Irina V. Zhdanova, MD, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Phone: 617-638-8002
Fax: 617-638-4676
Email: zhdanova@bu.edu
Location: R – 913, BUSM

Dr. Zhdanova received her MD in Internal Medicine from the 1st Leningrad Medical Institute and has specialized in Clinical Physiology. She then received her PhD in Physiology of Behavior from the Institute of Experimental Medicine (St. Petersburg Russia). She completed her post-doctoral training at the Institute of Physiology (FIN), Russian Academy of Sciences, and then at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Dr. Zhdanova is studying the role of circadian system in development and aging, and an impact of circadian factors on the effects of drugs of abuse. The studies in her laboratory employ non-human primates and zebrafish.

Dr. Zhdanova teaches in the Neuroscience course offered in the Medical School (AN703) and Cognitive Neuroscience graduate course.

Dr. Zhdanova is a member of the Department Qualifying Exam Committee and the Medical School Executive Committee of the Cell and Molecular Biology program.

Recent Publications

López Patiño MA, Yu L, Yamamoto BK, Zhdanova IV. Gender differences in zebrafish responses to cocaine withdrawal. Physiol Behav. 2008 Sep 3;95(1-2):36-47.

Zhdanova IV, Yu L, Lopez-Patino M, Shang E, Kishi S, Guelin E. Aging of the circadian system in zebrafish and the effects of melatonin on sleep and cognitive performance. Brain Res Bull. 2008 Mar 18;75(2-4):433-41.

López-Patiño MA, Yu L, Cabral H, Zhdanova IV. Anxiogenic effects of cocaine withdrawal in zebrafish. Physiol Behav. 2008 Jan 28;93(1-2):160-71.

Sack RL, Auckley D, Auger RR, Carskadon MA, Wright KP Jr, Vitiello MV, Zhdanova IV Circadian rhythm sleep disorders: part II, advanced sleep phase disorder, delayed sleep phase disorder, free-running disorder, and irregular sleep-wake rhythm. An American Academy of Sleep Medicine review. Sleep. 2007 Nov 1;30(11):1484-501.

Sack RL, Auckley D, Auger RR, Carskadon MA, Wright KP Jr, Vitiello MV, Zhdanova IV Circadian rhythm sleep disorders: part I, basic principles, shift work and jet lag disorders. An American Academy of Sleep Medicine review. Sleep. 2007 Nov 1;30(11):1460-83.

Shang EH, Zhdanova IV. The circadian system is a target and modulator of prenatal cocaine effects. PLoS ONE. 2007 Jul 11;2(7):e587.

Tsai SB, Tucci V, Uchiyama J, Fabian NJ, Lin MC, Bayliss PE, Neuberg DS, Zhdanova IV, Kishi S. Differential effects of genotoxic stress on both concurrent body growth and gradual senescence in the adult zebrafish. Aging Cell. 2007 Apr;6(2):209-24.

Yu L, Tucci V, Kishi S, Zhdanova IV. Cognitive aging in zebrafish. PLoS ONE. 2006 Dec 20;1:e14.
Zhdanova IV. Sleep in zebrafish. Zebrafish. 2006; 3(2):215-26.