Prof. Tamar Barbakadze – The head of organizing committee
Tamar Barbakadze was born in Tbilisi on 12.09.1978. In 1995 she entered Tbilisi State University Faculty of Biology and Medicine, from which she graduated in 1999 and received Bachelor degree in biology, qualification of teacher of biology and chemistry. In 2001 Tamar received a Master ‘s degree in Biology. In 2001-2004 she was PhD student at the department of biochemistry, at the Institute of Physiology of Georgian Academy of Sciences in Tbilisi. Tamar received her candidate of science degree in biology (biochemistry) at the Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Tbilisi, Georgia. She has continued research at the Institute of Physiology (2004 to present). From 2009 to 2013, she was an assistant professor and from 2013 at present associate professor of Ilia State University and research scientist of I. Beritashvili Center of Experimental Biomedicine.
The field of her scientific interests is biochemistry and molecular biology of animals and humans. Her research interests are in the areas of the biochemistry of nerve cells regulation and mitochondrial bioenergetics. She studies the neuropathological molecular mechanisms during hypoxia and the non-genomic action of thyroid hormones in the neuronal cell.