of Vavilov Society of Geneticists and Breeders of Ukraine

Since 2016 –  Member of Ukrainian Society for Neuroscience

Projects

2005 – 2007 – INTAS Proposal for Young Scientist Fellowship “Degeneration and Regeneration: Drosophila melanogaster is a Model of Neuronal Disorders”.
2005 – Visit to Stockholm University, Zoology Institute (Sweden) and collaboration with Prof. Rafael Cantera.
2006 – Visit to Stockholm University, Winner Green Institute (Sweden) and collaboration with Prof. Christos Samakovlis.
2007 – Researcher under the international USA-Ukraine CRDF project “Drosophila as a Model System of Muscular Dystrophy”.
2011 – DAAD Grant for Internship in Freiburg University (Germany) with Prof. Karl-Friedrich Fischbach collaboration.
2013 – WUBMRC (West-Ukrainian BioMedical Research Center) Grant “Oxidative stress as a neurodegeneration target mechanism and possible way of regeneration in Drosophila melanogaster model”.

Researcher in the project “Investigation of autophagous degradation mechanisms of human alpha-synuclein  induced by low molecular weight compounds abnormal forms  in model Biosystems” Бх-48Ф (2017-2019).

PI of scientific project in collaboration with Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry (Germany) (2016-2020).

PI of scientific project “Dissecting the molecular mechanisms of neurodegenaration and protective roles of miRNAs in Drosophila SWS/NTE neuropathy model” in collaboration with Hannover Medical School (Germany) (2020-2024).

Teaching materials

Chernyk Ya., Maksymiv D., Matiytsiv N. at all Biology of animal’s development. – Lviv: Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, 2013. – 168p.

Lecture courses

for Bachelor students with degree in Biology:
“Medical Genetics”;

for Master students with degree in Genetics, Biology and Education:
“Behavioral Genetics”,

“Genetic Counseling”,

Human genetics”.

Practice and laboratory course:

“Developmental Biology”, “Genetics”, “Large Practice in genetic analysis and genetics of Drosophila”.

 

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