Polina V. Lishko
{{Short description|Cellular and developmental biologist (born 1974)}}
{{Family name hatnote|Valeriivna|Lishko|lang=Eastern Slavic}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name = Polina V. Lishko
| native_name_lang = uk
| native_name = Поліна Валеріївна Лішко
| birth_place = Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Kyiv, Ukraine)
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1974}}
| doctoral_advisor = Professor Oleg Alexandrovich Krishtal
| spouse = Yuriy Kirichok
| workplaces = UC Berkeley
| fields = Physiology
| alma_mater = Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology
| awards = MacArthur Fellowship
| website = {{url|https://www.lishkolab.org}}
| academic_advisors = Professor Vadim Arshavsky and Professor Rachelle Gaudet
}}
Polina Valeriivna Lishko{{efn|{{langx|uk|Поліна Валеріївна Лішко|{{transliteration|uk|ukrainian|Polina Valeriivna Lishko}}}}}} (born 1974) is an American cellular and developmental biologist. She was a 2015 Pew biomedical scholar.{{Cite press release|last=|first=|date=|title=Pew Funds Six Teams to Pursue Cutting-Edge Biomedical Research|url=https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/pew-funds-six-teams-to-pursue-cutting-edge-biomedical-research-301125915.html|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-10-11|website=www.prnewswire.com|language=en}} She is a 2020 MacArthur Fellow.{{Cite web|title=Polina V. Lishko - MacArthur Foundation|url=https://www.macfound.org/fellows/1064/|access-date=2020-10-11|website=www.macfound.org|language=en}}{{Cite web|date=2020-10-06|title=Stanford and Berkeley researchers among MacArthur 'genius grant' recipients|url=https://www.mercurynews.com/21-macarthur-fellows-awarded-625k-in-genius-grants|access-date=2020-10-11|website=The Mercury News|language=en-US}} She is currently an associate professor at the University of California, Berkeley{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Polina V. Lishko, Ph.D.|url=https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/projects/pew-biomedical-scholars/directory-of-pew-scholars/2015/polina-lishko|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-10-11|website=Pew Trusts}} as well as an adjunct professor at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging.{{Cite web|title=Faculty|url=https://www.buckinstitute.org/research/faculty/|access-date=2020-10-20|website=BUCK|language=en-US}}
Early life and education
Polina V. Lishko was born in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Kyiv, Ukraine) in 1974. Her parents were chemists who worked at Taras Shevchenko National University.{{Cite web|last1=Sanders|first1=Robert|date=2020-10-06|title=Contraceptive researcher Polina Lishko receives MacArthur "genius" award|url=https://news.berkeley.edu/2020/10/06/contraceptive-researcher-polina-lishko-receives-macarthur-genius-award/|access-date=2020-10-20|website=Berkeley News|language=en-US}} In 1996, Lishko graduated with a Specialist degree from Taras Shevchenko National University. She completed her Ph.D. in 2000 under the supervision of Oleg Alexandrovich Krishtal at the Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology in Ukraine.{{Cite web|title=Polina Lishko – 10th World Conference of Science Journalists, San Francisco 2017|url=http://wcsj2017.org/speaker/polina-lishko/|access-date=2020-10-11|website=wcsj2017.org}} At the Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology, she met Yuriy Kirichok, whom she would later marry.
Career
After obtaining her Ph.D., Lishko was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University in the Rachelle Gaudet lab.{{Cite web|title=Rachelle Gaudet|url=https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/gaudetlab/people/rachelle-gaudet|access-date=2020-10-20|website=projects.iq.harvard.edu|language=en}} From 2006 to 2011, she worked at the University of California, San Francisco. Since 2012, she has taught at the University of California, Berkeley and holds the position of associate professor.
She was the first person to successfully perform electrophysiology on human sperm.{{Cite journal|last1=Kirichok|first1=Yuriy|last2=Lishko|first2=Polina V.|date=August 2011|title=Rediscovering sperm ion channels with the patch-clamp technique|journal=Molecular Human Reproduction|volume=17|issue=8|pages=478–499|doi=10.1093/molehr/gar044|issn=1360-9947|pmc=3136206|pmid=21642646}} Her lab currently focuses on sperm ion channels, sperm mitochondrial uncoupling, steroid hormones and ovarian aging, and bioactive lipid signalling in the choroid plexus.{{Cite web|title=Research|url=https://lishkolab.org/research/|access-date=2020-10-19|website=Lishko Lab at Berkeley|language=en-US}} In 2016, her lab discovered the mechanism for how progesterone activates spermatozoa through the protein ABHD2.{{Cite journal|last1=Miller|first1=Melissa R.|last2=Mannowetz|first2=Nadja|last3=Iavarone|first3=Anthony T.|last4=Safavi|first4=Rojin|last5=Gracheva|first5=Elena O.|last6=Smith|first6=James F.|last7=Hill|first7=Rose Z.|last8=Bautista|first8=Diana M.|last9=Kirichok|first9=Yuriy|last10=Lishko|first10=Polina V.|date=2016-04-29|title=Unconventional endocannabinoid signaling governs sperm activation via the sex hormone progesterone|journal=Science|language=en|volume=352|issue=6285|pages=555–559|doi=10.1126/science.aad6887|issn=0036-8075|pmid=26989199|pmc=5373689|bibcode=2016Sci...352..555M|doi-access=free}} In 2022 she was awarded the Senior Cranefield Award{{Cite journal |last=Eisner |first=David A. |date=2022-02-18 |title=2022 |url=https://doi.org/10.1085/jgp.202213123 |journal=Journal of General Physiology |volume=154 |issue=3 |doi=10.1085/jgp.202213123 |issn=0022-1295 |pmc=8906280 |pmid=35179559}} by The Journal of General Physiology and The Society of General Physiologists for her work on sex steroids on potassium channels.
In 2022, Lishko was named by Carnegie Corporation of New York as an honoree of the Great Immigrants Awards.{{Cite web |title=Polina Lishko |url=https://www.carnegie.org/awards/honoree/polina-lishko/ |access-date=June 10, 2024 |website=Carnegie Corporation of New York}}{{Cite web |date=2022-06-29 |title=Lishko honored as one of 2022's Great Immigrants |url=https://mcb.berkeley.edu/news-and-events/department-news/lishko-honored-one-2022s-great-immigrants |access-date=2024-06-18 |website=Molecular and Cell Biology |language=en}}
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External links
- https://lishkolab.org/
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTjF59OqnEw Polina Lishko, Cellular and Developmental Biologist | 2020 MacArthur Fellow]
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Category:21st-century American women scientists
Category:American biophysicists
Category:Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv alumni
Category:Ukrainian emigrants to the United States
Category:University of California, Berkeley College of Letters and Science faculty
Category:University of California, San Francisco faculty
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