Expanding Your Horizons
Expanding Your Horizons conferences are designed to introduce 5th-8th grade girls* to careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).
Role:
Vira Iefremova
Ph.D.
Languages for professional communication:
Ukrainian, English, German, Polish, Spanish
Description of the field of scientific research:
Vira researches the development of the human cerebral cortex, genetic diseases associated with the development of the cerebral cortex, and the use of stem cells as a model for studying physiological and pathological processes of human cerebral cortex development.
List of duties:
Vira is a Ph.D. in Molecular Biomedicine, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley (USA) in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology. Vira works in neurobiology and uses stem cells to study human cortical development and associated genetic disorders. She is currently working on a study of the disease that causes epilepsy.
Professional experience:
From 2013 to 2021, Vira was a researcher and doctoral student at the Institute of Reconstructive Neurobiology, University of Bonn, Germany. From 2021—now, she has been a researcher and postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley (USA) in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology.
In addition, she has been a member of the Stem Cell Network NRW since 2014, a member of the German Stem Cell Network (GSCN) since 2017, and a member of the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) since 2019.