SCHOOL OF NATURAL SCIENCES AND MEDICINE
ILIA STATE UNIVERSITY

Direction:Neurobiology
Position:Full Professor





Eka Lepsveridze graduated from 2nd Experimental school of Tbilisi with honours in 1995 and the same year entered Tbilisi State University (TSU), Faculty of Biology and Medicine, specialization – Biology. In 1999 Eka got Bachelor’s degree in Biology and the same year entered Master’s level of the department of Human and Animal Physiology, TSU. In 2001 Eka received masters’s degree in Biology. Since 2003 she continued her career in Hamburg, at the Center for Molecular Neurobiology and in 2006 she got Doctor’s degree in Natural Sciences, at the University of Hamburg, department of Biology, faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences. Since 2007 Eka has worked at Ilia State University as an academic personnel. She has published about 10 scientific articles in peer reviewed journals and has received several awards for scientific activities.

Scientific interests / research interests

  • Human and Animal Physiology; Neurobiology; Learning and Memory; Epilepsy; study of pathogenic organisms

Featured publications

  • Solomonia R., Lepsveridze E., Kiguradze T., Nozadze M. (2013) Inositols and Epilepsy, Inositol: Synthesis, Functions and Clinical Implications (Book) NOVA publishers, Edited by Rocha H. and Cardoso M. 105-127
  • Kharlamov E.A., Lepsveridze E., Meparishvili M., Solomonia R., Lu B., Miller E.R., Kelly K.M., Mtchedlishvili Z. (2011) Alterations of GABAA
  • and glutamate receptor subunits and heatshock protein in rat hippocampus following traumatic brain injury and in posttraumatic epilepsy. Epilepsy Res., 95(1-2), 20-34
  • Mtchedlishvili Z., Lepsveridze E., Xu H., Kharlamov E.A., Lu B., Kelly K.M. (2010) Increase of GABA(A) receptor-mediated tonic inhibition in
  • dentate granule cells after traumatic brain injury. Neurobiol Dis., 38(3),464-75,
  • Schmidt,C., Lepsverdize,E., Chi,SL., Das, AM., Pizzo,SV., Dityatev, A. and Schachner, M. (2008) Amyloid precursor protein and amyloid beta-
  • peptide bind to ATP synthase and regulate its activity at the surface of neural cells. Molecular Psychiatry. 13(10), 953-69.

An extensive list of publications

Current Courses

Course Catalog

Bachelor’s level

  • Genes and Beyond Genes: Behavior and Diseases

One-cycle higher educational program

  • Nervous System (ENG)

Master’s level

  • Molecular Basis of Neuropathologies

Bachelor’s level

  • Genes and Beyond Genes: Behavior and Diseases
  • Fundamentals of Neurobiology
  • Genes and Beyond Genes: Behavior and Diseases

One-cycle higher educational program

  • Nervous System (ENG)
  • Molecular Principles of Neuropathologies

Doctoral level

  • Doctoral Seminar II

2020-2021 Year

Bachelor’s level

  • Genes and Beyond Genes: Behavior and Diseases
  • Fundamentals of Neurobiology
  • Genes and Beyond Genes: Behavior and Diseases

One-cycle higher educational program

  • Physiology (ENG)

Master’s level

  • Fundamentals of Synaptic Transmission and Molecular and Physiological Mechanisms of Memory
  • Molecular Principles of Neuropathologies

Doctoral level

  • Doctoral Seminar I
  • Modern Methods of Neurobiological Research

2019-2020 Year

Bachelor’s level

  • Genes and Beyond Genes: Behavior and Diseases
  • Fundamentals of Neurobiology
  • Genes and Beyond Genes: Behavior and Diseases

Master’s level

  • Fundamentals of Synaptic Transmission and Molecular and Physiological Mechanisms of Memory
  • Molecular Principles of Neuropathologies

One-cycle higher educational program

  • Physiology I (ENG)
  • Physiology I (ENG)

Doctoral level

  • Research Seminar I

2018-2019 Year

Bachelor’s level

  • Fundamentals of Neurobiology
  • Genes and Beyond Genes: Behavior and Diseases

Master’s level

  • Fundamentals of Synaptic Transmission and Molecular and Physiological Mechanisms of Memory
  • Molecular Principles of Neuropathologies

Doctoral level

  • Doctoral Seminar II
  • Various Types of Memory and Their Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms
  • Modern Methods of Neurobiological Research
  • Doctoral Seminar I

2017-2018 Year

Bachelor’s level

  • Genes and Beyond Genes: Behavior and Diseases
  • Fundamentals of Neurobiology
  • Genes and Beyond Genes: Behavior and Diseases
  • Genes and Beyond Genes: Behavior and Diseases

Master’s level

  • Biochemistry of Neural Tissue
  • Fundamentals of Synaptic Transmission and Molecular and Physiological Mechanisms of Memory

2016-2017 Year

Bachelor’s level

  • Genes and Beyond Genes: Behavior and Diseases
  • Fundamentals of Neurobiology
  • Genes and Beyond Genes: Behavior and Diseases

Master’s level

  • Fundamentals of Synaptic Transmission and Molecular and Physiological Mechanisms of Memory

2015-2016 Year

Bachelor’s level

  • Genes and Beyond Genes: Behavior and Diseases
  • Fundamentals of Neurobiology
  • Genes and Beyond Genes: Behavior and Diseases

Master’s level

  • Fundamentals of Synaptic Transmission and Molecular and Physiological Mechanisms of Memory

Doctoral level

  • Modern Methods of Neurobiological Research

2014-2015 Year

Bachelor’s level

  • Genes and Beyond Genes: Behavior and Diseases
  • Fundamentals of Neurobiology
  • Genes and Beyond Genes: Behavior and Diseases

Master’s level

  • Fundamentals of Synaptic Transmission and Molecular and Physiological Mechanisms of Memory

Doctoral level

  • Modern Methods of Neurobiological Research

2013-2014 Year

Bachelor’s level

  • Genes and Beyond Genes: Behavior and Diseases
  • Fundamentals of Neurobiology

Doctoral level

  • Various Types of Memory and Their Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms
  • Modern Methods of Neurobiological Research

2012-2013 Year

Bachelor’s level

  • Genes and Beyond Genes: Behavior and Diseases

Master’s level

  • Fundamentals of Synaptic Transmission and Molecular and Physiological Mechanisms of Memory

Doctoral level

  • Various Types of Memory and Their Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms
  • Modern Methods of Neurobiological Research

2011-2012 Year

Bachelor’s level

  • Achievements of Modern Biology

Master’s level

  • Master’s Thesis

Doctoral level

  • Various Types of Memory and Their Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms
  • Modern Methods of Neurobiological Research

2010-2011 Year

Master’s level

  • Fundamentals of Synaptic Transmission and Molecular and Physiological Mechanisms of Memory

2009-2010 Year

Master’s level

  • Fundamentals of Synaptic Transmission (for all the Three Directions)
  • Hippocampal Formation and Its Projection