Dmytro Kryshtal, PhD

Dmytro (Dima) Kryshtal joined the lab in August 2009 as a research fellow. He received his PhD from the prestigious Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology in Kiev, Ukraine, investigating the characteristics of potassium ionic currents in visceral smooth muscle cells. His current project investigates the role of cardiac calsequestrin in maintenance of sarcoplasmic reticulum calcium release refractoriness in murine cardiac myocytes.