RESEARCH COMPONENT

    1. SUPRAMOLECULAR STRUCTURE-FUNCTION.

     Section Chair – Professor Mzia Zhvania, Tbilisi, Georgia

                  Honorary Section Co-Chair – Professor Bhanu P. Jena, USA

                  Topics: Porosomal complex in Norm and pathologies. Chaperoning. Nuclear Pore

                  Linked to NanoBioScience Institute of Wayne State Universty, MI, USA   

                       http://www2.med.wayne.edu/physiology/nanobioscience/nanobioscience.htm

                       http://www2.med.wayne.edu/physiology/facultyprofile/jena/index.htm


    1. BRAIN NEURON ATLAS

                 Section Chair – Professor Mzia Zhvania, Tbilisi, Georgia

    Honorary Section Co-Chair – Professor Bhanu P. Jena, USA)

    Topics: Histological, Electron Microscopic, Electron Microscopic Immunocytochemical,  Atomic Force Microscopic, and Array Tomography Studies of Different Structural Components of the Central Nervous System in Norm and Pathologies

                 Linked to NanoBioScience Institute of Wayne State Universty, MI, USA   

                       http://www2.med.wayne.edu/physiology/nanobioscience/nanobioscience.htm

                       http://www2.med.wayne.edu/physiology/facultyprofile/jena/index.htm


    1. ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY IMAGING of NEURON and GLIAL CELLS IN NORM AND UNDER VARIOUS PATHOLOGICAL CONDITIONS

                  Section Chair – Professor Mzia Zhvania;   Section Co-Chair – Professor Naezhda Japaridze  

                  Foreign Consultant – Dr. Sandor Kasas (Switzerland)

                  Topics: Studies of Three-dimensional Nanoarchitecture and Mechanical Properties of Living and Fixed Neuron in Norm and under Various Pathological Conditions


    1. RODENT PROPIONIC ACID MODEL OF AUTISM  

                   Section Chair – Professor Mzia Zhvania;   Section Co-Chair – Associate Professor Tamar Lordkipanidze  

                  Foreign Consultant – Dr. Derrick MacFabe (Canada)

                 Topic: Strucutral, Ultrastructural and Molecular Architectural Changes provokd by Propionic Acid Administration in Different Regions of Rodent Brain. Behavioral Studies.