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Curriculum Vitae of Sergejus Butovas 1CURRICULUM VITAEFull Name:Birth Date and Place:Present Address:Sergejus Butovas21 April 1975, Vilnius, LithuaniaHertie-Institute for Clinical Brain Research,Dept. of Cognitive NeurologyOtfried-Müller-Strasse 27Eberhard-Karls-University TübingenD-72076 TübingenGERMANYPhone: +49 7071 2980462Fax: +49 7071 295724eMail: Sergejus.Butovas@uni-tuebingen.deLanguages: English, German, Lithuanian and RussianEducation and Qualifications:1981 – 1993 Vilnius Secondary School1993 – 1998 Vilnius University, BSc. Diploma of Biology1998 – 2000 Vilnius University, MSc. Diploma of Neurobiology2000 – 2007 International Max Plank Research School, Tübingen University, PhDDiploma of NeurobiologyNov. 1998Awards:One year Tempus Phare Scholarship (mentor Dr. Osvaldas Rukšėnas,Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania)Research Experience:Nov. 1998 – Nov. 1999July 2000 - presentDept. of Neurology and Neuroscience, Kuopio University, Finland.Research Associate, Laboratory of Dr. Jukka Jolkkonen.Dept. of Cognitive Neurology, Tübingen University, Germany.Research Associate, Laboratory of Dr. Cornelius Schwarz.Professional Memberships: Society for NeuroscienceAbstracts:Butovas, S., Lukkarinen, J., Virtanen, T., Jolkkonen, J., Sivenius, J. and Rukšėnas, O.Montoya's staircase test in assessment of recovery after experimental stroke. NATO conference“Perspectives in Basic Sciences”, Vilnius, Lithuania, Mar. 2000.Butovas, S. and Schwarz, C. Local Effects of Microstimulation in Barrel Cortex and PontineNuclei in the Rat. 31 st Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA, USA,Nov. 2001.Butovas, S., Hormuzdi, S., Monyer, H. and Schwarz, C. Role of Gap Junctions in Propertiesof Inhibitory Response evoked by Microstimulation in Mice Barrel Cortex. 32 nd Annual Meetingof the Society for Neuroscience, Orlando, FL, USA, Nov.2002.

Curriculum Vitae of Sergejus Butovas 2Butovas S, Schwarz C. Intracortical microstimulation in barrel cortex of anaesthetized andawake, head-restraint rats: assessment of response thresholds. 35 th Annual Meeting of the Societyfor Neuroscience, Washington, Washington DC, USA, Nov. 2005.Butovas S, Roether C, Schwarz C. Fast excitatory, local responses to intracroticalmicrostimulation are robustly imprinted independent of background activity. 36 th AnnualMeeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Atlanta, USA, Nov. 2006.Publications:Butovas S, Lukkarinen J, Virtanen T, Jolkkonen J and Sivenius J. (2001) Differential effect of thealpha 2 -adrenoceptor antagonist, atipamezole, in limb-placing task and skilled forepaw use followingexperimental stroke. Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience. 18(4):143-51.Butovas S, Lukkarinen J, Virtanen T, Jolkkonen J and Sivenius J. (2002) [Montoya’s staircase testin assessment of recovery after experimental stroke]. Laboratorinė Medicina, (in lithuanian).Butovas S. and Schwarz C. (2003) Spatiotemporal effects of microstimulation in rat neocortex: aparametric study using multielectrode recordings. Journal of Neurophysiology. 90(5):3024-39.Möck M, Butovas S, Schwarz C. (2006) Functional unity of pontine and cerebellar signalprocessing: intrapontine communication is mediated by a reciprocal loop with the cerebellarnuclei. Journal of Neurophysiology. 95(6):3414-25.Butovas S, Hormuzdi SG, Monyer H, Schwarz C. (2006) Effects of electrically coupledinhibitory networks on local neuronal responses to intracortical microstimulation.Journal of Neurophysiology. 96(3):1227-36.Butovas S and Schwarz C. (2007) Detection psychophysics of intracortical microstimulation inrat primary somatosensory cortex. European Journal of Neuroscience. 25(7):2161-9.